The Express. — London, England, 1861-04-02 00:00:00

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GRANT and 1114IC roverthally entlelt the attention of llv nnility and the pubic. tlicir Sfis_sli of tiIfNKBAL mod _ .es. Hylton oe na.l ) mad. int sprnslve mourning In silk I fry materiels. I loft Inane. Orme., he.. mule complete on Ihr shortest r et wh.desale priers. as ctrr„q4l In the coloured .lepart t.,ni.s oh Us. :r ..t.atiltsbnieftt O:ANT Mid I: AsK. :.9, 110, • M. OXFORD-STREET: 3. 4. WELL4-sEirm. —Special atteution Is requested to the New Shade of ttrA F..tt.ens hew ante , ' to the enuatry. MR. MILES' (ALFRED WEBB MILES) EW ?WRING AND ?WNW& STOCK for the Wurkl.fanted :ketch ANGOLA OS Titill'AEßS. It now replete owl ready for inepertles. 1%.. Twisters wave orb:mated by )ir . Mlles Whew only whims SII T; MEM lk Fri KELT, A N 11V KIAAQVAItr., art eh- ir net ceanoated with wiy prows imitatiog .od Wirer- Usina In his new. 17th F 1311. T E BEST INVESTMENT is a purchase at the establish:Reale of E. 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By Dr If. DAM Y. 11.0 B. nee the Timor el astatrday, tar . rooky of thie work. " This hook .IU be reed with sod helm* as throwing teal light ow the topography et Carthage. The aathar ghee an inter esting account ot Ids travels asd researches la the cease, of Ltals kic sad h Awrially la Uttos."—Batorslay &Mew. Hentky, yebileher la ordinary to her Majesty. Two volumes, amiss* octavo, Mi. THE WORDS awl WORKS of l R BLESSED GIRD. and their LEMONS for DAILY LIFT. By the Anther of " Bnun Mon Rectory." Lon : Parker, aad Bourn, West Strand. ml. day. kap am pia assuaratal boards, price tn. RECOLLECTIONS of a HORSE DEALER. By Eltabnitleg Vats" "Billlusahre," fete rotigh.rldse to the Nth Ilusearn and one of the sarvivon of the celebrated Light Cavalry Charge at Balaclava. No wort les ever Insect front the press better instilled to public embalm& It abounds In thoroughly practical inform lion. and reveals every move In bores cleating and horse Loping. Whoever keeps a alable rides a hone should buy the book. - bind= Ward sad lack lid, lbratretract. Nal% libtken, prise 18. : bff prat IS DIMIIM mad IRRITABILITY g IrentaI and : las oseass. apsopesala Mean lanenel lrinimenV i t T. IL won" xis, and so the General Inalrealee trallnaGaMent Provident te. tom.: 1. _ l,. ham the Aullen.S. lAortarquan. W .C. GIVEN AWAY to NIRVOUS SUFFERERS. Dr. swam me is published a 1111X6 ILDITIO3 of Ills valuable week tie MUTATE MEDICAL YRIZED (He ', no Ow dellesre ef Menem Debility, Leer of Memory, IMmasr of Sight. litaas&s, to.. poet-free, as of a directed envelops, 'Wein two pleads stamps. Dr. lIIIITM, it. Muhammad. Tevbeteekwessre, ]odds, W.C. APPIRENTICIIIO PAUPER CRILDREN. For some time halt a negotiation has been pend ing between some of the large cotton manninetarers Burnley end other places in Lanranbire aad the guardleas of several of the 'metropolitan parishes, for the purpose of inineing them te Annie tae apprenticeship al pauper itektrise. have waited on the various boards of with this object. Upon application being made the authorities of St. Pancras, the off ere of the manatee- Sneers were so fair, and the statements of the advantage, to the children were so t, that the board of directors felt very much dis to entertain the proposal, the only doubt being whether they could come within the set of parliament, which might he applicable to Liver pool, ' hc. because they were within th e pre s c r ib e d die d arty elites by the act of psrldment. The hoard went so far as to have josh-nen:es of ap. prenticethip prepared, but it was then suggested that It would be proper before finally concluding such arrangement to take the ophdon of counsel. A case was drawn, and the opinion of Mr. Le Breton, a barrister, was taken, sad upon being received was found to be adverse to the right to apprentice children at so great a distance from their parish as Burnley. The opinion. together with a oopy of the proposed indenture, was forward.' to the Poor-law Heard, who, at the last meeting of the &lector% forwarded the following reply : " Poor-taw Board, Whitehall, March .51, 11 , 31.—5tr,-1 am directed by the Poor-law Board to acknowledge the re °SS of your letter of the 15th Met., in which you furnish them with the information applied for in their letter ci the 2lat ultimo ' with reference to the children whom th e directors of the poor of the pariah of St. Pancras are desirous of binding as apprentices to certain manufae taren at Burnley. You also state that the directors have obtained the opinion of counsel as to the legality of bind ing their children u apprestiese to persons who reside beyond the distance limited by the Ist section of the 56th Geo. 111., cap. 139—a copy of which opinion, as well as 41 the proposed indenture of apprenticeship. is trans mitted with your letter. The board have carefully perused the opinion of the learned counsel who has been consulted in this case, had concur in thinking that the objection which he has pointed out, as regards the distance of the places at which the proposed masters reside from the places to which the children belong, is valid. Under these