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Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 331, 21 December 1860, Page 3

LATEST FROM TARANAKI.

CONTINUATION OF JOURNAL OF EVENTS. (From the Taranald Herald.) Saturday, December I.—H.M.S.S. Niger arrived this morning from Manukau with the draft of the 65th who left this on the 12th ultimo, with an addition of 100 men, in a 11,340 rank and file; their return will doubtless lead to a resumption of those .active operation* against the rebels which were interrupted by their withdrawal. The steamship Robert Lowe, after a rapid . passage of 81 days, arrived in Auckland on Wednesday, with the head-quarters and 500 men of H M. 14th regiment, and on Thursday, at 6 a.m., the 65th were on the march for Manukau, to embark on board the Niger. The troops were all landed ai; half-past 6 this morning, and were played to their respective quarters. The weather was calm and fine, and the landing was effected with great rapidity, the Tasmanian Maid towing the boats to and from the shore. The Airedale from Mami- i I kau left at 2 p.m., followed at 4 by the Victoria, and at |5 by the Niger. The three Maori prisoners, Hoera, Renata, and Poari, were put on board the Niger for Auckland; the fourth prisoner, Te One, who was not well enough to be moved, remains in hospital. The news from Waikato by the Niger, reported in the ' Posteript' to the Herald of this date, is: that the Ngatihaua had not left for Taranaki, but were to have a great meeting and tangi at Maungatautari, owing to the fall of Te Wetini Taiporutu at Mahoetahi. At dusk this evening I the wind gradually rose from the north-east, with appearance of bad weather. Sunday, 2.—Gale from north-east, with rain. The I Rita and Tasmanian Maid pub to sea. Tamati Wiremu Te Ngahuru died this morning after a lingering illness. Monday, 3.—Weather wet. From Bell Block we: hear that the natives had not been seen in the vicinity for some time, but-some had passed at a distance evidently on their way towards town. Tuesday, 4.—Heavy rain during the night, but no wind. Dense fog over the town and country.—At -four p.m., a lad named Joseph Sarten, who was at the Henui on horseback, seeking a bullock, was shot and tomahawked. A boy named Wm. Noithcote witnessed the whole affair. A volley: was fired, and Sarten fell, and directly afterwards several natives ran from behind a furze hedge and tomahawked him. Northcote escaped and rode into town with the intelligence, and a party of Militia and Rifles, and the inlying picket of the 12th, with the Mounted Volunteers, proceeded to recover the bod)'. It was found where he fell, in a lane running from Stewart's house towards the beach, about midway between the Henui and Waiwakaiho rivers. He had received three bullets in his back and sides, and was brutally hacked about the head and legs by tomahawks. The horse was led into town with a bullet through its neck. The mounted men -brought the body as far as the Henui, where they met the troops, and it was put into an ambulance cart and brought to the hospital The shots in the body and in the horse shew that at least four persons were concerned in the murder, and from the character of the wounds, they had evidently been posted within a few yards of where their victim passed. A heavy mist had favored their purpose. The poor boy was sixteen years of age, and is the second of the family who have met a violent end from the rebels. John Sarten, his brother, was the first mau who received a death wound in thu war; he mas shot at the L pah, in March last.—A party of Waikatos are located at Purakau, near Smart's farm, about half a mile from the Waiwakaiho river. Their fires were seen there this morning. Wednesday, S.— H.M. colonial steam'sloop Victoria arrived this morning from Manukau with the detachment of the 40th. They wer^all landed, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, at nine a.m., and proceeded to their old quarters at the Market Place. The news from Auckland by the Victoria is of a most satisfactory nature as regards the intelligence from the Home Government respecting' the war. Despatches have beea received by his Excellency the Governor from the Colonial Office approving of his policy, and assuring him of the support of the Home Government to quell the insurrection. It is also intimated that another regiment from India or China will be despatched to this colony.—Tamihana and Tarurutangi, of Kingi's party, were two of the murderers of the boy Sarten. We are also told that the latter crept up to Mahau's pah during the night, and wrote his name on a tub outside the pah. They had also called out to the natives in the pah that 100 Waikatos were in the bush, but that they should not be touched, but cautioned them to be on the alert. This morning several shots were fired at the pah near the bridge,.