The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-25 00:00:00

Echo bowed and returned to her seat ; but they

certainly would have been incomplete without the
proposition made by Captain Ross. Bearing brief
but emphatic testimony to the service rendered to
the Volunteer movement by Lord Elcho, he asked

Volunteer.—English and Scotch—to join in a suit-
able act of recognition. Not merely Volunteers, but
the spectators, of whom large numbers were present,
acted so heartily on this suggestion that Lord Etch()
was compelled to deliver quite a short address in
reply. He assured these who heard him that he had
not taken up the Volunteer movement from any idle
fancy, bat with the firm conviction e7pres3sd on
that very spot by the Archbishop of York, that in
every point of view—whether as regarded the safety
of the State, the moral and physical good of the

popie, or the amusement of the youth of the coup•
try—the Volunteer movement was one of the most
happy and fortunate things which had occurred in
the present generation. There was yet one act of
justice to be done, and Captain Williams did not

suffer the duty to remain unfulfilled. Calling for
three cheers for' The man who had all the work of

the meeting to do, and who had done it well," the
response, as soon as he mentioned the name of Capt.
Page, must have been highly gratifying to that offi.

cer and his friends.

The approaches to the camp mean while had been eniivenEd
by the steady flow of Volunteer regiments. Some, in spite
of heat and dust, marched the whole distance from London,
and the manifest pleasure which their passage gave to
what may be called the continuous village stretch-
ing from Chelsea to the confines of the com-
mon was in itself some compensation for the fatigue

thus encountered. All ages and all sizes of spectators seemed
bent on making holyday with the Volunteers, and among
the eager crowd was that remarkable object, a Bluecoat boy
on horseback. The view of the camp which is obtained
from the edge of the common, when the hill leading from
Putney has been ascended, is very striking. The broad
level of heath and furze fading away into haze and woods

and distant hills is only broken at one point by the enclo-
sure of the Association. Within this, tents and poles and
flags cluster thickly, suggesting the idea of a fleet of yachts
lying at anchor, an appearance strengthened by the white
pier-like hoarding that surrounds their territory. As the
regiments approached within a certain distance of the re-
view ground the bands were directed to cease playing, out
of consideration for the wounded man, whom it was impos-
sible to move, and whose couch was not very far from the
entrance gate. For the same reason the whole of the pro-
ceedings usual on such occasions were revolutionised. His
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, with a brilliant
staff, arrived shortly after fire o'clock, and proceeded almost
immediately to the hospital tent, where he learnt from the
medical attendants of Cooper that his state, far frqpa being
desperate, was such as to justify a hope, though still a faint
one, of ultimate recovery, provided he could be kept ex-
tremely quiet. His Royal Highness thereupon directed
that powder should be ignored in the review as completely
as if it 131,d no existence. The humanity and propriety of
this order as soon as it became known were generally ac-
quiesced in; and, though 8,000 or 10,000 Volunteers came
there for no other purpose than to take part in a field-
day, and probably treble that number of spectators at-
tonded to see the evolutions, they cheerfully gave up their
own gratification and waited patiently to the end of the
ceremony, necessarily tame, which was substituted for what
they had expected. As regarded the spectators, the pro-
ceedings, but for the march past at the close, would have
been monotonous in the highest degree. For the Volun-
teers, however, there have been few field-days of such real
advantage to the different battalions. The Commander-in-
Chief, abandoning the idea of strategic movements, set

