The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-11 00:00:00

BANQUET AT THE TRINITY HOUSE.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, as Master of the
Trinity Corporation, dined with the members of that
body at the anniversary dinner on Saturday night, at
the Trinity House, Tower-hill. His Royal Highness,
attended by the Marquis of Abercorn, Lord George
Lennox, Captain the Hon. Dudley de Ros, Colonel the
Hon. C. B. Pliipp, and Colonel Biddulph, arrived in
two of the Royal carriages at a quarter to seven
o'clock, from Buckingham Palace, and, on alighting,
was received in the entrance ball by the Deputy-
Master, Captain Shepherd, and the following elder
brethren, in fu'l uniform:—Captains Bax, Owen, Farrar,
Drew, Waller, Nelson, hiaden' Probyn, Pitcairn, Gor-
don, Welbank, Shuttleworth, Redman, Pexley, Were,
Pigott, and Pelly. Prince Albert, on entering, was met
by the band of the Grenadier Guards in attendance,
playing the national anthem, and was conducted to the
Court-roslm, a splendid apartment, hung with full-length
portraits of the late Duke of Wellington, William Pitt,
and several of the ina,tere of the corporation ; also,
of the late King and Queen Adelaide. There were
assembled the following noblemen and gentlemen,
invited to meet the Prince at the banquet :—Vis-
count Palmerston, Viscount Canning, the Right Hon.
Sir C. Wood, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Right Hon.• Vernon Smith, the Right
Hon. Sir Win. Molesworth, Viscount Hardinge, the
Earl of Dundonald, Lord Redesdale, Lord de Ros, the
Right Hon. Francis T. Baring, the Right Hon. Dr.
Lushington, Admiral Sir G. F. Seymour, the Chairman
(Mr. Macnaughten) and Deputy-chairman (Col. Sykes)
of the East India Company, the Deputy-Governor of
the Bank of England, Sir James Emerson Tennerit,
Sir George Couper, Sir James Melvill, Viscount Dun-
can, M.P., the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P.,
the Right Hon. W. G. Hayter, M.P., the Right
Hon. Sir Thomas Fremantle, Rear-Admiral Eden, Cap-
tain Richards and Captain Milne, Lords of the Admi-
ralty ; Major Robertson, Captain Craigie, Captain
Washington, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Professor Fara- -
day, Captain Fitzroy, Captain Walker, Captain Thomas,
Mr. Masterman, M.P., Mr. T. Baring, M.P., Mr.
Phinn (Secretary to the Admiralty), Mr. D. Dunbar,
Mr. W. Wigram, Mr. Lushington, &c.
The Royal Master and company proceeded to the
library, in which a dinner of the most recherche descrip li
-
tion was served up, covers being laid for 110 guests ;
upon their entrance the military band struck up "The
Roast Beef of Old England." His Royal Highness, as
Master, presided, the Deputy-Master filling the vice
chair. Daring the proceedings some excellent speeches
were delivered by Prince Albert, Viscount Palmerston,
Sir Charles Wood, Viscount Hardinge, &c., in reply to
toasts. The company broke up shortly after 10 o'clock.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Welling.
ton, the Earl of Clarendon, and others, were prevented
by prior engagements from joining the party.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert on leaving pro-
ceeded to join the Queen and Royal party at the Royal
Italian Opera.

