1028 
the fie ld. 
bo land without his firing 
compense for his allowing ItoaUiea the defeat of the 
a shot ; for his . sk ^/ 0 ^ he alhS to walk unmolested 
Alma; for bis having ^allowed the* immolati on of the 
Tchcod^eff 1 hitherto comniandhig the 6th corps, to the com- 
Tcheod e hitne ift troop8 . nn d gives the 6th corps 
W^c Gor^iioff III., .brother of the Xco- 
ph rK“onf“F^HE Garter. — I t i» reported that .the 
Emperor Nicholas has called upon a high Walloclnan fuac- 
tionarv to restore the decoration bestowed upon him duiing 
the occupation of the Principalities by Russia, seeing that l c 
has, since their evacuation, gone over to the BideofAustm 
and the Porte. Strange that it did not occur ^ 
when issuing this mandate, that by the same rule he ought 
to restore the insignia of the darter to Queen Victoria. 
At Alma a group of English soldiers were looking at a 
dead Russian, whose side and leg a shell had nearly c “ rr *®‘ 
away, when one of our Turkish drivers came up and began 
to feel the Russian's leg. We wondered wh»t^ef^low 
meant to do ; but soon the mystery was explained out 
came the knife— t-. slit the leg of the dead man s trousers 
was the work of a moment, disclosing, to our astonmhment 
the Russian soldier's method of carrying Ins money. About 
8a rewarded the Osmanli’s sagacity ; you may be sure the 
legs of the dead were carefully examined oRerwwd as the 
Russian soldiers carry their money in a small leader purse 
strapped round the leg. 
GENERAL CANROBERT. 
( From the Afoniteur dt TArmet ) 
If anything could -llminUh the regret of the 
ssrsessr. 
carrlca on in u i,m Intrusted with the Uwk of Amsh- 
voung General whom the Ktnpcror . . ... <.f the Alma 
C the work »o gloriously commenced on the banks* >f the Alma 
Although the military career of the new Commander- m-Chlef of 'the 
leagues from the village which gave birth to Murat. He * * 
school of St. Cyr in the month of November, 182 0, and left in one of 
tlic firs, ranks alter two years of laborious study- A^^ted ■«*- 
lieutenant of the 47th of the line on the 1st of J ct f b * r ’ 
made lieutenant on the 20tl. of June. 1832, embarked tor Africa in 
1 833, and arrived in the province of Oran, where the fcmir, Abd-cl-Ksder, 
after the unfortunate affair ol the Marta, kept our army in check A short 
time afterwards he took part in the expedition of Mascara, in which he 
began to make himself known. Ho followed with h.s regiment the 
operations which Generals Clauscl and Lctang : directedin wf,ff 
of Oran : the capture of Tlemcen ; the expedition of' the Chet iff Aarch 
goun, and the Mina ; the victualling of Tlemcen; the comhats o SHh- 
Zacoub, Tafno, and Sikkah. These affair* displayed his brilliant 
military qualities, and raised him to the rank of cap tan on the 26thof 
April 1837. He went in the same year to the province ol Constan- 
ce, where the Hake do Nemours and General Damrdmont made 
preparations to revenge a deep insult. Ho received a wound in the 
leg at the assault of tliat place, by the side of Colonel Combes, an old 
soldier of the Island of Elba, to whom he was orderly officer, and who 
was mortally wounded at the breach. Before ho died, Colonel Combes 
recommended the young captain to Mondial Vul<5e as an officer tall 
Pr °«S!Ll Canrobert returned to Franco in 1830, decorated with the 
Legion of Honour, and was charged with organising for the Foreign 
Legion a battalion chosen from the bands of Spaniards who had token 
refuge with Cabrera upon the French territory. Thanks to the perse- 
vering activity of the organiser, these remnants of the civil war were 
very soon ready to take part in the labours of our troops m Algeria. 
