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kinds - of congratulation, censure, and
warning for the future.

And first, to the more
grateful task of congratulation. We
congratulate the gallant A.D.C. on the
workmanlike manner in which he
piloted his team of six through the
adventures of the day, then as ever showing
us poor people in Kingston with what
spirit the war is carried on by the 71st
Highland Light Infantry a corps, the officer
of which, as our Canadian members will
know, cleared the streets of Montreal
Toronto and Kingston with the same
pluck, energy, and success as the heroes
of whom they are no unworthy descendents,
cleared those of [Fuentes d'Onor?]. True it may
be that cabmen and wood sleighs are
not so serious obstacles as were Polish
Lancers and the Young Guard but the
energy which overcomes the one can never
quail before the other. We congratulate
a young member and ambitious whip,
who benevolently furnished the last
President with materials for a few well pointed
[Clauses?], on his having arrived home without
the upset or other calamity, always excepting
the slight and with him daily occurence of