The cholera is at Venice, Pesth, and Prague, but has
not yet assumed an epidemic character.
Yesterday the Lord Mayor and City deputation were
received by the Emperor at the Tuileries. His Excel-
lency Lord Cowley was in attendance.
Matta; June B.—The statement that has been so
long and perseveringly circulated, that while on his
travels the King would have an interview with his Im-
perial nephew of Russia on the sly, is in a fair way of
vanishing at last ; another also, that the Empress of
RusFia is about to visit Berlin or some part of Germany.
NARROW ESCAPE PROM POISONING.—A family of the
name of Doe, consisting of the husband, wife, and a
young child, residing in Durant-green, Chesterfield, with
Samuel Taylor, father to Doe's wife, had a very narrow
escape from being poisoned on Tuesday night last, in
consequence of a quantity of arsenic (kept for the pur-
pose of destroying "black-clocks" or beetles), havini
been carelessly allowed to tumble about the cupboard,
till it became mixed up with some meal, which had been
used in the preparation of gruel, after partaking of which
all were seized with violent retching and vomiting
Medical aid was promptly called in, and the usual an
tidotes administered. All are doing well, but their
escape has been a very narrow one.
CALAMITOUS FIRE.—THREC LIVES LOST.—On Sa.tur
day morning, shortly after nine o'clock, a shoe ing, fata
fire occurred in the vicinity of Henrietta-street, Hac cney
road, which produced much sensation among t e i "ha-
bitants of the district. .On the alarm being raised flames
were observed issuing forth from the first floor windows
of the house, No. 21, a small dwelling, tenanted by a
labouring man, named Graham, when, in consequence of
loud shrieks of children having been previously heard by
some of the adjoining neighbours (though no one seems
to have troubled themselves to learn from whence they
proceeded), apprehensions were entertained that there
was a family perishing in the upper rooms. All attempts
to get into the first flour were unavailing, the fire having
got such a firm hold of the interior. Assistance arriving,
and the engines being sent for, endeavours were made to
extinguish the flames, which wai eventually accom-
plished, although not until the upper part of the house
was nelrly burned out. A shocking sight then presented
itself. Under the remains of a bedstead, in one of the
upper roams, were disc.)verad the bodies of the whole
funny of the man Graham, three in numlier, a tinene
boys.
seven years of age, and two younger children,T They
were crouched together in a heap, burned dreadfully. It
is presumed that one of them bad been playing with Luci-
fer matches, and had set fire to the bed. There was no
escape for the poor little creatures. The mother, who
had gone onan errand, to get in some work, had, in order
to keep them out of the streets, lacked the rosin door.
The anguish of the parents on becoming acquainted with
the melancholy fate of their children was very great. An
inquest will be keld on *_:av bodies this day (Monday).

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TATTERSALL'S.

(THIS EVENING.)

SURREY AND MIDDLESEX STAKES.
4to 1 agst Cdck Pheasant (taken)
4to 1 agst Georgicm Sides (taken)
sto 1 agst Winkfield (taken)
sto 1 agst 'Vulcan (taken)
ST. LEGER.
4to 1 agst Oulston (taken)
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20 to 1 agst Dramatist (taken)
20 to 1 agst Peter Wilkins (taken)
28 to 1 agst Polmoodie (taken)
28 to 1 agst Itesnit (taken)
30 to 1 apt c by Flying Dutchman out of
Eilerda:e (taken)
35 to 1 agst Voivode (taken)

EMPERIAL PAIILIA:MENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS EVENING.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
The Bishop of OXFORD presented a petition frrAa a
body of persons who had been employed for some years
in inspecting schools in the diocese of Oxford, stating
that they bad beard with regret of the probability of
measure for the education of the poor being passed,
which proposed to support such a system of education
by means of a rate. The petitioners considered such a
provision most objectionable, as tending to deprive the
great mass of the population of religious instruction, and
prayed that it might not pass into a law.
The Earl of EGLINTON presented a petition from
Glasgow praying for the repeal of the Maynooth grant.
SECOND READINGS.
The following bills were read a second time :—Aber•
deen Railway ; Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway ; East
Rent Railway ; Newton in Mackerfield Improvement ;
St. Helen's Improvement • Waterfori and Limerick
Railway ; Weston Super dare Gas ; Limerick and Cas•
tleconnel Railway ; Newcastle-uprin-Tyne Gas ; Alford
and Boston Road Bill.

THIRD READINGS.
The Leominster and Lei bury Road and the Salisbury
and Yeovil Railway Bills were severally read a third
time and passed.
LONDON NECROPOLIS NATIONAL MAUSO-
LEUM BILL.
On the motion that this bill be read a second time,
Lord BERNERS rose to oppose the further progress
of the bill. Tne noble lord, in the course of his obser-
vations, took occasion to refer to a petition that he was
intrusted with to present against the bill. That petition
set forth a series of objections to the measure. Theta was
at variance with the original contract entered into by the
Company when they obtained possession of the ground ;
that it interfered with the prerogative of the High Court
of Chancery; that in contravention of the original act, the
company expended a large sum of money in an improper
manner, and that the bill itself did not contain any pro-
vision for the compensation of the incumbents of the
metropolis who would be deprived of their usual bu:ial
fees by the establishment of this new cemetery.
Lord REDESDALE supported the bill, and con-
tended that it was framed in accordance with the origi-
nal act.

