Bravest of the brave, Lieut.-Colonel Seton of the Seventy-fourth, displayed in his conduct, as commander of the troops, a nobleness, a true courage, a self-sacrificing devotion, worthy of his country, and which bespeaks the _man_—the _hero_; and than which history or biography can furnish no brighter or more illustrious example. It is indeed a pity so brave a spirit should have fallen; and it shames the living— “That instinct Which makes the honour’d memory of the dead A trust with all the living—” that no suitable memorial marks his fall, save the common tablet of a common grief for a common loss which stands in the corridor of Chelsea Hospital, bearing the following inscription:— “This monument is erected by command of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, to record the heroic constancy and unbroken discipline shown by Lieutenant-Colonel Seton, Seventy-fourth Highlanders, and the troops embarked under his command, on board the ‘Birkenhead,’ when that vessel was wrecked off the Cape of Good Hope, on the 26th February, 1852, and to preserve the memory of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men, who perished on that occasion, The names were as follows:— “Lieut.-Colonel A. Seton, 74th Highlanders, Commanding the Troops. Cornet Rolt, Serjeant Straw, and three Privates, 12th Lancers. Ensign Boylan, Corporal MʻManus, and thirty-four Privates, 2d Queen’s Regiment. Ensign Metford and forty-seven Privates, 6th Royals. Fifty-five Privates, 12th Regiment. Serjeant Hicks, Corporals Harrison and Cousins, and twenty-six Privates, 43d Light Infantry. Three Privates, 45th Regiment. Corporal Curtis and twenty-nine Privates, 60th Rifles. Lieutenants Robinson and Booth, and fifty-four Privates, 73d Regiment. Ensign Russell, Corporals Mathison and William Laird, and forty-six Privates, 74th Highlanders. Serjeant Butler, Corporals Webber and Smith, and forty-one Privates, 91st Regiment. Staff-Surgeon Laing. Staff-Assistant-Surgeon Robertson.” “Yet more! the billows and the depths have more! High hearts and brave are gather’d to thy breast! They hear not now the booming waters roar— The battle-thunders will not break their rest. Keep thy red gold and gems, thou stormy grave! Give back the true and brave!” In the last and most sanguinary war with the Kaffirs of South Africa, which desolated that valuable colony between 1850 and 1853, the Seventy-fourth was engaged, and fully sustained its illustrious character. The enemy, sensible of his weakness, avoided meeting our army in the field, and maintained a harassing series of skirmishes in the bush, which proved most annoying and destructive.