Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, was engaged in a severe conflict.

"The enemy, under the cover of thick brushwood, advanced in two heavy bodies, and assaulted with great determination a small redoubt which had been constructed for two guns, but was not armed. The combat was most arduous, and the brigade, after displaying the utmost steadiness and gallantry, was obliged to retire before very superior numbers, until supported by a wing of the 20th regiment of the fourth division, when they again advanced and retook the redoubt.

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This ground was afterwards occupied in gallant style by French troops, and the Guards speedily re-formed in rear of the right flank of the second division.'

Lord Raglan in reporting the conduct of the principal officers in this battle, speaks of "Lieutenant-General His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who particularly distinguished himself." From a subsequent despatch of Lord Raglan's it will be seen that his Royal Highness failed not, ill as he was, to bring before the notice of the Commander-in-Chief the names of the brave officers under his command, whose deeds he had witnessed in the field. Lord Raglan writes:

"Before Sebastopol, November 11, 1854. "My Lord Duke,-When, on the 8th inst., I reported the gallant and successful repulse of the very formidable attack made upon the position occupied by our troops above the ruins of Inkermann, I stated that I would, in a subsequent despatch, lay before your Grace the names of the officers whose conduct upon the occasion had been brought to my notice. I now proceed to discharge that duty.

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His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge reports most favourably of the exertions of Colonel the Honourable George Upton, of the Coldstream Guards, Lieutenant-Colonel Reynardson, of the Grenadier Guards, and Colonel Walker, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, as well as of Colonel Cunynghame. Assistant-QuarterMaster-General and Lieutenant-Colonel Brownrigg, Assistant-Adjutant-General; Captain the Honourable Percy Fielding, Acting Deputy - Assistant - Quartermaster - General, who was severely wounded; and of Captain Butler, Deputy-Assistant - AdjutantGeneral, who was unfortunately killed; and here I may pause to mention that he was the brother of Captain Butler, who so distinguished himself at Silistria, and fell just before the siege was raised.

"The Duke of Cambridge likewise recommends Lieut.-Colonel Dacres, of the Royal Artillery, who commanded the field batteries of the first division, which were admirably served by Captains Paynter and Woodhouse, Captain Hamley, of the Royal Artillery, acting as staff-officer to that branch of the serviee; Captain Ellison, the Brigade-Major to the Guards, and Major the Honourable James Macdonald (whose conduct particularly attracted my attention) and the other officers of his personal staff.

"His Royal Highness speaks also in the highest terms of the spirited exertions of the Assistant-Surgeon Wilson, of the 7th Hussars, who at a critical moment rallied a few men, which enabled them to hold the ground till reinforced."

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Her Majesty felt a noble pride that one of her Royal line had, in so memorable a battle, distinguished himself. It is a victory that augments the glory of her faultless reign, and to have aided in achieving it is to live in history. It was, therefore, under no ordinary feeling, that the Sovereign expressed her high gratification at the part taken by her Royal cousin, when she thus wrote to Lord Raglan in acknowledgment of the services of the army at Inkermann:- Her Majesty has received with feelings of no ordinary pleasure your Lordship's report of the manner in which LieutenantGeneral his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge distinguished himself. That one of the illustrious members of her Royal house should be associated with the toils and glories of such an army is to the Queen a source of great pride and congratulation."

The Duke of Cambridge, while on board the "Retribution" at Balaklava, grew daily more debilitated, until at length low fever had set in. In this state he was moved to Constantinople, where he put up at the Hôtel d'Angleterre. Upon partial recovery he removed to the palace of the British Embassy at Pera. After a few days' sojourn there, his Royal Highness was visited by the Sultan, who, with his suite, came to congratulate the Prince upon the victory at Inkermann. This visit created no small surprise among the good old Turks, who could not understand, for the life of them, why their sovereign should visit an unbeliever. His Majesty was received at the entrance of the palace, by Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, and the whole personnel of the British legation, in full uniform, and by the Duke of Cambridge, who waited at the head of the grand staircase. The Sultan was introduced into the chief saloon, where he entered most affably into conversation with the Duke of Cambridge. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, and M. Etienne Pisani, first dragoman to the embassy, were present at this interview, and as the noble ambassador remained standing, his Majesty graciously requested him to be seated. After the interview, which lasted twenty minutes, and in which the Sultan expressed to the Duke his sentiments of friendship and sympathy for Queen Victoria and the English people, and satisfaction at the improvement in the health of his Royal Highness, his Majesty visited Lady Stratford, who, with her daughters, was in the ball-room, and conversed with them in the most friendly manner. The Duke of Cambridge accompanied the Sultan half way down the grand staircase, when his Majesty insisted he should go no further. Lord Stratford, and the other members of the legation, accompanied his Majesty to the great vestibule.

