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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL S.

Tim pleasantest fact connected with the Brighton
Review, which has now beoome a regular Baster
institution, is, to the onlookers at least, the fact
that it is a regular institution. It has survived all
ridicule, overcome all inclemency of the season,
vanquished all red-tape difficulties, and even stir-
. . .

mounted the weariness born of monotonous sucoees

There are Volunteers still in the ranks who have

every year made the same journey to Brighton
Downs, and who can remember the vehement oppo-
sition with which the proposal warn first received.
The authorities turned a cold shoulder to it, be-

cave it was suggested by Lord RANELAGH ; the
farmers were said to be fmious, because of the

damage to be done to their crops ; and an infinential
contemporary bestowed several leaders on the effort
to show that it was dangerous, revolutionary, and
certain to produce serious colds in the head. Gra-
dually, however, these obstacles disappeared before
experience. Our greatest soldier then living,
Lord CLYDE, was glad, with his India laurels
on his brow, to encourage our citizen soldiery
by his presence and approval ; the railway
proved its capacity to carry 20,000 troops and twice
the number of spectators without accident and
without unreasonable delay ; and the constitutions
of the Volunteers proved themselves strong enough
to resist the debilitating influences of March east
winds or April showers. The natural consequence
of undeniable success followed : opponents became
converted to applauders, and the review is now
firmly established as the great show-day of the
Volunteer force, and the chief spectacle of interest
of the Easter holiday-seekers beyond the walls of
London. At length it is crowned even with Royal
sanction, and yesterday the future Sovereign
and Queen of England passed in review these
twenty thousand of their future subjects, who,
examples of a hundred thousand more, like beet to
spend their holiday in proving how well they can
defend their native land if need should ever arise,
and how many a previous hour must have been
subtracted from work or plesimre to give them the
training which now makes us all able to count upon
them as a real and permanent addition to the
power and dignity of England.
For that the " Volunteer Movement," as it used
to be called, is now in the seventh year of its
moving, and is still moving, with yearly increasing
vitality, is assuredly a fact in which we may all re-
joice. There is a popular physiological theory that
every part of the human frame is by slow and
gradual waste and renovation changed at least
once in every seven years, so that at the close of
each septennial period we are in possession of
wholly new bodies, that have by imperceptible

WIDDLI CLAES

substitution, without change of identity or pause
of function, taken the place of those we bore
before. This theory holds good, in a great de-
gree, with respect to the Volunteer force.
Though there are some who have stood in its ranks
from the commencement, the great body of its
members are unquestionably enrolled on the
principle of limited enlistment, and not a large
proportion continue their services beyond the
first half dozen years. The lapse of such
a period makes so many changes in a
man's pursuits, avocations, and inclinations,
that few have time, opportunity, or dis-
position to continue in precisely the same round of
occupations that were possible and pleasing at filet.
Our idle young men grow absorbed in business,
the bachelors marry, the married men have aug-
menting families ; a change of residence, a new
opening, a different arrangement of hours of
labour, a thousand accidents in the infinite variety
of life, make it seldom possible that we can
devote the same time to any recreation which we
gave to it seven years ago. Nevertheless, in spite
of retirements by its older members, the Volunteer
force still yearly grows in numbers. Hence we
have clear evidence that its sudden growth was not
due to any peculiarity in the feelings of one
generation, or of any particular conjuncture
of affairs, but indicated a deeply planted sentiment
of the age, and supplied a felt necessity of modern
society. Voluntary soldiering, it is plain, suits
Englishmen, and is consonant with the ideas of
our times. And since this is now proved, we may
gain confidence that it will not speedily pass away,
but will continue to grow stronger' and stronger, to
attract always a larger and wider support, and with
proper regulation to become more and more a
thoroughly national and enduring institution.
What contributes to give to it this character is
indeed not very easily to be traced, but the difficulty
is chieflybecause so manycircumstanees and motives
combine to produce the result. We are not more
patriotic certainly than our fathers, who, like our-
selves, turned out as volunteers in time of war,
but turned in again as soon as the imminence of
danger was over. We are not fonder of idleness,
nor more addicted to out-door sports, for we really
work harder, and our fast growing cities shut
out the country from many among us. We are
not more enamoured of military glory, for
we hear much more now than then of the protium,
or non-intervention, and the meanness of a cantle--,
roc's renown. We are not more rearty to follow ail•
the call of any leader, for our whole society is be-
coming from the top to . the botima duly mere
democratic, and our political institutions mere re-