circumstances the board regret to state that, in their opinion, the arrange ments for apprenticing the children in question must be abandoned. —I sin, sir, your obedient servant, W. G. assistant secretary." The Poor-law Board are therefore in accord with the opinion of Mr. Le Breton, and it will consequently he illegal for the metropolitan perishes to apprentice their pauper children to manufacturers m far away as Imaaashira lIIPROVIMENTS IN KIIUMNOTON-43/111IDINS. —Yes terday being Easter Monday, the alerted vestry of Ken sington held their ordinary fortnightly meeting for the purpose of electing the parish oaken for the ensuing year; the Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair in the chair. In the coons of the proceediugs Mr. Ball rose in support of the following notice of motion :—" To propose • vote of thanks to the Right Hon. W. Cowper, Fint Commissioner of her Majesty . s Works, Re., for his consideration and kindness in eseeplytag with the request of the vestry and inhabitant. of Kesisingtoe, by removing the dead wan in Kensingtoo pidgins shutting on the high road." It nay be stated that the wall is question has been a great eye-sun to the entrance into Kensington, sad many attempts have been made by Mr. Ball mad other inhabitants to obtain its removal, and to plane in it. stead an iron railing in continuation from the other part at Kensington -gate. Great improvements have been effected in the gardens at this point by the removal of the old meshy banacke, and converting its site into tower beds, he., and it only required the pulling down of the old wall in front oif the Pala -e to make them ccooplete. During the past few days workmen have been engaged in demolish. lag the wall as far as the summer-house, and it is intended to wry the iron railing right along to that point. The beautiful Palace of Kensington-gardens is now visible from the high road, and the removal of the wall will effect a great improvement Rothe locality. After some remarks from Mr. &R, the resoletion, which was seconded by the Rev. J. Bakewell, was carried. ItUY AL INSTITUTION 01 GRIAT BRITAIN. 00111111111 =oat* meeting, Monday, April 1 ; William Pole, Sq., WA., F. .M., Treasurer and N iew.Presideol—Wm. Ilulherford Ancrum, Esq., Stephen Jenninp Goodfellow, M.D., William Newroarch, FAq., were elected memb ers o f the Segal Institution ; Itev. Charles Tooter, G, M. De u g g g y, Rev. A. Denny, and W. E. M. Tomlinson, Keq., were admitted memheni of the Royal Instituting'. The =received since the last meeting were laid ce the the thanks of the members returned for the sane. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1861. THE VOLUNTEER RHAH-PIGHT AT BRIGHTON. The stormy event which so suddenly and so completely peopled the vast solitude of Brighton Downs yesterday morning was a groat fact, nut only in the history of the Volunteer movement, but also iu the progreas and development of the rail way system ; and of the powers of the latter, when milder skilful management, of transmitting large numbers of armed 11102 from London to any part of the coast or country in au incredibly short epee of time in perfect safety, and without any inter ru(,tion to the ordinary traffic of the line. As some objection has been taken to the ~election of Brighton Downs as the scene of a volunteershani- tight in which the Metropolitan corps were to occupy a leading position, it may be as well to mention the circum genet% which recommended that spot to Lord Ranelagh for the mameuvring of his little army. Nothing could be idler than the rumour which had been circulated that the sham tight was appointed to take place on Brighton Downs because the Prince de Joinville had in his well-known pamphlet se lected Newhaven as the point of debarkation fur his invading French army, and that the object now was to show his royal highness, or his Imperial successor, that should Newhaven ever be selected for such a purpose, we could in a couple of hours con centrate a force upon the spot quite sufficient to give the first check to the invaders. But the truth is that neither the French nor their invading army had anything whatever to do with the selection. The object was to find a suitable place, at a distance from town notover-great, and which had railway accommodation, both of platform and lin e , suffi cient for the transit; of a large body of men within a short space of time. Of the many places thought of Brighton was considered to have the greatest number of recommendations. Wimbledon was ill-suited for evolutions, and Epsom, although fed by two railways, too difficult of approach. It)nity seem strange, but it is • recognized maxim in railway administration, that if you want to ruin a place, the m u st ready way of doing so is to give it two lines of railway, as in that case the two companies come to terms, divide the traffic, and neither takes any interest in stimulating its development. Epsom is in this unfortunate posi tion, between the Brighton and South Western Companies, and neither has been at any pains to supply it with such terminal facilities as would allow of the speedy transit of a large body of men. The Brighton main