The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-04-18 00:00:00

THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW.

On Monday the great Volunteer Review wait held M Ports-
mouth, with all the sefer that the most brilliant weaslur,
perfect punctuality, and admiring thousands could usid ti
what was a heautlful and imp. sing display. The Weather
had favourer: the departure of the Volunteers, from
London, and, although the sky was overcall. and few, it
any, stars were visible, the early hours were charactoised
by a perfectly clear atmosphere. Consequently the Volun-
teers' a ere enabled to take their short leave of the
metropolis without the disadvantages attendant on either
Wet or foggy weather, and in such spirits as promieed well
for their eojeyment of the day's proceedings, and the laic-
cesafut issue of the Easter Review of 186.8.
The early mornitg was lull of promise for the success of
the day. By six o'clock the sun was shining over the town
and heehaw of Portsmouth, mid little steamers were on their
way from kyde conveying Volunteer corps and large num-
bers of men, women, and children to witness the natio, at
review. The Portsmouth people were all astir, and crowds
were making for the railway station to an nit the arrivals of
the riflemen from London. After tile first train had arrived,
others quickly followed, and wi fewer than 46 trains arrict
within the short period of two hours and a half. The fir -t
train left London about Met-past 4, and reached Portsmouth
by half.past 7 o'clock. The last of the Metropolitan corps
was landed by lit This was a result which no one had
venture I to hope for, and it proves that hi so important a
pt-hit of our deiences as Portsmouth any number of men tint
could under any eircumstauces he required might be brought
from all parts of Englaed within a very few hours. Tee ren-
ds..ois for the entire force about to take part in the slay's
operations was on that portion • t the alacis of the Ports-
mouth lines extendirg front the Cambridge road to Southse.
common. From the station all the way were direction Pesta
at short Intervals indicating the exact spot on the glacia to
which each corps was to proceed for the purpose of forrniug
and being brigaded, in doitig this 110115 of them hail to
March more than a few hundred yards on the public real.
Almost as Boon as they were out of the shed, or ot the
People's Park, they nose On the I:overt:merit ground, front
which the public was exclu led; and, consequently, they
were able to make all their prodminury arrangements with-
out the slightest confusion.
At 7 o'clock the Ocelot the Hampshire corps entered the
town, marching by High-street and the lieeiil Parade. The
Instant the band was heard the bells of lininerous churches
rang out their peals of weleonm, and peop!e docked from all
quarters to raise a cheer as the trellis approached the guard-
house on the parade. The officer iu command of the
revilers At this post turned out his nO.ll, a7cl rehilered the
military honours of a salute to his Volunteer brothers-hi-
, Arnie. From the Isle of Wisht and other places in the
I eighto urhomi ether corps followed in rapid succession for
fully two holm, dining whieh the guard on the Parade was
&Inn st constantly presenting are),. This compliment, which
the Volunteers appeared to appreciate in the right spirit,
was paid to every body of riflemen that passed. Soon after
tithe o'clock those no tropolitan c•ops who were in the lot
and 2nd ll.visions. set out for Portsdown-hill, a mar--la cf
about eix miles. They were headed by the lion. Artillery
Eonipatiy. Tne London livottish, the London Irish, the
. Vi, tortes, /111.1 some others of the crack metropolitan corps
were in this march, arid a vast concoutss of people accoin-
: puled Olen,
Piecicely at 10 o'clock a gun was fired as the signal for the
general tiny of the troops to brigade on the glade and pre-
pare for the niarch vast. Such of the dispersed
tor refreshment were hack In their lilies by this time, out
immediate atts ntiou was given to the signal The arrange-
nients on the Ccmnion itself were admirable. The portion
ma, isionally used as a racecourse was railed off for the
troupe. Outside the rails, on tither side, were Imes of spec-
I *Mora. Halt-way between the point of entry from the elm is
awl that of exit, at the opening of Ported...road. was the
• solobeg voint, ith ample stands to the riuht end left, to
, 1 010 o and gentlemen wan adnist.eal sou 'mime:it Or a
ti leral ly high tariff of chaise., grading hg aceordirg to
pr sition. They were well MIA by a company which in-
, eluded very many naval tinkers in uniform, who, with great
heartiness, cheered the VAiinteers as they csme by. To the
resr of the sat ting pl ice and the Mali& was Spithead, the
, Isle of Wight looking raali.t fiirtht r off, ling a grand ex-
' pease of seats the south. On the other side of the cons
the flags of the Civil Service, the Damon xittish, the Lo
don Ir.sli, and sever d other of the metrop• litah oaths fl..ate I
I fr.ou the tops of the hotels and private residences Menai toe
water. awl every window commanding the C-Inmon was
crowded with ladies, who joined in greeting the Volunteers
as they arrived on the ground. After the usual amount of
f ant as gslloping here and there awl everywhere by S' elf
rfficen &hit orderlies, all of whom ecemed to be charged with
I Dlntange; of life aid death important e, sonic hab.d. geo
. I bands stationed tltrn:selcnsili,c sibe. to the saluting tot,
! anti immediately afterwards Gene, of Sr if..orge ii liter, Pie
commanding officer of the day, arrived at the liagadaff the-
' rounded Iry a brilliant staff, nail we regret t, at nOr
tunttnii
' space precludes us from giving their names en I titles.