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met-resokte ; we have more knowledge of our
VILO 1.!14,111! #uetilmeaa, more true appreciation
Value or What we have to defend, and

present
thus as cheep in °nada ea in the 'United Edema, en
emigration to the British territory may be looked for, and
the contrast between• the union and the colony will
compel the utmost care and wisdom on the pert of the
officials on both sides. The Times sees, in short, a state
of things that requires extreme care, and, between one
state and another, that is only another form of saying
that it requires the fullest preparation for all possible
eanargeseiss.

better imderatanding of the only way in which
it can be defendeff. We have ceased to
vapour about- one Ingliahman beating three
Frenchmen ; we know that the rifle turns the wale
from strength to skill, and that the rash of a mob
is a different thing from the charge of a column.
We work harder, and we feel the need of mere
energetic recreation. We are in populous Albs
pent, and we crave for the motive to take exercise
within them, and to break forth in a holiday into a
cotmtry " marching out." We wish to be at peace
with all the world, but we know peace comes only
from strength, and we rejoice to show that we can
help to make up the strength which makes peace
secure. Bo the Volunteer army, which in-
structs and heightens our national skill in
the use of arms, which gives recreation and
occupation in one, and which gives all a
sense of doing something for the benefit of our
common Fatherland, wins ita way as the holiday
career most popular in England. And so may it
be for many a recurring Easter Monday, till some
fundaments! change in all the institutions of so-
ciety and in the relations of nations shall bring the
day when its work is no more needed, and we can
without fear or sorrow see its decadence.

--„--
The Daily News asks what has been done by the Con-
gress, shisfly composed of Degrees' friends, towards settling
tke policy of the republic in regard to the freed people ?
,Tbey are really doing nothing for their clients, and are
I yens defeating measures which would work well for the
dammuni sims in time, and open a way by which it might
work oat /isms elevation. If the emancipation is fol-
lowed up, as in 411111011. by " appropriate legislation," the
next generation of poor whites will no longer be " mean"
and " trash " in Southern phrase ; the blacks will be a
thriving peasantry ; and tke educated elms of proprietors
will tied themselves wealthier than their fathers, with as
mach power in their hands as good men desire, and a
amain weight of care in their hearts than their fathers
ever knew. Such legislation is the proper and promised
work of the strongest republican congress ever assembled
in our time ; and at the end of three months there is
nothing done. If congress is not shocked at this all the
rest of the world is.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

The Post and Herald continues 4o inveigh against the
government Reform Bill, the former seeking to convince
the working man that the downward slide of the suffrage
will not necessarily stspnent his political action, and the
latter attempting to prove that nearly all the boroughs
under the new ball would be dominated either by the
working class alone, or by them in conjunction with the
poorest, most ignorant, and least independent portion of
the present constituency.
The Telegraph gives some statistics with a view of show-
ing that the working classes pay 25 per cent, of the taxes,
and that therefore they should have at least 25 per cent.
of the votes, or 264,000 votes ; so that the existing propor-
tion is little more than one-half what it ought to be. From
whatever light we take it, we arrive at the conclusion that
the industrial orders, who pay the handsome proportion of
fully one-fourth of the total revenue, are not duly repre-
sented in parliament.

voLurrns sansw.