M. Etienne Pisani accompanied his Majesty to the palace gates, where the Sultan mounted his horse and returned to Tcheragan.

The Duke of Cambridge thrashed the Russians at Alma and Inkermann. At Constantinople his presence caused the visit of the Sultan just described-an innovation of great magnitude in the

eyes of the Turks. Their Sultan had actually deported himself like a good Christian; and as he went into the ambassador's palace a good mussulman, so he came out. His sojourn at Constantinople was another step towards a great moral improvement in the capital of our ally. The Turks will learn that they may, with safety to their religious tenets, hold free intercourse with those not of their faith. It was by littles that the world emerged from barbarism: the Turks will learn to walk, and by-and-by they will run and read to their advantage.

His Royal Highness is most anxious to be out again with his brave Guards. And should the war last any time, no doubt he will be with them to share the dangers of the field. At present his health is anything but fitted for campaigning. He has done the country good service, and a generous people who admire heroism, will ever remember that of His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, as leader of the Guards at Alma and Inkermann.

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HENRY WILLIAM ADAMS was born on the 31st of January, in the year 1805. He was the eldest son of Cadwallader Adams, Esq., of Anstey Hall, Warwickshire, and at whose death, in 1842, he succeeded to estates which had been vested in the family during the reign of Henry VIII. He was nephew to Mr. Serjeant Adams of the Middlesex sessions. He entered the army in the year 1823, when in his eighteenth year. As things go in the army, this brave officer has had something like good luck on his side, for after seventeen years' service he, in 1840, became lieutenant-colonel in the 18th Royal Irish. He commanded this corps in the China war. He was at the first capture of Chusan, the storming of the heights of Canton, the capture of Amoy, the second capture of Chusan, the storming of the heights of Chinhae, and the capture of Ningpo. the close of the operations, Lieutenant-Colonel Adams exchanged into the 49th, and returned with that regiment to England. He afterwards served with the corps in England for some time, then in Ireland, and in the Mediterranean. In 1844 he married Catherine Adams, his cousin, and second daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Coker Adams, who had been vicar of Anstey for forty-three years. In 1854 he was appointed to the command of a Brigade of the army of the East, and he consequently became brigadier-general. In the battle of the Alma he played a distinguished part, in Sir de Lacy Evans's division, having crossed the river and ascended the heights with that general, under a murderous fire. General Adams received the thanks of Lord Raglan, in his lordship's despatch to the Duke of Newcastle. At the battle of Inkermann, under Pennefather, Adams greatly distinguished himself. The Second Division had very hard fighting for some two hours before relief could be brought to it, and this officer was most to be found wherever his presence could cheer his men. General Adams was,

however, severely wounded, and had to be borne from the field. He died on the 19th of December, at Scutari, some seven days after he had been promoted to the rank of major-general, for his services both at Alma and Inkerman. His character is that of a brave soldier and a true Christian. His charitable deeds in his native village are well remembered, and the poor have cause to mourn the loss of one who never refused aid to the unfortunate. His death-bed was attended by Mrs. Adams, who, when news of his having been wounded reached this country, departed for Scutari, where she arrived just in time to receive the last words of one who, dear to her, is no less a loss to a country whose intelligent soldiers are her safety in times such as these. General Adams is succeeded in his estates by his brother, Captain George Adams, R.N. Two of his brothers are serving with the army in the Crimea-Lieutenant-Colonel Adams, of the 28th, and Major Adams, of the 49th. The latter-named officer acted as aide-de-camp to the deceased general, and was slightly wounded in the same battle which deprived the service of the subject of this notice.