After a short discussion, in which the Earl of &as D.
BROKE and Lord ST. LEONARDS took part,
The bill was read a second time.
THE ORDNANCE SURVEY OF SCOTLAND.
The Earl of EGLINTON begged to ask her Majesty's
Government the question of which he had given notice,
viz., what decision had been come to with respect to the
scae on Which the Ordnance survey of Scotland was to
be concluded. He thought it was most desirable
that there should be one uniform system of a 6-inch scale
carried out. He heard it was proposed to carry this
survey on in 25-inch scale, which he thought was highly
objectionable.
The Duke of ARGYLL contended that the 25-inch
plan was not only generally useful, but indispensable, in
Scotland. It was, however, obvious, that while the 25-
inch scale was the most useful in the commercial and
highly-cultivated districts, it was 'utterly useless in re-
gard to the mountainous districts.
MONTEAGLE thought good would result from
a smaller map, on a scale of one inch to the mile, accom-
panying the larger one.
The Earl..of HARD WICKE thought it was a matter
of the greatest advantage for the landed proprietors of
Scotland to have a 25 inch scale adopted, as they would be
enabled to see their properties minutely described at the
public expense. (Laughter.) If he was a Scotch-
man he should very much like to forward his own pri-
vate views in this respect at the public expense. (Laugh-
ter.)

After a short conversation, the subject dropped.
THE IRISH PEERAGE.
The Earl of DERBY rose to call the attent'on of the
house to the circumstances attending the creation of the
barony of Fermoy.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAN).
The house met at twelve o'clock, when the Speaker,
having recovered from his late indisposition, took the
chair.

OATHS AND QUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERS.
The SPEAKER thanked the house for their kindness
during his recent illness, and remarked he had the satis-
faction of knowing that public business had not
been impeded by his absence. He had to call the
attention of the house to the circumstance of two
members having taken the oaths and their seats
during his absence. That was required by the
act to be done within certain hours with the Speaker
in the chair, and doubts had been expressed
whether it was absolutely necessary the Speaker should
be in the chair at the time or any other person acting
for him. No doubt the Legislature intended the oaths
and the seats should be taken in the most public and
solemn manner possible when the house was not in com-
mittee. Doubts having been suggested respecting the
taking the oaths and seats by the two hon. members
alluded to, it would be well for the house to consider
the matter, because although these gentlemen had
taken the oaths and done all that was necessary en
their parts they were placed in an inconvenient position,
unless some legislative enactment was passed to prevent
an action from being brought against them for sitting
and voting in the house without having properly taken
their oaths and seats. (Hear, hear,)
Sir G. GREY, after expressing his regret for Mr.
Speaker's temporary absence, expressed the gratification
ho and the house felt at his being able to resume his seat
and proceed with tho discharge of those duties he had so
ably discharged with so much satisfaction to the house,
and advantage to the public interest. (Hear, hear.)
With reference to the question alluded to by the
Speaker, he (Sir G. Grey) having had his attention pri-
vately called to the matter, be had conferred with se-
veral gentlemen learned in the law and others compe-
tent from their experience in the house to form an
opinion thereon, and they unanimously concurred
in
the doubt expressed by the Speaker, and that that doubt
ought not to remain, but proceedings taken to prevent
it. The gentlemen alluded to were desired to come to the
table of the house, and were sworn with the sanction
of the house with that publicity which no doubt the act
intended, and had thereby been completely obtained.
He had thought it better to prepare a bill which he
hoped would meet with the concurrence of all
hon. members, and would remove all doubts and make
valid what had been done in that house during the
Speaker's temporary illness. (Hear.)
Mr. WALPOLE, and other hon. members having
expressed their gratification at the recovery of the
Speaker, and their assent to the proposal of the Home
Secretary, leave was given to introduce the bill.
STANDING ORDERS.—WESTMINSTER
(PRIVATE) LAND BILL.
Mr. FITZROY called the attention of the house to
the standing order with reference to this bill. The bill
had been opposed in committee, and sent back to him
as chairman of Ways and Means ; and considering it to
be analogous to one now before 'another committee, he
moved that the Westminster (Private) Land Bill be re-
ferred to the committee of Group P, for them to proceed
with it as they thought proper.
The following bills were read a third time:—Hyde
Gas (No. 3), Bristol and Exeter Railway, Liverpool
Corporation Water, East of Fife Railway, Fife and Kin-
ross Railway, Hartlepool Pier and Port,
.Leek Improve-
ment, Mid Kent and North Kent Railway, North
Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway, Scinde Railway,
and Stockport, Disley, and Whaley Bridge Railway.
Petitions were presented from Edinburgh against the
bill for regulating the Court of Session, and one for the
re-establishment of the office of Secretary of State for
Scotland ; from Dublin, for the better observance of the
Sabbath.

METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT BILL.
The house then went into committee on this bill, com-
mencing at clause 46, at which point thd further discus-
sion el the bill had been adjourned on the 22d of May.
clauses up to 53 were agreed to after some verbal
alterations.

Clause 59 was agreed to, after a short d!seassion.
On clause 60 being put, which gave power to the dis-
trict surveyor to have the supervision of privies and
cesspool,,

Mr. WILKINSON said that such an arbitrary power
waw greatly to be deprecated.

Si; B. -HALL d4-nded the clause, and cunt ;tided
that its provisions were essentially nozessary to the
healthy drainage of the metropolis.
The clause was then agreed to.
imposing a paitalty on persons making or
improperly6l,a
ltering drains, nas.agreed to.
Clause.s 62, 63, 64, and 65, were agreed to after a
short discussion.
On clause 66 being put, which removes the power
from local boards td the general board,
Sir B. HALL said that the greateA pain and trouble
had been taken in dra-piing up the bill. In di-.ing so
no less than from 250 to 300 local acts had to be con-
sidered.
•
Mr. HENLEY said that this was one of e most
important clauses the bill, but in th he doubted wthhether it
would the olject it purportod to carry out.
Sir B. HALL observed that
he would take care
that that object should be effected.
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY said that the house ought

to be postponed until the other clauses that were
to be proposed had been put before the house.
Sir B. HALL hoped the house would allow the clause
to pass upon the
promise that he had given. that he
would ascertain which would :be the. better course to
(
adopt, to repeal ill the local acts, or toadopt the mg-
gestions that had-been put forward. Lord EBRINGTON thought that the clause ought
to be postponed.
Mr. WILLIAMS deprecated the adoption of any
such course. He thought that the objections.of the
noble lord had been met and answered by the right hon.
baronet.
The clause as verbally amended was agreed to, and
ordered to stand part of the bill.
verClausesalterati 67, 68, and 6l were agreed to, after some slight
bal ons.
Lord R. GROSVENOR asked the right bon. baronet
if it was his intention by this bin to interfere with the
!powers at present exercised by the Me:,rot,lelitan
Commissioners of Roads. Turnpike gates in popiilous
neighbourhoods were a Treat nuisa,nca.
Sir B. HA LL replied it was !vet his intention'to inter,
fere with that body by this bil.:l, and 'it was a questioa
that had better not then be frittered into.
The further consideration, of the bill was adjourns
till to-morrow.
The house adjournedat 4 o'clock. , ~

The SPEAKER took the chair at•six 4,Pplock. He was
greeted by abrAest every member in the *use upon his
recovery fr6ta his late accident.

o.l.ileggree,oatf
mnanyinuboeortho.f petitions were presented from
variTds places against the Beer Bill, and against the
[LEFT SITTING.]

TIC CAMP AT ALDERSHOTT.