The Times renterit;tits t the aignificanee of the
spectacle yesterday em Brighton Downs consists in the
institution of which it is an expression and a sample,
giving us • corps which could, in the space of 30
hours, plan on any given spot in the kingdom
150,000 troop*, 60,000 hones, and 100 guns, and
which could collect together, in 24 hours, 80,000
" navvies" to throw up fortifications for defence
or support. What could any enemies of England
hope to accomplish against such a force ? The review shows
us in a remarkable manner the high degree which we have
attained in the important consideration of military trans-
port. Tha main body came from London, and was taken a
distance of 50 miles in • few hours, and yet was twice as
strong as the foam which, with great pains and exertion,
was collected at Chobbam thirteen years ago, and was
then thought a marvellous spectacle of military comets-
astiou. Fifty years ago a Prince of Wales would have
reviewed the volunteers of the capital in Hyde-park. He
now reviews them on the coast of Swan, and in that dif-
ference is expremed the difference between this generation
and the last. Such a work moat constitute almost • science.
The reader, moreover, will find freak 1•100.11 for admira-
tion when he remembers that the whole oast of this mag-
nificent force to the national exchequer is less than
350,0001. • year.
The Poet thinks it may be said that England alone
amongst European powers passional volunteers. The rapid
growth of the feroe is not has remarkable than its pesalier
organisation, and the moat sanguine could never have an-
ticipated that they would have obtained such • degree st
efficiency. As to their utility it is not intended--at least
it is not wished—that our volunteers should be employed
against an invading foe ; but it is hoped that the mere fart
that this country can call into the field close on two hun-
dred thormand disciplined troops, independent of tis
standing army, in the event of an invasion, may deter any
foreign State from venturing to attack us.
The Star mays that it is only in countries capable of
the highest freedom that military pageants can be pro-
duced for the people by the people. When we see our
free institutions decorated as it were with the voluntary
martial displays of a happy, a contented, and • trust.
worthy people, we can afford to laugh to scorn the in-
' sinuationa of recklessness and unwiadom which are cart in
factiousness or in whim upon the great mass of the nation
by some who prove by their participation in the spectacle
how artificial and unfelt are their foolish croaking..

Vhe Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Aran 2.

The Queen, with the Princess Hohenlohe Langen-
boon, drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon, and wont
out this morning accompanied by Princess Louise and
Prince Arthur. _ _ _

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The President and Secretary of the Royal Academy of
Arts had the honour of an audience of her Majesty, to
present their report on the proceedings of the Academy
during the past year.
Major• General Hon. A. N. Hood and Lieut.• Colonel
Du Plat have succeeded Major-General Y. H. Seymour
and Colonel H. Ponsonby as Equerries in Waiting.

The Prince and Princess of W►les, accompanied by
Princess Mary of Cambridge, Prince Hohenlohe Isingen
bourg, and Prince Teck, and attended by the Hon. Mrs.
Stoner, Lieut• General Saoßye, Major Grey, and Major
Teesdale, went to Brighton yesterday morning, and were
present at the review of Volunteers.
Their Royal Highnesses partook of luncheon with the
Mayor of Brighton, at the Pavilion, and afterwards re.
I turned to Marlborough House.

The King of the Belgians arrived at Marlborough House,
on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales ; in atten-
dance upon his Majesty were Count de Moerkerke and M.
Brewer.

_____.
Major Grey has succeeded Lieut.-Colonel Xeppel aa
Equerry in Waiting to the Prince of Wales.

IN THE CITY.

