The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-08 00:00:00

A FOREIGNER ON THE BUSHEY PARK

REVIEW.
The following excellent description, purporting
to be from a Pruseian officer, of the troops reviewed i
at Bushey appeared in the Uttertvr of last Sunday
On the mouton of this, which is my nrrt vl,lt to Mg- I
bind, it bee been my egremble fortune to ba the spectator
of a restow of your Pittard Carps, sue. If it might 1,, p +Mooed
tome that I may err sr methlng in eternities ruyonli in the
English tongee, I Omid be pleased to have the opportunity ,
of making a few common's upon It In the columns of your ,
worthy newspaper. The artillery prassut on the ground at
the park of Bushey struck me wl'h deco admiration, epectedly
respecting the unarm. tu which the detachment and gong were
honed In our se ride, we rather elect tbst we msy send the
, beat of ottr hors,' Into the cavalry, and permit that the
artillery contents Prelf With More Lfertor admit ; but
you, on the tiontrary, as lt has been Riven to me to understand,
send unto the artlller? firot 021.• hortes, with a reault that
nothing could surpass the eISEO tee amearauce of this
branch of the service. I; seems to me ales that more care-
ful training must be c Jutributed to the drill and 111,
clawing of y artillery than to the other mounted
Mauch... In the passing of the salutlng point at a col-
looted gallop the artillery were as accurate in dressing an
Interval no they had been while at aTo Apace. Then ton
have definitely, as It seems accepted the mcatle-loader
field gun. I think that you are In error, as It
may happen that you should acknowledge upon se,
Mg • field bat'ery armed with saws on Kropp's
principle of the cylludrical-prismatictl stogie wedge, which
is yet superior unto the cpustruction now In use in the
North German artillery. It appeared unto me, neverthe-
less, that you have failed in the 0 II toqUlery (1 moan
not now the horse artillery to no gazen the v.lOOOl having
a gun stroilly mad retottly =shoed. You ride one man, the
under officer upon a hone ; you mount Gans gunners upon
the limber and the rest of the crew are upon the tumbril.
But, as I have seen not few tlmea In our Into war, • gun has
to go very quick solo advanced positions where cannot follow
the tumbril, whereby toe contingent upon It mounted lane
to ran and pant after the gun to bnog it tff ...Malty into
action nearer the front: but if you were to utilfis the gun
bones by mounting two additioml men thereupon, your gun
would then carry a crew of five gunners, who, with the
mounted under officsr, would make a detachment strong
enough to work the gun With eflictsmcy.
"Your Humans, may I beg to reneartl are too light.
Hone and mina together, in seems almost sail I might blow
away ; there in neither weight for Impetus In attack Be? :
solidity for manning impact. And yet I read in your
manuals that these slight Ilttle men ride as heavy SI I ride,
20 stone—sa the Dragoms of larger Mr-. It Is not, might I
pray pool the ilrlog, but the dead weight which Celle By
me It is sot to be comprehended that a small man of less than
12 Hone weight should be acc,inpanied on the beck of
a horse by a dead weight of gel cob and accoutrement not
short of eight stone more. lithe wrirediwrits were font