Called to the camp of St. Omcr, in 1840, lie drew up 'ritb 8 ucce 8 s, by 
order of the Duke of Orleans, several chapters of a “'^tnS^cin 
the use of the officers of the light troops. In the north i C apta n < Can- 
robert was incorporated with the Gth battalion of Foot CWeurs and 
returned to Africa In 1 84 1. In that new campaign he signalised him- 
self in the combats of the mountains of Mouzolu and Du Coutas, as well 
os in the obstinate struggle which the MM 
troops. After having attained the rank of l turf of B^tallonof the 
15 tli Light, on the 22nd of May, 1 842, he was placed at the head of the 
5th battalion of Chasseurs, which was incessantly in the I Seld on the 
banks of the Chet iff, and took part under the orders of General Genu 
to tlio affair of the grottoes and tliat of bbcah, and also in several 
“?S 3 o°f , k t e h ;e R ai°?842 and the whole of the year 1843 were employed 
in fresh operations in Africa, and in all of them General Canrobert 
worthily maintained the honour of l.Ls battalion. He nocom^nied 
Colonel Cavaignac in the expedition of Ouaren S«to, ' and formed part 
of the column under the direction of General Boutjoliy. who, after 
attacking the Flitbas, made some bold excursions intbecoun^ofthe 
Kabylcs of Garboussa. Everywhere the 3rd and 6tli battalion ol 
was promoted to the rank of general of hrigade on the 1 3th of January, 
1 R'iO* came to Paris, commanded a brigade of infantry there, and was 
attached in the quality of aide-de-camp to the Prince President of the 
Republic and appointed general of division on the 14th of January, 
1853 at the time retaining his functions as aide-de-camp to the 
Fmperor Three months afterwards ho was appointed to command 
a division of infantry at the camp of Helfault . and almost 
at the same time he was selected as inspector of the 5th arron- 
dissement of that force. Placed latterly at the head of the 1st 
DivWon of Infantry of the army of the East, he took a most 
active part, after the commencement of that war, by preparing 
toe difficult operation of landing, and by powerfully co-operating in 
the victory of the Alma, where he received another wound. It is known 
toat Martha! de St. Arnaud, who could duly appreciate him. had the 
most ^entire confidence in his talents and bravery. It is true that dhe 
Zng general had neglected nothing in order to men that confidence^ 
Before his departure he devoted himself to deep study respecting the 
of the present expedition, as if he had had the presentiment of 
hil sS toe general officer for whom is reserved the honour of plant, 
.. flair nn the walls of Sebastopol ; for he will not fail to 
realise too brilliant hopes which the glory of his antecedents suffice to 
excite in regard to bis f uture. 
THE BRITISH GENERALS IN THE CRIMEA. 
Mr Henry Stocks Smith, of Leeds, the compiler of The 
Regimental Lists of the British 
following outlines of the services of the diffeient Generals 
now in command of British troops m the Crimea. J > 
no doubt they will at the present time be lead with much 
interest by all classes : — , ... 
