The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-02 00:00:00

THE VOLUNTEERSA

INSPECTION OF THE SECOND (SOUTH)
MIDDLESEX.
On Saturday evening some 4,000 or 5,000 persons
assembled in Hyde-park to witness the annual in-
spection of this most efficient body of volunteers by
Colonel M'Murdo.
The members of the corps, mustering eight corn.
panies of 21 file, under the command of Lord Rane-
lagh, Major Atherley, and Captain and Adjutant
Turner, assembled shortly after half-past 5 o'clock
at the Knightsbridge Barracks, whence, after have
ing performed the usual preliminary movements,
they marched, headed by the band and pioneers, to
the parade ground near the Marble Arch. Colonel
M‘Mardo having already arrived, the regiment was
put through a series of evolutions, which we pre.
sume were of the usual character, being unable to
gain admittance to the ground until most of them
had been performed. We were only enabled to
witness a few of the concluding movements, all of
which were executed with remarkable precision, the
wheeling square being so well performed as to elicit
repeated exclamations of " Wonderfully good 1."
from the gallant colonel.
The manoeuvres having been brought to a close,
Colonel 111‘MunDo addressed the corps in the
following terms —" On the present occasion,
I am happy to say, I have no fault what-
ever to find, and no observations to make
upon your drill, except to express my entire satin.
faction at what I have seen ; and I am sure that the
numerous old soldiers I have seen upon the ground
to-day, as well as the volunteer officers of other
corps who are prevent, will bear tr. not in my
opinion that all your movements have been per-
formed with remarkable steadiness and regularity.
I was glad to see that your commanding officer kept
you constantly on the move, because in such a man-
ner all volunteer corps ought to be moved about ;
and I may say the whole of your movements were
perfect. I was also glad to see there was one little
mistake for me to catch hold of, and that was in one
of the companies while changing front. That, how'
ever, could scarcely be called a mistake, as it was
merely a misapprehension of orders, but it tended
to show me how easily you volunteers can recover
yourselves. For a test of efficiency in drill, there is
no doubt that the plain ground upon which you have
been marching this evening is very good, but I
would much rather see you inspected upon such
ground as that upon which I met you on Easter
Monday (Blackheath), when half of your horses
were down on their knees at the same time, and I
am sorry to say accidents from falls did occur. But
that description of ground, and not smooth parade
ground, like this, belongs as much to you as the
ocean—not the harbour water—belongs to the able
seaman. I confess, satisfied as I am, I was even
more satisfied with the steadiness of your move-
ments on that occasion. Drill on such ground as
that at Blackheath is the real test of efficiency,
although Punch said you did not on Easter Monday
move in the walls with which you are accustomed.
You may depend upon it that if ever you are called
upon to defend your country it will be on such
ground as that, and not the parade ground of Hydo
Park." The gallant colonel then proceeded to refer
to the various evolutions which had been performed,
all of which he characterised as thoroughly perfect,
and concluded by stating that it would give him
great pleasure to report to the Secretary of State
for War the perfect state of efficiency in which he
found the corps.
The ground was efficiently kept by some 200
members of the Queen's Westminsters, but undue
foree was, we may state, in some cases exercised
by men who were certainly unfit for the task of
dealing with a mob of that description,
h
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apparently little or no control over their temper.
In one instance a man, who had succeeded crossa
ing the boundary to hear Col. 300 e
received a severe blow from the rifle of one of
these men, who it appears was unable to bring him
back again.

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