"The Bravest Deed."

•Mr. Archibald Forbes writes about Lord William Beresford, V.C., In " Pearson's Magazine," the article bearing tha title "The Bravest De^d I Kver Saw." " Beresford," Mr. Forbes remarks, " waa out. on a scout, or rather an armed reconnaissance, to ascertain the strength of the Zulu forces. Buller directed him to be very wary, or he wenld be ambuscaded. The advice was ; -->d, for suddenly, from out a deep wai ■ ourse crossing the plain and from out of the adjacent long grass, sprang up a long line of several thousand armed Zulus. At Bullef's loud command to fire a volley and I hen retire, Beresford and his scout? rode back towards the main body, followed by Zulu bullets. Two men were killed on the spot. A third man's horse slipped up, and his r/ounded rider came to the ground, the horse running away. Beresford, riding behind his retreating party, looked back and saw that the fallen man was trying to rise into a sitting posture. The Zulus w-ere perilously close to the poor fellow, bat Beresford believed that he saw a chance of anticipating them. Galloping back to the wounded man, and dismounting, he confronted his adversaries with his revolver, while urging the fallen soldier to get on his (Beresford 'p) _ horse. The wounded man bade Beresford remount and fly. Why. said he, should men die when death was inevitable but to one 1 The quaint resourceful humour of hia race did not fail Beresford in this crisis ; he turned on the wounded man and swora with clenched fist that he would punch his head If he did not assist In the saving of his life. This droll argument prevailed. Still facing Ms foes with his revolver, Beresford partly lifted, partly hustled, the man into the saddle, then scrambled up himself, and set the chestnut a-going after the other horsemen. Another moment's delay and both must have been assegaled A comrade, the brave Sergeant O'Toole, fortunately came back, shot down Zulu after Zulu with cool courage, and then aided Beresford in keeping the wounded man in the saddle till the laager was reached, where no one could tell whether it was the rescuer or rescued who was the wounded man, so smeared was Beresford with borrowed blood. Lord William was commanded to Windsor to receive the reward ' for valour' from the hands of the Sovereign. But something more may be told. Beresford plainly told her Majesty that he could not in honour receive recognition of the service it had been his good fortune to perform unless that recognition were shared in by Sergeant O'Toole, who. he persisted in maintaining, deserved infinitely greater credit than any which might attach to him. Not less than soldierly valour can Queen Victoria appreciate soldierly honesty, generosity, and modesty ; and so the next ' Gazette' announced that the proudest reward a British soldier can aspire to had been conferred on Sergeant Edmund O'Toole, of Baker's Horse."