speak, he found it impossible. The surgeon was called and thought him shamming, till he found the tongue twisted in a manner that no one could voluntarily accomplish. It so continued for some days, but the man himself fully believed, was restored on his repentance and prayer. He became an altered character, very religious, and noticeable for sobriety and steadiness; but, during a furlough, his relations overthrew his good resolutions, he relapsed into his old habits, and came to a piteous end, having actually run into the advancing tide when in a state of intoxication.

In the year 1821, Sir John Colborne was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey, and never saw his regiment collectively again; and his connexion with it was finally dissolved in 1825, on his promotion as Major-General, though pride in, and affection for, his name has never failed in the corps.

In 1823 the Regiment was sent to Canada, and while there, the reduction of the army, consequent upon the economical measures following the peace, led to many retirements, and much sense of injustice among the officers. Mr. Leeke was one of the sufferers; he had been nine years an ensign, and was now senior; but as the number of lieutenants was reduced, he was not promoted, and a junior ensign, by means of exchanges, obtained a lieutenancy over his head. This led to his retirement, and being still as ardent as ever in his religious impressions, he prepared for Holy Orders, and in process of time became incumbent of Holbrooke, in Derbyshire, which he has served as a true and faithful pastor for many years. Still, however, 'e'en in our ashes live their wonted fires,' and he has produced those two volumes, with the mighty title, bearing that the author is 'the Rev. William Leeke, M.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge, 'Incumbent of Holbrooke, Rural Dean, who carried the 52d 'Regimental Colours at Waterloo,'-the first time, we should think, such a feat was ever associated with a rural dean. He tells us that after collecting his anecdotes of the war, he became seized with doubt whether a clergyman ought to spend so much time on military matters, and therefore he has given us, besides as much as he could of the 52d, a most detailed auto-biography,all his dealings with his parishioners, all his endeavours for the observance of Sunday, and the history of the friends who deemed firing English artillery on the festival of a popular Saint in Malta or Corfu, such an idolatrous act that, rather than perform it, they actually suffered severe loss and contumely. Honour to their conscientiousness, misplaced though the scruple was, and unhappy as showing how wide a breach lies between popular religion and foreign Churches! The trivialities of the two

volumes are absolutely comical, descending (literally) to the swallowing of a gnat, to a good little girl sending her sister to bed at eight o'clock, and a sergeant's wife losing her bonnet overboard. But the exceeding simplicity and truthfulness of their details are really corroborative evidence of his accuracy in more important concerns; and, no doubt, he has carried his colours as a minister as gallantly as he did as a soldier at Waterloo.

The 52d, meantime, never swerved from its high character. In 1831 they returned to Ireland, but were soon sent abroad again; and in Barbados, in 1838, were pronounced, by Sir Samford Whittingham, to be 'a beautiful specimen of the masterhand that formed it,' full thirty years since that hand had been laid to rest on the ramparts of Coruña. In the West Indies there was much severe suffering from yellow fever, which carried off many of their best veterans, among them, as already mentioned, Mr. Winterbottom. A few years later, in 1844, another adjutant was like him raised from the ranks, Mr. W. Fuller, a soldier's son, born and brought up in the regiment, and there acquiring by steady zeal, diligence, uprightness, and studious habits the power of duty, filling the position of an officer and gentleman in a post of trust. On his retirement he became Adjutant and Captain in the Sussex Militia, under the command of an old 52d man, the late Duke of Richmond.

After another brief stay in England, the regiment was sent out to India, and were for some time quartered at Lucknow. We extract the testimony given to them by that excellent chaplain, the Rev. H. Polehampton :—

'Last Saturday week, to my great regret, the 52d marched out of Lucknow, and the 32d marched in. The 52d only went four miles out the first day.

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'Colonel Campbell wrote and told me I must now take service at the barracks of the 32d; but I told him, and Colonel Inglis of the 32d, that, with their leave, I would finish the old year with the outgoing, and begin the new year with the incoming regiment. So, on Sunday morning (very cold it was), I started from Lucknow at seven o'clock, and drove to the 52d camp. arrived there at eight, and found the camp, comprising a long and broad street of tents, at the top of which was that of the Colonel. It was a picturesque scene. The men were just falling in for church-parade, all in full uniform with their muskets, and the officers, while I celebrated the service, had their swords drawn, which I never saw before. There were many camels about ready to take the baggage, and a few huge elephants; altogether the scene had a sort of half-Indian, half-English look. Hollow square was formed, and I gave them part of the Morning Service, for the sun was growing too hot to go through it all. I preached on the end of the year, the necessity of reviewing the past, and of making resolutions of amendments for the future, and concluded with a farewell address recapitulating all that we had gone through together praising the regiment generally for its good conduct, and exhorting the really Christian men in it to continue in their course, and laying before those who would hinder others from joining them, our Saviour's fearful warn

ing on that head. I never had a more attentive congregation, and, I believe, that I never had truer Christians among any of the congregations I have addressed, than in this regiment.'-Leeke, vol. ii. pp. 386, 387.

This parting took place on the 52d being sent to Sealkote in December 1856, and none of us will forget, when frightful posts came hurrying on the heels of one another in the summer 1858, with what anxiety we watched for intelligence that the turn in the tide had come, and that the ferocious mutineers had been checked by trustworthy British troops. That check was administered by an army of which the 52d formed part, it had been marched at once from Sealkote to join the Punjab moveable column. For expedition's sake, all the baggage was left behind at Sealkote, the native regiments there having been disarmed, but not disbanded. Immediately after they mutinied, and Colonel Campbell's servant, Private Songhurst, of the 52d, who had been left in charge of baggage, putting on his accoutrements, loaded his firelock, loaded himself with all the cartridges he could carry, fixed his bayonet, and marched his wife and children a mile and a half into the fort, past several of the mutineers who were on the look out for fugitives, but who did not seem to like his look.' Having secured his family, he was setting forth again, and being asked where he was going, answered 'Back to take care of the Colonel's property,' which was of course forbidden, but the intention showed the man.

