1 DECEMBER 1900, Page 19

The detachments of the Guards and the Canadian trole which

reached Southampton on Thursday, were welcoue,a with great cordiality on their arrival in London in the after- noon. A section of the Guards which went to Windsor were received by the Queen, who addressed the men and expressed her thankfulness at their return. An incident which happened at Liverpool on Thursday, when a detachment of Canadian troops were welcomed on their way home, is characteristic of the temper of these gallant soldiers. Private Malloy, whom a Mouser bullet had made totally blind, in a short speech declared that Canada had given her best gladly for the Empire, and that it was not for a soldier to complain of any vicissitude of fortune in a great canae,