Loan Raglan, G.C.B.-Cornet 9th of June, 180 4 , 4 
Lii/ht Dragoons; Lieutenant, 30th of Maj, I80o, 4th 
Light Dragoons; Captain, 5th of May 1808 6th gan.son 
battalion ; appointed to 43rd Regiment, 18th of August, 1808 , 
Brevet Major, 9th of June, 1*11 ; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, 
27th of April, 1812 ; Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel 1st 
Foot Guards, 25th of July, 1814; Colonel, 28th pf August, 
1815- Maior- General, 27th of May, 182o ; appointed Mili- 
tary Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, 29th of August, 
1827; appointed Colonel of the 53rd Regiment, 19th . of 
November, 1830; Lieutenant-General, 28th_ot June, 1838, 
Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthese, Toulouse; silver medal 
for Roleia, Talavera, Busaco, Ciudad Rodriga. Served ns 
Military Secretary to the Duke of Wellington through- 
out the Peninsular war, and also in Belgium , present 
at the capture of Oporto, pursuit of Marshal Soult, r *J rea ‘ to 
the lines of Lisbon; operations in the pursuit of Marshal 
Massena, affair of El Bodon, capture of Madrid and the 
Itetiro ; driving the enemy from Valladolid to Burgos, siege 
of that castle, and various affairs on the retreat them e to the 
frontiers of Portugal ; action of Iran passage of the Bidas- 
soa ; wounded at Busaco, * and at Waterloo severelj, right 
^ Siu n G Ut BRowN, K.C.B., K.C.H. Ensign, 23rd of Janu- 
ary. 1806, 43rd Regiment; Lieutenant, 18th of Septembei, 
1806, 43rd Regiment; Captain, 20th of June, 1811 3rd 
garrison battalion; appointed to the 85 th Regiment, 2nd o 
July, 1812; Major, 26th of May, 1814, 85th Regiment , 
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, 29th of September ,1814; Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel. 17th of July, 1823, unattached ; exchanged 
to Rifle Brigade, 5th of February, 1824 ; Colonel, Gth of 
May, 1831 ; Major-General, 23rd of November, 1841 ; ap- 
pointed Deputy-Adjutant-General, same day j Adjutant- 
General, tth of April, 1850; appornted .Colonel of the 77 h 
for Candahar. Walcheren expedition 1809, present at the 
siege of Flushing ; served on the staff in Sicily in 1810, 
Caffre war of 1835 and 1836 ; in Scinde and Afghanistan m 
1 Tin Hon. Geobge CathCART, K.C.B. — CdHiet, the 25th 
of May 1*10, 2nd Life Guards; Lieutenant, the 1st of July, 
1S11 Gth Dragoon Guards; Captain, the 24th of December, 
1A1R’ half-nay of West India Rangers; appointed to 7th 
Hussars the 16th of December, 1S19; Major, the 8th of 
■Vnril 1826, 22nd Regiment ; Lieutenant-Colonel, the 13th 
‘ r »» ’ 1826, unattached ; appointed to 57th Regiment, the- 
24th of January, 1828 ; appointed to 8tli Foot, the 20th of 
March 1828; exchanged to half-pay unattached, the -oth of 
September. 1835 ; appointed to a particular sen ice in Canada, 
the 1st of January, 1338; appointed to 1st Dragoon Guards,, 
the 11th of May, 1838; Colonel, the 23rd of November, 
1841 • exchanged to half-pay unattached, the 19th of Janu- 
an 1*44 ; appointed Deputy-Lieutenant of the lower of 
London, the 13th of February, 1846 ; Major-General the 
Hth of November, 1851; appointed Governor and Com- 
mander-in-ChiefattheCapc, 1852. Served in the campaigns 
of 1813 and 1814, in Germany, as Aide-de-Camp to Lord 
Cathcart, and was engaged at Lutzen.the 3rd of May Baut- 
zen the 20th and 21st of May; Dresden, the 23 d or 
August ; Leipsic, the 16th, 18th, and 19th of October, 1818 ; 
Brienne, the 1st of February; Bar-sur-Aube, Arcus, .1st of 
March, and Fere Champenoise, 2othof Match, 1814 seneil 
also in the campaigns of 1815 as A.de-de-Camp to the Duke 
of Wellington, and was present at the battles of Quatie Bras 
and Waterloo ; at the Cape from 1852 to the end of lie war. 
Earl or Lucan. -Ensign, 29th of August, 1816, 6th Loot ; 
Lieutenant, 24th of December, 1818, half-pay of 3rd Foot 
Guards; exchanged to 8th Foot, 20th ol January, 1820; 
Captain, 16th of May, 1822 ha f-pay of 74th Regiment ; 
exchanged to 1st Life Guards, 20tli of June 1822; Major, 
23rd of June, 1825, unattached ; exchanged to 17th Lancers, 
1st of December. 1825; Lieutenant-Colonel, 9th ol Novem- 
ber 182G, 17th Lancers; exchanged to half-pay unattached, 
14th of April, 1837; Colonel, 23rd of November, 1841; 
Major-General, 11th of November, 1851 ; local rank of 
Lieutenant-General, 18th of August, 1854. 
