that the services of the late Captain Butler, as well as those of Lieutenant Nasmyth and Lieutenant Ballard, of the East India Company's army-the last of whom, though late in Silistria, exerted himself most ably and gallantly in aid of the defence-are fully recognised and appreciated by his Highness."

The following is an extract from the despatch of Omer Pacha referred to by his lordship. It is addressed to Lord Raglan, and bears date from the Turkish head quarters:

"Schumla, July 1st, 1854.

"Parmi les braves qui ont pris part à la défense glorieuse de Silistrie se trouvaient deux officiers Anglais, dont je ne dois pas oublier les noms. Le jeune Capitaine Butler, arrivé pendant l'hiver avec M. Nasmyth au Quartier-Général de Chumla, était à Silistrie au moment ou les Russes commençaient l'attaque contre la place. Tous les deux pouvaient se rétirer, mais, la voix de l'honneur parlant haut chez eux, ils préférèrent de rester, dans l'idée d'être utile dans la lutte qui se préparait. Leur exemple, leur conseil, ont puissament contribué à la conservation des forts attaqués; malheureusement, M. Butler, blessé d'une balle au front, à trouvé là une mort glorieuse: mais sa mémoire ne périra pas dans l'armée Ottomane."

Captain James A. Butler died in his 28th year, just as our active participation in the war would have called forth the exercise of his rare abilities to the advantage of his country, and to his own proud distinction. He most undoubtedly did good service. He was the first Englishman who humbled the cohorts of the Czar in this war, and as his name is hated in Russia, so will it be embalmed the more sweetly in England. He was the first to strike he will be the last forgotten of those men whose heroic deeds outshine in grandeur the fabled exploits of old massive Rome's best men.

There are two sons lost in this war to Lieutenant-General the Hon. H. E. Butler. He has felt his loss most acutely. He sees no one. His grief is sympathized with by the country at large, and by no one more deeply than by his Sovereign.

MAJOR JOHN OLAUS MÖLLER, OF THE 50TH REGIMENT.

THIS gallant and amiable young officer was descended from the ancient and noble family of the Möllers, of Flensburg, who originally came from Hamburg, and have been illustrious in literature, as well as in arms. The family has, for two generations, been naturalized in this country.

The subject of this memoir was the third son of Charles Champion Möller, Esq., of the late 18th Hussars. He was born at Hillhouse, near Abergavenny, and was quite a young man when he fell in the service of his country.

He was a pupil of the late Dr. Butler, of Shrewsbury (afterwards Bishop of Lichfield), and was at an early age presented with a commission in the 44th Regiment by the late Lord Hill. He proceeded forth

with to join his regiment in India, but the 44th having been almost annihilated in the affair of Cabul, the remnant were ordered home. Soon after, Lieutenant Möller had obtained his company, he exchanged into the 50th, or Queen's Own Regiment, and on the 3rd of March, 1854, was promoted to the rank of Major. While stationed at Varna, his health suffered severely; but, with heroic fortitude, he resisted the idea of being invalided, and proceeded with the expedition to the Crimea, though ill, prepared to struggle with the hardships of the campaign. His vigilance and distinguished valour, while resisting a sortie of the enemy on the night of the 20th of December, 1854, reflects honour on his noble corps, and entitles the name of Möller to a prominent page in the history of our heroes of the Crimea.

The enemy had abandoned a post called the "Ovens," whereupon we occupied it. The enemy wishing to retake the place, marched towards it with a body of from about 1,500 to 2,000 of their best troops, at five o'clock in the morning. The Ovens were held by about 250 of the 50th Regiment. The enemy pushed forward quietly, but with the utmost rapidity, hoping to take the place by surprise; in this attempt they very nearly succeeded, and, but for the vigilance of Major Möller, would most assuredly have done so altogether. Unfortunately, owing to the damp, only a very few of the firelocks would go off; and this, put together with the poor fellows waking up, and finding themselves surrounded by Russians, produced a good deal of confusion at first, which almost amounted to a panic, as each man seized his firelock, and found it was almost useless! Not more than twenty shots were fired at the Russians, about 500 of whom had now entered the breastwork! They replied with a heavy volley, which, had it been better aimed, would have almost destroyed the little party; Major Möller then rallied his men, and charged the enemy at the point of the bayonet! The Russians seemed quite unprepared for this act of valour on the part of such a handful of men; they instantly fell into confusion; nearly fifty of them were bayonetted as they stood, and the rest began to scramble out of the battery: our men instantly jumped on the parapet to pursue the foe, but found that they had rallied, and were in the act of commencing another assault. The picket, therefore, remained on the parapet, against which the enemy advanced with their whole force! A most desperate struggle ensued; both parties fought with the bayonet, and the gallant 50th, though the enemy were six times their number, still held the work; but not being able to fire, their number was rapidly thinning. The contest was still at its height, when, fortunately, a covering party advanced to the assistance of our hard-pressed little band.