CAPTAIN CHILDERS, OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY. SPENCER PHILIP JOHN CHILDERS was born in the year 1828. He was the eldest son of Captain William Childers, late of the 42nd Highlanders; grandson of Colonel Childers, one of the late Duke of York's aide-de-camps in the Walcheren expedition, and nephew of Mr. Walbanke Childers, M.P., of Cantley, county of York.

The subject of this notice was educated for the profession of arms. In 1845, when in his seventeenth year, he went to the artillery school at Woolwich, where, after twelve months' study, he received a second lieutenancy in the Royal Artillery. He had so distinguished himself by proficiency while at the academy, as to receive on his joining the corps the most honourable testimonials from the heads of the department. His first commission was in December, 1846; and while serving in Ireland he was, on the 21st of December, 1847, promoted to a first lieutenancy. In 1849 he was sent to Canada; and in July, 1854, having obtained a captaincy, he returned to England for the purpose of joining the army of the East. He proceeded to Constantinople after the expedition to the Crimea had sailed from Varna, and made the greatest exertions to get on in time for the commencement of the operations. He did not reach the allied armies, however, until after the battle of the Alma; but he was before Sebastopol in time to take part in the siege. On the 23rd of October, 1854, the gallant officer was engaged in the trenches. The Russian guns in Sebastopol had been blazing away at our advanced works for several hours without a moment's cessation. Young Captain Childers had been in conversation with his superior officer as to the progress of the enemy's earthworks; and leaving him for the purpose of taking an observation of the Russian batteries, he had no sooner looked over the

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parapet, than a round shot struck him on the head. Death was instantaneous. Lord Raglan regretted the loss of this officer, and in his despatch to the Duke of Newcastle he thus announces the

occurrence :

"Before Sebastopol, Oct. 28.

"MY LORD DUKE,-I have nothing particular to report to your Grace respecting the operations of the siege since I wrote to you on the 23rd inst. The fire has been somewhat less constant, and our casualties have been fewer, though I regret to say that Captain Childers, a very promising officer of the Royal Artillery, was killed on the evening of the 23rd."

The major with whom Captain Childers had been in consultation a few seconds before his death, details the circumstances to his father in the following letter :

"Camp near Sebastopol, Oct. 25.

"My dear Sir,-It has fallen to my duty to be obliged to communicate to you the melancholy tidings of the death of your son, Captain Childers, of the Royal Artillery, and second captain in my company, who fell in his country's cause in the trenches before Sebastopol, on or about four o'clock in the afternoon of the 23rd of October. He was standing by me, and left me to see the effect of the enemy's works; he put his head above the top of the earthen parapet, and a large round shot struck him on the head, and his death was instantaneous—he could not possibly have suffered at all. Being myself a parent, I can feel for you and with you, and to me his death is irreparable. He had only joined me a short time, but in that time I had been able to appreciate his good qualities, both in a private as well as in a public capacity, and had he been spared he would have been ere long an ornament to his profession. Willingly would I give way to my feelings and weep for him as for a brother, but stern necessity forbids it. I have a large family myself, and, while I am writing these lines in haste, have to go into the trenches again, and God only knows who may be the next. The Lord gave and the Lord may take away, and we must all be prepared for our great change, whenever we may be called on. His remains I brought with me to the camp, and yesterday they were interred in a secluded valley close to the camp, where they will not be disturbed when we quit the country. They were followed to the grave by numerous officers and men. I had a quiet coffin made to put him in, which I did with my own hands, assisted by his servant, and fastened him down myself, taking, alas! a sorrowful long farewell of one whom I much loved and respected. I have also made arrangements for his grave being banked up, to preserve it. I cut off some of his hair, which I now inclose. His effects, rings, &c., will be forwarded to England by the first opportunity. I have allowed nothing to be disposed of, as his family, I dare say, will like to keep all his things as tokens of the memory of one who, I am sure, must have been a good son. Trusting that I may meet him in a better world, truly yours,

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Believe me, my dear Sir, Very IN NOBLE A. FREESE.”