Sir Colin Campbell, K.C.B.— Ensign, 26tli of May, 
1808, 9th Foot; Lieutenant, 28th ot .Tune, 1809, 9th Foot ; 
Captain, 9th of November, 1813, 60th Regiment; appointed to 
the 2 1st Fusiliers, 26th of November, 1818; Major, 26th of 
November, 1825, 21st Fusiliers; Lieutenant-Colonel, 26th 
of October, 1832, unattached; appointed to the 9th Foot, 
Sth of May, 1835 ; exchanged to 98th Regiment, 19th of 
June, 1835; Colonel. 23rd of December, 1842 ; retired on 
half-pay unattached, 1st of April, 1853 ; temporary rank of 
Brigadier-General, 21st of February, 18o4 ; Major-General, 
20th of June, 1854. Silver medal for Vinnera, Corunna, 
Barossa, Vittmia, St. Sebastian ; medal for China ; medal for 
the Punjab. Expedition to Portugal, 1808; Walcheren 
expedition. 1809; served in the Peninsula from December, 
1809, to January, 1814, including the defence of Tarifa, ex- 
pedition for the relief of Tarragona, affairs of posts m the 
valley of Malaga, affair at Osma ; received two severe wounds 
at St. Sebastian, where he led the storming party ; severely 
wounded at the Bidassoa; commanded the9Stli Regiment at 
the assault and capture of Chin-lviang-Foo ; served m the 
Punjab, and was present at the hatt^ of Goojerat. 
fA biographical sketch of Omar Pasha appeared in The 
ulu of Oct. 21. page 997 .— Ed.] 
Kfthvlcs oi vjihiwu»*». M,v *v "• — • . . . . « _ 
Choascurt were led by the commander. Canrobert. with singular 
success He had been an officer of the Legion of Honour for two years 
when Colonel de St. Arnaud, who. in 1845, succeeded Colonel Cavaignac 
in the command of Orleansville, employed lum against Bou-Moxa. 
The chief of the 5th battalion gave glorious co-operation in the affairs 
ofBabl.Oued-Met.nour, Oue.l-C.ri, and Oued-Senzig. In the lormer 
he succeeded with 250 bayonet* in keeping at bay more than ,1000 men 
who could not break hi* ranks, For this exploit he was appointed 
Lieutenant-Colonel on the 26th of October. He ». soon aBerwards 
closely blocked up in the town of Tone*, where he had succeeded 
Colonel Clajmrftdc. Eight months of continual struggles brought about 
the pacification of the country, and the superior officer to whom this 
result was due obtained the rank of colonel upon the scene of his 
C0, At U te?hftvi..g commanded the 2nd Regiment of the Line, he entered 
the 2nd of the Foreign Legion on the 31st of March, 1 848. and occupied 
Batl.no. General lierbillon intrusted him at this period with the 
command of a strong column, with orders to attack ami intimidate the 
mountaineers of the Aures. This order was promptly executed. 