—This afternoon we are informed that a few natives were seen lurking about the gully running tip from the Barracks, one of whom had attempted to shoot some person passing that way, but failed in his object, the cap of ibis piece having snapped The following General order was issued to-day:— Head Quarters, sthDec, 1860. The following promotions having been received from the Horse Guards are published for general information of Troops serving in this command:—Staff: Capt. Paul, 65th regiment, to be Major of Brigade in New 2,'enland. Royal Engineer* : Capt. Charles Pasley, from the 3nd list, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major DuCain, resigned Ist September, iB6O. Thursday, 6.—The natives seem no* determined upon carrying on a systematic guerilla warefare. It is said that there are no less than seven different parties out, in the vicinity of the town, ready to pounce upon stragglers. At Waitara the natives occasionally come within 800 yards of the new stockade; and on Tuesday, during the fog, came to Puketakaure (the stockade being erected on the second mound, called Onukukaitara) and endeavored to fire an old sentry box there, which they failed to ignite from the dampness of the fern of which it was constructed. On another occasion a large party came within rifle-shot, when a soldier who was outside the stockade held np a spade which he was using, and they all ran off as fast a 9 they could. The Airedale arrived this morning from Manukau; the three prisoners, Hoera, Renata, and Paori, have been sent back in the Airedale, to be dealt with by the authorities here. Thomas Williams Te Ngahuru was buried to-day at the Poutoko, by the Rev. J. Whiteley. Friday, 7.— A native informs us that the Ngatiruanui tribe, who are preparing to make a movement in this direction, have been told by the Taranaki tribe that they will not be permitted to pass through their district; a messenger from W. King Matakatea of Urauroa, and Hori Kingi, has been sent with their decision to that effect. There is bad blood between these tribes who were leagued together to annihilate the pakeha. But the Taranaki grudge must not be mistaken for any good will towards ourselves. This1 could not be expected after the brutal murders and unprovoked aggression with which tbey opened the war ;—we are told that the Ngatiruanui, find, ing they may have some difficulty in getting through the Taranaki country, sent to W. King informing him of their intention to join him by the bush road at Waitara. King said he would not have them, they must travel the road they came before. Having put in their crops, and being in readiness to fight the pakeha again, they are rather put about; at this split amongst themselves. The Taranakis are bringing up the Waikato party, who are down the coast, and will accompany them as far as Burton's Hill on Waireka. Not unlikely they, the first to take part in it, may be disposed to draw out of the quarrel, and in strict accordance with the traditions of the tribe, be the first to pause before the power of their dark crimes have evoked. Natives having been seen in the vicinity of the Bell Block this morning, a party of 53 men of the 12th, under Captain Williams and Lieut. Hirst; 53 men of the 40th, under Lieut. Hobbs; and 106 men of the 65th, under Captain Strange and Lieut. Pennefather—the whole commanded by Major Hutchins—together with Dr. Grace, in medical charge, and some of the mounted men, started at 11 a.m., to attack them. On reaching the Bell Blockhouse 30 men, under Captain Buck, 65th regt., joined the party. On arriving at the extremity of the block the forces turned to the right, and marched up the road past Wills's, skirting the bush to Kaipakopako, where several natives were surprised killing pigs; The skirmishers opened fire at 300 yards, when the rebels decamped into the bush, whence they fired several volleys without effect. Several pigs recently killed were lying on the ground. A mat covered with blood was found, and it is supposed a native was killed or wounded. The troops then continued the march" to the ford of the ' Mangoraka river, and returned to town by the Devon? line, which was reached at six p.m. . ;

Volunteers.—-The Volunteer movement is still progressing, the colony being able to boast now of 5000 volunteers, the most of whom are well trained, and fit for aptive service. At the fortnightly reviews, which take place at the Princes bridge reserve, the metropolitan and suburban companies display an amount of proficiency in the use of arms which does credit alike to themselves and their instructors. A new corps is about to be added to the number already existing, in a Volunteer Engineer Corps, which will be composed of architects, engineers, surveyors, and skilled artisans. The coast defended are approaching oomnletiQn.-— Mtlr fyntme Herald*

