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

Colonel 21'31urdo on the Volunteers,

On Thursday the Ist Suffolk Administrative Bat-
alion of Volunteers, which has been encamped at
Great Barton, about three miles from Bury St.
Edmund's, was reviewed by Colonel 111‘Murdo,
Inspector-General of Volunteers. The camp equi-
page, consisting of 90 tents, three large marquees,
1,126 blankets, 80 leather buckets, 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 privates'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 flick 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 IT.Murdo said hi had come down expecting
much, and had not been disappointed. He hoped
before the battalion left the camp every man would
know how to pitch and slrike 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 eff,ct of the capitation grant upon their uni-
forms. Their pouches should be larger, bill 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 got 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
his 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 in a position where his
qualities as a bravo steady man might make him
useful in the day of battle. Precision of movemeitt
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 doubie." Now 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' BATHING DRESSES.--What a remarkably
uncomfortable, inconvenient dress Eoglish ladies
adopt for bathing. They are prone enough to follow French
tastes in bonnets and shawls. Wny not go a little further,
and adopt their really capital bathing costume? It would
not, when they rose Venus. like from the waves cling to
them, producing that statuesque effect which I may sappose
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 bath the gentlemen and the ladies is comuulscry,
to adopt a similar dress for us to have real society in the
sea ; and when this takes place ladies will soon 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.—
Landcn Socidy,

DR. NEY::-.IAN.S MASTERLY SERIES Or PAM-
PHLZIS, entitled Apoiogia pro vita Sw2, recently
published by the Messrs. Longman and Co., of the how,
are understood to have sold already to the extraordinary
number of 4i,000 copies. Unprecedented though this
enormous sale is, within so very brief an interval, it can
hardly be matter for wonder remembering who the man is
who has written the work—as it certainly can be no matter
for agtonishn,ent to tiv,ss who.have read the work them-