beneath the vigorous thrust of his daring followers. Heroism incurs a penalty! Stanley paid his! He, too, was struck down. He joined his brigadier-general; yes, and Cathcart, head of the division, both were awaiting him. He was buried close to General Goldie, on Cathcart Hill. His interment was attended by such of his brother officers as escaped the carnage of that bloody day in England's history. His fall was sincerely lamented by all in camp who had had the happiness of his acquaintance; and by those who had heard of his heroic devotion, but to whom he was personally unknown, his loss to the army was admitted to be that of a valiant soldier. Captain Stanley had volunteered his services to General Cathcart, to form one of the van in the assault on Sebastopol, when the operation was in course of consideration a few days before the butchery at Inkermann. Had he lived to take part in the great object of the expedition, Badajoz had not left on record a bolder leader, than he would have proved himself to be on the walls of Sebastopol.

LIEUTENANT WALSHAM, OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY.

ARTHUR WALSHAM was the third son of Sir John Walsham, Bart., of Knill Court, county of Hertford. In 1842 his family went to reside at Bury St. Edmunds, and at an early age he was sent to King Edward's School, where his attention to study gained him the notice of his masters, and a kindly disposition secured him the esteem of his fellow-students. From this college he was sent to Woolwich. At this military school he applied himself vigorously to mastering the science of gunnery; and long before his time of departure, he had become one of its most distinguished pupils. The many marks on his coat-sleeve bore ample testimony of his studiousness and quickness of conception in the difficult matters he had to become conversant with. On leaving the Arsenal, after a brilliant examination, Sir John Burgoyne presented him with the sword of honour, always the reward of the best conducted and most efficient cadet. On the 22nd of June, 1853, he received his commission in the Royal Artillery as Second Lieutenant, and shortly afterwards was ordered to depart for the garrison at Gibraltar, but he solicited to be allowed to join the expedition to the East. His services were at once accepted, and he proceeded under the command of Brigadier-General Cator, to his destination: At the battle of the Alma, Lieutenant Walsham distinguished himself no less by his bravery than humanity. He was with the field battery brought to bear upon the enemy on the heights, and while working his gun with fearful effect on the Russian guards, one of his men, when in the act of putting a ball into the piece, was shot in the arm. He at once ordered the wounded man to the rear, and every round being precious at that moment, he stepped into the gunner's place and commenced loading. After repeated discharges, he was in the act of sponging the gun, when he received

a bullet in the right breast which instantly deprived him of life.

The commanding officer of the field battery thus communicated the manner of his death to the family.

"Allemark River, September 21st, 1854.

“MY DEAR SIR,-It is with the most deep and heartfelt regret I have to communicate the truly distressing intelligence of the death of your gallant son Arthur. He fell yesterday, nobly performing his duty as a soldier; his death was caused by a bullet passing through the right breast. He fell forward, and before I could lift his head (as I was only a few feet from him) life was extinct; he was thus, poor fellow, happily spared any suffering. I feel how vain it is to attempt to offer any consolation under the present circumstances, but I cannot refrain from expressing how deeply all his brother officers feel his loss, for he really was beloved by allpoor fellow, he was indeed a universal favourite. The service has sustained a heavy loss, for it was impossible to find a more promising young man. I have just performed the last rites, and read the funeral service over his grave in the presence of his brother officers, who formed a mournful group around it. Knowing his merits, I can enter into the feelings of his father, and deeply do I feel for the mother of our comrade-her darling soldier son. This is written on the field that has been won from the enemy. Would that your poor son could share in our triumph. I write this, knowing it will be a satisfaction to hear something of the particulars, although duty of course called me away from the spot immediately afterwards. With renewed expressions of my deep sympathy. "I remain, yours very faithfully,

"JOHN TURNER, Commanding G. Field Battery. "Sir John Walsham, Bart.

"P.S.-I have just seen General Strangways, commanding Royal Artillery. He requests me to express his high opinion of your son's gallantry, as he was close to him when he fell, and to add his sincere sympathy in your loss."

