The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-28 00:00:00

TO °INTRA/ GARIBALDL

We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the town of
Southampton in cooped assembled, avail ourselves
of the opportunity afforded by your visit to England,
to give expression to the feeling of profound
respect we entertain for your public and pri-
vate character, and our high appreciation of the
services you have rendered to the cause of your country's
liberty and independence. We desire also to offer von a
hearty welcome on y our anival in this country, sod to as.
sure you that we feel it a distinguished honour to be the
first community to receive you on the shores of Britain.
The fame of your great and heroic deeds has already pre-
ceded you. The name of Garibaldi is esteemed and ho-
noured in the homes of England, and your disinterested
patriotism has long been the theme of universal admiration.
Permit us then to tender you oar cordial and sincere con-
uriaulatioss on the occasion of your landing at our port.
We may undertake to lay that nowhere is her Majesty's
dominions are your noble exertions in the cause of human
freedom more highly valued than they are
among the people of Southampton. Having learned
that your chief object is visiting Eagles,' is the improve-
ment of your impaired health, we sincerely trust that in the
midst of sympathisiog friends you will soon be restored to
empiete convaluessos, and that under the protection of
*at Divine Power who has preserved you through so many
dangers and vicissitudes, your valuaWe life will keg be
spared, to aid in the promotion of the great end to which
it has hitherto been devoted.

Giyaii midst oar comma seal this 26th day of March,
A.D. 1864. Gr.o. B. Baurros, Mayor.

During General Garibaldi's short slay at Southampton,
previous to his going to take up Lis shale in the Isle ot
Wight, he will be the guest of our 'hid magistrate.

THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW.

(fox oux owN =roam.)
GIIELDFOILD, SUNDAY.