The preparations connected with the camp and bar-
racks at Aldershott are not proceeding with the rapidity
which might be expected and which is so highly desira-
ble. The summer will probably have terminated and
autumn have set in before all the huts have been com-
pleted ; as for the barracks, they may be said to be at a
stand still, for the plan of them first proposed now finds
less favour in the eyes of those in authority than another
which is under consideration, and which we hear has
been drawn up without any reference to the extent and
capabilities of the site they are intended to occupy. First
the land is bought, and for months there is little or no-
thing done to it in the way of preliminary arrangements ;
then orders are suddenly given for the execution ofevery-
thing requisite to a camp and depot, these orders in the
i
hurry putting the cart before the horse wherever it s pos-
sible to do so ; next comes a second lull, during which
plans already settled are re-opened for consideration, and at
that stage matters have now arrived. The huts ought
certainly to have been finished by this time, but they
are still far from it, and one's only comfort in the midst
of the delay is that those recently constructed haveth eir
windows raised nearer the eaves, and that the ceiling,
instead of being closed in in the objectionable manner
formerly pointed out, is left open for ventilation. All
that was predicted of those already completed has been
fully verified. The men at night find them exceedingly
hot and uncomfortable, for the windows, being so near
the heads of the sleepers, cannot be kept open, and even
in the daytime, being so far below the breathing line,
it is not easy to keep the inside fresh and sweet. The
situation of the camp, however, is so fine in a sanitary
point of view, and the troops will be necessarily so much
out of doors, that probably little serious inconvenience
will be felt from this cause, though it is one which might
have readily been avoided. With reference to this ques-
tion of huts, it seems very doubtful whether it is wise
to provide one uniform kind of accommodation for the
whole force to be assembled at Aldershott. The object
for which the camp there has been established is of
course to prepare our soldiers as much as possible to
meet the exigencies of actual warfare by the closest ap-
proximation that can be made to real field service in
this peaceful country of ours. Now, an army in the
field cannot expect to have Myerses, and Haywards, and
Nixons wherever it goes, and common sense points out
that the right thing to do at Aldershott is to endeavour
by every possible teat and experiment to have such im-
provements effected upon the old bell tent as may, with-
out unduly encumbering the march, economise the
health of the soldier. Perhaps the best illustration that
can be given of the possibility of effecting saving in this
important direction is to be found in certain facts con-
nected with the present war, which, in the midst of
more exciting topics, do not yet appear to have attracted
the amount of attention which they undoubtedly are en-
titled to. Wehave it on the authority of a Parliamentary
return that the total number of our men killed and
wounded in the East up to a recent date was 5,900, and
that of these 332 were officers and 5,574 non-commis-
sioned officers and privates. No similar data exist show-
ing the number of men who have died or been invalided
from sickness, and the proportion in this respect between
the upper and lower ranks of the service. It has, how-
ever, been stated upon high authority.that the mortality
of the army from sickness has amounted, during the
past winter, to 13,000 lives ; we knowthat in the month
of January as many burials took place at Scutari alone
as there were deaths at Alma and Inkerman. We know,
also, that while the proportion of officers to men struck
down in actual combat has been very great, from dis-
ease it has been very small. What conclusions do these
facts justify ? Do they not establish that the effective
strength of a military force in active service depen ls
much more upon the manner in which its physical wants,
such as clothing, housing, feeding, needful rest from
labour, and so forth, are attended to than upon any in-
jury which it is likely to sustain from the enemy ? Now,
so much being ascertained, it becomes important to dis-
criminate the amount of loss due to those different
causes—the want of proper shelter, the want of proper
food, the want of sufficient clothing, and over-exertion.
It is somewhat difficult to do so, because one cause
acting upon a mass of human beings will speedily (le-
velope others that might else have nmained dormant,
and, therefore, innocuous. For example, had our troops
before Sebastopol during the winter not had too much
work imposed upon them, they might have altogether,
or at least in a great measure, escaped the suilerings
which they had to endure; but, that active and com-
pelling cause once afoot, observe how a dietary unsuited
to the climate superinduced dysentery, and how the bed
tent, with its 14 or 15 occupants, littered in the nun!,
made that dysentery endemic ; and bow both, with Vie
want of adequate clothing, made recovery irnpossib:e.
In a mere £ s. d. point of view the British soldier is by
far the most expensive animal in the world. The loss t
the State in money when he falls or becomes ineffective
is something so great as compared with that of other
countries that any wasteful use of him falls far more
severely upon our resources than on theirs. On the
lowest grounds, therefore, we are bound by the stronge?t
consid,rations to adopt every improvement that can
tend to economise the health of the army, and certainly
there is no pert of the military system of equipment
which more readily admits of being improved than the
tents now used in field service. Would it not have been
wise and prudent, therefore, instead of providing huts
on one very defective plan for the full complement ot
men to be assembled at Aldershot, to invite a little
competitive ingenuity upon this point, to trj whether
it is not possible to have for the army tents and their
appurtenances as complete, portable, and commo-
dious as those which have been prepared for the use
of the Navvy Corps now about to be despatched
to the Crimea? While upon the subject of co;i-
struction at Aldershott, it may be well to mention thL:t
a valuable feature in the plan of the barracks, as origi-
nally designed, will be wanting if that since proposed is
carried out. It was intended that these barracks shou!cl
consist of twin blocks of buildings, the space between
them being covered over, so that men could be drilled
there in wet weather. This idea of a sheltered area,
wherein the soldier could be perfected in his exercises
with the least possible delay, is well worthy ot consider-
ation ; for, while our military system exacts a precision
in the performance of evolutions unknown to any other,
our uncertain climate interposes obstacles in the way of
attaining it which not only condemn the recruit to a
longer and more disagreeable novitiate than is at all
necessary, but has a damaging effect upon the popularity
of the service.

