itself, with music playing and soldiers chanting the 49th, 115th,
139th, and 23rd Psalms. After this, his chaplain read the form of
consecration, which was signed by the Bishop; and, the 90th Psalm
having been sung, he shortly addressed those present in most feeling,
manly, and impressive terms befitting the occasion; and the ceremonial
concluded with prayers read by the chaplain of the station, closing
with the benediction by the Bishop.’ The Bishop was the lamented
George Cotton. See his Life, p. 286.
[2] The Company and the Crown. By the Hon.
T. J. Hovell-
Thurlow.
[3] One of the side valleys which run up northwards
from the main
valley of the Beas.
[4] For permission to use this narrative the Editor
has to thank
not only its author, Arthur
Stanley, Dean of Westminster (and it is
but a small part of the obligations
to him connected with this work),
but also the proprietors of
the North British Review, in which it
appeared.
[5] ’The Expulsive Power of a New Affection.’—Commercial
Discourses, No. IX.
[6] That third brother, Sir Frederick Bruce, was laid
in that same
vault, when his remains were
brought home from Boston, where he was
suddenly cut off in 1867 at
his post as Minister to the United States.