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London, England, 1865-08-09 00:00:00

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LONDON. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 9.

Wm what intention was the oatep at Alder•
shot first instituted? Until a ample of years be-
fore the Crimean war military maps were prea-

brolly unknown in England. Our troops were first
put under canvas at Chobhms, but the little teach-
ing of practical military life they received there
was found to be of small service to them on the

heights of Sebastopol. When the .rmy returned
to lingiand there was . cry that unless we had
camps of instruction we should never be able to
hold our own with foreign armies. Then
it was that an immense tract of ground

wee partly bought and partly rented,
and on it were erected the huts, stables,

canteens, dub-houses, churches, prisons, and ell
other buildings which oontributo to form the pre-
sent standing camp of Aldershot. By degrees

bansoka were built for a portion of the troop; a

regular town sprang up round the place, and what
was originally intended for a camp of instruction
has become by degrees neither more nor leas than
an immense garrison town, having all the disad-
vantages of country quartets, combined with all
that makes the assembling together of a large

body of troops the reverse of pleasant for either
the men or the officers that °nepenthe force. There
can be no doubt that Aldershot is now much
more a town than a camp, and is perhaps the most
unpopelarquarter in the United Kingdom amongst
all ranks of the service. The reason for this is
that regiments are Aldenhoted nearly to death.
Hardly bee a line corps returned home after tau
or fifteen years' sojourn in the colonies than it is
packed off to the camp, and kept there for perhaps
a year or eighteen months. Surely so long an I
absence from home might give troops the right to
a little rest in quarters where they would be less
harassed. To Aldershot, as a camp of instruction
during the summer months, there could be no ob-
jection. If corps were sent there even in greater
numbers than at present, and practised in the
details of their work so long as the fine weather
lasted, the camp would be an agreeable change.
Bat of what use is it keeping regiment& in
huts during the winter f Of what advantage can
it be to soldiers or officers passing the inclement
season where drills cannot take place, in a locality
the only good of which is that great bodies of men
can be assembled together for manceuvres ? From
October to April a couple of battalions would suf-
fice to keep the camp at Aldershot in order, and
look after the various huts and buildings. AU
the other troops might be allowed to go into win-
ter quarters, and, if needed, could return to camp
when the Sue weather sets in. It is thus at the
French camp of Chalons. The troops are assembled
there every year, but are never kept in camp after
Sdptember, and with the spring of the year the regi-
moats, brigades, and division come back to what is
really a camp of instruction, not a mere garrison
town on a large scale. The singular part of our sys-
tem is, that although our line regiments, of both in-
fantry and cavalry, are kept at Aldershot for a year
or eighteen months—often longer—before they
are considered perfect in drill, it is not so with the
Guards. Those gallant favourites go, it is tree—
each regiment in its torn—into camp every amend
year, but one summer month's sojourn in the land
of huts is deemed quite sufficient to make them
all that they ought to be. There are ignorant
civilians wbo fancy that a campaign in India,
two years of Canadian quarters, or interminable
fighting in New Zealand, might be considered
more of a preparation for perfecting soldiers in
their work then marches from the Tower to Wind-
sor, or from the Regent's-park to Knightsbridge.
If a month at a time is considered enough of
Atdershot to inflict upon the Guards, four or five,
months of that camp, some flippant Philistines
imagine, should mere than =Moe for the cavalry
and infantry of the line. The latter pass the
greater part of their service abroad, whereas the
Fdot Guards never leave England except in emer-
gencies of imperial moment, and neither the Life
Guards nor the Blues have been out of England
since 1816. When our power in India was
all but gone, in 1857, the 78th Highlanders was
one of the corps that followed Havitoca to the
relief of Lucknow ; and all must remember how
they fought there. Of the corps they relieved is I
that garrison, the only one belonging to the
British army was the 32nd. This was barely
eight yens ago. Neither of these regiments re-
turned home until the latter part of 1859 ; and
who will say that their tour of duty in England
was sot well and hardly earned ? Yet both have
now re-embarked for foreign service, GO short is
the time allowed to any line regiment to remain
at home. Nor are these exceptional cases.
From five to six years in Ragland, after
ten to fifteen of Indian or oelonial duty, is rather
above than under the avenge which say corps can
expect, so many are our foreign stations, and so
few the troops with which to garrison them. And
when from these five years is deducted one, one
and a half, and sometimes two, at Aldershot, there
is very little time left either to the anon or to
soldiers to see their families, or recruit by a little
tenure the wear and tear of life caned by bed
etiolates or constant campaigning.
Aldershot--that is, the overdoses of it which ems
adminietaredlo our troops—has gone far therm*
helping to make the army unpopular with the