Show vin V in london times or of july 8 1 the that knights are aie made of otin iiii MM the banners in in henry VILs B chapel must rustle a gentle w welcome elcome A knight cknight from a far country comes to harig hang up tip his petition pennon and to blazon his arms among allione the brasses lie ile is is a saturnine warrior warrior from the plains of ind and his sweet face is is strange to the acs c es of far christian knights let us listen as the heralds herald shout forth his titles his high ness the maharajah Mah arajah jung Ra najee is created iiii knight G grind rind cross of the most honorable hanoi able order berof of the bath it isa is a considerable rank col phipps has not yet et attained it it is is a great honor many generals in in our army have hav e not attained it loud acclaim then to the maharajah Mah arajah doubtless some great reat conqueror some second and happier porus who instead of wishing to be treated like king claims the still higher honors of christian knighthood kisses the cross upon his sword s ord hilt ard and claims the brotherhood of lV 1 estern chivalry good very good but london seems to fancy she he has heard the name naine and all these fine titles before the chronicles of fashion anav and other chronicles albeit they are all light of memory seem scein to recollect something of jun jung rr bahadour Bah adoor surely surel bois heis the gentleman who some come fc few years ears ago ago X dazzel cd ed london society his diamonds were ever e cry H here they flashed in in your 5 our eyes at t the e 0 pera opera they disturbed in in yoa on in in the house of commons corn they put everything else into blank dai dat kness at second rate soirees soirees and popular balls it is is then our old abit acquaintance ain tance whom the mob used to cheur cheer and his hia associates to fleece who has taker taken service sen ice in in the christian order of the bath ile he was an excellent lion he be was w as a most usef useful adjunct to the lon lion don season but no one in m those days hd had the wit to suggest that the glittering pagan should carry a grand cross and ride as one of an old historic order of knights banded together to conquer pa banim giants succor beautiful damsels a and a anim spread the gomillion do million of holy church yet this jung bahadour Bah adoor is is certainly 11 a very ier remarkable remar Labe man and as he has set up his flag and installed huns hila self lf ia in our great abbey abbe as he has become sir bir jung bahadour Bah adoor G C B and upon the authority of lord coke one of the english nobility he ought to be introduced and we vie will anticipate the chan cello of the order oder with a slight eulogi urn um we e need not say that this gallant british knight is is of indian lineage ile H began his life as a sou bahdar or ensign in in the service service of the king of nepaul and he was a yo younger son of the brother of the prime minister of 0 that distant and 64 important kingdom it is is related of him h by I 1 mr oliphant his friend and biographer that he was expert perkin in games of cards and dice and constant in in his endeavors g to turn his skill to profit after w wandering through up per india and much deteriorating the finances of native eatn e princes and rich bob oos boshe he returned to the court of nepaul and was sent back into india to organize an insurrection among the native princes detected and marched back to the fron frontier tiei he was as there hat contemptuously set at liberty and he arrived at the royal roal residence just jast in m time to tale take part in in a aurrel between his bis uncle anti and the kings chief we wife the queen proposed to the nephew that ho he should ai finish nish this quarrel by shooting his uncle and the embryo knight approved the expedient the uncle was lured to the palace and as he entered the presence chamber the nephew posted there for the purpose shot him deal dead the picture of the uncle hangs in in the family picture gollery gallery of the nephew I 1 see he says to his european guests that is is my poor uncle Mah tiber singh whom n horn I 1 shot it is is very lery like lae him after this sacrifice to necessity jung Baha doors fortunes p prospered for the queen made him commander in in chief of the nep aelese army a happy issue issue to a series series of adventures which mi might I 1 ht excite the envy of amadis amadia de G gaul aad sir launcelot of the lalie lake and don quixote in in durbar assembled the next achievement of our Di delih english lih knight light was still more egre egregious ious ho he wa was prasert at an assembly of the nobles of nepaul i epaul and ite he wished ak dished to seize and imprison one of his collea colleagues gaps some resi resistance stence took place but a timely bullet sped by the hand of jung bahadour Bah adoor stretched the recalcitrant colledge col leage in in death jung ballad had his faithful body guard armed with ith Pur days rifles procured at an expense of 2000 there were fourteen nobles friends of the shot fatteh jung jung bahadour Bah adoor too toola the rifle from abo th e man next him bun and leveled it at the fore most of the little land band fourteen did thit that fatal times says ays sir oliphant report ring through the hall as one by 0 one ie the rifles rides were handed to one who would trust no eye but his own 0 i and at each shot another noble lay stretched on oil j the ground 11 before day daw dawned ned jung bahadour Bih Bah adoor had been appointed prime minister of nepaul it w was is after this energetic tic operation that jung came to enere england land to show his hib diamonds and to culm cultivate ite the acquaintance of the english en ladies being a shrew d fellow he saw r enough in m england to teach him that our resources were ere greater than his own and I 1 hei made up his bus mind nei er to quarrel I 1 with us therefore during the late troubles he has rather ostentatiously tendered us his assistance and has brought to our aida aid a considerable body of soldiers they were not worth much they were not nearly such useful men as the mountaineers from the same district whom we had in in our own pay and have loaded themselves with plunder they chose a safe path home still to a certain extent jun jung bahadour Bah adoor has been a cons art ant and useful use ful ally bat surely some other means were open to reward him there is is some de ferance due to the eternal fitness of things if mr charles kean were to save the queens life w we e should scarce 13 expect to seer see him rewarded with a bishopric ishop nc and wit with heery every loyal lo 10 al af affection for or the young princesses we should not care to see one of thera appoint Pil to the command of a regiment perhaps it is is i a w wealch eak and foolish sentiment to take tali e note of such matters it is la of no material consequence to the commonalty of the nation whether hether a chapter of the order of the bath consists of good or bad company perhaps these old ad historic quasi ecclesiastical orders are proper subjects for strong stron practical jokes the order of the 14 baah 1 I is is cewe to be a christian community to which the neophyte is introduced fresh froma from a bath typical topical as says of his being bathed and washed from every vice vice ft it is is impossible to im invent ent a more telling burlesque upon this ancient and perhaps our rulers may think now ridiculous institution in ution than to introduce into the chapter a pagan red with the blood of his own uncle we should submit however that if this bo be the view taken of stars and garters and by tho the philosophical men at the head of adlair afi airs it is is rather hard to propose these decorations as the reward regard ot meritorious services vices to be performed by english gentlemen ell who ho do not shoot their uncle or kill fourteen unresisting senators to gain a step in in promotion it is is scarcely I 1 ft orth while to go through a life of danger g er and hard work in in order to find ones self in m the same order but of an inferior bior grade with jung bahadour Bah adoor for ourselves we modestly confess that we have hai e some vulgar prejudices left I 1 in n favor falor f a of honors which our forefathers have looked up to and although we e are not prepared to receive receive a grand cross as an object of worship we are not pleased to tc see it profaned by a practical joke |