“The English had ten thousand, Jackson only one; But what was that to Jackson When him they turned their backs on?” By a forced march from Ostend, Lambert’s brigade arrived at Waterloo just as the battle was commencing. G.C.B. Col.-in-Chf. 10th Foot, 1824. M., 19th Oct., 1816, a dau. of John Mount, of Brocklehurst, in the New Forest. D. at Thames Ditton, 14th Sept., 1847, leaving issue. AIDE-DE-CAMP. Lt. T. Baynes, 39th Foot. Promoted capt. in 1824, and placed on h. p. 20th Nov., 1828. D. at Brussels, 27th May, 1847. MAJOR OF BRIGADE. Maj. H.G.W. Smith, 95th Foot, W. Afterwards the renowned Sir Harry George Wakelyn Smith, Bart., G.C.B. and Col.-in-Chf. Rifle Brigade. Bn. at Whittlesea, Isle of Ely; son of a local surgeon. Entered the 95th Rifles in 1805. Was present at the capture of Monte Video. Served at twelve general actions in the Pa. and was afterwards A.A.G. in America. Served at Bladensburg and the destruction of Washington. Sent home with despatches. Went out again under Sir E. Pakenham, and was present at the attack upon the enemy’s lines near New Orleans. Promoted brevet lt.-col. for his services at Waterloo. Commanded a division in the Kaffir War of 1834–5. In 1840 was A.-G. in India. K.C.B. for battle of Maharajpore. G.C.B. for the Sutlej Campaign. Created a baronet for his victory at Aliwal. C.-in-C. at Cape of Good Hope in Kaffir War of 1848. He m., in 1816, a young Spanish lady, Juana Maria de los Dolores de Leon, who had appealed to him for protection on the day after the assault on Badajoz in Apr. 1812. D. in London, without issue, 12th Oct., 1860, and was buried at Whittlesea. M.I., in St. Mary’s Church. * * * * * MAJOR-GENERAL. Sir Colquhoun Grant, K.C.B., W. “Descended from the Grants of Gartenbeg.” In order to show the antiquity of the great “Clan Grant,” one of the name asserted that the verse in the Old Testament, saying, “There were giants in the earth in those days” had been wrongly translated, and that it ought to read: “There were _Grants_ in those days.” This genealogical flight reminds one of the story of a negro servant, Deemers by name, who, hearing his Yankee master everlastingly talking of his ancestors, cut into the conversation one fine morning when waiting at table with the following: “Massa, an ancestor of mine is mentioned in de Bible; I heard de minister read out last Sunday a chapter about a coloured man—one nigger Deemers!”