the field in this capacity during the second Canadian insurrection of 1838-9, and had charge of the adjutant-general's department in the disturbed district in Lower Canada, till the troops were withdrawn. In 1840, he was promoted to the rank of captain and lieutenant-colonel by purchase, and returned to England; and in 1841, he was removed to the command of the 23rd regiment, or Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He formed the reserve battalion of this regiment, and went out to Canada with them in the early part of 1842, where he remained in command of both battalions till the autumn of 1843, when the first battalion sailed for Barbadoes under his orders. In 1844, he was appointed to the command of the troops at St. Lucia, West Indies, which then involved ex officio the administration of the civil government. This he continued to administer till the 23rd Fusiliers were removed to Nova Scotia in the spring of 1847. The home government having resolved about that time to appoint a permanent Lieutenant-Governor to St. Lucia, with an adequate salary, Lord Grey, in March, 1847, wrote to Lieutenant-Colonel Torrens, stating that "he had thought it impossible to overlook his claims arising from the circumstance of his having administered the government of the island during two years and a half with so much ability, and that it would give him great satisfaction to submit Colonel Torrens's name to the Queen, as Lieutenant-Governor of St. Lucia." But he declined the offer, preferring to remain in the active exercise of his profession. When in Nova Scotia, however, a circumstance occurred which broke in upon his military avocations. A high judicial functionary in St. Lucia, having been proved to have been connected with certain libels in an island newspaper, Colonel Torrens had reported him in the exercise of his duty. The Governor-in-Chief of the Windward Islands had received orders to investigate the matter on the spot, and to suspend the accused from his office if proved guilty. In the meantime, Colonel Torrens had proceeded to Nova Scotia. The inquiry followed and the judge was suspended, who thereupon proceeded home, and succeeding in persuading the Colonial Minister that he had been unfairly used, he was reinstated in his office. In his exultation he had then printed and privately circulated a correspondence, wherein appeared a letter which he had written to the Minister, reflecting gravely upon Lieutenant-Colonel Torrens's character. Having been informed of this fact in Nova Scotia on the 17th of August, 1847, he sailed for England the following day. In London he procured a copy of the correspondence, and claimed reparation from the Colonial Office. A commission (which was to be final) was thereupon ordered, not only to reinvestigate, on the spot, the truth of the charges against the judge, but to enter into any other matter that might be brought forward on either side. Colonel Torrens proceeded immediately to the West Indies, and the commission assembled at St. Lucia. They reported that the charges against the judge were proved, and they rejected various others which the judge had at the last moment brought forward against the ex-lieu

tenant-governor. The judge was again suspended from his office and again proceeded home. Colonel Torrens also returned to England, having in four months thrice crossed the At antic, and thought the matter at an end. But his adversary had the address or the influence to obtain a second time a setting aside of the local investigation. Though it had been alleged that the report of the commission should decide the question, and although two investigations on the spot had led to the same result, it was determined that the matter should be examined for the third time at home, by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The governor-in-chief of the Windward Islands thereupon refused to retain his government. Colonel Torrens was then called upon to appear, either in person or by counsel before the Judicial Committee, but he respectfully declined to do either, and the case was heard ex parte. Sir Frederick Thesiger's speech in favour of the judge lasted two days; nothing was said on the other side. The decision of the commission was confirmed, and the judge finally dismissed the Queen's service. LieutenantColonel Torrens remained in the command of the 23rd Fusiliers, the regiment having returned home in 1848. In 1851 he became brevet-colonel, and early in 1853 he was appointed Assistant Quarter-Master at the Horse Guards, having held the command of the 23rd Fusiliers for eleven years and a half. He had charge of the Quarter-Master-General's department at Chobham camp, and did duty at the Horse Guards till nominated to the command of a brigade of the army in Turkey with the rank of brigadiergeneral. He arrived at Varna with the late Sir George Cathcart during the embarkation of the troops for the Crimea, and served with his brigade during the brilliant operations which followed. When the army marched upon Sebastopol on the 18th of September, he was left at the landing-place with a rear-guard of 1000 infantry and a troop of cavalry to assist and protect the re-embarkation of the many sick, and of the tents and such stores as could not be carried with the army. After twelve hours' hard work the beach was cleared, and at five o'clock in the evening the rear-guard commenced its march. They bivouacked at the village of Kendongan, and their utmost exertions were insufficient to bring them up on the following day in time to participate in the glorious Battle of Alma. On the 24th of September, Brigadier-General Torrens was again employed on the Belbec river, with about the same force of cavalry and infantry, in protecting the embarkation of sick and the landing of stores. The position of this little force (disposed so as to present an imposing appearance) was extremely critical, as the enemy, in the same strength, were both in front and rear. On the occasion of the cavalry affair at Balaklava, General Torrens was engaged with his brigade in support of the cavalry. Here the fourth division lost some men-their artillery and riflemen having succeeded in driving the enemy from two of the redoubts which they had taken in the morning. General Torrens, with his brigade, took an active part in all the duties involved by the siege of Sebastopol, from the commencement till the memorable battle