line, on the contrary, has accommodation for any abnor mal amount of traffic ; and all its officials, from Mr. Slight, its able and intelligent secretary, down to the lowest porter, have had full practice in transmitting its thousands by day. The Derby, the Crystal Palace holidays, and the excursions, each put in motion crowds much larg e r th an y es t er day's Volunteer Army, and they have, united, given the staff such a precision and facility iu working on such occasions, that what is often a complete scene of confusion, danger, and delay on other lines, goes on here with the regularity: of clockwork. For yesterday's volunteer journey the whole of one of the large platforms at London-bridge was exclu sively employed. On each side was drawn up a train of 20 carriages attached to an engine capable of drawing 28 with facility, and each carriage (third class) capable of holding b 0 persons. The c orps had thus ample platform room up o n whi c h to" fall in" as fast as they arrived, carriages sufficient, and all ready for them to get in, and equal room and convenience for getting out at the other end of their journey. Various numbers have been furnished to us, as of the troops which manoeuvred yesterday on Brighton Downs. Lsxd Ranalagh himself, and his active assistant, Sergeant Harris, of the Devon Light Horse, estimated the whole at 10,000 men ; whilst Superintendent Barneden, of the Brighton Police, who most efficiently directed the local ar rangements, fixed the total at 7,600. The railway authorities at London-bridge fix the numbers that started from their twotermini at 2,800, so that if we add the country corps, we shall see that the police-superintendent's estimate is nearest the actual fact. Many hundreds of individual volun teers, and one whole corps, the Six Foot Guards, left town on the previous evening, and these latter provident souse( Anak at once established a regular military mess at the Albion Hotel. Lord Ranelagh left town on Saturday last, and found ample occu pation for the interval until Monday in arranging all the preliminaries of the sham-fight. The first volunteer train left London-bridge at a ' quarter to 8 o'clock, the second at a quarter past, the third at five minutes to 9, and the fourth and last at twenty-one minutes past 9. Three of these trains were quite full, but the fourth had room for a considerable number of orthuary pas sengers, the latter not being so numerous as might have been expected, probably in consequence of the suspension on this occasion of the usual ex cursion fares. As each volunteer corps came up the men marched in heavy column on to the plat form, beaded by its band, which played the mon in with some exhilarating popular air. They thee " fell in " with great regularity opposite the car riages, and iu a moment, in obedience to another word of command, took their places inside without the slightest delay or confusion. It was curious to observe that during the despatch of the two later trains the Easter Monday Crystal Palace traffic commenced, and immense crowds were filling the trains of that line on one platform simulta neously with the. arranging and placing of hun dreds of volunteers on the other. We understood that at the west-end, the new Victoria-station gave equal accommodation to the volunteers. The corps which went from London were the let Mid dlesex (En&eers), the Six Foot Guards, South Middlesex (Lord Ranelagh's own corps, a thousand strong), 11th Middlesex (St. George's), and 30th (Paddington). There were also the 9th and 2nd Middlesex, the Gth Tower Hamlets , 7th Islington, 39th Middlesex (Clerkenwell), and the 10th, 19th, and 20th Surrey. Although the Queen's (West minster) did not go in a body, a numerous contin gent of their white plumes was observable at the sham-fight, and there werea great many individual volunteers from most of the metropolitan corps. The London Artisan Company made a most creditable appearance both on the platform and at the review, and was loudly cheered by the spectators. Crowds lined all the avenues to the railway station, loudly cheering each corps as it passed along ; and this, together with the lively music of the numerous volunteer bands, gave the whole affair the air of a great military festival. At Brighton, as the public are already aware, the volunteers had a station to themselves, an d here, under the superintendence and skilful manage ment of Colonel Lindsay, they were all speedily formed into columns and marched off to the trysting ground. Major-General Sir James Searlett, the inspecting officer on the part of the govern ment, came down by the 10 o'clock express, and on reaching the Level found the whole massed and ready to receive him. Nothing could exceed the regularity with which they marched in succession through the town where the whole popu lation had turned out to bid them welcome. All the shops were shut, except the refreshment houses ; banners streamed from the windows, or flaunted scream the street, and everything bore the air of welcome and festivity, except some placards which an over-zealous member of the Peace Society bad stuck on the walls, and in which the sham-fight was denounced as the