There died at Ravensbourne on Saturday morning John M'Bain, a Crimean veteran, deserving of some passing notice. M'Bain en listed at Aberdeen on March 18, 1848, into the Royal Regiment of Artillery; from thence he was forwarded to Woolwich, tho headquarters of the regiment. A few years' garrison work at Woolwich and Devonport brought up the inter val till 1854, when ho was drafted into the Royal Horso, and put under orders for tbe Crimea, whore he arrived" September 16, 1854. No time was lost here, for in four days after his arrival he was taking part in the battle of Alma, and about a month later he was in the battle of Balaclava where, with his battalion..he witnessed the celebrated charge of the Light Brigade. On the sfch November he was in the' Battle of Inkerman, which M'Bain always spoke of as beiug the most stubbornly contested of all tho Crimean battles. During tho following 10 mouths his detachment did good service in the protracted seigo of Sebastopol. For these engagements ho bore tho Cri mean medal with tha four. clasps, as also the Turkish medal. On the arrival of the troops in England they wero inspected by the Queen aud Princess Victoria, now Empress Dowager of Germany. At the parade M'Buiii carried on his shoulders au' enormous Russian cat which ho had brought from the Crimea, and which attracted her Majesty's at tention so much that on the same evening the cat had found a royal miifcrcss, aud lM'Bain was the happy possessor of a suiq of mouey far exceeding its value, After a short tp::ll uf nine weeks afc headquarters M'Bain weut with his regiment to the lonian Islands. From here he was siut back to Euglaud as recruiting sergeant and to assist in procuring horses, afc this time men and horses beiug in- greafc demand for the Indian mutiny. Oa tho a-jmplubiun of aboufc two years' recruiting work iv Eugland he left with his recruits for India, via Corfu, where they picked up th" -cruainder of the regiment, arriv ing afc Poiut de Galle in 1859. By tho tinofe thoy arrived in India the mutiny was over, and thu battc-rie3 were distributed among the various subjugated districts to assist in 'main taining the peace that hid just been arrived afc. 