Brigadier Nicolson, though a junior officer to Colonel Campbell, had been placed in command of the small army, which was diminished by desertions and dismissals of the native troops, and much harassed by the length of their marches in the intense heat. But their great anxiety was to show that there had been no deterioration in their spirit during forty years of peace, and when they met the enemy at Trimmoo Ghât, they utterly routed a force three times their number in severe hand-to-hand fighting. One man was found killed, with four Sepoys slain around him. After a second action, the Sealkote mutineers were so utterly broken as to secure the Punjab from danger, and after this success, the troops were free to press on to the siege of Delhi, the blood-stained capital, which, as the keystone of the rebellion, must be taken before assistance could be afforded to the patient sufferers, cooped up in distant forts and cities, with no alternative save the horrors of Cawnpore.

Frightful was the cost of that siege. The 52d marched into camp 680 strong, with only sixteen sick, on the 14th of August, but the fever and cholera, there prevalent, had left but 240 effective of all ranks on the 14th of September.

That day was fixed for the assault of the Cashmere Gate, and again it was this fragment of the 52d who were appointed to

'show the way.' Captain Bayley led the storming party, and the Cashmere Gate was blown open by seven brave officers and men, of whom five fell. Lieutenant Salkeld, of the Bengal Engineers, fastened the powder-bags to the gate, and fixed the hose, and then-fearfully wounded, contrived to hand on the match which fired the train. Thus the way was opened into the city, save for a second gate, leading from the Begum's Bagh, but this was opened by a native chuprassee, assisted by five men of the 52d, and after much and perilous street fighting, the place was won. Besides the gallant Salkeld, two men of the 52d received the Victoria Cross for their conduct on this day, Bugler Robert Hawthorn, who had bound up that officer's wounds, and removed him under a heavy fire, and Lance-corporal Henry Smith, who bore off his comrade in safety from great danger. It is memorable too, that when the town was actually in possession of the English, there was not one case of drunkenness in the 52d.

This was the last time the regiment has been in action, though a valuable officer, Captain Moorsom, who was acting as assistant quarter-master general, was killed at the siege of Lucknow. We think that the old honours of the corps have been well sustained, and that its whole morale' is no slight testimony to the power and durability of the impression that can be produced on bodies of men by a character in authority, possessed of real force and influence.

Sir John Colborne had, as we have said, quitted the regiment on becoming lieutenant-govenor of Guernsey. Though his residence there only comprised four or five years, he had time to leave his mark on the Islands, by bringing about the foundation of Elizabeth College, Guernsey. The cry of education had not yet begun in 1826, when this place of instruction was devised and adapted to the special needs of the semi-English, semiFrench youth of the Norman Islands, who required, some, such public school training as might fit them for their home-duties in their own isles, others to be prepared for the English Universities. We believe the success of the college has been great, and the boon to the population constantly felt.

In 1828 Sir John was appointed to be lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, where his exertions on behalf of the Church and of education will long be borne in mind. In all those governments in which he became the head of English society, there never failed to be felt the beneficial influence of a cheerful joyous family and household, hospitable to travellers, courteous to all, charitable to the poor, ready for all innocent gaiety or festivity, and strict in all religious practices. The influence on society may be understood, when it was long after remembered that, on some idle wonder being expressed that the governor

went to Church on foot instead of in his carriage, he replied that 'his servants had souls as well as himself.' And when he refuted a report of a rude answer, enforced by an oath, which had been imputed to him, he could do so by simply saying: 'The commander-in-chief never swears.' In like manner, in the stress of Waterloo, a young aide-de-camp having reported to the Duke of Wellington that his reply to some order had been 'Colborne says he'll be d-d if he does,' the Duke answered Then as Colborne never swears, he must have some good reason,' and expresses his conviction that the asseveration had been added by the reporter. In truth, the purity and modesty of mind shown in Sir John's language, was often remarked on, as almost exceptional in a man of his standing, coming down from times when licence of tongue was so much more frequent, nor could it fail to tell on all in contact with him. 'I believe,' it was said of him, 'there never was a soldier of more perfect moral character than Sir John Colborne, a Bayard without gasconade, as well as sans peur et sans reproche.'-(Trifles from my Portfolio, by a Staff-Surgeon, vol. ii. p. 111.)

His attention to the welfare of the colony was unremitting, and marked his genius for government. His care for the promotion of colonization and the comfort of the settlers may be estimated by the fact that, in 1834, the number of emigrants who had come out in the last nine years amounted to 162,000, and in the single year 1832, it was 66,000. Nor was there wanting the greatest care both for their spiritual welfare and their education. By the Clergy Reserves, the Church was in his time provided for, though in after times she was only allowed to share this provision with other bodies.

Education, which was always one of his first objects, was likewise promoted by the foundation of the University of Toronto, and by Trinity College, to feed it; and for the scattered country population, and the poor, he made great exertions to establish a system of general instruction. With the Indians, there were always friendly relations, many quaint scenes took place when their chiefs came to offer their respects, and much was done for missions amongst them, and for their general improvement and civilization, and in fact, the genius and activity of a master-hand were shown in whatever became his duty.

In the beginning of 1836, Sir Francis Head became governor of Upper Canada, and Sir John Colborne was appointed to the command of the forces in Lower Canada. The scanty notice given of this arrangement necessitated a perilous journey in sleighs, performed in the very depth of winter, with a large young family, between Toronto and Montreal. The cause of his departure, and the feeling it excited, may be best gathered