Colonel Canrobert surprised tlic enemy ot the fort of DJebel-Chello, 
defeated him, drove him, sword in hand, as far us Kebech, in the Amer- 
K million, and made prisoner of the Bey, Ahmed. On his return to 
Batlma he went to Aumale, and took the command or the regiment ol 
Zouaves. In this new post he had again occasion to act vigorously 
against the Kabylos and the tribes of the J urjura, whom he succeeded in 
reducing to submission. ..... , 
But it was particularly In 1849 tliat Colonel Canrobert displayed an 
energy above nil eulogtum. The cholera attacked the garrison of 
Aumale whom the events taking place ut Zuatcha had led under the 
walls of 'that place. What courage, wliat presence or mind were requi- 
site in the commander of the Zouaves, who thus conducted his soldiers 
in the midst of the dangers of a daring march, and compelled 
unceasingly to be the painful witness of their pain! He was every- 
where exhorting the sick, attending to their wants; and, in passing 
he sent a reinforcement to the town of Bou Sada, the garrison of 
which was blockaded, ami deceived the enemy, who blocked the passage, 
by announcing that he brought the plague with hirm and that he 
should infect his assailants. At length he arrived At Zaateha, on too 
8th of November. On the 26th. he commanded, with most daring 
courage, one of the attacking columns. Out of four officers and six- 
teen soldiers who followed him to too breach, sixteen were killed or 
wounded by his side As a reward for his conduct lie was “Pl«‘'>^ d 
Commander of the Legion of Honour, on the 1 1th of December, 1840. 
After having again distinguished himself at the battle of Narah, he 
vein, Busaco, I-uentos d'Onor, St. Sebastian, Nivelle, Nive. 
Present at the siege and capture of Copenhagen, 1807 ; served 
in the Peninsula from August, 1808, to July, 181 1, and again 
from July. 1813, to May, 1814; present at the passage of the 
Douro and capture of Oporto; severely wounded through 
both thighs at Talavera; action of the Light Division at the 
bridge of Almeida ; action at Sabugal, and investment of 
Bayonne ; expedition to America, IS 14, slightly wounded in 
the head, and very severely iu the groin at Bludensbuig, 
present at the capture of Washington. 
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., 
—Colonel, 3rd of November, 1837 ; appointed Colonel_of the 
17th Lancers, 25th of April, 1842; Major-General, -th of 
May, 1845; appointed Colonel of the Scots Lusilier Guards, 
23rd of September, 1852 ; Lieutenant-General, 19th of June, 
18 stn De Lacy Evans, K.C.B., -Ensign, 1st of February, 
18U7, 22nd Foot; Lieutenant, 1st of December, 1808, —nd 
Foot ; appointed to the 3rd Light Dragoons, 26th of March, 
i 1812; Captain, 12th of January, 1815, 5th West Indian 
1 Regiment; Brevet-Major, 11th of May, 1815; Brevet-L.eu- 
tenant-Colonel, 18th of June, 1815; placed on half-pay of 
the regiment, 25th of April, 1817 ; appointed Commander- 
m-Chief of the British Legion in Spain, June, 1835 ; Colonel, 
10th of January, 1837 ; Major-General, 5th ol April, 1844, 
unattached; Major-General, 9th of November, 1846; Lieu- 
tenant-General, 20th of June, 1854. Silver medal for ^ lt- 
toria, Pyrenees, Toulouse; medal for Waterloo. Served in 
India from 1807 to 1810, and was present in the operations 
against Ameer Khan and the Pindarries; capture of the Mauri- 
tius; served in the Peninsula in 1812to 1814, present during 
part of the retreat from Burgos, wounded in action on the 
Homasu ; investment of Pampeluna, had his horse shot 
under him during the investment of Bayonne ; actions at 
Vic Bigorre and Tarbes; horse shot under him at loulousu ; 
served in the expedition to America as Deputy Assistant- 
Quartermaster-General, had two horses shot at the battle of 
Bladensburg ; present at the capture of Washington, attack 
on Baltimore ; twice severely wounded before New Orleans 
—namely, on the 25th of December, 1814, and 7th of Janu- 
ary, 1815 ; served during the campaign in Belgium, 1815, as 
\ssistant-Quartermaster-General, and had one horse shot and 
another sabred at Waterloo ; holds the rank of Lieutenant- 
General in the National Army of Spain, and for his services 
in the British Legion received the grand crosses of St. Fer- 
dinand and Charles III. . , 
Sir Richard England, Iy.C.B., K.H. — Ensign, 25tli of 
February, 1808, Sth Foot; Lieutenant, 1st of 7une, 1809, 
14th Foot; Captain, 11th of July, 1811 ; 60th Regiment; 
. » > . i . i - C T 1 Q 1 ') * nvnlianirrtil (n 
Field i 
SOLDIERS* WIVES AND FAMILIES. 