Self Torture.—An extraordinary attempt at suicide was made yesterday afternoon. A woman, named Ann Golding, the wife of a blacksmith residing in Napoleon street, Collingwood, came to visit her brother-in-law who keeps a grocer's shop, off Little Lonsdale street, about three o'clock in the afternoon, accompanied by her husband. After a few minutes, the latter went out, and his wife went into the yard, where, seeing an axe which had been used for splitting wood lying upon the ground, she took it up, and proceeded into the closet, where she inflicted a number of wounds upon the front part of her head, both with the edge and the back of the axe. Her sister in law very fortunately was attracted to the spot, and succeeded in preventing the unfortunate woman from altogether putting an end to her existence. Information was given to the police, and Mr. Superintendent j Freeman and Inspector Branigand and Weldon proceeded to the epot, when a frightful picture presented itself. The poor woman had com pletely battered in the front part of her skull from the eyebrows to the top of the head, and the brain was protruding. The axe with which the awful deed was done was found covered with blood, and portions of the brain. The floor of the closet was a pool of blood. The deposition of the woman was taken by Mr. Freeman, J P., and she then stated that she was suffering from palpitation of the heart, that she wanted to get into the Hospital, and that her life was a burden to her. She added that she had struck herself about forty times with the sharp edge and back part of the axe. During the time the deposition was being taken, the woman was perfectly calm and collected, and signed her mark with firmness, although it was expected every minute to be her last. Dr. Dwyer was in attendance, and bandaged up the wound, and the unfortunate creature was then removed by the police to the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Golding have only been in the colony about two months; during which time the former has been unable to obtain any employment at his trade of blacksmith. She was a steady sober woman, about 45 years of age, and the circumstance of her husband being unemployed appears to have preyed upon her mind.— Melbourne 'Herald. -.■■■". A Negro.—At a meeting of the international Statistical Congress, Lord Brougham, seeing Mr. Dallas, the American Minister, present, said: I hope my friend Mr. Dallas will forgive me reminding him that there is a negro present, a member of the Congress. (Loud laughter and vociferous cheering). After the cheering had subsided, Mr. Dallas made no sign, but the negro in question, who was understood to be a Dr. Delariy, rose amid loud cheers, and said: I pray your royal highness will allow me to thank his lordship, who is always a most unflinching friend of the negro, for the observation he has made, and I assure your royal highness and his lordship that lam a man. This novel and unexpected incident elicited a round of cheering very extraordinary for an assemblage of sedale statisticians. An Agreeable Offer. — The * following letter has beep forwarded to Mr. Warden Anderson, by a young lady at Bendigo, who appears anxious to array herself iv a becoming uniform, aqd to provide liquid sustentation for the Sandhurst volunteers. The commissariat is a most important part of an army, and though the goldfields have their grog-shops at every turn, the Bendigo riflemen cannot tell how soon they may require the services of a vivandiere. However, let the damsel speak for herself:— " 17th October, 1860. "Sir—l would feel greatly obliged by your letting me know if the noble Bendigo volunteers intend having a vivandiere attached to the regiment, and if so, what would be the proper way for me to secure the billet, for which I think I am perfectly competent. lam young, aged eighteen, and unless my glass tells a lie, remarkably good looking; indeed I have been told so a thousand times by the boys, but sure I would not be asking your honor to believe what such scamps say, and would much prefer your judging for yourself. Anyhow, lam sure you would find me a useful little body on a hot day, when you are at drill or practice, as well as a most ornamental addition to the corps. An early answer would much oblige. Your very obedient, Bridget Maloney. To the Hon. Mr. Warden Anderson.— Melbourne Herald. Society in the Texas.—l have lately (says the Times' correspondent) had an interview with an intelligent New Orleans merchant, who has large interest in Texas, which, if true, throws more light on the causes of the late slave insurrection and outrages there than I have found in the newspapers of the country. As he has lost some 30,000 dollars by those outrages, he,may not be without prejudice. According to his statement, the whole affair was an act! of retaliation for the breaking up by ao impromptu armed band of citizens of a Methodist Conference held in Texas two years ago by Bishop Janes, of New York. The somewhat anti-slavery character of this body gave offence, and it was compelled to disband and leave the town at twenty-four hours'notice. In revenge, so my informant believes, a plot has been systematically concocted by parties sympathising with the exiles to overthrow slavery in the six north-eastern counties ot Texas. Discontented settlers from Kansas have been introduced into the State ; books, like Uncle Tom's Cabin, have been circulated among the slaves, who, it is alleged, have been stimulated to burn the buildings of their owners, and even to affect their purpose, if need be, by poison and murder. At any rate, whether this be so or not, thirteen towns and villages were simultaneously fired on the afternoon of the Bth qf July, when most of the inhabitants were enjoying a