Some stir has been caused by an exercise of patronage
on thewt of Lord Levet, Lord-Lieutenant of Inverness-shire. His son, the Honour- able Mr. Frazer, has only seen a few months' service in the County Mi- litia as junior Captain, and yet he has been appointed by his father Colo- nel of the corps. In the same regiment there are Major Sir A. P. Gor- don Cumming, who has seen thirteen years' service m the Seventy-first Highlanders and Fourth Light Dragoons • Major James Duff, who served twelve years in the Seventy-fourth Highlanders, and who served in the Cape war ; and ,Captain the Honourable James Grant, who has gone through the round of Colonial duty in the Forty-second Highlanders. Over all these officers the young Frazer has been placed.
I asked a very distinguished and accomplished officer holding a high rank in the Artillery of the Guard, what a French court-martial would have done with those two military Earls who carried their private squabbles even into the battle-field, and with admirable strategic science annihilated our Light Cavalry. "We should have shot one and cashiered the other," was the answer. We are less truculent : we make one Inspector-General of Cavalry, and confer the command of a crack regiment upon his rival ; and the Horse Guards rubs its aristocratic hands with an approving smile.— Rater in the Times.
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