IMPORTANT MEETING AT THE CALEDONIAN ASYLUM. 
On Monday, Oct. 23, a special general court of the guar- 
dians of the Caledonian Asylum was held at the Scottish 
Hospital, Crane-court, “ To consider the necessity and duty 
of taking instant measures to make provision for admitting 
to the benefits of tliia national educational charity the 
orphan sons and daughters of Scottish soldiers, sailors, and 
marines killed (or disabled) in the glorious victory on the 
heights of Alma.” 
Sir J. H. Maxwell presided. 
Dr. Cummino said that the Caledonian Asylum was 
founded and intended originally to be restricted to the chil- 
dren of the brave soldiers, sailors, and marines who had 
fallen iu the former war. Since that period the childien • . 
Scotchmen who were not in the army or navy had been 
admitted. But now the crisis had again arisen when they 
must revert to the original intention of the chanty. He 
thought they should meet the crisis boldly— that they 
should show they were not effete and obsolete, but up to 
the age in which they lived, and ready to respond to U, 
appeal made to them from the Alma and the height. 
Sebastopol. (Hear, hear.) On looking over the reports of 
the killed and wounded, it appeared that a great prepon 
derance of them were Scotchmen, and it was to be feare 
that many more of them would fall before the great objet 
of their mission was achieved. They should therefore ccm,. 
before the public with a bold and liberal proposal. M hat 
lie intended then to propose was simply this - i 
this court, while expressing its thankfulnees r.u 
joy at the glorious victory gained on the 20th of Septetu 
her, at Alma, in the Crimea, and not a little at the 
tinguished part taken by their Scottish countrymen in tb 
severe struggle, yet cannot hut deeply deplore the grea 
sacrifice of the lives of gallant men and the 
thereby entailed on their wives and children. That m or 
to show at least the anxious desire of the court to do w 
it can to express their sense of obligation and gratitm - 
the wounded and fallen, it is hereby resolved to empo^e 
the monthly court of directors to admit, at once, and wituj 
touching the claims of present applicants twenty -hvej- 
dren, boys and girls, of Scottish soldiers, sailors, andm!un>- 
either wounded, disabled, or killed in her Majesty 8 ser , 
in the East.” This resolution, supposing it to be cai ' 
he would follow up by another, to the effect that JW 
lution of the court he ineerted ,r .the London ' P P .. 
2nd of October, 1823; Lieutenant-Colonel, 29th of October, 
1825, unattached; exchanged to 75th Regiment, Gth of July, 
1826; appointed to 4th Foot, 7th of July, 1837 ; appointed 
to 41st Regiment, 10th of July, 1837 ; Colonel, 28th of 
January, 1838 ; exchanged to half-pay unattached, 22nd of 
July, 1845; Major-General, 11th of November, 1851; local 
rank of Lieutenant-General, 18th of August, 1854. Medal 
pressed in it. Supposing they did not get a — r 
they would stand thus. Their present staff was suffic e 
meet an addition of 130 more children without any - 
of expenditure on that bead. Every child .coat ^at afjggj ^ 
£15 a year, which would be £375 a year fo» the -5 u 
or £2,625 for seven years, which was the longest period 
could bo kept in the asylum. They had a capital ot - ■ 
in the funds, and though he should be the first to P ^ 
against intruding on that capital on or^ary^oo^iou . 
when a great national crisis came on he thought . 
spend the £3,000 at once than spread it over a pe , 
years. He was supposing that they did not get 8Ut l ' , r 
he was satisfied that they would got back *u e . , ‘ j 
Scotchmen when they gave, gave liberally. Iu 