veriest of shams, the volun teers as a conceited set of fools, and every one, in fact, as being in the wrong, except the author of the placard, who sang his own praises in some doggrel verses of very questionable poetic excel knee. The weather with which this brilliant volunteer display was favoured is deserving of particular notice. The ground was wet at London-bridge in the morning, indicating recent rain, and more was evidently coming. There was a north wind, and a " sea fog " was prognosticated by the weather-seers for the company cm the Downs. But all these autici pations were most agreeably disappointed, as pro bably never was finer weather seen than that which held up duringthe whole day at Brighton. The sky was without a cloud, the sun shone with mid summer brilliancy, the sea wax as smooth as glass, and there was just such a gentle breeze on the Downs as made the proceedings pleasant both for performers and spectators. Nothing could be finer than the scene as viewed from the Grand Stand just before the volunteers commenced their " march jail." Thu undulatory character of Brighton Downs is familiar to most of our rotders, but on this occasion so clear was the air that they could be seen stretching out in an almost endless succession el hills, and every hill seemed to be dotted with. its own crowd of spectators. To the right the Mae Ma slept calm and motionless, un disturbed by a sin g l e sa il, except t h e email French passenger steamer from Dieppe, which crept stealthily and seemed as if it had cools there to reconnoitre our defensive de monstrations on shore. Behind the Stand, down lost in a rather smoky valley, the whole two of Brighton weld be taken in at a glauce, and each road leading thereform exhibited its long advancing line of the dark columns and glancing bayonets of the coming volunteers. Mili tary music mingled with much cheering filled the air, so that what with the downs and the sea, the town, the marching volunteers, the bands and the fine weather there probably never was a more joyous combination of sight and sound got together on a holiday than that which regaled at least a hundred thousand gratified spectators on Brighton racecourse yesterday. The troops having been all collected and massed in columns according to the pro trane published in the morning's pap e rs, a l joTGeneral Sir James Scarlett, attended by an aide-de-camp, and accompanied by the Earl of Chichester, lord lieutenant of the county, took his place within the racecourse paling, immediately op olite the grand stand, and the marching past commenced. It was beautifully done by all the corps, and marked an immense improvement on the performances of last year. Indeed it would be im possible for any regular troops, however highly dis ciplined, to perform this simple but most imposing mauwuvre with greater precision and effect. The Sussex and Cinque Ports Artillery came first, and wire loudly cheered, the Brighton public evi dently feeling highly gratified at their firm tread and martial bearing. Them came the Seuth Middlesex, the very perfection of a volunteer corps', and which was the object of a must special ovation. Lord Ranelagh headed his corps until they came opposite the Major-General, when his lordship fell out, and remained beside Sir James Scarlett during the remainder of the march past. Oa they came in a long succession of corps, and in most imposing array—lands playing, colours flying, officers saluting, and spectators cheering. Sir James frequently said " Good !" "Capital !" but where all were so good, it would be invidious to point out the fortunate corps which were honoured with thia mark of discriminating commendation. The marching past occupied upwards of an hour, to the great delight of everybody, the "march past" of a sham-fight being exactly the one thing which every body can admire and understand. The troops continued their march along the curve of the race course, the people following them in large num bers, and repaired to the hill, where their mime vres were to commence . Unhappily the exigencies of the battle and the character of the ground car ried them very soon out of sight of the occupants of the grand stand, and those of the latter who were not active or curious enough to follow the fortunes of the war descended into Mr. Careless's refreshment saloon, and made a very care ful and satisfactory inspection of his com missariat arrangements. But this was not for the army or its chronicler. Nothing fatigued by their early journey from town, or their terrible march from the station—four miles up a tremen dous hill—which, by the way, ought to have been avoided if possible, the volunteers marched steadily on up hill and down valley, taking up positions and defending to the death, forming squares to resist ea and driving the said cavalry into the sea, and the time keeping up a constant din of murderous file and volley firing, which was as close and as steady as if it had been that of the guards at Inkermann. In a hollow on the sea-side the artillery took up its position, pounding the invaders with six-pound shot, whilst the infantry on the other side peppered them with rifle bullets, or