Major Möller, while in the act of cheering on his men, was mortally wounded by a bullet through the spine. Thus, not 600 of our gallant troops defeated a force of the enemy three times their number, with all the advantages which could be derived from attacking us by surprise. In this gallant affair the brave Möller is honourably mentioned by the commanding officer of his regiment, in the following letter acquainting the family of their heavy loss:

"Before Sebastopol, Dec. 22, 1954.

"Dear Sir-It is with deep regret that I now perform the melancholy duty of communicating to you the intelligence of the death of Major Möller, which took place here this morning. He was on duty in the trenches on the night of the 20th inst., when the enemy made a sortie, and he received a mortal wound from a musket ball through the body. He fell close to me as he was gallantly cheering on the men. I enclose a letter from him which arrived to-day. I must beg you to break the sad news to Mrs. Möller, and, with my kindest regards, to assure her how sincerely I console with her for this sudden bereavement. I remain, dear Sir, yours faithfully, "R. W. WADDY, Lt.-Col. 50th Regiment.'

Major Möller was a sincere Christian; he solemnly thought of the future, and, with a foreboding of his death, he addressed to a very dear relation, a letter from Varna, four months before he fell, in which he says:"I have suffered much from the effects of climate, and feel my strength much reduced. We sail in a few days for Sebastopol. It is hard to say-farewell! but God's will be done! As we are not to meet again here, remember! that we shall meet hereafter."

Lieutenant-General Möller, of the Russian service, is also a descendant from the same ancestry. A brother of the deceased, in the 98th Regiment, died on service in India about three years since. Two other brothers are now serving in the Queen's armies; and two are in the Church.

Major Möller married a daughter of the late Major Drysdale, of Jervistone, Lanarkshire, and has left her a widow with two sons. The Minister-at-War can at least recommend to the guardianship of the Horse Guards the children rendered fatherless by the heroism of a British officer.

GENERAL THE HON. JAMES YORKE SCARLETT, LEADER OF THE HEAVY CAVALRY AT BALAKLAVA.

GENERAL THE HONOURABLE JAMES YORKE SCARLETT is the second son of the celebrated Sir James Scarlett, afterwards Lord Abinger, and of Louisa Campbell, a lady of an ancient Highland family. This heroic soldier is brother of the present Lord Abinger, and is also, by the matrimonial alliance of a lady of his house, related to the present Lord Campbell, Lord Chief Justice of England. The Honourable James Yorke Scarlett was born on the 1st of February, 1799. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge. His first commission was in the 18th Hussars, which he joined when in his nineteenth year, at Maidstone, in the year 1818, on the return of the regiment from Cambray. Shortly after joining, though junior cornet, he commanded the corps, then 1000 strong, on its march to Newcastle-on-Tyne. This regiment was, some time after, disbanded, and Cornet Scarlett was reduced to half-pay. He shortly, however, obtained a commission in the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabineers). In this regiment, when he became

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captain, he was remarked for attention to the men and horses of his troop. From his boyhood he evinced a passion for horsemanship, and when but a youth his judgment as to the "points" of the noble animal, he was one day to bestride so well, was considered not only excellent, but up to that of the "corner" veterans. One of the best riders in his regiment, and delighting in the chase, his own stud was always conspicuous for their performances in the field.