We learn from the Times that the amount now sub-
scribed towards the wham proposed by Mr. Rogers for

furthering middle class education in the City approaches
60,000 i., and, that there is reason to hope that the com-
mittee will soon be in a position to submit their scheme to
the tart of practice. They have applied for a charter, and
the Bishop of London has consented to become the visitor.
It is proposed to start with a school for 1,000 boys some-
where in the neighbourhood of Finsbury. The steady
support which has been given to the scheme by the
most influential firms in the City is the strongest
evidence that could be supplied of its urgent
necessity. The salaries of clerks remain fixed at
a comparatively low rate, while the cost of every
necessary of life is largely increased, and no greater assist-
ance could be furnished to men of small incomes than to
provide them with the means of obtaining at a cheaper
rate a serviceable education for their children. The St.
Katharine Docks Company, who pay the majority of their
Jerks wages less than the earnings of many mechanics,
have indeed refused their assistance ; but they are a
ecompicuons exception. Once started there is every reason
to believe the schools will be made self-supporting, and
there is good reason to hope that the means of their
extension may be found in the unappropriated resources
of obsolete London charities. As a matter, therefore, of
the merest economy it would be well worth the while of
the great companies to forward such a scheme, even if
more generous considerations do not supply a sufficient
motive. A great merit of the scheme is that it is purely
=sectarian, the religious teaching of the children being
left to the parents.

His Majesty the King of the Belgians arrived at
Dover yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Count de
Mankato and suite, In the Belgian government steamer
Belgique, Captain Hoed. His Majesty was received at
Dover by the Belgian consul, Mr. S. M. Latham, &a His
Majesty is travelling incog. Hie Majesty left Dover in the
mail train of the South-Eastern Railway at 4.0 p.m.,
accompanied by his suite and Baron Van de Weyer. Mr.
Knight had charge of the train. His Majesty promeded
to Claridge's HoteL
The Princess of Wales wore yesterday a plain
black velvet dress and jacket, and a simple white bonnet
trimmed with mauve ribbon.
It is a rather singular circumstanoe that the
present Prince of Wales had not until yesterday been In
the town of Brighton since he was about three years of
age, when he was held up at • carriage window to the
admiring glue of crowds who had assembled to catch •
glimpse of him. Scene three months since he passed int*
the railway station on his way from Portsmouth to some
other place on the coast, but he did not enter the town.
The Princess of Wales never bad been even so near the
town as the railway station.
The Prince and Princess of Hohenlohe will leave
Windsor to-day on the conclusion of their visit to the
Queen, and will travel to Dover on their return to the
Continent.

A marriage is arranged between Major-General
Milman and Miss Lee Mainwaring, only daughter of Mr.
and the Hon. Mrs. Lee Mainwaring.
The Bishop of London is considerably better.
The right rev. prelate is able to quit his bed, and there is
every prospect of his ultimate restoration to health.
In the march past at Brighton yesterday, an
officer belonging to a well-known temperance corps, for-
getting to salute with his sword in time, tried to mend
matters by bowing gracefully from his saddle.
The village of Kuraley, of which the recently-
deceased Rev. John Kahle wee for many years the vicar,
is celebrated as the residence at one time of some members
of Oliver Cromwell's family. Monuments to their memory
are to be seen in the village church.
In the Express of last week it was stated that •
lady named Curry, residing at Freshwater, in the Isle of
Wight, near the Poet Laureate, had celebrated her one
hundredth birth-day. Mrs. Curry died four days after-
wards. The excitement arising from the number of friends
who visited her to pay their respects is said to have
hastened her death.
A public meeting of the citizens of Exeter is
summoned to-morrow in connexion with the Reform Bill.
At the preliminary meetings opinions have been unani-
mmudy expressed in favour of the measure. The man-
hood suffrage party have sent in their adhesion, and offered
to take a part in the proceedings et the meeting. Sir
John Bowring is to move the first resolution, which is to
be seconded by • working man, and Mr. Coleridge, M.P.,
is to follow. Mr. Aland, M.P., and Mr. Edgar Bowring,
who will probably be the second liberal candidate whenever
an election take place, are reported among the speakers.
The council of University College have under
their consideration the establishment of evening shames, on
a plan not very unlike that which has been so successfully
carried out in Sines College. Previous to the list general
meeting of the proprietors notice had been given of a
motion calling on the council to esialdish such clarets ; bat
for want of a quorum the motion could not be put. Now,
however, the council have taken up the matter themselves.
and it is likely to be carried out. Five such classes are
already in operation, with fees of not more than half the
fee for morning classes, and fifteen or more additional
classes have been recommended by the professors.
Among those who perished in the steamer Lon-
don was a youth named Angel, an officer of the ill-fated
'hip. He was the son of the organist of Exeter Cathedral,
and a grandson of the late Mr. Corte, organist of the Salis-
bury Cathedral. The relatives of the youth have placed •
tablet to his memory in Salisbury Cathedral, and the Dean
and Chapter of Exeter Cathedral are about to erect a tablet
to hie memory in their cathedral. This tablet will contain
his name, age, and the following words, " A true hearted
and dauntless sailor, counting duty more precious than
life, he remained at his post to the last, and was seen by
the survivors with his hand still upon the engine of which
he was in charge, calmly awaiting death when the waters
closed over the ship. la testimony of his worth, and in
token of sympathy with his bereaved parents, this tablet,
simple as becomes the rare simplicity of his sheracter, is
here placedly the Dean sad Chapter. ' I will bring my
The risme aomments on the trial of patience and temper yowle again fr4m the depths of the ma.' Psalm :ME, 21"
which Canada is undergoing threngh the conduct of the The Empress of Austria it likely to pass a part of
Persians—aondoot which imposes mush harder work on the the rammer in Holum, at Pored, • noel/ tow• o• the Be.
defendants than on the assailants. Perhaps, however, by Wen er Platten lake.