himself to give the whole force a good steady drill, a pro
ceeding, in which he is one of the greatest proficients in the
service. Beginning with the artillery, which mustered in
force, and was handled by itself for the best part of an hour,
he then turned his attention to the cavalry, composed of the
Light Horse of the hon. Artillery Company and the Surrey
corps. Finally, the whole of the infantry force was, in
military phraseology, "turned inside out" and made to
execute several most trying manceavres. One of these con-
sisted in forming a line from battalions moving en echellon,
so that the line, when formed to the revenue flank, extended
diagonally right across the common from near Robin Hood
on one side, to the opposite corner of the enclosure. As far
as could be seen from the point of view occupied by specta-
tors, the artillery appeared to be at once the most steady
and most at home in their movements ; but to the unpro-
fessional eye the whole force, though not moving as quickly
as troops of the line, seemed to comprehend the orders which
were received, and to carry them out very creditably. Until
the march past at the close of the review, or rather inspec-
tion, the lookers-on had certainly a weary time of it. About
7 o'clock the march past commenced, and ,the brigades,
commanded respectively by the Duke of Wellington, the
Marquis of Donegal, Viscount Bury, Viscount Ranelagh,
Lieutenant-Colonel Walker, Colonel Lazard, Lord Radatcck,
and Lieutenant •Colonel Bigge, passed the flagstaff in the
following order :
FIRST DlVlSlON—Commanded by Major- General Sir J.
Y. Seal lett—The Cavalry of the Hon. Artillery Company,
under Major Robinson—the Horse Artillery, under Capt.
Jay, with two light guns—and the Foot Artillery of the
same corps, under Major Blockley, with four guns. The
batteries of the 2d Surrey Artillery, with tour guns—the
Ist Middlesex (Victories), under Major Greenhill-36th
Middlesex, Lieutenant-Colonel Wood, the 19th Middlesex
(WorkingMen'eCollege), Lieutenant-Colonel Hughes—the
2d Essex Administrative Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel
Davis-33 City of London, Major Richards—the sth Ad-
ministrative Battalion of Essex, Lieutenant-Colonel Capper
—the sth Administrative Battalion of Middlesex, Colonel
Gray-Ist Surrey, Lieutenant-Colonel M`Donald-15th
and 18th Surrey—the 40th Middlesex (Central London),
Lieutenant-Colonel Somerset—the London Irish, Major
Verner-20th Middlesex, Captain an 1 Adjutant Hotham
—the 7th Surrey, Major Bereaford—the Sc. 'George's,
Colonel Lindsay—the West Middlesex, Captain Dear—the
let Tower Hamlets Administrative Battalion, Lieutenant-
Colonel Buxton—the 4th and 6la Tower Hamlets, Lieute-
nant-Colonel Money—the 12th Surrey, Colonel Cole—the
39th Finsbury, Colonel Penton.
SECOND DlVlSlON—Commanded by Major-General Rum-
ley—The Ist Middlesex Artillery, Colonel Creed, six guns
—3d Middlesex Artillery, two batteries of six guns, the
2d, Bth, and 9th Tower Hamlets, Lieut.-Colonel Samuda-
-Ist Middlesex Engineers, Lieut.-Colonel M‘Leod of
M‘Leod—the South Middlesex, Major Athrriey—the North
Middlesex (29Ja), Lieat.-Colonel Whitehad—the Civil Ser-
vice and the Artists, Viscount Bury—the 19th Surrey, the
4th Middlesex, Lord Truro—the 37th Middlesex (Blooms-
bury), Lieutenant-Colonel Corrie—the London Rifle Bri-
gade, Lieutenant-Colonel Warde—the 2d Administrative
Battalion of Middlesex, Lieutenant-Colonel Wilkinson—
London Scottish, Lord Eicho—the Queen's (Westminster),
Lieutenant-Colonels Lord Grosvenor and Lord Gerald Fitz-
gerald—the City of London and Tower Hamlets Artillery,
Major Walmsley—the 43th Middlesex, 4th City (Fore sters)
the 2d City of London, Lieut.-Col. Cruikahank and Major
Spottiswood—and the 46th Middlesex, Sir J. Shelley, M.P.
The march past occupied nearly an hour, although most
of the regiments were but sparingly represented. The spec-
tators, however, would gladly have sat it out had it lasted
much longer. The favourites were, as usual, loudly cheered,
especially the Victorias and London Scottish ; but the Lon •
don Rifle Brigade, every man of which had a laurel leaf in
his shako in honour of his comrade's victory, was the most
numerous and probably best appointed regiment on the
ground. The ranks of the Queen's West minsters also looked
very full by contrast with many of the other corps, and the
fine average physique of the members of the regiment is a
point which cannot be overlooked. The London Irish also
must have had many of its tallest men present. In one or
two other regiments, on the contrary, and especially in one
with a green uniform, the members looked more like a cadet
corps than a full-grown body of volunteers. The author of
that useful little work, the " Volunteer's Book of Facts,"
which was in much request during the meeting, would do
good service, in these days of siceilari!y of dress, if he en-
abled the public to distinguish at a glance between the uni-
forms of different regiments.

MATTIE : A Stray. By the author of 4' Na
Church," " 0 wen : Waif," &c. 3 vols.—" attie is a
charming heroine. She and her life are painted after the
life, with the minuteness of a Dutch picture. And is not
the story itself full of interest at every page ? And is it not
from the play of charae er, and the straggles of conflicting
interests, as exciting as any sensation novel going? We can
give our own experience and say, yes. For those readers who
care to deal with real men and women, and not with fiae
clothes and descriptions of the upholstery in boudoirs and
drawing rooms, the characters in ' Mattie, a Stray,' will be
full of interest. The working out of Mattie's own charac-
ter is very clever, and very true to human nature. Mettle,
a Stray,' is a novel that ought to take a higher rank than
that of an ephemeral work of fietion."—Ailtenceton.
BLOCKADERUNNERS.—Instractions issued by the
Secretary of th© Federal Navy, bearing date the
9th of May, relating to the disposal of persona found on
board vessels seized for breach of blockade, direct that bone
fide foreign subjects captured in neutral vessels aro not to
be treated as prisoners of war unless guilty of belligerent
acts, and are to be immediately released unless required as
witnesses. Foreign subjects captured in vessels without
papers or colours, or those sailing under the protection and
flag of the insurgent Government, or employed in the service
of that Government, are subject to treatment as prisoners of
war ; but if passengers only having no interest in the vessel
or cargo, and in no way connected with the insurgent Go-
vernment, they may be released. When there is reason to
doubt that those who claim to be foreign subjects are in
reality such, they are to be required to state on oath that
they have never been naturalised in the states, have never
exercised the privileges of a citizen thereof by voting or
otherwise, and have never been in the pay or employment
of the so-called Contederate Government, and then they
may be released if there is no evidence of their having sworn
fals.
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