[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.")
Stu,—I think your correspondent "Pro Patria" need not be ashamed of not being able to remember names for the Bulgarian officer's Honour Roll. One reason for the difficulty is that British heroism has always been mixed with other qualities, so that from the time that King Alfred visited Guthrum's camp down to our own day men like Kavanagh, the Lucknow clerk, who carried the letter to Outram, " Smith " of the Guides, and scores of other English- men have taken their lives in their hands, and have saved them for their country. And if it is not easy to recall the names of ten men "who have committed some special deed, knowing that the deed or failure in it would lead to their death" (what about young Roberts at the Tugela River P), it is quite easy to look out many names in our history of men, like Sir Richard Grenville and young Hamilton'of the Guides, who, imparting their heroic spirit to others, and associating them with themselves, have done the deeds simply because there was nothing else to be done; they did their duty as best they could in the circumstances. They would have lived for their country if they could, and as they could not do that, they died for her.
According to Rice Holmes, four of the immortal nine at Delhi escaped from the explosion. The names of those who were killed are Scully, who fired the train, Crow, Edwards, and Stuart. Lieutenant Willoughby only survived to be murdered later.-1 am, Sir, &c., E. F.
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