Intelligence Department-- Deputy-Assistant Captain Hon. H. A. Lawrence, Adjutant-General p.s.c., 17th Lancers. 1ST BRIGADE. Major-General Col. (local Major-General) J. M. Babington. Aide-de-Camp Lieutenant F. W. Wormald, 7th Hussars. Brigade-Major Captain C. J. Briggs, 1st Dragoon Guards. Officer Commanding Mounted Major and Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel Infantry[J] E. A. H. Alderson, p.s.c., Royal West Kent Regt. Adjutant Mounted Infantry[L] Captain H. M'Micking, Royal Scots. 2ND BRIGADE. Major-General Colonel (local Major-Gen.) J. P. Brabazon, C.B., A.D.C. Aide-de-Camp Major Hon. C. E. Bingham, 1st Life Guards. Brigade-Major Captain Hon. T. W. Brand, 10th Hussars. Officer Commanding Mounted Captain and Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel Infantry[J] R. J. Tudway, 2nd Bn. Essex Regt. Adjutant Mounted Infantry[L] Captain H. L. Ruck-Keene, Oxford. Light Infantry. FOOTNOTES: [J] Graded as Assistant Adjutant-General. [K] Will act for both Brigades. [L] Graded as Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-Generals. COLERIDGE GROVE, M.S. _2nd October 1899._ SOUTH AFRICA AND THE TRANSVAAL WAR CHAPTER I THE CRISIS AT HOME "Patience, long sick to death, is dead. Too long Have sloth and doubt and treason bidden us be What Cromwell's England was not, when the sea To him bore witness, given of Blake, how strong She stood, a commonweal that brooked no wrong From foes less vile than men like wolves set free, Whose war is waged where none may fight or flee-- With women and with weanlings. Speech and song Lack utterance now for loathing. Scarce we hear Foul tongues, that blacken God's dishonoured name With prayers turned curses and with praise found shame, Defy the truth whose witness now draws near To scourge these dogs, agape with jaws afoam, Down out of life. Strike, England, and strike home." --ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE.