mental colour of the 1st Regiment Native Infantry, at Mungulwar, on the 21st of September, 1857.-Extract from Field Force Orders of the late Major-General Havelock, dated 17th October, 1857. Private JOHN RYAN.-Date of act of bravery, 26th September, 1857.—In addition to the act described at page 265 (Fifth Foot), Private Ryan distinguished himself throughout the day by his intrepidity, and especially devoted himself to rescuing the wounded in the neighbourhood from being massacred. He was most anxious to visit every dooly.-Extract from Divisional Orders of Major-General Sir James Outram, G.C.B., dated 14th October, 1857. Private THOMAS DUFFY.-For his cool intrepidity and daring skill, whereby a 24-pounder gun was saved from falling into the hands of the enemy.-Extract from Divisional Orders of MajorGeneral Sir James Outram, G.C.B., dated 16th October, 1857. Private J. SMITH.-Date of act of bravery, 16th November, 1857.-For having been one of the first to try and enter the gateway on the north side of the Secundra Bagh. On the gateway being burst open, he was one of the first to enter, and was surrounded by the enemy. He received a sword-cut on the head, a bayonet wound on the left side, and a contusion from the butt end of a musket on the right shoulder, notwithstanding which he fought his way out and continued to perform his duties for the rest of the day. Elected by the private soldiers of the detachment, 1st Madras Fusiliers. The Victoria Cross has recently been accorded to the two civilians mentioned on the following page, for services in India: : War Office, 6th July, 1859. THE QUEEN having been graciously pleased, by a Warrant under Her Royal Sign Manual, bearing date the 13th of December, 1858, to declare that nonmilitary persons who, as Volunteers, have borne arms against the Mutineers, both at Lucknow and elsewhere, during the late operations in India, shall be considered as eligible to receive the Decoration of the Victoria Cross, subject to the rules and ordinances already made and ordained for the government thereof, provided that it be established in any case that the person was serving under the orders of a General or other Officer in command of troops in the field when he performed the act of bravery for which it is proposed to confer the Decoration; Her Majesty has accordingly been pleased to signify her intention to confer this high distinction on the under-mentioned Gentlemen, whose claims to the same have been submitted for Her Majesty's approval, on account of acts of bravery performed by them in India, as recorded against their names, viz. :— Mr. THOMAS HENRY KAVANAGH, Assistant Commissioner in Oude.-Date of act of bravery, 8th November, 1857.-On the 8th of November, 1857, Mr. Kavanagh, then serving under the orders of Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram, in Lucknow, volunteered on the dangerous duty of proceeding through the city to the camp of the Commander-in-Chief, for the purpose of guiding the relieving force to the beleaguered garrison in the Residency,a task which he performed with chivalrous gallantry and devotion. Mr. Ross Lowis MANGLES, of the Bengal Civil Service, Assistant Magistrate at Patna.-Date of act of bravery, 30th July, 1857-Mr. Mangles volunteered and served with the force, consisting of detachments of Her Majesty's 10th and 37th Regiments, and some native troops, despatched to the relief of Arrah, in July, 1857, under the command of Captain Dunbar, of the 10th Regiment. The force fell into an ambuscade on the night of the 29th of July, 1857, and during the retreat on the next morning, Mr. Mangles, with signal gallantry and generous self-devotion, and notwithstanding that he had himself been previously wounded, carried for several miles, out of action, a wounded soldier of Her Majesty's 37th Regiment, after binding up his wounds under a murderous fire, which killed or wounded almost the whole detachment; and he bore him in safety to the boats. MILITARY STUDIES. "Have I not heard great ordnance in the field, And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies ? Have I not in a pitched battle heard Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang?” TAMING OF THE SHREW. MILITARY STUDIES. SHAKSPERE. LORD CAMPBELL has recently written a pamphlet to show that "Shakspere's legal acquirements" must have been gained by the poet having passed some of his time in an attorney's office; and the Rev. T. R. Eaton, M.A., has lately published a work entitled Shakspere and the Bible," in which many of the celebrated passages are traced to parallel ones in Holy Writ. J. C. Bucknill, M.D., in "The Psychology of Shakspere," has exhibited the poet's knowledge of mental disease. The following selections from his works are made to prove that our great dramatist also possessed military acquirements. Whether he had ever borne arms in his youth, like Ben Jonson, may be problematical; but Mrs. Green published, in August 1857, a "Calendar of State Papers," illustrative of the reign of James I., in which was a certificate, dated 23rd of September, 1605 (the Gunpowder Plot year), under the hands of Sir Fulke Greville, Sir Edward Greville, and Thomas Spencer, of the names and arms of trained soldiers, what in these days would be designated trained militia; in this was the name of WILLIAM SHAKSPERE, and the musters being for the hundred of Barlickway (in which Stratford on Avon is situated), in the county |