This young officer, a short time before the war, was one of that daring class of adventurers whose names become public by ascending Mont Blanc, and the feat, as performed by him, was duly mentioned in the papers of the day. At the Alma he ascended a more glorious height; and his devotion in acting as a common gunner, which brought his uniform to the enemy's mark, entitles him to the grateful remembrance of his country. He had just entered his twentieth year when he fell in the first battle in the Crimea. The victory was not ours at the moment of his death; but long before the brave fellow's blood had become cold, and his body rigid, the enemy were beaten at all points.

CAPTAIN WINTER, OF THE 17TH LANCERS.

CAPTAIN JOHN PRATT WINTER was the eldest son of Samuel Winter, Esq., of Agher, of the county of Meath, the representative of a family long settled in that county, a branch of the ancient family of Winter, of Lyney, in Gloucestershire. His immediate ancestor, the Rev. Samuel Winter, D.D., removed to Ireland, as chaplain to the Parliamentary Commissioners for the settlement of that country, in the year 1650; he was shortly after constituted Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and acquir estates in the King's County, Meath, and Westmeath.

Captain Winter was born the 6th of April, 1829, and received his education at Rugby School. He obtained his commission of Cornet in the 17th Lancers, on the 16th of June, 1848, Lieutenant, 13th July, 1849, and Captain, 14th of May, 1852. He was quartered with his regiment in various parts of England and Ireland until January, 1853, when he was appointed on the staff of the Earl of St. Germans, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. His regiment being ordered in February, 1854, on the expedition proceeding to Turkey, he immediately rejoined, and sailed from Portsmouth with his troop the 18th of April, on board the transport Ganges for Constantinople. He arrived in the Dardanelles on the 18th of May. While the vessel was lying-to here, waiting for a steamer to tow her up, Captain Winter and Cornet Cleveland determined to go on shore in a boat; when approaching land they both jumped out into the water, to have a race for it: Captain Winter won, and was the first man of the British Cavalry to land in Turkey, thus showing the high spirit with which these noble and gallant young men approached this distant land, where they were both so soon after to meet with an untimely end. After remaining for a time at Cootali Barracks, near Constantinople, the 17th proceeded to Varna, then to Devna, and after some time, on the breaking out of the cholera, advanced to Zeni-Bazaar, in the neighbourhood of Shumla. While here, in consequence of the illness of both the colonel and major, Captain Winter had the command of the regiment for some time, and discharged the various duties thereof to the entire satisfaction of his commander, the Earl of Cardigan.

He was present at the battle of the Alma, and on the flank march to Balaklava his troop was ordered to charge the Russian rearguard at Mackenzie's Farm, when they took several prisoners and a quantity of baggage. Captain Winter obtained a very handsome order belonging to some Russian officer. He was, too, continually employed in the arduous and fatiguing duties of outposts and night patrols, up to the fatal 25th October.

In the heroic but disastrous charge of that dreadful day, he gallantly led the second squadron of his regiment, and was last seen amidst the enemy's guns, fighting like a hero: his horse, wounded severely in several places by grape-shot, was the first to gallop back to the cover of our lines. Captain Winter was struck down close to the enemy's guns, but whether by a gunshot or a

sabre cut could not be ascertained. He was merely seen to fall from his horse just as the retreat was sounded. In his regiment he was beloved by officers and men, and his prowess in the fight is talked over by the few survivors of that desperate conflict as that of one who having undertaken to die by the command of his superiors, had sold his life at the price of many of the enemy. His family and acquaintances feel most poignantly the death of so fine a fellow; but soldiers must die when their time comes. Had he lived a little longer, mayhap to fall a victim to the privations of the Crimean winter, the never-dying glory of England's chevaliers would not have hallowed his grave, and handed his name down to posterity as one of Cardigan's band of heroes. He died as a soul such as his could have wished to die, at the yawning mouths of the enemy's guns, amid the flashes of fire and clashing of swords, striking to the last for his Queen and country.

