INCIDENT AT THE LATE REVIEW AT ALDERSHOTT.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 105, 23 October 1863, Page 7

INCIDENT AT THE LATE REVIEW AT ALDERSHOTT.

~ .(Front the Times.) * As the tide of mimic, but very ear-neßt-looking r fight mored on, the Prince -and Princess, followed by suite and staff, cdrove. down the -hills, to the reservoir which supplied the camp with water, a huge circular ' basin, with its hrick walls supported jby ■* wide, .high, and very steepbahk of earth that encloses it. Here the Princess (alighted, and, accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge, 4 went Tup* .'tj\e "of steps* which gives access "to the stimmit of the bank, and walked round 'its margin to the side where ,it was -high and steep, and from which a good' view of s the field beneath could be~ gained. The Prince followed with tlie Princess Mary, Lady Carmarthen, a nd Lady Macclesfield. The battle going "oa beneath had in the meantime- spread far and wide along the line, and - the* situation was apparently so critical that the cavalry were called upon to execute manne-uyres that instantly rhad^the desired effect, and ' shrouded the' WhdU force in impenetrable dust. With -this concealment of what was 'going forward the^ Princess *Vas evidently' far' from satisfied, -There r was a r short hurried consultation on theYedge.pf the. hank, which the Princess settled by at last runningdownit, Itwasavery steepslope, and slippery as glass, but when once He'r "Royal Highnes§-hddYhegun to de-^ scend it, there was no resource but to" go on, and in little quick steps, which shdwed she^knew her risk arid was qfittfe equal to it, she^kept her feet and^v^nt down like an arrow. The Duke of Camßridge -dares clo all Hhat 'became a man, and he dared this descent after Princess too, but it is no discredit- to one of his inches to say th.at he aecom-. plishi d tije task with - much- more diffi^ . culty and far les^grace than the young Princess who had set, hin^the example. Of course, after this, dtiqriett-? d±p*eCted ,the rest to follow^nd -the Prinoe jstop^ 'on the edge of ther^slope, and sought to induce i\te Pi;ihcess Mary, who at once declined. • His Royal Highness was in a manner more successful with the Marchioness Of Carmarthen and the Countess --of M^^h^^^^!o he ■.persuade^^^^|pw^ i W' th^idge |of the bi|^k^?^^but no ftipheiip Tf3e Trnore ttie^fo^ they seemed ta iike^^o^^^^^^^h, laughtfcri th^^qb?^refus^!y aud itheAgrlhcfyiti^ Afforded l^^'PM^shH^Ma\^^. alighting on their -feet.. In the me'an^ 'time the Princess had^gatherei r up;^^r;' dress and was hurrying 'across ' ttfeY furze and * heather-ttr another hill at afast pace — toor fast, indeed to last, *for the heat wf^^E^v aod ihe sultry air came nip fi^to'tli^Y^)lain like the blasts of a youn^Spa<9cS*^ ; - With the Duke of -Cambridge,^ however, she traversed a wide space of thick,, stunted gorse till the hill she wished to gain rose steep 4>efegi^fagg':-*j i -^^ and the carriages' were waited for. In these the party gained the hill commanding the Long .Valley, *' happy. , once, now stormy ,'■ along which there wasysuch' an upheaving^ of. dus-t anl roar of" gun's and rjiSes as. baffled all military penetration to know what was going on within ity : - By>and-by it sub- . sided, and dimly through the hazeof peat and powder the Jin.esY.of infantry and tiers of battreies could be made out still moving on. Occasionally they stopped, as the enemy's cavalry was supposed to halt and check pursuit by turning on them, and then . the lines, of . regiments seemed to fold up and form great blocks of squares, which, in' the distance looked like parterres on the hot. white sar d. Then, to.o, after each of these attacks, our cavalry — that is, the real, not- the imaginary — came- into action, and were dimly se6n "careering along, the front line showing with a little glitter like- -the spray of a great • wave. With these charges the enemy, . who up 'to tfyis time .was obstinate, in disbjblief of'his repulse, was supposed to Be 'eventually overthrown, and at 3. o'clock, almost as sqddenly. as the fight' Ibegan, it ceased, when close on camp,: t aUdYthe Prince and Princess', ywitti) the; -Duke and^rihe-ess. Jkfary, proceeded to? headquarters— td'the lidWe^of Sir' Johm Pennefather.^ HermLady Pennefather.! had the honor 'of ehtertaing < the wholef ' jp^rty^atlunch, and at four o'cloc/k the; sPHnc§ andY^ipec-SSidrove .through, thei canlppanQ^returned Frogmdre, after .one ofy- die^*^ Ysbjilliant. - field •- days* which Aldershottthas seen -for two years past. .," '.'■"..■■ aa-~?zfaA ""'•'..'