Ibid. Here, however, it should be noted, that a pole about four feet long, on being let down into the boarded screen below, struck on a moulding and went down whirling. In its descent it struck the great dome, where it received a shell-like range, and dashed off, at a sharp angle, to the North Transept, where it made a hole through the lead of the roof, similar to what a ball of the same diameter would have done if let fall from the same height. In taking down the scaffolding, an eight-feet plank fell on its flat side from the lantern to the pavement in the area of the Cathedral, and the report was like the booming of a piece of ordnance from the deck of a ship of war. Footnote 14: Distinguished himself by his gallantry in the storming of the Redan on the 8th September, 1855. Footnote 15: The ‘Times,’ November 4, 1848. Footnote 16: ‘Builder,’ 7th April, 1849, p. 165. Footnote 17: The ‘Times,’ February 1, 1851. Footnote 18: Sir John Richardson’s ‘Boat Voyage,’ i., p. 53. Footnote 19: Sir John Richardson, ii., p. 141. Footnote 20: Sir John Richardson, i., p. 110. Footnote 21: Ibid., i., pp. 110, 111. Footnote 22: Ibid., i., p. 115. Footnote 23: Ibid., pp. 119-131. Footnote 24: Sir John Richardson, i., p. 289. Footnote 25: Ibid., i., p. 294. Footnote 26: Ibid., p. 299. Footnote 27: Sir John Richardson, p. 308. Footnote 28: Ibid., i., pp. 309-318. Footnote 29: Sir John Richardson, i., p. 321. Footnote 30: Ibid., p. 326. Footnote 31: Sir John Richardson, i., p. 331. 1848. Augmentation to corps—A calculating prodigy—Company removed from Portsmouth to Ireland—Chartist demonstration and services of the sappers in London—Road-making in Zetland—Company to the Mauritius—Major Sandham—Sergeant Anderson—Sergeant Ross—Sir Harry Smith’s frontier tour at the Cape—Passage of the Mooi; corporal Pringle—Passage of the Konap; sergeant McLeod; also of the Orange River—Boem Plaatz—Spirited conduct of a party in removing an ammunition tumbril, which had upset in some burning grass—Peace—Inspection at Gibraltar by Sir Robert Wilson—Also at Hong-Kong by Major-General Stavely—Company at Corfu—Return of party to England from the Falkland Islands—Sergeant Hearnden.