The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-05-26 00:00:00


TIIE NET lEIV.

This ii. alwaye the—iiien't7e.;;lit, the crown of the
Yeomanry week, for then our visitors demonstrate that
the kill in which they have been engaged him had the
effeet of smartening up the recruits and giving them a
creditable appearance, while fir the older hands, the
bruehing and iurliiohing up, make,, theta feel, after aboloit
a >ear of peaceful avm.ationee that they are again a part
of the reentry'. defeneee. It le true that iii, not ieteusled
to emplo) the Yeomanry against regularly trained ti-let,
men who have been all the lust of their days learning
nothing elan lout the art of war ; lout considering Hutt the
" Yeomanry week- cooneiets only of about five nut working
.lay., it is astonishing how well the exercises are gone
Uitough. As Its., been so often remarked, but apparently
tams' Mel' by the reviewing officer this year, the
Yeomanry Cavalry would be invaluable as guides in the
country whose every road and lane they know so well,
and they would save perhapi IllUrt, than an equal minther
to their own front being .hewn from the etrength of the
regular army to act as that fringe of vedettes without
whelk no anti; is safe from Will perhaps fatal our.
misc. It is giving the Yeemaery the best of placm, thus
to remesulter that they are nut intended in them days to
act en mas, as regular cavalry, and irites will please liear
this in mind, when tempted, as mine are, to itumition the
utility of eno.li a force. l'ertainly, SA a spectacle, the
lis.onianry review is a SII,CAS when it coweo off under
euch circumstanemi on on Tuesday last. The weather
which favour.' the Yeomanry so continuously this year,
did not olimppoint them in the I.loAing 'lay, fur it was one
of the pleasantest we have had sufficiently fine, and yet
not too warm, the being ehadtel by light clouds. The
public of Wry th turned out in holiday deem, the
ladleo in the gayeet of matinees, and again Esplanade and
pavements were thronged, and the windows were filled
with eight seers, vs bile the loalcunies [sore numenem groups
.of fair terms. The 9.0.1*.t'. in their tine punde and white
'forma with nodding eliimea, looked a 'radit to old
Durat, and Weymouth ...need to a-ear her neat pleasant
smut ii, welt- • them. The town hash undergone the
usual painting and deeorating, and the luy bore numerous
beautiful yacht,, on its tohneol lemma. The little children
who paddle all day with loare legs in the shallows had
donned their loom and !mote, and waited, awestruck,
holding the hands of parent or nurse, to see the
eat airy sooliliere. Every carriage was halted short of the
parade grunt, while its occupants looked sn. The band
with their brilliant scarlet uniform, and on their fine
greys, led the march, and. the regiment went off by
*gumtree., to leeliamor. Beth men and horses booked in
first rate order, and %sere the admiration specially of the
swarm* of stealers —young men from the country and
their sweethearte —Who Callic in by road ant rail.
These had not all ef them had the advalitage of seeing
bee ...Mier,s of different service. continually as we in
eymonith hale, and therefore their admiration was
absolute, and their enjo) meet intense. We all know the
neel te l,,sluuiusir list the Ye 0111.21111", well WM111,11104 as
the oldest of them are to it, ttttt st linve noticed the large
increime of bawls-nu I ..CS at the Greenhill end of the
town, and the beautiful gsrdens tautest and lately further
embellished at thereat of Sir Frederic Johnstone. They
are now oseorous with sent from hundreds ef new and old.
filShii 1101 lig.trA, C Cry 'i.e 11111 a, acknowledge the
vast difference bete ..eu the present look of the plaosi and
the obl t bleslown Greened!. With this exception,
everything was much a. in former years; there were the
trim coastguard houses on the green hill at Preston whali
we remember wondering at, loam leifort• we were ei,e, to
walk out .0 far, there suits the lung pebble beach that ijoins
Weymouth at one, and Preeton
atthe other cud, will,
white lemeh Hewers, 'tan mg in a Nolen' there was
the long and wide flat oof leelinoor, ansouth as a carpet,
with turf dry and tine, and there was cosy Soutlelowia,
nettling in its little amid, and only peeping out at the
S.S.E. at Portland strielul and bare. .Ind there was a
like crowd on the road, there went 001 salt.le or similar
carriages dashing furious!y on as if their exieteece
slepenoled on toeing at the e•rounil an hour before reiice
time. At the ground iteell the features were about the
eame, the hong curve of ,eirriages containing the gentry of
the county, the foot visitors, 11111 l RS ever, and the
remit:- pollee, keeping all in order. .tioung the officere of
the regular eerviees were:— Major Wadeeon,l slit. backer,
Capt. Itrelford, and Lieut. Cavanagh, of the Afth Brigade
Depot Centre, stationed at the %Vey-mouth barrels ;
Major Pemberton. Capt. Warren, Lieut. Wynne Finch,
Limit reppys, Lieut. Carey, Lieut. Vere, iusd other uthcera
of the Itheinh Royal Rifles, front Portland ; Major Junes
and ofiieere of the 7th Viet ILA., ay. The carriages
included those of Capt. Sir Rickard Glyn (who we were
'eery to sec with hls anu in acting_ the math of a reeent
aecident), Major Jarrett, Prince of Wales' re-woe:it, Mime*
Jarrett, Cainerton Court, Bath, Mr. Bona (Ifoline) and
laoly selina Bond, Isr., ice. The Dorset County Constab-
ulary, about a wore of them, under Supt. Hare, Sergeant
Maim Searle, and Sergeant Gale, made the arrangenierita
efficiently, and all %vent svell accommodateiL Meet half-
past elm en, the F. Battery, 11. brigade R. ILA., from Dor.-
..he-ter, under the command of Major Mato Elliett, Capt.
Cliarlesettt Lieut. F. hI. Turner, and W. Turner, and &.!.
strong, arrIVOI ou the ground, hat iHg ridden user the hill*,
mei they immediately dispersed around the field, in order
to keep the ground. The excellent fettle of men and
hence was appennit, an.' this saris at created much interest.
It was rather before the appointed hour of noon when
those who a ere in the look-out for the gilt helmet of souse
dragoon Colonel were surprised to find that the reviewing
officer was on the ground, in the Person of Colonel Hale,
itil HU5.114.1.5. The hand immediately struck up, and the
colonel was received with the usual salute of shining
idedes. The gallant officer then reds through the lines,
inepecting everything, his plume nodding with a frequent
jerk, when he observed anything of special note. The lob •
lowing were the .