Sunday afternoon nap, resulting in the destruction of property estimated at 3,000,000 dollars. Subsequent attempts at arson have' taken place, but with less ruinous consequences, and about sixty persons, whites and blacks, including several Methodist preachers, have been hanged without legal forms on the charge of being concerned in these insurrectionary doings. The country at the last accounts was in the hands of a Vigilance Commitete, who examine with most suspicious scrutiny all who travel through it. I cannot vouch for this story, which reveals a Southerner's theory of the Texas outrages- It seems too horrid to be true. And yet my informant's means of information are so unusual and his sincerity so apparent, that I cannot avoid giving a subdued outline of his statement. Thk Islands of the Pacific—The Rev. John Coleridge Patteson, M.A;, formerly fellow of Merton College, Oxford, son of the Eight Hon. Sir John Patteson, late one of her Majesty's Judges of the Coure of Queen's Bench, has been nominated Bishop of the Islands of the Pacific, actingunder the direction of the Bishop of New Zealand. The rev. gentlemen graduated in 1848, when he took a second class in classics, and served for some time afterwards as curate of St. James's Ottery, St. Mary Devon. Afterwards he went to New Zealand, where he became chaplain to Bishop Selwyn, and missionary of the northern, mission/of that diocese. He will be consecrated.: at Christinas uext, and will exercise episcopal supervision over seventy or eighty islands of the Pacific, not under the British Crown.' The rev. gentleman has been, for the last five years, in the habit of visiting these island?, has made himself acquainted with six or seven of the principal languages prevailing .there, and has always been gladly welcQmod by. the uajive^—.flfo? ZeaUarxfer. - , -1-:/ 11; ■; , z /:. ... ■

SNOBBISM. THE GREAT SHOOTING MATCH. ..' ' The first meeting of the National Rifle Association may be pronounced a success in io far as the shooting was creditable. The first prize was won by a Briton, and nobody was shot— not even a dog. It is only surprising, considering how everything in official hands is blundered in this country, that all passed off so well. Luokily the Red Tape Office had little or nothing to do with the ammunition provided, or we might have heard that the powder was damp and would not ignite, that the bullets were a counterfeit composition of plaster of Paris, or perhaps that the percussion caps were filled with chalk. We congratulate the authorities of the aforesaid department, and ourselves, that their hands were fully occupied on this occasion in carrying out rules which precluded ninety per cent, of the volunteers from joining in the competition, and in surrounding Wimbledon-common with money and check-takers. But even in this mild and familiar duty the department appears to have broken down. It seems that on counting the money and the checks there was a very remarkable disproportion of the one to the other. There was a still greater disproportion between the number of persons admitted to the common, taking them at the very lowest calculation, and the number of half-crowns and shillings handed over to the treasury. The amount ought to have been very large, but was, we regret to say, comparatively small. Well, better luck next time. We should be quite disposed to excuse all short* comings and mistakes this once if we could only be assured that they would not occur the second time; and that when the next meeting of the Association takes place the conditions of competition may be such that any rifleman in the kingdom may join in the contest. That was certainly not the case last week. No volunteer could enter for. the competition unless he had a guinea in his pocket to pay his footing. The gate to each of the four ranges had to be opened with a golden key. The poor volunteer found himself in the position of the man who pays his shilling to the public garden and finds that the circus, the Hullabaloo Indians, the Wizard of the Nor'-east, and the Bengal tiger are all a shilling extra. There is young Ross, the winner of the first prize, the rifle champion of England. Where would he have been on that day had he not been possessed of four guineas ? His steady hand and quick eye would have availed him nothing had not his pouch contained, besides powder and shot, four golden sovereigns and four silver shillings. But for the cash we should never have heard of him, and somebody else who had more money and less skill would now be figuring in his place. Look, too, at the list of successful competitors. How few of them are men who have acquired their skill in their capacity as volunteers. Young Ross learned all his shooting before he joined the West York. He has had little practice since, and had never fired a shot at a thousand yards. Two of the three winners on the first day were men who had been in the army, and one of them, an old sergeant of marines, was a practiced shot. Among the others we find a great proportion of men from the Hythe School of Musketry. The Swiss were all professional prize shots j some of them persons who make