drove them before them with the bayonet. In all fair ness it must be confessed, however, that this enemy, who our readers are aware was entirely • ' , seemed to give our volunteers a good est of trouble. He had to be driven from hill to bill, until victors and vanquished both became invisible from the people on the grand stand, whose only comfort wax that he was, according to the pro gramme, to be finally driven into the sea close under their eyes. Unfortunately, however, this final pleasure was denied them, as the ammunition fell short before his complete discomfiture could be effected, and, instead of pursuing him with well merited vengeance to his utter destruction, the various corps of the volunteer army came to a halt on the fourth of these closely contested hills, and the o ffi cers being called to the front, Major- General Scarlett made a few observations expressive of his high gratification at everything he had seen, and his opinion that the country and the govern ment were deeply indebted to Lord Ranelagh and the various volunteer corps for the exertions they were making to place the country in an efficient state of defence. These observations, which we hare reason to believe were no idle compliments, but the sincere opinions of this distinguished officer as well as of his staff, were loudly cheered by the volunteers, and at their terminaticn the latter commenced slowly and by various routes to make their way back to the points from which they had started in the morning. Some might be seen winding along the coast, others came up the race-course, and • third section turned short and marched to the town by a different route. By these means all confusion or blocking was avoided, and every one got speedily and comfortably back to town. Lord Ranelagh himself, at the head of his corps, marched past the Grand Stand, and was repeatedly cheered by its numerous and fashionable occupants. Thus ter minated the proceedings of a very brilliant' ! and successful volunteer sham fight, in which excellent generalship was exhibited on the part of the commanding officers, and wonderful pluck, bot tom, and discipline by the officers and men who had thus come a long journey in the morning and had marched and manoeuvred through the length of rather a warm day, without fee or reward, except the consciousness that in thus preparing them selves to defend their country from invasion, shoiffd it ever be attacked, they were bravely doing their duty as patriots and as Englishmen. We subjoin the official list of the forces engaged : ARTILLERY BRIGADE. Colonel Petridge, Commanding. let Battalion Brighton Artillery, 4th Cinque Porta, 2nd Hants. 2nd Sure:. Is? BRIGADE RIFLE VOLUNTEER& Lieutetuott-Colonel Femme, Commanding; Caplain D. Deedes, Brigade Major. Id Battalion.—Colonel M'Cloud, Ist Middlesex Engi neers, 32nd Middlesex (Guards). 2nd Battalion.—Major Athorley, 2nd South Middlesex. 3rd Battalion.—Ossinain Ives, 11th Middlesex (SR George's); 36th Mikx (Paddington). 2ND BRIGADE Lord Radatock, CorunZstlingTa;tnin Chitty, Brigade Lt Battalion.-9th Mitese °r. a (West) ; 2nd Middle- sex (A). 2ad Battalion.—Colonel Money, 6th Tower Hamlets ; 4th Tower Hamlet& ; 7th Middlesex Ibil=i fibuiesz id Battalion. —CoLoolol Colvin, (Fiar (Stamped, ld. Additional.) [TWOPENCE. bury); Kent Rifles (Captain Jackpot.); 4ta, 13th, 17th, 21/st, 34th. 31fin BRIGADE. Colonel Moorsom, Commanding ; Major Penton, Brigade Ist Battalioo. —3rd Sussex (A.B). god Battalion.-Ist Cinque Porta and Sumas Corps. 3rd Battalion.—Major Barttelot, tad Bum: (A. 8.). Ore BRIGADE. Colonel l'slamy, Commanding ; Major Deeds'', Drips'. Major. Ist Battalion.—Colonel Conran. let Hants (Winches ter) (A. D.) ; 31.1 Heats (A. B.) ; 6th Hants (corps) . 2nd Battuli.m. —Major Roque, 19th Surrey ; 11th Sur rey (Bermon.huy.) 3r4 Battalion. —o.lonel Sir H. T. Fletcher, 2nd Surrey (A. D.); 20th Surrey (Norwood). RESERVE. 3rd City of London ; Brighton Cadets ; 11th Tower Hamlets. -- - the preparations at Chislehurst with that result ; but those made at Wimbledon yesterday were suf ficient to make the bad weather there more endu rable than the summer serenity of a former day. Allusion has been made to a gleam of sunshine that for once broke the pouring clouds yesterday, and greeted the }Middlesex brigade ou their arrival. Before they had eaten their dinner the bleak com mon was frowned upon and darkened by a menacing pile of the impending tempest, which might have tilled even the breast clad in a volunteer uniform with dismay. One gallant ensign of our ac quaintance, acting on the approved military principle of same qui pia, did verily get into a cab and drive home to London, where, perhaps, being already wet and chilled, he put himself to bed. But the storm-sliower descended, and the volunteers withstood its rage. An imaginary hostile army was coming up from the south coast, where it had lauded, and it be hoved our volunteer forces to resist its advance along the Portsmouth road towards London, by taking their post across the road, on a ridge or brow of the hill looking south-west down towards Kings ton Bottom, and towards that well-known public house, the Baldfaeed Stag. The