Mr. K-boots, the solicitor who has undertaken to conduct
the defence of ANN JUSTICE, the woman implicated is the
Clerkenstell outrage, has written to the sLcret try of State
for the Home Department, selling forth that ANN JUsTicE
has neither money nor friends, and that she will be 111111.110 to
defend herself properly at tier approachieg till unlew the
Treasury feels it right to afford her 80/110 pecuniary oil
Mr. It merts deprecates the usual appointment by the judge
of the junior counsel present in court on thf day of trial to
defend an undefended prisoner. lie says that the nature
of such eleemosynaty defence. in Invariably a it ohy speech,
followed by an holism-eat croseekendiation, tiDtt DID
a woman in ANN JUSTICE'S position counsel of weight,
courage, slid influence, as well as of learning and ex.
petimice, are absolutely reoestary. Men who can he
easily put dint:. or led away, or frightened, or who have mit
&large experience of criminal courts, are not only unequal
to such • task, but, notwithstaning their zi al an I tale r, are
certain to do more harm than good. ANN Jusnot: is a
woman, weak, In ill-health, married, and entailed by her
hail and, and in a terrible et. alt. All the money she can
command amounts to hut a few shillings—not quite ebongh
to pay for a copy of the indietneet witittst her. Wenst
awaiting her trial in prison her poverty has compelled her to
be content with the prison dietary, but of that she does not
complain : she only asks, through her solicitor, to be all 'wed
the means of defentlieg her Me and Welty against the • it hal been decided that in the sham Il.ht the enemy
grave charge Impending over her. No ieply has as Jet been should he represented by the First and Second th01e..., and
returned to Mr. Roberts's letter. the defence be maintained by the Third tool Fourth
DiVhionS but a departure was subsequently made from this
At the vestry held this week at the church of St. Clement's, plan, so for as to place the regular troops in the army of
Cambridge, where advAlced ritual prevails the following re- defence. Jest before the march past was commenced the
solution on the motion of Mr. Churchwarden Nicholls was cavalry were drawn no on the tight if the guns, and at
unanimously passed f---`• That this meethig of parishioners eleven o'clock the order was given to advance. First came
of St. Clement's, in vestry assembled, do steel gly protest I the cavalry, entirely composed of Volunteers, and consistieg
azainst the high ritualism arid Roman Catholic doctrines as of the Bucks Light Horse. In their gray uniforms, routel
practised al it preached in their parish church, lielievirg bats, aol twisted feathers, they looked remarkably well, and
them to be utterly subversive of the Reermed religion of they had not an itolifferent horse amoi g them. They Wd
Is
re
ow Protestant Church and such innovations having beet, followed by the Taplow Cavalry, lowers whom it
for,ed upon the parishioners by their vicar in direct . not easy to distinguish from the Lweeta if the regular
antagonism to their wishes, this meetitig pledges itsell to army. Immediately after the Volunteer Cavalry, come
resist by every means in their posse the continuities/Of such • field battery of the Ktiyal Artillery, and next
practices." two battalions of the Marine Artillery, numbering
• over 1,000, and after them a Pontoon Train. The
flifie bearing of the Artillery of the British service Is
WHAT
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WHAT CAME OF A PHOTOGRAPH! verbial The Marine Artillery are less known to the public
at large, NIA 'het efore their appearances was a novelty to the
A friend, who known whereof he speaks (rays an zasetfitlgie Ittraireeers,: ranzne‘iivlettoovfletlit,:twort.,enrl oAtf,heer
Illinois paper) gives us the particulars ;if a little bit IA in the march paSt or the matoeuvres DO mints showed to
romance, the actors of which are residents of thin greater advantage. The marching of the 35th and Path
country. Less than two years since there arrived in Regimetits was al, capital, and the men were lonitly
the eastern part of the country, from Switzerland, a cheered. Of the Volueteers, some corps dietingehhed
young man of goodly appearance and fair educational themaelves even in the t ye; of th military officers present
but in more than one initance tile marchnig was pohitively
acrlirenients. SO well pleased Was he with his neW
bad, and the awkward attempts at dressing.up as the saluting
home, that he moon reported to his friends &ernes the point wen approwheil were anything but creditable. The
