The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-24 00:00:00

ITHE WTMRLEDOM RSVIICW TO-MORROW.

1 T7lll ohief 1
Ito be held on

lof Vas miliiary display
munon to-morrow will

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losores /be oompaotnees. The review will probably be on
what * by compariain a small seals; and the
ocaarnandiag volunteer corps which in-
tend to-he present are cheerfully anticipating more
work in cotteequenoe. Given a small ground and a
large army, and it is obvious that the movements
and changes of position must be of the amplest oha-
. rioter. To get ten thousand men in and out of
:Hyde-park was held by the late Duke of
Werztworoie to be beyond the power of
modern commanders ; and though his opinion
was falsified by the Volunteer Review of
a few years since, there is no doubt that the aim-
jpleat evolittiona are the most practicable when the
;space is limited and the force large. But the re-
view of to-morrow will be held under preoiaely
opposite conditions. The ground is ample, and
the thousands assembled on it will not be so
numerous as to deprive the officer command-
ing of fair scope. Is it too much to hope
that something out of the ordinary cut
and dried routine will be attempted ? The
experiment would be useful to the Volunteers.
It is idle to conceal that the officers having moat
experience of the various corps do not compare
the present oondition of the force favourably with
that of seven or eight years ago. The men who
have retired have not been invariably succeeded by
a class equally available as military material, and
the misunderstandings at Windsor, and the system
upon which drill returns are habitually made up,
are straws showing the direction of the wind.
A few difficulties to surmount, a little whole-
some opposition to overcome, and a alight
strain upon the military resources of the corps,
would have a wonderfully bracing effect ; and we
see no reason why the review of to-morrow should
not be made one of the most successful yet seen.
Let the opportunity afforded by the comparative
smallness of the numbers to be present be properly
used, and each company will be put on its mettle
in a way impossible at larger gatherings.
It is always permissible to introduce slight
changes into a programme at the last moment if
they are an improvement ; and what ia wanted, is,
in a word, a brilliant and dashing well-managed
spectacle which shall wipe out the memory of
Windsor from men's minds. It is much to be re-
gretted that some of our beet-known volunteers
decline to be present on the express ground of the
1 improper treatment they received, and the incon-
siderate oonunente they were subjected to after the
' display last month.

OPENING OP THE ,TRAMES &MBANK-

KENT.

THE Thames Embankment will be formally
opened to the public next Thursday. All whose
business or pleasure has taken them across the
river during the last few days, must have observed
'the rapid progress made by the workmen engaged
between the Temple and Westminster Bridge. A
long row of rough wooden uprights, ranged behind
the parapet and the lions'-heads, by the Adelphi
and past Somerset House, hasfirst caught the atten-
tion. A nearer inspection shows that those mark
out the line of pavement which is new nearly
laid down. A small patch near Water-
loo Bridge is the only part of the
footway unpaved this morning ; and this will
be finished long before Thursday. There is no
handsomer pavement in the world. It is broad,
level, regular ; and the graceful sweep with which
it follows the river-line combined with its ex-
tent and workmanship give a singular sense of
beauty to the eye. Let any reader who
wishes to see this portion of the Embankment to
advantage, stand at the northern end of Waterloo-
bridge and look towards Hungerford and West-
minster. He will see how noble is the space re-
claimed from the river, and how practically avail-
able it is. The fire-engines of the Metropolitan
Brigade, both land and river, have been em-
ployed on several occasions since their first appear-
ance ; and the rubble, rubbish, and broken taicks
have been deluged and welded into a consistent
whole. But it is the smooth stone pavement by
their side upon which the eye rests most grate-
fully. It seems made for a fashionable promenade.
The sentential stone balustrade at its side adds to
its beauty, while the bridges, churches, and public
buildings seen from it, together with the animated
life of the bright and busy river, and the distant
roar of traffic from the hidden streets, make it on
a day like this, one of the most interesting and
pleasantly vivacious spots in the whole metro-
polls. The Board of Works have appointed
next Thursday for opening the footway to the
public, and the people invited to be present will
assemble at the north pier of Westminster-
bridge at half-peat eleven in the morning. They
will proceed along the footway to the Temple,
' where steam-boat will be waiting to take them
down the river. Disembarking at North Wool-
wich, they will be conveyed by train to the
Abbey Mills Pumping Station, the works of which
will be inspected. The last part of the proceed-
ings is subsidiary to the first, and the great point
upon which London is to be congratulated is
that a. new, agreeable, and con►enient footway
between Westminster and the temple will be
opened in a week.

LORD XAYOII ALLEN AND TIM CITY
07 LONDON SCHOOL.

Is there be any truth in the Preach proverb,
17 a'soci rien qui tea OOMNIS en ridicule, the life of
the present Lord Mayor of Lows must hang on
a thread. Ilia latest escapade ie in a new direo-
Oon. Having acoommodated his fellow citizens
with his political views—s graceful act which was
scarcely sufficiently appreciated—he now proposes
to let them have the benefit of his religious
opinions. It appease that one of the duties of the
Loan MAYON. is to preside at the annual distribu-
tion Of prizes to the City of London School,
that Mr. Au.an accepted the position, but after-
wards declined it in consequence of a sermon by the
Read Master with which he did not agree. A
proverb, more socially than entomologically cor-
rect, says that " worms will turn," and this
silliness of the Loan MAYOR was too much even
for the long-sufferingprporation. They interro-
gated Mr. ALLEN in public court, and made him
confess that he lad not read the sermon in ques-
tion, that having heard from one of " several dia-
" tinguiahed dignitaries of the Church with whom
" he had been dining," that it contained sentiments
tending to set the poor against the rich, ho de-
dined to preside over the ceremonial at the school
of which the obnoxious preacher was the Head
Master. That this statement was received with