place was on the side of the common adjoining Combe Park and Roehampton. This was a very strong position, as afterwards explained by Colonel M'Murdo ; but the enemy was supposed to make an effort presently to turn it, by a right-flank movement of his, which would bring him up, through the hollows or val leys near the practising butts, to the high flat ground marked by a windmill that stands near the Putney and Wimbledon road. This supposed movement obliged the defend ing force to quit its former position, and to take up a second position on the level ground near the windmill, throwing out a line of skirmishers to keep the enemy at bay. All this was done, and the firing was kept up with a good deal of spirit and alacrity ; but the rain made the air very thick, and prevented the smoke from rising, so that the spectators could not always 660 what was going on. Having formed in line in their new position, and discharged several volleys at their foe, the volunteers again formed into batta lions, and the engagement was considered to be over—but, as it seemed, with a doubtful result. The object of these movements, which are here very imperfectly described, may be understood from the speech addressed by Colonel M'Murdo to the volunteers, formed in square to hear him, as soon as they had done. He spoke to them as follows : Volunteers!—To men of undentanding it is not necessary that the movements which you have gone through to-day should be fully explained. I think it only necessary to call your attention to the nature of the two positions which you have taken up. The first position which, you took up was one naturally of very great strength, so much strength, in. deed, that two-thirds of the enemy must have been non• engaged —that is to say, neither his cavalry could have been y effect, nor his artillery of much effect, except by vertical fi le. But it was supposed that the enemy, finding that position too strong for him to take, endeavoured to reach this plateau ot ou th whicp you are standing, b y l t year flsok urnn. Wimbledon. one n e" therefore , ng valles the d o rec u :to o l quit that strong position which you formerly held by chang e hag your front to the left. The enemy bad a double object in doing this. He desired to come upon plain level ground, by which means be could bring both his cavalry and his artillery to bear in the action as well as his infantry. He also desired, by turning your left flank, to reach the WWI- bledon.road, by which he could march through upon London. Now it is say desire to point out to you the di ff erence of the position yea held. It was very different when you were along that rugged crest of the bill where neither cavalry nor artillery could reach you. You checked the enemy thaw—any umber of held MIS could check any enemy there. But hem yea vi no brought upon a billiard table, and net will be brec;lit man to man against, per , hags, the best Weeps Ist boom Now, gentlemen, I oli• served, in your To — rmioir liue - hire, some battalions-1 do not blame them, because they have had very little practice as yet —were a little unsteady in coming into line here. If they were unsteady coming into hoe to-day, what would be the case if this plain was swept by the artillery of the enemy, and then, perhaps, as you were choking with dust, and many of your comrades falling about you, suddenly through the dust the very ground was shaken by the heavy muses of the enemy's cannon charging yon? Now, then, consider how unsteady, how liable to be unsteady, young t would be under such circumstances. And what is it overcomes all this! It is discipline—discipline alone. By the term discipline Ido not mean the checking of bad conduct, I mean that habitual union, that combina tion of mind and body brought to bear upon a certain ob ject, which seta aside all individual action, and makes a company of men, a battalion or a brigade, act like a maclune. Now, this can only be gained by company drill— I repeat, it can only be gained by attention to your corn. wy drill. I colluder a company to be the unit of an army. But where the men of a company are steady and well drilled, the whole army will be steady and well drilled. I therefore say it is of no avail, all that you have learned in the way of shooting ; all your zeal and your patriotism will be of no avail in the day of battle without a thorough know ledge of your company drill. I will harp upon company drill. Nothing but company drill will do ; and therefore I beg of you not to consider that excellence in shooting is everything ; because nothing will do, unless you have perfect stesess of formation under fire. Gentlemen, you have gone through a hard day's work, and your feelers wet. I will not therefore detain you, but let you retire to your homes, which you are well able to protect. Good evening. We have only now to add that the volunteers who had taken part in the manceuvres of the day got back to London either by road or railway, tired and wet, but not perhaps much the worn for what they had gone through. The Queen's (Westminster) Rifles were on the Common, 850 strong, but did not take an active part in the proceedings. WIMBLEDON THE FIELD-DAY