At Englefontein, on the 24th, a Court of Inquiry is ordered to investigate the cause of absence of several men on the 16th and 18th inst. ; also as to those men who have returned without their arms and accoutrements, the Court to judge what stoppages they should be put under. Such of the band as have lost their instruments will also appear. Subalterns are named to take charge of seven companies which have evidently lost their captains, and they are directed, if the companies are strange to them, to lose no time in making themselves acquainted with the men present, and in gaining all the information they can regarding those absent.

Cambray, Peronne, Avesnes and other fortresses were taken by the Allies, but the 92nd were not employed in any affair of consequence. Marching through a pleasant country, they reached St Denis, near Paris, on the 3rd of July, where the French guns fired on them from the fortifications, and a battle was expected, but on the 4th the following General Order was issued by the Duke of Wellington:

The Field-Marshal has great satisfaction in announcing to the troops under his command that he has, in concert with Field-Marshal Prince Blucher, concluded a military convention with the Commander-in-Chief of the French army near Paris, by which the enemy is to evacuate St Denis, St Ouen, Clichy, and Neuilly this day at noon, the heights of Mont Martre tomorrow at noon, and Paris next day. The Field-Marshal congratulates the army upon this result of their glorious victory. He desires that the troops may employ the leisure of this day and to-morrow to clean their arms, clothes, and appointments, as it is his intention that they should pass him in review.

The thanks of both Houses of Parliament were voted to the army with the greatest enthusiasm "for its distinguished valour at Waterloo," and the 92nd and other regiments engaged on the 16th and 18th, or on one of those days, were permitted to bear Waterloo on their colours.

The Highland Society of Scotland passed a unanimous vote of thanks "for the determined valour and exertions dis

* Men who were left behind in Brussels, or who had gone to the rear with wounded officers and men on the 17th. Mr Innes in a letter mentions that he was left at Brussels to bring on those left there, and joined with them in time to take part at Quatre-Bras.

played by the regiment, and for the credit it did its country in the memorable battles of the 16th and 18th June 1815."

In acknowledgment of the services of the army at Waterloo and the actions immediately preceding it, each subaltern officer, N.-C. officer and soldier was allowed to count two years additional service. Silver medals were, for the first time in the history of the British army, conferred on all ranks.

Lieut.-Colonel James Mitchell, who succeeded to the command of the 92nd at Quatre-Bras, was appointed a Companion of the most Honourable Order of the Bath, and had the Order of St Anne of Russia conferred on him by the Czar. Major Donald MacDonald, who commanded the regiment at Waterloo, was promoted brevet lieut.-colonel and appointed a Companion of the Bath, and received the Order of St Vladimir of Russia. The share of prize-money falling to the 92nd regiment amounted to about £5000. Subscriptions were set on foot and liberally supported in London and other places for the purpose of creating a Waterloo Fund, out of which immediate relief might be supplied to the families of the fallen, and pensions given to their widows; sums of money were also given from this fund to wounded officers and soldiers. These honours and gifts were thoroughly appreciated by the troops. Lieutenant Hector Innes writes home-" Our country, I am proud to say, has more than compensated us for our dear-bought victory, but when so appreciated, who would not strive to serve and bleed for such a country!" All soldiers' letters were sent free, signed by the commanding officer.

The French troops began their march to the Loire on the 4th, and by the 6th the whole had proceeded to their destination. Guards were placed at the entrances of Paris, each with two field-pieces loaded in case of disturbance.

Wha keep guard at Vincennes and Marly?
Wha but the lads wi' the bannocks o' barley;
Bannocks o' bear meal, bannocks o' barley.

The allied armies entered Paris on the 7th, and on the following day Louis XVIII. was once more reinstated on the throne of France. The Gordons, after marching through Paris, encamped behind the neighbouring village of Clichy.

Here the regiment was completed with knapsacks and other necessaries; the tailors were set to work to mend the warworn clothing; and when all their appointments were clean and in good order, N.-C. officers and soldiers had liberty to go into the city by turns, a hope being expressed that they would not quarrel with any French soldier that might happen to be there-half the officers remaining always in camp. Until a market was established in camp, parties were sent into Paris to buy vegetables for their companies. Sir Walter Scott, who was one of the many visitors to Paris, gives an entertaining description of the Highlanders making their bargains; the soldier holding his piece of money between his finger and thumb with the grip of a smith's vice, and pointing out the quantity of the commodity which he expected for it; while the Frenchman, with many shrugs and much chattering, diminished the equivalent as more than he could afford. Then Donald would begin to shrug and chatter in his turn, and to scrape back again what the other had abstracted; and so they would stand for half-an-hour discussing the point, though neither understood a word of what the other said, till they could agree upon "le prix juste." "The soldiers," Sir Walter remarks, "without exception, conduct themselves in public with civility, and are very rarely to be seen intoxicated, though the means are so much within their reach;" and he mentions meeting men of all regiments, and conversing with them in the picture galleries and other public places.