water the many advantages that an homed., industrious spectators at Portmointh were not so demonstrative as those
immigrant found here. A young lady in Switzerland, ! at either Brighton or River, list they were more critical,
an entire stranger to him, learning from a lady friend , and when a corps did not acquit Knelt to their satisfaction
y Dile and by DO means complimentary observe-
of his haplty sitnation in America, wrote to him,
cva'nrieafur.oim the stautlii. The number of Volunteers on
through friends, that she would like to visit his the field at Portsdown, when all were collected, was about
adopted home, and along with the letter the forwarth•d ‘28,011). of tiles, 16.04.0 defilel on Southsea-eommon and
her photograph. He was pleased with the picture. neither at Brighton nor at Dover was toe mabdiltie.past
The features s, " 10,1, upon, and the letter Drollnii comparable in piettlieDille effect to that of Southsea-
indicated a well.ri.,„ • ind, no he sent her his
All the troops were in their places by half.past one, and
photograph. l'hus commenced a correspondence that „ _e_
r a ly difficult to imagine a more beautiful scene than
in a few months attracted her acrotmi the wean to meet I the great areas for the contort then presented. The scene
the man she had learned to love, though she had never of action was a broad open valley, formed ..n 011 e Ode by the
seen. With a friend she arrived the last of October at Ililsei listen of Port.month falafel, JUDI OD the other by the
Tuscola. Douglas county, where her unknown hirer I amphitheatre of high *loping hills on which the Portadown
met her an she alighted from the cars—inquiring, like , defences have recently been built. Between the Bilsca lines
I n.l the attacking force lay the creek commutl ica with
one of old, if idle Were his Catherine—and there he first :he waters tif the harbour beyond, and up the centtingre of the
saw her and tiret kissed her as his affianced. Within en, nw's position on Portadown.hil ran in a wide white dusty
twit days the couple, thus strangely and romantically zigzag the old London road. Between the two armies, at
brought together, were married, and on the way back the bottom of the valley, lay the pretty little villages of
to the reeidence of the young man's employer in Oil cost.m awl wYnterhig These were the Ilidignmont and
county, where they have since lived, both fitting La Hoye Sainte of the !wetlya, the very key. of their wit ;le
0311.1011. the loss of whoch wtt to be the signal tor the lITO
acceptable service fOr one of our enterprising farmers, P
trievable rout and ruin of the assailants. Up near Wynter-
and both seemingly as happy as if there had been a mg, at a place called Paulsgrove, the harbour was wirer and
five years' courtship. I deeper, and here the II Ogee gartilloll hOlt the assistance of
, their gunboats In annoying, and, as it proved, overwhelm'
mug the enemy's right. None who saw the position (remarks
the correspondent of The Times from whose account we
have condensed this sketch with the sea on one aide, the
villages M the valley, and the steep dusty road, winding tin
the centre of the Portsdowohills, could fail to be shunt
with the marvellous resemblance of the whole seene to Alma
eeeded but to have lighted up the villeves of Cosham aud
Wymerlog. as Alma and Burliuk were lighted. to have made
the resemblance complete. This extreme pictorial necessity
was, however, dispensed with.
In theory the plan of the battle was very pretty, but rather
of an impossible and minillitary kind. The enemy—that is
to say, the lot end 2iiit Divisions—were sllpposed to have
advanced from rareDloll, to have taken the three great forte
on Portatiown-bill, Anil to have made the DreA defeeces of
Widlry and Soothwick the base of their operations against
the main i iiii er lines beyOlilt the creek at Billies. The theory
of the dormice was that the yri and Ch DIVIIIIIIIIII Welli the
410frIDIDDB Of the lines, aided by held batteries a powerful
brigade of the Royal Marine Artillery. and the 97th and 35th
Regiments. These were to repulse the attack on the lines,
and, under ever of their OD .1 artillery and the fire trim the
gunboats, make a sortie wrist bridges over the creek and
pontoon bridge., carry the villages of ('chasm Stunl W)merifig,
awl BO forcing the position tip the lon.lon.road mitirely turn
the enemy'. right and drive hint back over the l'ortadown-
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THE MARCH PAST ON SOCTINEA COMMON.