ON COMMON. If it is intended by these mimic performances of bloodiest warfare to inure the volunteers to some of the trying experiences of au actual campaign, such weather as they had yesterday fur the iniuneuvres on Wimbledou-common was just the thing. But if the affair was got up for the pleasure of au as sembly of spectators, and to make a London holi day, then it was as great a failure as the rain and the mud could make of it. The former alternative being taken as the correct view of this occasion, it must be acknowledged that the patience and pluck with which the volunteers who went out to Wind)le- Ace endured fur so many hours their exposure to so much that was disagreeable, from the clouds overhead and the ground under their feet, proved their manhood, and their soldiership too, thus far, in a very satisfactory manner. That corner of Hyde-park lying behind the Knightsbridge Barracks never looked wore dreary, since a park it was, than it did at half-past eleven o'clock, when the different Middlesex corps began to meet there, before their march to the scene of action. The sloppy turf, the dripping leafless trees, the leaden sky, that sullenly, with an uni form persistence, kept shedding more water on so many drenched human creatures below, and the general expression of disapproval, not unmixed with a grim derision on their faces and in their talk, as if they considered somebody was taking au undue advantage of the custom of the First of April, and carrying the juke rather too far—these unpleasant aspects of the morning in that place of meeting promised ill for the amusement of the day. But the civilian militia of this metropolis came up like men of business, not for a day's diversion, but for a day's work in the serious exer cise of their patriotic calling, and they had not reckoned with the weather as for an excursion of social caprice. They were quite in the mood to have gone on through conti nuous rain from noon of day till dark of evening, if such was their impending trial,; but a partial miti gation of its expected severity was allowed to re ward their cuurage. For no sooner had they begun to step out, through the Rutland-gate of the park, into the Knightsbridge road, than therein ceased to fall, and during their two hours' march, through Brompton and Fulham and over Putney-bridge, the mud was the only present trouble which accom panied their steps ; and when they got upon the sandy road which leads up hill to the common the sun was shining, and there oven seemed to be some hopes of getting dry. This column of infantry wax escorted by the Mid dlesex Light Horse, about 40 strong, under Lord . Truro's command. It consisted of three baths/Moe. The first battalion, commanded by Major White head, was composed of the Victoria R ifl es, or UT Middlesex, 400 strong, under Captain Clark.son, and the 4th Middlesex, or Harrow corps. The second battalion was commanded by Lord Enfield, and it was made up of several companies of the 29th North Middlesex (St. Pancras), of which he is lieutenant-colonel, under Captain Waller Jones, the adjutant of the corps, while Captain Rosa acted as adjutant to Lord Enfield in his command of the battalion. About 300 of this corps wore on the field. Next came the third battalion, consisting of six companies of the Civil Service Brigade (21st Middlesex), the Artists' Corp4(3Bth Middlesex), 80 or 90 strong, and the 2nd City of London, formed by Messrs. Spottiswoode, the Queen's printers, with one of the vans belonging to her Majesty's Sta tionery Office, as a commissariat waggon, to bring up the rear. This was the order of the march from Hyde-park to Wimbledon-common, by way of Putney-bridge. The Civil Service corps was placed under Captain Ennis, the adjutant, and Captain Du Plat Taylor, since its lieutenant colonel, Lord Bury, was commander-in-chief of the day, and Captain Hawker, who is the senior of this corps, had the command of the whole battalion. Among those who led the Civil Service companies that had mustered at Somerset-house to come out on this occasion were Captain Toni Taylor and Ensign Yates. The Artists' corps, commanded by Captain Wyndham Phillips, was officered also by Captains Leighton and Arthur Lewis, Lieutenant Gale, and Ensign Talfourd. When the three battalions already mentioned got out upon the Common they found there the Surrey Light Horse, under Captain Mellor, and the Ist Admi nistrative Battalion of Surrey Rifles, under Major Jones. These formed part of the Surrey Brigade, which was commanded by Lieut.-Col. M`Donald, , of the Ist Surrey, while Lord Bury himself com a mended the Middlesex Brigade. The other cor p s which arrived soon afterwards, before 2 o'clock, were the 20th Middlesex (or Railway Rifles), com manded by Lieut.