of Inkermann, on the 5th of November. He had but just returned from the trenches when the alarm was given, and, on arriving with his brigade at the scene of the conflict, he was directed by the late Sir George Cathcart to attack the left flank of a body of the enemy, who had nearly succeeded in turning the right of the English position. The attack was led by Brigadier-General Torrens, and was made by a portion of the 68th and 46th regiments in line. Brigadier-General Torrens's horse soon fell, pierced by five bullets, and shortly after, while in front of the line heroically leading on his men, he received a musket-shot, which, entering under the left arm, passed through the chest, close to the heart, injured the lung, and made its exit about the centre of the breast, having broken a rib in the passage. He was thus disabled, and was carried from the field. The attack had been successful, the enemy were driven down the steep descent; but the troops, in their impetuosity, followed them too far, and they could not be checked. Nearly all the mounted officers having been killed, wounded, or dismounted, BrigadierGeneral Torrens was ordered by a medical board to proceed to England, where he arrived in December last. He is still suffering from his wound. He received the thanks of Parliament, and was promoted to the rank of major-general for his services in this eventful campaign, and was also added to the list of officers receiving rewards for distinguished service.

General Torrens was highly spoken of in Lord Raglan's despatch to the Duke of Newcastle as one whose admirable behaviour at the battle of Inkermann entitled him to consideration. This brave officer is only in his 46th year; but the severity of his wound is such as to give but little hope of his being in a condition to resume command in time for the forthcoming spring campaignthe more to be regretted, as he is one of those soldiers whose judgment is ripe, and whose prowess, witnessed by his men on the bloody field of Inkermann, could not fail to inspire them with confidence and ardour in attack, when the bayonet may, at last, be ordered to settle accounts with Sebastopol.

LIEUTENANT RADCLIFFE, OF THE 23RD WELSH
FUSILIERS.

FREDERICK PETER DELMÉ RADCLIFFE was the eldest son of Frederick Peter Delmé Radcliffe, Esq., of Hitchin Priory, Herts. This family is of ancient lineage, and highly connected with the nobility. The father of the subject of this memoir is the representative of the family residing in an unbroken line at Hitchin Priory, Herts, since Henry the Eighth took that priory from the White Carmelites, and bestowed it upon Sir Ralph Radcliffe, Knt. His paternal grandmother and maternal great aunt, the Lady Betty Delmé, and the Lady Frances Radcliffe, were both sisters of

Frederick Earl of Carlisle, grandfather of the present earl. He was also connected by matrimonial alliances with the Graftons. Lieutenant Radcliffe was gazetted an ensign in 1849, in the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and became lieutenant on the 5th of November, 1850. In 1849 he joined the second battalion, in Canada. While here he escaped drowning on Lake Erie. Being with a detachment of his regiment on board a steamer, the vessel came into collision with another, and he witnessed the sinking of a brother officer and forty men. At the battle of the Alma Lieutenant Radcliffe behaved bravely. He led the first company to the attack on the Russian battery which had been dealing so much destruction to the 23rd. He ascended towards the battery coolly amid showers of grape and shell, and he fell when within some thirty yards of the enemy, having been shot through the heart. He had received several other bullets after his death, so thick and low were they flying that even the surface of the ground was raked by the deadly missiles. The enemy know how to fire.