their living by shooting for prizes, to which their is no objection; but then they are hardly fit to have young volunteers pitted against them. , Nevertheless the decided superiority of our English marksmen over the boasted skill of the Swiss was plainly demonstrated during the contest. It was by no means a disadvantage to our Swiss friends to be deprived of their rifles by the French police on their passage through France. Their own weapons would have been useless at any distance over five hundred yards, and they one and all admitted that the Enfield and Whitworth gUDS were far superior to the best rifles of Switzerland. But independently of this, the style of Swiss shooting was inferior to the English. The Swiss were not so prompt, and they ocoupied a much longer time in taking their aim. Thi3 experience leads us to hope and believe that when the rifle movement is established in this country, under proper conditions that we shall have a population of marksmen superior to any in the world. But the Swiss have just the advantage that we lack. In their patriotic country, where each individual is a responsible item of the State, class distinctions in these matters are utterly unknown. Each mau among them down to the humblest wood-outter and mountain guide, owns a rifle, and is at liberty to use it. What begins iv a popular pastime becomes, for practical purposes, the security of the nation. This was the case once in England, in the days when bowmen drew the cloth yard shaft, and every village had its butt and its prize trysts. But if we are to take Lord Hardwicke's word for it, Englishmen are less loyal now-a-days—less honest, less to be trusted, and more depredatious. Robin Hood was a bold freebooter ; but he was nothing to the working man of the latter half of the nineteenth century. This sapient nobleman gives it as his decided opinion that if a weapon were given to a man who had no property, whether it were a civil weapon 01 a military one, his natural tendency would be to acquir3 property which he had not got. Upon this ground, Lord Hardwicke refuses to grant the franchise to the million, and upon this ground he peremptorily refuses to sanction the formation of working men's rifle corps. It is not easy to conceive that any Englishman (not even a Tory peer), who is not either an idiot or a maniac, can really believe such nonesense as this. Does the ragged village lout, who has not a halfpenny in his pocket, when he has joined the militia or the line, immediately employ his bayonet in committing a robbery ? It is as plain as a pikestaff that the volunteer force can never be anything but a plaything until the working classes are included in it. The present number of volunteers would be comparatively useless for the defence of our shores in case of invasion. George the Third had half a million of volunteers in 1803, when the population of the country was not much more than half what it is now. We want as many now, and more; and we can only have the foroe we require by calling in the aid of the working classes. There are four millions and a half of men in the country able to bear arms, and there is no reason in the world why each man of them should not have a rifle and be afforded opportunities of learning how to use it far the defence of the Queen, the laws, his hearth, andrhis altars, to which he is as strongly attached as any gamepreserving peer in the land.

* Dear me," said an old lady, "'twas only yesterday I lost my best hen 1 and naw \ hew poor Mr.AUmannaagono too, 1*

BRITISH AND FRENCH SOLDIER. An English officer's education is expressed by so maiiy pounds sterling. Lord Tuppingbam has been a very tiresome fellow, from the day when, to tbe horror of the Earl's servants, he could walk alone. He revelled in mischief of all kinds before he could write his name. You know the wondrous sputter upon paper which stands for his venerable name even now, in his thirty-second year. It was impossible to cram any serviceableknowledge into his head. But, then, of what use was knowledge to the head that bore aloft, along the broad pavement of Piccadilly, such a hat ? Knowledge is the necessity of the head that wears no hat. Lord Tuppingham went to Eaton and learned boating. He went to Cambridge and learned smoking, and drinking, and the elements of gambling. He reached London prepared to hold a command in the army, to patrol the Hay market, and mortgage his estates in St. James's-street. On more than one occasion, when the play ran high, he would composedly eat plover's eggs that had just cost him one hundred pounds each. Now with the vices, and not the studies of Eaton and Cambridge, he was " fit for nothing but the army." Brave he certainly was. He thrashed a drayman at college, and will be a prominent figure if his regiment go to the war. But, then, suppose he has his men the wrong way; suppose that his cards and wine have been cultivated at the expense of his military duties; suppose that he is put on the staff before he is able to understand one of the vitally important duties of a staff officer? Lives are lost. The blood of lionhearted men, and his own, flows in vain. Of one