It was explained in our last notice of Aldershott that
the huts were to be arranged in two camps, separated
nearly a mile from each other—the one on the south side
of the Basingstoke Canal, capable of accommodating
12,000 men; the other, on the north side, providing shel-
ter for 8,000. The south camp is nearly completed, and
is already occupied by five regiments of militia, amount-
ing to a total strength of about 3,000 bayonets. The
north cam 2, on the other hand, is very far from being
finished, but when ready, will probably, from the im-
proved character of the huts, be assigned, in part at
least, to the Guards and troops of the line destined to
share in the evolutions and training at Aldershott.
Eventually the regulars will be quartered in the
barracks, but when these will be finished, seeing
that not a brick has been laid yet, it is hard to tell.
A further and more careful survey of the heath
satisfies us that
it is thoroughly well adapted to the
purposes to which it is shortly to be applied. The im-
mediate sites of the two camps threaten to be very dusty
from the extent to which the thin crust of peat has been
most unwisely removed, leaving the wind full scope over
the light blowing sand underneath. There is also another
and a more serious inconvenience felt at present in the
scarcity of water ; for the Government has no legal
right to take any from the canal, and it is feared that
wells must be sunk to a considerable depth before a suffi-
cient supply can be procured. With these comparatively
trifling drawbacks, there is nothing to be urged against
the selection of Aldershott for the uses to which it is
now about to be applied, and it only remains to be seen
how far the practice and training of the troops may be
united with a liberal encouragement, in an experimental
form, of all the ingenuity and skill of the country, so
that our soldiers may participate more largely than
they do at present in the benefit of those improvements
which are rapidly effecting such changes in everything
around us. What we want is, not a complete organisa-
tion according to the continental or any other existing
model of a standing army, but one with new and com-
manding features about it, such as may compensate to
OW soldiers for their inferiority in mere numbers, and
enable them to reduce the issues of war to somewhat of
the same certainty which is now recognised in all other
human enterprises. No one wholnows anything of the
subject will disparage that perfection of drill by which,
in a great measure, the British soldier is enabled to
perform the most delicate evolutions in the face of
an enemy ; but even this, important as it is, cannot
be of greater consequence than a thorough and inti-
mate knowledge of the weapon with which he fights.
What can be expected of troops who have hardly fired a
loaded musket until they are brought into action—who
handle the Minie hardly conscious of any difference be-
tween it and old Brown Bess—who could not to-morrow
be entrusted with a breach-loading fire-arm (supposing a
good one invented) because they would be certain to ex-
pend their ammunition too fast ? It takes your average
sportsman, who has nothing except the pleasurable ex-
citement to discompose his nerves, a long apprenticeship
to become a " dead rifle shot ;" but 50 rounds of ball
cartridge in the year have hitherto been considered suffi-
cient to qualify the British soldier for one of his most
perilous and dreadful duties in the battle-field. We un-
derstand that rifle practice is to be extensively carried
on
at Aldershott, and that two pieces of ground have
already been selected for that purpose. This is as it
should be; but it is not enough tl do so, unless, besides,
the men are stimulated to
become
the prospect of spbmtanatia
expert marksmen b y
benefits, and unless care is
taken to supply each inn with
an arm the stock of which
thoroughly suits him. When our men are familiar with
the rise of their weapon, when they have satisfied them-
selves how ent;ro efficacious
ly its ecacious
dis upon their
perfect self-poset,,ion, then, and theenPe"
have something like an approximationof°to:Ytieires,hrael.sl results
which may be expected from an army
men, suPPiied with the best and longest ranging rin-rffls-
that can he made. It is the same with artillery 6. Our
gunners gunners do not have half enough practice before they go
r
'en active service, and here, even more. than in small
arms, i'4 ample scope for novelty of invfmtion. There
is no reason to bdieve that gunnery has at all rcache,l
its limits, but on the contrary ; arid we hope t, se, in
use at Alder.-hott new canyon such as the state of th,•
siechanical arts enables England alone to produce, and
which may re-establish upon a firm and indisputable basis
our old supremacy in this branch of the military service.
The militia regiments which have thus far arrived at the
i
camp are stronger in numbers and more respectable n
appearance and discipline than might Lave bean ex-
pected. They present upon the whole very fair raw ma-
terial for the manufacture of good soldiers, and there cao
be no doubt that a month or two of steady drill will
work wonders in giving to them a military bearing. His