ing general order was issued:

"(General Order, No. 285.)

"BRIGADE OFFICE, CAPE COAST CASTLE,
"_28th July, 1864_.

"Paragraph 3.--The Lieutenant-Colonel commanding feels great
pleasure in publishing, for the information of the officers and
soldiers of the 1st and 2nd West India Regiments about to embark for
the West Indies, the following handsome testimony of their
soldierlike conduct while employed on the late expedition, by His
Excellency Governor Pine, in which feelings and kind sentiments the
Lieutenant-Colonel fully concurs, adding his own thanks to Major
Anton and Captain Reece for the ready and cheerful manner in which
they co-operated with him in carrying out the duties of the command,
and to the officers and men under their respective orders.

"It is a pleasing duty to the Lieutenant-Colonel to have to announce
to these corps that, from the day they took the field until this
hour, not a complaint has been brought by an inhabitant against any
of the men, so excellent has the conduct of all been.

"It is also gratifying to Lieutenant-Colonel Conran to see so few
men on the sick list when about to embark, considering the large
numbers that were reported sick on their return from the front."

"GOVERNMENT HOUSE, CAPE COAST,
"_27th July, 1864_.

"SIR,

"On the eve of the departure of the detachments of the 1st and 2nd
West India Regiments, which have been annexed to your command on my
requisition since April last, I request that you will be pleased to
permit me, through you, to record my thanks as Governor of these
settlements for the services they have performed conjointly with
yourself and regiment.

"I feel that I have been the means of imposing upon Her Majesty's
troops a laborious, ungracious, and apparently thankless duty; but
my intentions and motives have been so fully, and I trust,
satisfactorily discussed throughout Great Britain, that I dare hope
that the officers and men will believe that I invited them to
participate in a constitutional measure, which I felt convinced
would add to their military reputation and honour.

"To the decision of Her Majesty's Government as to its altered