Colonies in the Pacific.

As an incident relating to her Ladyship has been mentioned in the
"Memoirs of General Miller," I may be pardoned for giving it as narrated
in that work.

"On the 25th, six hundred infantry and sixty Cavalry, all picked
men, were placed under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Miller,
who received directions to embark on a secret service under the
orders of Lord Cochrane, and proceeded to Huacho. On the day
after his arrival there, and whilst he was inspecting the detachments
in the Plaza, Lady Cochrane galloped on to the parade to speak to
him. The sudden appearance of youth and beauty on a fiery
horse, managed with skill and elegance, absolutely electrified
the men, who had never before seen an English lady. '_Que
hermosa! Que graciosa! Que linda! Que airosa! Es un angel del
cielo_!' were exclamations which escaped from one end of the line
to the other. Colonel Miller, not displeased at this involuntary
homage to the beauty of his countrywoman, said to the men, 'This
is our _generala_;' on which her Ladyship, turning to the line,
bowed to the troops, who no longer confining their expressions of
admiration to suppressed interjections, loud _vivas_ burst from officers
and men, to which Lady Cochrane, smiling her acknowledgments, cantered
off the ground like a fairy."

In the month of February, during my absence, Lady Cochrane, tired of the
crowded villages occupied by the liberating army, undertook a journey
into the interior, in the hope that change of air might prove
advantageous to our infant child, which was in a precarious state of
health. She performed the journey on horseback, under the intense heat