Napoleon, who had left Paris after a two days' stay, concealed himself near the coast, intending to embark for America; but, finding that the British cruisers made that impossible, he surrendered himself on the 15th of July to Captain Maitland of H.M.S. Bellerophon, which brought him to Plymouth. The island of St Helena was afterwards appointed for his residence.

R.O., Camp near Paris, 18th July 1815.-Opportunity now offering of paying the last tribute of respect to the memory of the late Colonel Cameron, officers will be pleased to wear a black crape round their left arm for one month.

On the 24th of July there was a grand review of the British and Hanoverian troops before the Emperor of Russia

in the Place Louis Quinze. Officers were in blue pantaloons and half-boots; the men in their best hose and new rosettes, without gaiters, but with knapsacks packed-blankets, etc.— every second man to carry a brush and towel to take the dust off on arrival at the ground. To spare the feelings of the Parisians, it was not intended that they should wear laurel, but almost the whole army did mount the emblem of victory. Immediately after the Gordons had passed the Emperor, their old general Howard, now Lord Howard of Effingham, who had commanded their brigade at Arroyo dos Molinos and other Peninsular actions, rode up in plain clothes, congratulated them on the additional honours the regiment had gained, and, glad to be again at their head, rode with the commanding officer as they returned through the streets of Paris to their camp. He was a great favourite with all ranks who had been with him in Spain. The Emperor of Russia was so much struck by the appearance of the Highland regiments that he afterwards requested that a sergeant, a piper, and a private from each of the three (42nd, 79th, and 92nd) should come to the Palace Élysée, where he resided. They were conducted by Lord Cathcart to the presence of the Emperor, who made a most minute inspection of their dress and appointments. He pinched Sergeant Campbell's (79th) skin to be sure he wore nothing under his kilt, examined his claymore, and asked if they learned any special exercise for the broadsword; also as to their services and families at home. A private was put through the manual and platoon exercise. The pipers played the tune "Cogadh na Sith," the Emperor appearing delighted with the music. Then they were served with refreshments, and each received a present of money. The 92nd men were Sergeant Grant, Piper Cameron, and Private Logan.*

The life of the regiment was now the ordinary routine of the camp; divine service on Sundays, with rather an extra dose of drill on week-days, and the Waterloo heroes grumbled a good deal at being turned out for "goose-step" at 4 a.m., with parades and field-days, regimental, brigade, or divisional, afterwards. Rolls were made out of all who had been present

* From the account of Sergeant Campbell, who commanded the party.

on the 16th, 17th, and 18th June, "No person to be included of whom the least doubt of his having been personally present on one or other of these days can be attached. The rolls will undergo a minute investigation at the War Office." Officers' servants and batmen having been on duty, though not actually in the ranks, are to be included.

On the 30th of August Lieut.-Colonel Mitchell resumed command.

R.O.-Hose and buckled shoes to be worn. The black gaiters only on marches, but one pair to be considered as necessaries. Greatcoats to be rolled on the top, and blankets on the back of the knapsacks as formerly (in Peninsula). Officers commanding companies to send in returns of widows and orphans who were rendered such by the casualties in the actions of the 16th, 17th, and 18th June, and also of dependent relatives of men killed on those days, with a certificate for each family, also as to prize-tickets being filled up and signed.*

On the 22nd September there was a grand review of the British and Hanoverian army on the plain of St Denis. The Duke of Wellington received the Emperors of Austria and Russia and the King of Prussia. In the suite of the allied sovereigns were many celebrated men-Prince Blucher, Prince Schwartzenberg, Field-Marshal Barclay de Tolly, Platoff, Hetman of the Cossacks, the Archduke Constantine of Russia, two sons of the King of Prussia, etc., all the British and foreign visitors, but not the Parisians. The operations represented those of the allied army at Salamanca. Before moving from the original ground, Blucher, Platoff, and other foreign generals came to examine the dress of the three Highland regiments, and "cracked their jokes at the expense of the philabeg, but Donald, instead of getting sulky, revenged himself by his remarks on the foreigners, some of whom were in uniforms which he considered no less singular than his own." Lieutenant Innes wrote that the Russian Emperor "paid us

* I find letters from officers to their friends in Scotland asking them to inform the families of deceased soldiers how to apply for the sums due to them, and giving particular accounts of the health and conduct of men belonging to their own districts for the information of their parents.