PETERSFIELD.—PATRIOTISM.—A rather uncommon instance of loyalty and patriotism (and which has occasioned some rumour) occurred in the Town Hall on Tuesday last, on the swearing in of two members of the Rifle Corps, one of whom is the worthy host of the Golden Horse Inn, in the Square, whose silvery locks betokened the good round age between ‟three score years and ten,” standing cheerfully forward to take the oath of allegiance to Her Majesty the Queen! Who after this, will say that England has not a military tendency in the hearts of her fathers as well as her sons? The Honourable Chairman put a question to the Sergeant-Major as to the limits of age at which the volunteers were accepted, &c., which elicited the following reply—‟None under sixteen sir; a man is never too old to serve his Queen and country.”— Portsmouth Times.