In the matter of the great volunteer review and
field-day of Easter Monday, 1864, the interest of
the event concentrates itself entirely in the ancient
town of Guildford, to which every one who can
afford to "take time by the forelock" makes his
way, making sure that thus be has the best chance
of a comfortable bivouac, with ample resources for
furnishing the commissariat, a point in military
strategy which no great commander, from Julius
Ciesar to Arthur Duke of Wellington, has ever
neglected. The South Eastern Railway Company,
mindful that thee' was the longest route to the
' immediate scene of action, had thrown all their
energies on making Guildford as accessible as pos-
sible. Gliildford, or rather Chilworth, is much
nearerto Earley-heath than the corresponding station
on the South Western line and therefore the visi-
tor or volunteer who on thei previous day had suc-
I evaded in quartering himself at Guildford, had, in
military parlance, secured "the key of the position."
And Golldferd itself showed by the " evolutions
of its inligrepl consciousness" that it was aware of
the momentary greatness which had been thrust
upon it, and wits determined to make itself equal to
the great occasion. Every shop displayed in its
window during the whole of the past week a placard
touching the review, and declaring that the said
shop would be closed against all comers on the
eventful Easter Monday. Every strip of available
bunting that could be obtained had been pressed
into the service of window decoration, and on'
Saturday afternoon, spite of the cold and drizzling
rain, heroic efforts were being made to deck alike
the quaint old gables of former times, and the
intermixed smart new shop fronts of the pre-
sent day with the national and volunteer and emble-
matic colours. Guildford joyfully and hospitably
threw open her ancient gates to the volunteer army,
and would also have raised her portcullis' and let
down her drawbridge only that both had been long
since removed to make room for the South Eastern
Railway station. The Mayor of Guildford had
heavy responsibilities thrown upon him. Almost
every volunteer corps which had ever been at
Brighton, and the members of which remembered
the attentions of the innkeepers of that fashionable
watering place, had with a wise prevision sent in
requisitions beforehand, including curious inquiries
as to whether a sixpenny bottle of bitter ale was
really to cost sixpence, or whether, as on former
occasions and in other places, the tariff was to be
raised to half-a-crown. The worthy mayor was
thus placed between two fires—the volunteers, who
wished to do their work as cheaply as possible, and
the local traders, who were of opinion that liberality
of expenditure would consort more with the dignity
of a volunteer army ; but, happily, Ins worship ulti-
mately succeeded in reconciling conflicting interests,
and pleasing all the coming regiments except one me-
tropolitan corps from the neighbourhood of Batter-
sea, whose edtintatum was that its members would
" not pay more than 2s. for a bed for two, that is
one shilling each." The writer, iu a terrific post-
script, further informed the worthy mayor that, "if
you Guildford people charge us so strongly, the
volunteers won't visit you again, but cut you like
Brighton." The general body of he invading army
were, however, satisfied with the tariff of prices
published, and, consequently, the volunteers, both
officers and men, began to pour into the ancient
burgh, which was once the personal property of
King Alfred, early on Saturday afternoon. The
inns were soon all crammed to bursting, and as'
they were ad alike. the condition of the aneisstl
hostelry of " The Angel," which stands at
about the centre of the High-street, may, like
Sterue's starling,be taken as fairly representing tile
condition of all the rest. Here almost every sitting-
room had to be turned iuto a bedroom, and every
bedroom into two or three bedrooms, whilst the
family and household staff had all to content them-
selves with the accommodation of the great hall,
during a rather breezy night at the latter end
of March, the said hall being provided with
all those innumerable chinks and crevices,
by means of which our ancestors secured such •
thorough circulation of fresh air in their pic-
turesque but not over comfortable dwellings. For
" The Angel," it appease, was a baronial castle in
the troublous times of King Stephen, and certainly
looks as if it had been contrived by the then pro-
prietor with a view of giving him every facility for
dodging the sheriff's officers of the period—long
galleries admirably adapted for a race, unexpected
chambers exactly suited for concealment, and such
a pleasing irregularity of ground plan as to make
it almost the study of a life for even • resident to
be certain as to the exact corner in which his
chamber was situated. " The Angel" had many
warlike visitors to its shrine on Saturday and to-
day. Wassail was uninterruptedly held in the great
hall, and knights clad not in plate or chain armour,
hut in smart volunteer uniforms, thronged round the
buttery hatch. Mead was not served out by the
sniliug'hostess,but excellent wine, whiskey, and malt
liquors of a more beneficially tonic character than
the ancient beverage. There was venison, although
not in pasties, and brawn and " Brave sirloin,"
and to eat them excellent appetites on the part of
visitors. There was glistening of sabres in corners,
apparitions of " busbys," and shakoes, and helmets,
on every available table, and military cloaks hung
up on every available peg, whilst the champing and
tramping of the war horse oould.be heard from the
stables without. The High-street over which "The
Angel" smiled beneficently, inviting "each
weary traveller whocould pay," within its portals,
was equally alive with the accessories and pre-
monitory symptoms of the great event which was
so soon to come off. Groups of volunteer officers
flitted past on voyages of discovery for quarters ;
volunteer men, but with humbler aspirations, on
similar missions ; and now and then the heavy
tramp of a whole corps would cause every one to
run to the window, to see the wise soldiers who
had deterniined to be on the battle-field betimes.
Another accustomed feature of the volunteer
pageant was not wanting. As the Derby racecourse
has its pertinacious and constable-defying "dog,"
and the University boat race its obstructive
" billyboy," so would the preparations for a volun-
teer field-day be incomplete without its dreadful
Gernisui.band, which obtrudes itself, as unwelcome as
its compatriots in Denmark, and racks the ears with
Teutonic imitations of "Rule Britannia." One of
these public nuisances followed the advancing bat-
talions into the High-street, and played there as
pertinaciously all Saturday evening as if the con-
ductor thought that Mr. Babbage himself was
staying at the Angel. There was only one thing
to stop them, and that was the rumble up of the
"dread artillery"—the twenty-four pounders of
the London Train Bands, admirably appointed,
served, and mounted, and which very soon suc-
ceeded in putting to the rout the purveyors of dis-
cord. I believe that this fine troop was horsed in
town, bat not so the other volunteer guns, twenty-
four in number, and all eighteen and twenty-four
pounders, for most of which the West Surrey
farmers had in the most liberal and patriotic man-
ner offered their fine teams of cart hones. One
artillery corps, the 3rd Middlesex (Lord Truro's
corps) was in this way provided with no less than
fifty-air great horses, thus saving the
an expense of nearly one hundred pouTiss.
Another corps, which is fortunate in pos-
sessing Mr. Baxendale as an honorary teem-
bee, was horsed from " Pickford's," so that the
whole park of artillery would be horsed with little
or no expense to the respective corps. Besides the
teams—l trust the Duke of Marlborough will find
the definition correct—the brave West Surrey far-
mers also sent the teamsters, and the primitive-
looking country youth had to undergo an exciting