Lord Hardinge, in testimony of the bravery of Lieutenant Radcliffe, presented his younger brother with a commission without purchase. His death was greatly regretted, by not only his brotherofficers, but by those high in command who had witnessed the cool perseverance with which he made for the enemy's battery in a perfect storm of fire. His family were made acquainted with the particulars of his death by the following communication from General Torrens, which gives a few interesting incidents with regard to others in that great action :

"Field of Battle, on the River Alma, Crimea, 21st September, 1854.

"MY DEAR DELMÉ,-I shall wring your heart indeed, and poor Mrs. Radcliffe's, by the sad intelligence I have, alas! to communicate. Your poor dear boy fell yesterday, at the head of the company which he commanded (No. 1), while gallantly leading them to the attack of a Russian intrenched battery, heavily armed, and most strongly occupied. Never was a more noble feat of arms done than the capture of this battery; and in that capture the poor dear old Welsh were foremost. Their loss has been frightful. Chester, Wynn, Evans, Conolly, my poor sister's boy, Harry Anstruther, Butler, Radcliffe, Young, were all killed dead at the same moment, and within a space of 100 square yards. Applethwaite (it is feared mortally), Campbell, Sayer, Bathurst, Stopton, wounded; only six officers remain untouched, and nearly 200 men are hors de combat. The exploit was noble indeed; but what a sacrifice! The position of the Russians on this river was most formidable; it was defended by 40,000 men, and it was carried in two hours and a half. They lost great numbers, and the conduct of our army, on whom the brunt of the thing fell, was equal to anything that it has ever done. The French behaved admirably. I am heart-sick at the loss of so many dear and valued friends, and at the thought of my poor sister's anguish. God alone can comfort us in these overwhelming calamities, and to His Almighty

will let us humbly bow. Your dear boy died instantly, without pain, and lies buried in a deep grave along with his brave comrades, close to the spot where he so nobly died. God bless you, Delmé. May he comfort and support you both, is the prayer of your old friend and comrade,

"ARTHUR W. TORRENS.

"P.S.-Harry Torrens and Bulwer buried him. His wound was in the centre of his breast. He lay on his back, and his body had been untouched and respected. God bless and save him. His face was calm, with almost a smile on it. A. W. T."

It will be remembered that Lieutenant Radcliffe's regiment (the 23rd) covered itself with glory at the Alma. He was one of those heroic subalterns in whose hands Her Majesty's sword was borne to the grave with honour to the bearers and to the glory of the sovereign's reign.

MAJOR TOWNSEND, OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY.

SAMUEL PHILIP TOWNSEND was the eldest son of the Rev. William Robinson Townsend, Rector of Agheda (Ireland).

Townsend chose the army as his profession, and selected the Royal Artillery, in which corps his grandfather, Major-General Brooke Young, had a distinguished career. The family of the Townsends have a page in history. The founder of the Townsends in Ireland was Cromwell's sturdy commander, Colonel Richard Townsend, who was never known to flinch from carrying out the Lord Protector's orders.

The subject of this notice was gazetted a second lieutenant on the 26th of July, 1831, and became first lieutenant on the 16th of October, 1832, and captain on the 10th of August, 1842. During the Canadian rebellion of 1837, he was sent out by Sir Alexander Dixon, of the Royal Artillery, as a most efficient officer, and he served there until the insurrection was suppressed, as adjutant of artillery and acting brigade - major, under General Campbell. Having been promoted to be second captain, he returned to Woolwich, where he received the appointment of field-instructor of the cadets. After holding this appointment for some time, he returned to Canada, where he married the daughter of General Campbell. After his return home, he was stationed at Glasgow, then Dover, and lastly in this country, at his old quarters, Woolwich.

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On going to the Crimea, he was attached to the 4th division. In the battle of the Alma his division was held in reserve, and he therefore had no active part in the action. At Balaklava he was present as captain of artillery, but met with no mishap. Inkermann, however, he distinguished himself by his devotion to the guns under his command, which were stationed at a point which, while advantageous for mowing down the enemy's columns, invited for that very reason showers of their balls and shells. It