He at length obtained a half-pay majority, and took advantage of the privilege of field officers to complete his military studies at Sandhurst, in mathematics and fortification. This was the act of a man who had entered the service with an intention of being duly qualified to do it credit. His study was close, his progress rapid. Application had achieved for him its reward. But half the usual time considered necessary to the mastery of the solid science of war had expired when Scarlett was appointed to a full-pay majority in the 5th Dragoon Guards. The regiment being in Ireland (at that time in a disturbed state), the new Major, anxious to join, offered himself for immediate examination at the end of his six months at Sandhurst. He went through the ordeal swimmingly. There had been no "cramming:" it was aptitude. He had buckled himself to the work, and it was done. On obtaining a certificate of proficiency, he was further honoured by a letter from the Horse Guards commending his zeal. Having joined his regiment, he gave general satisfaction to his superior officer. The records at the Horse, Guards contain a succession of favourable reports proving this officer's devotion to the service during the several years he remained under the command of the gallant Colonel Wallace, to whom he succeeded as Lieut.-Colonel in the year 1840. In the meantime the Hon. James Yorke Scarlett had married Miss Hargreaves, daughter and co-heiress of Colonel Hargreaves, of Bank House, Burnley, Lancashire, and of Ormond House, near the same place. In 1837 he was returned to Parliament for Guildford, for which borough he sat until 1841; but neither his parliamentary labours nor the care of his estate prevented his devoting himself to his military duties. Under his command the 5th Dragoon Guards was said on all sides to be a model regiment of cavalry.

About the year 1848, Colonel Scarlett received, through the commander of the district, an official letter, by which he learnt that the Commander-in-Chief had expressed his satisfaction of the continued state of discipline and efficiency of the 5th Dragoon Guards. That letter expressed the desire of his Grace the Duke of Wellington that Colonel Scarlett might be informed that the Commander-in-Chief considered the state of his regiment highly creditable to its commanding officer. This unusual honour was at the same time also conferred on the Earl of Cardigan, then in command of the 11th Hussars. In 1852, Colonel Scarlett attained the rank of full colonel. He might now have sold out, and retaining his rank in the army, have become a general in due course of seniority; but with the conviction that a cavalry officer can only be effective when in constant practice, Colonel Scarlett maintained all his

habits of activity in command of his regiment to the day on which he was appointed Brigadier-General in Turkey.

When Scarlett was ordered to the East, his regiment was stationed in Ireland. Some of his men were ill, and an immediate departure was necessary. While another cavalry corps was undergoing inspection, he addressed it as follows:-"Now, boys, I want a hundred men to go with me to the war-who'll volunteer?" The words were barely uttered when 150 fine fellows stepped forth, and exclaimed, "We'll serve under you, Colonel!" This speaks for the character of the man in the service, with close observers, such as private soldiers are known to be. On departing, he distributed £200 among the wives and families of the gallant men who had volunteered; and he did not forget those dependent on the men of his own regiment.

On reaching Turkey he was posted in the pestilential station of Devno, where he had the mortification of losing several of his brave officers, and many of his men. So cut up had his corps become, that he had to incorporate it with the 4th Royal Irish Dragoons (under Colonel Hodge). The heavy brigade of cavalry was not included in the expedition to Eupatoria-a circumstance afterwards regretted by Lord Raglan. There was work in store, however, for that brigade!

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Upon the day of the battle of Balaklava, Scarlett was a somebody." His heavy cavalry were drawn up in front of the encampment behind a slight undulation of the ground which concealed them from the view of the enemy. The particulars of the battle are well known. General Scarlett received a direct order from Lord Raglan to advance with his brigade of cavalry. He obeyed! The manner in which he handled this force; the example he set to his troops as he led them against an enemy many times exceeding the "heavies" in number; the conflict hand to hand; the proof of the personal superiority of the British horsemen, and the complete overthrow of the Russian cavalry in all its pride of strength, has been already well described. That splendid charge of cavalry led by General Scarlett took place under the very eyes of the General Commanding-in-Chief. Raglan watched it. His face was calm, but the heart's pulsation was troubled as Scarlett advanced against the overwhelming force of the Czar. He had hope-big solid hope in the judgment and heroic fire of his Brigadier-General. But would he live to return from out of the deadly embrace of the many headed monster cavalry of the enemy-would a single man of her Majesty's heavies live to return! His anxiety was relieved by the brilliant result. He saw that band under Scarlett go through the well horsed chivalry of Russia like a lance through pasteboard, and he witnessed it return scarcely diminished in strength-conquerors invincible. His lordship sent his aide-de-camp, Lieutenant the Honourable L. Curzon, one of the Rifle Brigade, with his congratulations to General Scarlett-"and tell him," said Lord Raglan, "that I said-Well done, Scarlett!" The heroic old officer's face beamed with delight as the aide-de-camp delivered his lordship's message. His troops were cheering at the moment. He turned towards them,