An Italian Estimate of the British Soldier.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1694, 15 June 1885, Page 3

An Italian Estimate of the British Soldier.

Ihe 1 1 ii 1 1 > win_r from an Italian paper will be read with in teres*, as showing wliat foreigners ih nk mi the subject, liie extrmt is from the Eseroitu Italian,'. It says : Tie- battle t,f Abu 1 Klea, which resulted '•*, such aeViTe hiss to (Idler.ll Stewards c uuuia, ius au-nvu that the English e U .iel has ill l, . aay ,10-geHel ated, and a; ii .‘esin.t st.ip ... count the number l * iJ e!l -i‘iy when the hour tov butila struck. \\ u cinu.it but experience a sense of wonder when we consider the c " 1 1 ness with which General Stewart's spiare in ived a 'mist an enemy ten times its number, in an inhospitable my, wt'n tin' nativ-M ui full revob, and in a liiiierent Irmn their ...m —so elld'i a.Ill," at 1 1 1 SO heady. Tilt! elbct of cm m-t. pidity nf the EnglUli (diets ■in .a tiio m i-s of Arabs must have be •» immense. A otantlist,mainthe serviceable anus possessed by Hie latter, in th rt ,I,J *‘} wllich they had been well train, .1, itotwithst inning tii'-ir sniierio.• position, their 1 m,' . Apu ihce of hfe in t! ie desert, and their ovenrh-lmin ; numbers, tliey wel e e -mpletely put to llight. The stnalltiess or tue numbers of the s-ldit-rs Wjmui •• Old Engl no! '• sends to all parts «.f the globe to ti_;lit battles that would bun., ,'lory to armies el great size ami nine form,Jablv e'liiinpod in point of armament. Miiiiot be owing to pefy economy, a, .some tie’man military p-fi • i;.s ", m i i, iv,. . think. We be!,em latln i tint it is due to the abo. luiej-limc- which the English Minister ol War Iei■ Ishe cm place in his soldiers --a r.-ioimv wgich the inem.iry of the Ib'oii viunii < 11 1 Imlian Mutiny Mily etv phi in. - i his Cotih-leiica is hi 1 1 - lionlv display cl in the se t-abnegat.i m wta which even tin* heirs of tin* m>et ibjy.r oils men of the 1 idled Kingdom . !ort!> am! face rh* most extraoidniarv ildnai'ioeo ;i |o;., war in countries 3'ic.i a, I.gm., i.-i iyto lay down their ilve ’ for the rights of thmr country. . We Sec tn;t ea■ en a snull auny under '-"mm in dens w v .l trained in the art of l * ir ; all i wU • ill . determined to complur >o o’", m.,v. wlnm c died upon, rout an , "'y "I'l ’ii lUpeiior in numbers ;as tne English army has shown in all (he wans i ...gut by it .pinna this century m Europe, ni Ana. and at the two ei'.ieimties or tin Aine m continent.”