The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-11 00:00:00

FUNERAL OF MARSHAL PELISSIER,

Colonel M'Murdo on the Volunteers,

On Thursday the Ist Suffolk Administrative Bat-
talion of Volunteers, which has been encamped at
Great Barton, about three miles from Bury St.
Edmund's, was reviewed by Colonel 111‘Murde,
Inspector-General of Volunteers. The camp equi-
page, consisting of 90 tents, three large marquees,
1,126 blankets, 80 leather buckets, &e., was supplied
from the Government stores at Harwich. The task
of pitching the tents was performed by thirty or
forty members of the Bury and other corps, under
the direction of Adjutant Barnardiston. The tents
were arranged in two wings, with a broad way up
the centre ; the prlvetes'tents being in front, and those
of the officers behind, while the tents and two mar-
quees appropriated to the use of the staff formed a
line from flexile to flank in rear of the whole. At the
review on Thursday about 400 Volunteers were as•
sembled, and the troops were under the general com-
mand of Colonel Anstruther. A variety of move-
ments of the usual character having been executed,
Colonel Atigurdo said h 3 had come down expecting
much, and bad not been disappointed. He hoped
before the battalion left the camp every man would
know how to pitch and etrike his tent. He was pleased
to see that the arms of the Suffolk Volunteers were
in good order; he was satisfied also with their ap-
pearance physically
as men fit to bear arms, and he
hoped that when he next reviewed them he should
see the effect of the capitation grant upon their uni-
forms. Their pouches should be larger, nd should
carry at least 60 rounds of ball cartridge, for the
day might come in which they would look about
them to see where they could get more ammu-
nition. Great precision of movement was
all fudge in battle, although it was all
right on the parade-ground of regular-troops,
To his mind the Volunteer should be a sober-minded,
God-fearing man, earnest, and determined to help
hie country at the pinch, to learn as much of mili-
tary drill as was necessary for absolute warfare,
to be obedient to his officers, and . to trust to
those officers placing him iu a position where his
qualities as a brave steady man might make hrna
useful in the day of battle. Precision of movement
might be thrown to the winds, although the main
points should be accurately taken up, and all move-
ments should be so well known that they could be
executed "at the double."
New that Volunteers
took a large sum yearly from
the public purse they
had imposed upon themselves a grave responsibility,
and he hoped that they would work up to what
was expected of them, not only by the country and
the Government, but also by their sweethearts and
wives.

LADIES' BATUING DRESSES.---What a remarkably
uncomfortable, inconvenient dress English ladies
adopt for bathing. They are prone enough to follow French
tastes in bonnets and shawls. Why not go a little further,
and adopt their really capital bathing- costume ? It would
not, when they rose Venus. Ilk,: from the waves cling to
them, producing that statuesque effect which I may suppose
it is their object to avoid. But this is only a minor advan-
tage. It would only remain for gentlemen, as is the case at
the best French watering places, where the use of full cos-
tume by both the gentlemen and the ladies is compulsory,
to adopt a similar dress for us to have real society in the
sea ; and when this takes place ladies will coon be swimmers.
At Biarritz a gentleman asks a lady to swim with him in
the morning just as readily as he would invite her to waltz
at night. Why not in England ? At Brighton as at
Boulogne—in Devonshire as at Dieppe. The ladies have
everything to gain by it, the gentlemen nothing to lose,—
London Society.

DR. NEWMAN'S MASTERLY SERIES OF PAM.
PHLETS, entitled Apologia pro vita' Sua, recently
published by the Messrs. Longman and Co., of the Row,
are understood to have sold already to the extraordinary
number of 45,000 copies, Unprecedented though this
enormous sale is, mithin so very brief an interval, it can
hardly be matter for wonder remembering who the man ibt
who has written the work—as it certainly can be no mattes
for astonishment to those who.have read the work them.
selves.

The funeral of Marshal Pelissier, Duke of Mala-
koff, took place on Thursday in the Church of the
Iravalides. Military honours were paid to his re-
mains by the veterans of the Hospital in the inte-
rior of the hotel, and one on the outside bye brigade
of infantry of the Imperial Guard, two squadrons
of cavalry, a battalion of the Garda de Paris, half a
mounted squadron of the same Guard, a division of
nine battalions of the Ist Corps„d'Arrre,,, and two
squadrons and two batteries of artillery. These
troops were commanded by Marshal Magnan, and
were formed in close column on the esplanade facing
the grand entrance. Two salutes of 13 guns were
fired by a half battery placed' on the quay of the
Invalides—one salute at the commencement of the
funeral ceremony, and the other at the conclusion
when the troops defiled. The Church of the lava-
lides was entirely hung with black cloth, orna-
mented with the Marshal's arms. A rich catafalque
was raised in the middle of the nave ; twelve non-
commissioned officers, four of the Guard and eight
of the Line, stood round the coffin. After the reli-
gious service the coffin was placed in a hearse drawn
by six horses, which, according to custom, walked
across the large courtyard to the outer gate of the
Hotel des Invalides. The corners of the pall were
held by Marshal Vaillaut, General Marquis d'llaut-
poul, Count Walewski, and M. Mercier Lacombe,
Director of the Interior in Algeria. When the
cortege arrived at the external gate all the troops
defiled before the ccffil. The funeral cortege then
returned to the church, and the coffin wee lifted
from the hearse and carried by twelve non-commis-
sioned officers to the vault prepared for it. All the
Ministers, all the Marshals, Admirals, and General
officers present in Paris, all the Emperor's military
household, the Alger:an deputation, and deputations
from the great bodies of the State assisted at the
ceremony.