Friday was the anniversary of the charge of the Light
Brigade, and Colonel John Shakespear, late Royal Artillery, who was on that day second-in-command of Maude's Horse Artillery, publishes in the Chronicle an account of what he heard and saw. He does not add much to the general knowledge, but records incidentally a remarkable instance of what is termed presentiment. " So vivid an impression had I on the battle- field that even now I see Nolan and his horse lying dead, like many others ; and of my friend Charteris I have a specially remarkable recollection, for on the previous evening, while taking a quiet ride together, we gathered signs of the morrow's storm, when he spoke gloomily of his certain death. He was killed by a round-shot immediately on our parting on the ridge before-named." Any officer, of course, may fancy the next engagement will kill him, but he must fancy it in a very definite way to talk about his apprehensions.
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