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and by a Maitland Prize in the University of Cambridge. The circumstances of the institution 

 of these memorials are these, as originally announced: "The friends of Lieutenant-General 

 Sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C.B., late Commander and Chief of the Forces in South India, 

 being desirous of testifying their respect and esteem for his character and principles, and 

 for his disinterested zeal in the cause of Christian Truth in the East, have raised a fund for 

 the institution of a prize in one of the Universities, and for the establishment of two native 

 scholarships at Bishop Corrie's Grammar School at Madras ; such prize and scholarships to be 

 associated with the name of Sir Peregrine Maitland. In pursuance of the foregoing scheme, 

 the sum of £1,000 has been given to the University of Cambridge for the purpose of instituting 

 a Prize to be called " Sir Peregrine Maitland's Prize," for an English essay on some subject 

 connected with the propagation of the Gospel, through missionary exertions in India and other 

 parts of the heathen world." — This Prize, which is kept up by the interest accruing every three 

 years, has been awarded at Cambridge regularly since 1S45. 



The successor to Sir Peregrine Maitland in the Government of Upper Canada was another 

 distinguished military officer, Sir John Colborne. With ourselves, the iirst impression of his 

 form and figure is especially associated with the interior in which we are supposing the reader 

 to be now standing. We remember his first passage up the central aisle of St. James's Church. 

 He had arrived early, in an unostentatious way ; and on coming within the building he quietly 

 inquired of the first person whom he saw, sitting in a seat near tlie door, which was the 

 Governor's pew? The gentleman addressed happened to be Mr. Bernard Turquand, who, 

 guickly recognizing the inquirer, stood up and extended his right arm and open hand in the 

 direction of the canopied pew over which was suspended the tablet bearing the Royal Arms. 

 Sir John, and some of his family after him, then passed on to the place indicated. — At school, 

 in an edition of Goldsmith then in use, the name of " Major Colborne " in connection with the 

 account of Sir John Moore's death at Corunna had already been observed ; and it was with us 

 lads a matter of intense interest to learn that the new Governor was the same person. The 

 scene which was epitomized in the school-book, is given at greater length in Gleig's Lives of 

 Eminent British Military Commanders. — The following are some particulars from Colonel 

 Anderson's narrative in that work: "I met the general," Colonel Anderson says, "on the 

 evening of the Ibtlj, bringing in, in a blanket and sashes. He knew me immediately, though 

 it was almost dark, squeezed me by the hand and said 'Anderson, don't leave me.' At 

 intervals he added ' Anderson, you know that I have always wished to die in this way. I hope 

 the people of England will be satisfied. I hope my country wiU do me justice. Ton will see 

 my friends as soon as you can. TeU them everything. I have made my will, and have remem- 

 bered my servants. Colborne has my will and aU my papers.' Major Colborne now came into 

 the room. He spoke most kindly to him ; and then said to me, ' Anderson, remember you go 



to , and teU him it is my request, and that I expect, he wiU give Major Colborne a 



lieutenant-colonelcy.' He thanked the surgeons for their trouble. He pressed my hand close 

 to his bod}', and in a few minutes died without a straggle." He had been struck by a cannon- 

 ball. The shot, we are told, had smashed his shoulder to atoms ; the arm was hanging by a 

 piece of skin, and the ribs over the heart, besides been broken, were literally stripped of flesb. 

 Yet, the narrative adds, "he sat upon the field collected and unrepining, as if no ball had 

 struck him, and as if he were placed where he was for the mere purpose of reposing for a brief 

 space from the fatigue of hard riding." Sir John Colborne himself afterwards at Cuidad 

 Eodrigo came within a hairs-breadth of a similar fate. His right shoulder was shattered by a 

 cannon-shot. The escape of the right arm from amputation on the field at the hands of some 

 prompt military surgeon on that occasion, was a marvel. The limb was saved, though greatly 

 disabled. The want of symmetry in his taU and graceful forni, permanently occasioned by this 

 injury, was conspicuous to the eye. We happened to be present in the Council Chamber at 

 Quebec, in 183S, at the moment when this noble-looking soldier literally vacated the vice-regal 

 chair, and installed his successor Lord Durham in it, after administering to him the oaths. 

 The exchange was not for the better, in a picturesque and scenic point of %iew ; although Lord 

 Durham, as his well-known portrait shews, was a personage of fine poetic or artist-like features. 



Of late years a monument has been erected on Mount Wise at Plymouth, in honour of the 

 iUu&trious military chief and preeminently excellent man, whose memory has just been 

 recalled to us. It is a statue of bronze, by Adams, a little larger than life ; and the likeness 



