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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 99, 13 February 1890, Page 3

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It is with much regret that we report the serious illness of Lieut. Gosling of the Manchester Rides. Tickets for the Banquet will be obtainable at the parade on the 14th instant. Invitations will be issued to ex officers and honorary members of the corps. Sir Charles Napier, in his journal, thus describes the feelings of a commander in war.— "The feeling that when battle comes on like a storm, thousands of brave men are rushing to meet it, confident to their skill to -direct them, is indescribable. It is greater than the feeling of gladness after a victory— far greater, indeed, for the danger being then over, and brave men lying scattered about dead or dying, the spirit is sad. Oh I there is no pleasure after a battle, beyond rejoicing that we have escaped beiog «lain. But when the columns bear sipon an enemy as the line of battle, {forms, as it moves majestically onwards to 'conquer or die, as the booming of the cannon rolls loud and long amidst pealing shouts and musketry, then a man feels able for his work, •-and confident in his gifts and his movements upon the enemy. There is 7ao feeling to equal that exultation, which makes men seek to become conquerors, if religion does not aid reason jto hold it in check. But all is vanity."