day regards the
latest news from Germany as still tending to war.
Prussia, it says, continues her armaments with
ostentation. Several fortresses have already been
put into a state of defence, and the Flensburg
Gazette now informs us that defensive works are
being rapidly hurried on at Duppel. The fortifi-
cations which are finished have been furnished
with artillery and the magazines supplied
with powder. The Prussian vessels have been
supplied so as to be ready for sea, and a
private despatch which has been sent to us states
that orders have been issued to the generals of the
corps d'armee in the different provinces, directing
them to place their troops on a war footing in the
shortest possible time. The Austrian journals do
not speak of military steps, but they exhibit an
increasing bitterness in their resistance to the pre-
tensions of Count von Bismarck. " If," soya the
Freuidenblatt, "the expectation that Austria will
consent to the interference of Prussia in the ad-
ministration of Holstein be the sole anchor of
peace, war must be regarded as inevitable."
Most of the Prussian journals (says the Nord)
have availed themselves of the festival of Easter
to invoke, either in prose or verse, conciliation
and peace. The Kreutz Zeitung is distinguished
above all for the fervor and sacred eloquence of
its first leading article. " Christ has risen,"
it says ; " may the Lord grant that in the midst
of our troubles we may also receive in the
depth of our hearts the salutation of the Risen.
Peace be with you." Up to the present moment (says
the Nord) these addresses and prayers do not seem
to have been heard, for the gravity of
the situation has become more serious since
Easter Sunday. The armaments of Prussia are
assuming formidable proportions, and in a
few days from this the two great German powers
will have the whole of their disposable military
forces on foot. The long interview which took
place between Counts von Bismarck and Karolyi
at the end of last week has led to no result, and
the Vienna journals despair with a deplorable
unanimity of the maintenance of peace.

(lIITIZIeS

VIENNA, APRIL 2, Evan No.

The Duke of Coburg has arrived here, in order,
it is stated, to act as mediator in the dispute
between the sovereigns of Austria and Prussia.
He is said tohavealresdy laid before them proposals
to effect this end.

ITALY.

MADRE:NCB, Anti 3.

The principal generals of the Italian army have
been summoned to meet at this city on the 6th inst.
It is asserted that the Italian men-of-war have
been ordered to rendezvous at Anoona or Brindisi.
The Nosioite of to-day states that, according to
advice. from Venice, military preparations are
going on in Venetia.

CHINA.
(By Overland Telegraph from Galls.)

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