hundred and sixteen staff officers sent originally with the British army to the Crimea, ! one hundred and nine were Lord Tuppinghams 1 !. Still, how proud is my Lord Tuppingham! He is an officer and a gentleman; England wishes him to be an officer and a soldier. Talk to him about reform in the army, and he grows eloquent—that is, as eloquent as Lord Tuppingham can grow—on the love the British, private has for the sway of British gentlemen; British gentility meaning British guineas. It is pleasant to be led astray by the beardless representative of a long line of earls—sweet to meet an unavailing death under the patronising eye of Lord Tuppingham! Well, it was a Lord Tuppingham who could not manoeuvre his regiment out of the barrack yard. Still the army must become very vulgar, indeed, if Tuppinghams cease to command it; just as the House of Commons fails to perform its duties now that the property qualification is abolished, or when the ballot-box appears in electioneering committee-rooms. The manners and habits of Lord Tuppingham are necessary to the proper organisation of the British army. Would a regiment respect the mandates from an officers' mess-room to which no specially-pro-vided wine-cellar was attached? Champagne is inseparable from the proper maintenance of discipline. Many readers whose eyes fall upon these pages will follow us eagerly to the Bolougne camp*—to the Camp de Mars—to the Boulevards lined with French troops—bearing still in mind many grateful remembrances of courtesies shewn by French officers most of whom, are not down in the dictionary of Lord Tuppingham as gentlemen. Their whiskers did not' push their feeble way beyond Piccadilly collars. They drank champagne as youths when their sister was married and when their father was decorated. Their youth was a time of hard work, and of work much of which will shock Lord Tappingham. Imagine his lordship fashioning his own clothes—making with those hands, his innocent bed! Still, my lord, there is not an officer in the French army who has not performed these offices. And shall any man siy that the gentlemen who command the Imperial armies, from the sous-lieu-tenant to the marshal, are not the equals in sentiment, in manners, in acquirements, of the candies who purchase the rigtit to wear splendid regimentals in England. You will find a lieutenant and a sergeant arm-in-arm on the heights of Boulogne, or drinkiug Lyons beer together at the Grande Hake, or arguing warmly over a game of dominoes. On the march you will see them chatting together. A French officer has a polite word for every inquirer. I see hundreds of English ladies ready to echo these words, and to add many more to them, in grateful memory of those visits to the camp of Ambleteuse, where officers were always ready to do the honors of their mud huts to the " blonde misses" of Albion. And then, on summer evenings, how many pleasant stories were poured, by dashing lieutenants, under those dreadful hats worn by the young, and, alas! by the old ladies of England? When the fete was given to celebrate the fall of Sebastopol, how many Gallic arms encircled British waists at the open-air ball? Were the manners of the Cavaliers in any way coarse ? I appeal to thousands of English ladies. Might not the affability of the officers who did the honors of the Boulogne camp to all comers—who gave ladies convenient places for the Sunday mass, and shelter when it rained— be contrasted with the spirit which dictated tbe famous " the Tenth don't dance " to the juvenile commanders of England ? But then French lieuteoants and English lieutenants live under ve_ry different auspices. The Frenchman knows his business from the beginning, and belongs to a regiment in which recruits appear yearly, and from which the drilled soldiers secede to their homes. There is not an order whioh he gives that be .could not perform more satisfactorily than the man to whom he gives it. But theu this is his sole claim to his position. He is not the son of an earl. His father is a Lyons grocer; his mother was a pretty milliner. Do you think that he shirks the subject when ancestral claims turn up in the conversation of his brother-officers? Do you think that he hides the paternal oiive-jars, and stows away the maternal needles ? No, my Lord TuppiDgham; his pride is not yours. He would proudly parade the Boulevards, with the grocer on one arm and the milliner on the other. lam | not the panegryst of his morals,-—that is of his [ relations generally with his countrywomen— i but he never tries to force his way into actresses' dressing rooms; ho never turns up in a drunken row; he never plays foul practical jokes; he can always remember. He is really and truly a man with a profession, and who has passed severe examinations. Directly you see hia lieutenant's epaulette, you know that he is a man of education—that he has beaten other men who competed with him for his rank. Possibly be was educated at the expense of the nation, because be arrived at the threshold of St. Cyr with a sound stock of knowledge. It is men like this young lieutenant who have made France the first military power upon the*