LIEUTENANT GIBSON, OF THE 30TH FOOT.

LIEUTENANT GIBSON was born in the year 1830, and was the second son of Wood Gibson, Esq., of Bodlondeb, near Conway, North Wales, and Cross-street, Manchester. Having made choice of the army as a profession, he obtained by purchase a commission as ensign in the 30th foot (Cambridgeshire), on the 14th of June, 1850, and lieutenant, 12th November, 1852.

Having served four years with his regiment in the Mediterranean, he accompanied it to Varna, where it was attached to the second division under General Sir De Lacy Evans. At the battle of the Alma the 30th distinguished itself. In this action Gibson led his company with the greatest spirit. By those alone in the corps who knew that he had been ill for two days before the battle, and how he had kept his head up, merely in the hope of embracing the first opportunity for a brush with the enemy, his energy and daring in this encounter could be fully estimated. He behaved most gallantly in this battle. But the fever which he had so manfully borne up against, overcame him on the day after the triumph of our arms, and scatheless as he came from Alma's shells and bullets, he was on the following morning prostrated by the sickness which for a week had been preying upon him. He was sent to Scutari to be attended to, and long before he had become fit for duty he returned to camp. He took part in the battle of the 26th of October, under Evans, having been in the splendid charge of the 30th and 95th, which sent the enemy flying to the very walls of their town like affrighted hares. Out of this action he came unwounded.

At the battle of Inkermann this brave officer, after most heroically sustaining his post for upwards of two hours, was hit by a ball. He was ordered to leave the field, but he refused, and continuing in his command he led two charges of the bayonet whilst in this state. On the second advance he was shot through

the head. How the enemy's bullets rattled at our gallant officers at Inkermann! A glance at gold lace on scarlet, and dozens of leaden plugs flew at the inviting mark! Poor Gibson's gallant bearing was well noted by many of his comrades. A noncommissioned officer of the 30th, Serjeant Jamieson, whose communication to his wife appeared in the Times newspaper, observes of this young lieutenant :

"On the last occasion, (Inkermann,) Lieutenant Gibson was killed; I saw him wounded, and offered my aid to bring him to the rear, but he said, 'No, I am badly hurt, but not dangerously so; I will not, therefore, quit the field. We soon parted, and when I saw him next he was dead. Poor fellow, he was a most daring and gallant fellow!"

This is the praise accorded only to the truly brave in fight. A rough soldier must see bull-dog metal free from dross to be attracted, and he watches it most closely in the person of his superior, with whom fortune, in worldly matters, deals favourably. The testimony from such a quarter is worth ten despatches to a dead man's reputation. Gibson had the good opinion of the unpolished serjeant who spoke for the men, and he had also the handsome tribute to the honour he had done his regiment, by its senior major, who says:

"I was not near him when he fell, but I hear that, though previously wounded, he was still gallantly leading on his men when he received his death-wound. He joined us, poor fellow, before he was quite recovered from a fever, so great was his anxiety to do his duty with his regiment. On the 26th, when we repulsed the enemy, almost unaided, with great loss, he behaved most gallantly; and on the 5th his conduct was equally conspicuous. The regiment has lost in him a most valuable officer, and his brother officers a sterling friend."

In his 24th year, and in the greatest of all contests the world ever groaned under, fell this Lieutenant Gibson, an honour to the British army, and a loss to his country.

GENERAL TORRENS.

MAJOR-GENERAL ARTHUR WELLESLEY TORRENS is the second son of the late Major-General Sir Henry Torrens, K.C.B., AdjutantGeneral to the Forces, and was born on the 18th of August, 1809. In 1819 he was nominated page of honour to the Prince Regent, afterwards George IV. He passed through the course at the Military College, Sandhurst, his examination being a brilliant one, and which qualified him for a commission. In 1825, he was appointed ensign and lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards. He was adjutant of the second battalion of this regiment from 1829 to 1838, in which year he was appointed brigade-major to the Brigade of Guards, ordered for service in Canada. He served in