The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-03-01 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1873.

REVIEW OR NO REVIEW.

mace are days of extended suffrage and free-
dom of vodug, out tile Volunteers, who have
shown sa laueu patriotism aud seif-uemal, do
not iu tatir eapaeity as volunteers enjoy these
privileges, or we may be pretty sure thst it
would never oa.t eeen decided, as it has beed,
that the Laater Muuday review should not take
place this year. weli-atiended meeting of
metrupoiitan commanding officers Wita held a
short tune ago, uuaer toe presidency of Lord
Bien°, tu eonsader tile propriety of holding tuts
annual review. Muva depended on the terms
of the various railway companies serving the
dietricis winen were contempiated as tieing the
possible locality of the review. tile brigutun,
the Soutth-Lmitern, tire auuttr-Westeru, and the
-London, tahatnana, anti Dover Companies sent
in their Lerma tar tile conveyance of the volun•
teens to locantiee indicated. /hese terms were
found ea be rawer nign, and a resolution was
ultimately passed, tuat owing to the great in-
crease in toe rates proposed and the atbaence of
any expression of opinion of the Secretary of
State fur t or, in answer to 4 tetter dent to Lida
on benalf ul the metropolitan commanding
officers, it was not desirable to hold a field-day
On h.aster dionday. There was an effort to
carry an amendment, but it failed.
This result, whatever may be the effect of
andeavoura uuw being mute, is much to be
deplored. e cannot regard this decision, so
important in its bearings on the Volunteer
service, as having been fairly arrived at, and
Consider that it ought Hutto be regarded as con-
clusive. 'this metruporitan counntuiding officers
are worthy of all respect, but, even supposing
that all the Volunteer officers in the metropolis
attended—whit:di was very far from the fact—
they cannot be fairly regarded as an adequate
repreaentative hotly. ot only should the
Yuiunteer officers oi provincial regiments have
the right to he present at any such meeting, but
the Voiuuteers tueuiseives, tee rauk and the of
our citizen soldiers, should be fairly represented.
But 11 we, for the sake of argument, admit that
tins comparatively speaking hole-and-corner
meetiug aas atter/tied oy a Imlay representative
bony, tun decision was Alacrity arrived at, and
°abut to be reconsidered. Inn directors of the
four imea 4..thied to ought to have been
5U..,0 .001 algutiaLta WALL, it seems that the
rinea qudtea oy cue data:tufa of tuese companies
were pres-entaiy agreteu upon, wad were intended
to apply gtata.: en so Itle paced wawa: it Was pro-
bau.e rutstolu Witt Lou re View unant be acid.
uialaee Was 14 pat eactitown and route on
the rid.Jd equitame tooting in regard to rates of
cola.) mice, au wait oue place suould not have
spetalti at/Vauta4e as to the emance of scree-
tiou. dim Vet'j Ltu, ro,at CO Coositiecates spirit
on tile pact ul tuese euuJiwties Woo teUS SlioWn
leads to to: CuO011,31,“ t.it ttuy of these end,
pOOICS, ur uoLita have endeavoured
tu li4ii. al‘. L. 40 lit Ul toe V olikuteer officers,
had ihtene VIOWs ncull stated, instead of this im-
petuous liuni,UlL tlit, awsed at. Nor can we
ire ii Lalaotii.. la.:. kJ!' :LJaCLUellt an adequate
L.:W..111A hot to have a livid-US). It
appear, tun t•b, 6ecrecarj of State fur Nv or was
known L 4 be laVULlfdlna Lu tao retries/ taking
lie has previeusly given his aid and
sALletlial, o.ro tlie Would not be wanting this
year. Inc Laninuander-iu-Unief had also pro-
ruiatti Ms support tiod co-operation. There is
L a await emit too Vmuuteur officers of the
country gen,adny v.'ore add still are favuurable
ta holateg Ulu tetieW. The authorities and in-
hiaLiiiitut of Oat various localities contemplated
as Ine s,te of toe review were and tall are ready
to ae,:erd a hearty welcome to our citizen
suiffier3, anl iimthy our Volunteers themselves
were and still are dearrous of having their annual
field-day. The question now is whether the
Valanteers will couseut to be thus snubbed by a
fev officers, wuo cannot be regarded as a fairly
reer:saut :lave imay,and who were liver deputed
by our Vomateerito (lucid.) taia tuattar fur them.
tie laaLL-r no-n stands, this decision or quasi
dee,s.uu he given ;peat dissatisfaction, and we
contilently look forward to such an expresaiou
of f Log the j I. of the men Lt 3 will reaalt
either in the annual field-day taking place, or in
several I'i:dependant and ha:dated reviews. The
hr ter wouia ue better thou a tame acquiescence
fa this uufortuuate resolution ; but it would be a
sorry suesd,ate for the annual Easter Monday
t•day. t:•atsia. iabla It•aut has already been
done I attic \ at,er movement by tills decision;
tylt i.. time to reN vrse it, and we hope
We Ventlift) to insist Upon
ja I mar army is nut in such a state
of enthiadaatie p..tli..tisat that the authorities
eau • , or it Wet blanket
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tvit or citiz,u soldiers will
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th,„y alrea,ly of,,L

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