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ordeal on being fitted with busbies and uniforms
for the review. One indefatigable adjutant had
brought dewn whole hampers of the necessary
" fixings?" and devoted a whole evening in fitting
and equipping his rustic acolytes. As a general
rule, the London busby was too large for the Surrey
cranium, and many sudden eclipses of grinning
countenances were the consequence. Then the
tunics would be too wide at the shoulders and too
tight at the waist, but at last a very fine and re-
spectable corps of drivers was extemporiaed, and
the recruits finished the ceremonial of their first
appearance in uniform by quaffing copious libations
beer. LateonSaturdayeveningaheavytraindrawn
by three engines lumbered up to the station con-
taining the Brighton town artillery, a splendid
corps, composed principally of the assistants of one
great drapery establishment, and maintained chiefly
A the expense of its principals, the Messrs. Herring-
toe. An admirable instance of the sterling patn-
otiam of our great commercial magnates, and the
Value of the volunteer movement in utilising every
element of the national strength, and offering in-
ducements for manly and athletic exercises to a fine
body of young men whose usual occupations are by
no means contributory to physical development.
Next to the successive arrivals of troops the most
exciting topic of the evening in Guildford is tho
weather. There is, generally speaking, an affinity be-
tween the rain and a review, and we seldom find
one announced without soon after seeing and feeling
on the part of the other symptoms of an inclination
to assist at the spectacle. The weather during
the past week was beautiful, but on Saturday
afternoon the clouds darkened and the rain
fell, and the High-street of Guildford be-
came pervaded with umbrellas. This morn-
ing was again cloudy, and soon afterwards the
bail rattled against the windows, but later in the
day the blue sky made its appearance, and hopes
began to rise as to a brilliant and sunny Easter
Monday. For be it remembered, that Farley
Heath is not an inviting locality, even to the most
enthusiastic volunteer. The " Sbanklin" sand
forms the superstratum, dotted with a plentiful
supply of holes and cracks, in which the water eau
collect, and of that element the rainfall of the
adjacent bills would ensure a plentiful supply.
There is a good deal of difference of opinion as to
the fitness of the Champ de Mars amongst volun-
teers, and as a general rule the officers who came
down on Saturday give the preference to Brighton,
and remember, regretfully, even the bitter beer at
half-a-crown a bottle. Guildford, albeit a town
dating from the time of King Alfred, is not parti-
cularly rich in resources for the casual visi-
tor who finds himself dropped down into
it in wet weather. The antiquarian could
go and search for the apocryphal Roman
encampment in the neighbourhood, and the archie-
ologist might pore over the monumental brasses in
the fine old Norman church, but the smart volun-
teer officer remembers the conquests his gay uniform
made during former promenades on the Steyne, and
the many amusements that wiled away the time at
the most fashionable of English watering places.
But the fat veterans who have painful recollections 1
of the ascent of Brighton Downs are for Guildford
to a man, and quite enjoy the preliminary repose
and tranquillity of the ancient capital of West
Surrey. They listen to the local narrations of the
obduracy of the stern Lord Lovaine, who
would have held Farley Heath against the whole
volunteer army, and their comfortable faces
glow with pleasure as they have minutely de-
tailed to them the more patriotic conduct of the
energetic peer of Grantley, who had worked so
loyally for the review as to earn for himself a
special vote of thanks from the corporation of Guild-
ford. Local gossips were never tired of narrating
how his lordship had made Taugley-lane as clear as a
Roman road, how he bad cleared away the obstruc-
tion of Peasmarcb, and bow judiciously he had
planted the refreshment booths, out of the line of
fire, but still comfortably within the reach of appe-
tite ;—how he had nailed down the temporary
commissaries to a fixed tariff of prices, and bound
them to a bountiful supply of provisions, under
penalties almost as stringent as those with which
General Pictou brought the commissaries of the
Peninsula to order. The stout volunteers listened
blandly to thews interesting details, applauded Lord
Grantley, smoked a contemplative cigar, and gave
• mental vote against Brighton-downs for evermore.

The Beath itself, henceforward to be a " house-
hold word" with volunteers, has its pilgrims on
this the eve of the great day, but the detailed
description of its features will crop up snore
naturally when describing the actual evolutions.
There can be no doubt about its being that parti-
cular locality which worthy Fuller had in view
when Le said—" The county of Surrey is nut un-
properly compared to a cyuamon tree, whose bark
is better than the body thereof. For the skirts
and borders bounding this shire are rich and fruit-
ful, whilst the ground in the uueven parts thereof
(including of course Faruley heath) is very hungry
and barren." And hungry and barren indeed it
looks, and most uninviting should the day turn out
wet ; but hungry at least it will not be if the local
purveyors be allowed to Lave their way, for if per-
mitted they would so stud the ground with re:resh-
meut booths that there would be little room for
any evolutions beyond those which are commonly
performed with a knife and fork. But Lord
Grautley bas been amongst them, has ruthlessly
ordered obstructive erections to be pulled down,
and has directed their reestablishment in snore
suitable situations. With respect to the probable
attendance of Volunteers, the local calculation,
according to the West Surrey Times, which contains
the fullest and most reliable information respecting
the review that can be put together, isthatthere will
be about 17,000 men on the ground, including 4,300
of Hanta and Sussex regiments. I doubt, however, if
the muster will be by any means so numerous. If
Monday morning should turn out wet, numbers of
the Londoners will be missing from early muster,
and perhaps some notion of this sort influenced the
War-office estimate of Friday last, which I know did
not exceed 8,000 or 9,000. Cavalry is promised from
Aldershot, probably a Lancer regiment, and some
9,000 or 10,000 men, and those the best, who were
not lazy and did not fear the rain, will make a
goodly show from " Roastmeat-h ill," upon which the
grand stand is placed in a position to command the
whole of the evolutions. Voluminous details of the
movements will be furnished to the commandants
of the various corps, but, who has ever known the
actual evolutions of a field-day strictly follow its
programme ? and the whole affair is expected to
be over about 4 o'clock. The central idea of the whole
affair is to be that one-half of the Volunteers are
to be so placed as to form an army of defence ; and
the modern Cassivelannus who leads them is to keep
his men to their arms as stoutly as if be imagined
Omar and his legions were once again about to
cross the Thames. The other army is to pour down
upon them from the hills, and is then to attempt to
take them in flank ; and the defenders will quickly
change front according to the most approved rules
of the drill book ; aud,.after a furious but harmless
exchange of blank cartridge, and a series of ter-
rible-looking but bloodless bayonet charges, the
conquerors and the conquered will amicably fall in,
and afford the spectators the great treat of the day,
namely, a " march past " by columns of companies
in front of the grand stand.

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