... smokuig Tr s or reclining different attitudes, cleaning their arms and accoutrements ; and the chaplains are prevented from speaking the soldiers and administering to them spiritual advice and instruction. The chaplains, who are”blFged to keep horse, must ...

... leaving the barrel uninjured. This experiment was repeated four times with similar result. Of the durability of my guns 1 can speak with the utmost confidence. Front one them upwards of 1500 shots have been fired, chiefly high elevations, without tho gun ...

... advantage lies at the outset. The action of irou cutting into (rad is ditterent to the action of iron on iron well lubricated. Speaking of great guns at long ranges, the precision of the 80-ponnderat T, with range of two miles, was about equal to that of the ...

... a native army, it Sikh, Goorkah, or Poorbceah, shalldo well to to it the remark of Sir John Malcolm, ‘‘lt is, politically speaking, expedient that our native army in the habit of serving in every part of India, and far from desirable that they should remain ...

... employ it, the effect was invariably very destructive. At p. 72, General Bormaun states that, “as to the siege, properly speaking, it appears certain that Shrapnel fire was not used at all by the English against Sebastopol, with one single exception, ...

... terra of years. Officers of any regiments serving in India would be eligible, and thus a new and desirable profession, so to speak, would be thrown open to those of the military service who are able and willing to manifest their fitness. We believe that ...

... This one fact answers, I said, your Correspondent’s axiom. Of course, there may be differences in different stations. He speaks from his experience—l from mine. But, I think from what I have heard from others, that most will agree with me that, except ...

... least allowed to attain a 700f. lieutenantcy, on renouncing their claim to the odd 140£. on selling out. Although, strictly speaking, not a fair compromise, this would eventually relieve the Reserve Fund, and, we think, would satisfy those who now so loudly ...

... School of Musketry at Hythc, or had former military ° horo,after return to make thorough inspection, it will be my duty to speak of Corps and Companies more specifically as I find them. . . . From the proficiency obtained in so short a time, is evident ...

... borne in mind that without the moral and material support drawn from our alliance with the most military nation in India,—wo speak of the Sikh people,—this handful of men would have perished by the road-side or in the narrow lanes of tho Subzee Muudee, had ...

... presiding over them on that occasion, but by consenting to become an officer of a Volunteer corps. He (Karl He Grey) could speak from his own official knowledge of the valuable assistance his Royal Highness had given to every measure calculated to give ...

... this result arose from the weariness engendered the previous long debate on Italian or from dislike to hear Colonel Sykes speak, or from ’an impatience at being troubled about anj thing “Indian Possibly all those reasons contributed to the motion dropping ...