-Col. Bigge, with Captain Bowyer as adjutant ; the ith Surrey, under Major Bereaford, in command of a battalion (with Major and Adjutant Jones) ; 12th Surrey, as the second battalion, under Major Corkran, with Captain and Adjutant Sir H. Chamberlayne ; Ist Surrey under Captain Freeman ; Bth Surrey from Carshalton, Titular Captain Hay. Altogether there must have been three or four thousand men on the field, but it was difficult to ascertain the exact strength mustered by each of these corps, which did not send all their companies on this occasion. The staff was composed as follows :—Acting Adjutant- General, Major Nelson, the district inspector of Volunteers ; Acting Assistant-Adjutant-General, Captain Lewis, of the Artists' Corps ; Acting Quar termaster-General, Lieutenant Walliker, of the Civil Service Corps. There was no artillery. All the cavalry on the field was placed under the command of Lord Truro, when Major and Adjutant Smith took the Middlesex Light Horse. This being the list of particular commands, it should now be stated that Colonel M`Murdo, the superintendent-general of the volunteer forces, came to inspect the assem bled corps on this occasion, accompanied by Capt. Williams as his aide-de-camp, and by Lord Sey mour. The general plan of the movements which were exhibited in the afternoon may be shortly described. As a salutary and sensible measure, previous to these martial evolutions, we must commend those by whom the proceedings of the day were directed for commencing with • good dinner. The Cisil Service, and other corps of the same brigade, had provided themselves, by contract, with an excellent repast in • tent reserved for their own use ; Lord Enfield had taken care of the North Middlesex, and the 20th Railway Corps bad brought out with them several carriers' waggons loaded with something to eat. This was better than the starvation inflicted last year on those who fought with their hunger at the battle of Bromley, and who in the small hours of • Sunday morning, having tasted no food sines their breakfast on Saturday, returned in a famish ing state to their homes. Unless it were designed to put theirvalour to the test of intestinal privation, as well as to that of muscular fatigue and exposure to inclement weather, since all these are probable suf ferings to be anticipated as the realities of war, it was not quite justifiallie to manage or mismanage FIELD-DAY AND SHAM FIGHT AT RICHMOND. Notwithstanding the gatherings at Brighton and Wimbledon, a sufficient number of volunteers were found to make a display at Richmond, although the affair, if not so grand as Wimbledon or Brighton, was of a sufficiently imposing character to be worthy of notice. The total number of men under arms at one time was 1,200. The 19th Middlesex. under Col. Bathurst, assembled at an early hour in the morning, and marche d from their head-quarters in Queen-square, Bloomshury, headed by the hand, to the Waterloo station, and proceeded to Richmond by train. Nine companies were present, and during the greater part of the time the men were in the park the rain poured down in torrents, which completely drenched the volunteers. In the midst of a shower of hail the men were exercised in volley and file firing, which was delivered with great precision. The rain having sube-ided, Colonel Bathurst determined that the volunteers should enjoy themselves, and for that purpose a sham tight on a small scale was arranged and took place, after which the volunteers, having re-formed company, marched back to the station, and went home by train. The members of the llith Middlesex (Twickenham) Rifles mustered to the extent of three companies at Twickenham, and under the command of Captain Murray marched to Richmond-park, where they piled arms Having re-formed, they proceeded to Kingston, where they were provided with a dinner, given by Captain Lowe. The effective members of the Central London Rifle Rangers (4f.th Middlesex), mustered, to the number of 200, at Gray's-inn-square, and went to Rich mond-park by train. The men under the command of Colonel Somerset, Captain Walker, Captain Searle, Captain A. Plews, and Captain E. W. Hews, went through liatta lion drill in a very efficient manner. The two bands of the regiment, under the able management of Mr. Sayers, gave great satisfaction. Notwithstanding the very unfavourable state of the weather, the park was thronged with spec tatces. FIELD-DAY AT WANSTEAD. - A grand review and field-day of the 2nd Tower Hamlets Rifles also came off en , Wanstead Flats. The volunteers, to the number of 500, comprising 7 companies, mustered in the Victoria-park, at 12 o'clock, and were under the command of Lieut. •Colonel Walker. Captains Guillinn, Lowe, Byes, Wigram, Bolt, Samude, Gibbs, and Adjutant Lowery, accompanied by the band, under Band. toaster Wade, and the bands of the 4th and sth Poplar Regiments, under Bandmaster Gilligan, they marched through Bow and Stratford to Wanstead Flats, where they were joined by one or two other local corps. FIELD-DAY AT MAIDSTONE. A gathering of the 3rd battalion of Kentish. Volunteers took plum in the Mote-park, Maidstone. This battalion comprised the Ist (Maidstone), 9th (Chatham). 12th (Dartford), 15th (Sutton). 19th (Rochester), 20th (North. fleet), 22nd (Sheerness), and 31st (Leeds Castle), Rent corps, all of which had cordially responded to the invitation to be present, issued by Lieut.-Colonel Scott, the commandin& officer of the battalion ; and as the 39th Kent . corps had also expressed a wish fo take part in th , Nadine, permission was readily accorded. 4 pro•