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

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1864.

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Extra Prize, Fourth Series—Whitworth. Rifle, £3B—
Ross 2O
Extra Prize, Fifth Series—Fair of Statuettes, £2l—
Raiford, Leicester
Telescope, All Comers, £2s—First Prize, £lo—Captain
E.
Storws Ross, 3d Cambridge ............
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First rtze, £lOO (for breech loaders)—Range A,
lllitZ, £lo—Sergeant Brook, 12th Middlesex
(13 sho
Ditto .....................
First Prize X 10—Ensign Hughes,
lyis,e, 5
Henry Peeks, tirter (9 shots) ........
10$--x25 10s—Private Bruce, 3d
Kirkcudbright
"Daily Telegraph"—e,
-,,, ............ 18
Warwick ........ £5O--Lieutenant Burt, Ist
Earl de Grey's Prize,l9
gip.. .rize,. .T.
Turner .............
Lord Vernon-1,59 —Eden7l
20
" Volunteer Service Gazette''—Z 4 Heaton,
Manchester
" Army and Navy G izAte"—.£2o—P ..
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Al bert, Ist Stage—Range A, 15t...L.ci.z.e.,.i.-,o*******
Baker, Ist Glocester .............. P vats
Albert, Ist Stage—Range B, Ist Prize, £.io 1$
Colonel faker, 3il Cambridge .........
.
Ist Stage—Range C, Ist Prize, . G..*** "20
an, Ist Glocester Artillery ....... "'ler
21 smg3—Cup or monoy,t 100—Her; .....s .. 'c's's* 20
Kale

Albert,

.......... 73
£2o—Privat,i Alrcocl.. 13
Stage—fianze B, Ist Prize,

Irate Steyres ......
Alexandra, 2tl Stage—CuP or money, no—Private

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Parsons, Hon. Artillery Company lB
Any Ititio Association Cup—Xso-11. M. Ashton,
Liverpool Itlna Brigade .... 39
Enfield Association Cup—DsO—Sergeart 11. M. Ald-
ridae . 35
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Carbine Prizes —1 priz,, 4;10 —Lieut. king bes, th K ent 16
MrDillwyn's Prize—Cup, £2s—Rev. W. Brown, Ist

Devon ........................................ 16

sex
Earl Dudley's—Cup or Money, £5O
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge—First
prize, £so—Captain E. Ross, 3d Cambridge
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales—Cup or
money, £loo—Sergeant Dodd, Ist Hereford .. 46
Queen's Prize-Ist Stage—Silver medal, Whitworth
rifle, and £so—L7o—Private Haward, Ist Suffolk.. 47
Queen's Prize, 2d Stage—Her Majesty's prize of £250
gold medal of the N.R.A., and Whitwort erne—
, £277—Private Wyatt, London Rifle Brigade
In connexion with the prize of £5O given by Mr.
Henry Peek, Lord Elcho remarked that there was
no better indication of the success of the Volunteer
movement than this afforded. When the Associa-
tion first same to Wimbledon Mr. Peek was one
of those who did not quite understand or like
its objects. But now, so completely had
he changed his mind, that he not only secured
them this prize for seven years, but he was un-
derstood to contemplate a reference to it in his will.
Newspapers, also, had supported the association
very liberally. The example set by the Saturday
_Review, Army and Navy Gazette, and Volunteer
Service Gazette, was this year followed by the Daily
Telegraph with a generous donation of £5O, and
there were other papers, he thought, which might
act on so good a precedent. Lieut.-Colonel Baker,
of Cambridge University, on advancing to receive
a prize of £5O won in the first stage of the Albert
competition, was recommended to general favour as
the maker of the highest score in the International
match between England and Scotland; and of the
members of the Ross family as they successively
came forward to receive prizes which they had car-
ried off Lord Elcho justly observed that there was
no occasion to tell any one who they were. The
prize of £25, given by Mr Base, M.P., " well known
to organ-grinders and others," was awarded to Col.
Hutchinson, of the Bth Lancashire; and of the
Bth Lancashire; and of the carbine prizes for artil-
lerymen it was predicted that in another year this
class would probably need extension. The City of
London prizes, Lord Elcho explained, were given
out of a sum of £6OO collected by those two excel•
lent shots and hearty Volunteers, Sergeant Martin
Smith and Major Oxley, who went round among
the bankers and merchants of London. In this
manner they had entitled themselves to the thanks
not only of the Association, but of all Volunteers,
and he hoped their exertions might be looked on as
perennial. Two of the young Harrovians marched
off proudly with the Ashburton Challenge Shield,
the second time that this has been won oy the school
they represent; and Corporal Thornton, of Chel•
tenham, as the best individual shot, and probably
tallest, of all the Public School elevens, carried away
the Spencer Cup. Of the volley firing, a new fea-
ture in the meeting, Lord Elcho spoke as having
been very successful, 40 or 50 squads entering for
the prize. Lord E:cho then gave place to Col. the
Hon. C. Lindsay, who presented the St George's
Challenge Cup, in the name of the battalion he
represented, to Sergeant Penzer, of the sth
Stafford, expressing his satisfaction that it
went to a county which bad supported this par-
ticular competition so well. After payment of all
expenses, Colonel Lindsay' stated that the balance
remaining from the entrance fees of the competing
battalions produced £lBO, which he had the satis-
faction of handing over in " dragon" sovereigns to
the Association; the competitions in 1862 and 1863
producing £95 and £lO5 respectively. The beauti-
ful cup presented by the Chancellors of Oxford and
Cambridge for annual competition between the Uni-
versities was presented by Lady Elcho to the re-
presentatives of Cambridge ; after which Lord Elcho
entered into a short detail of the circumstances con-
test for the Echo Shield. He said that it had twice
been won by England, but now a turn in the tide of
fortune had taken place, and he did not believe there
was an Englishman present, whether he wore a
black coat or a Volunteer uniform, who grudged
Scotland her good luck. The English portion of the
assembly loudly cheered this sentiment, and Lord
Elea() went on to say that on one occasion Lady
Elcho had declared the Scotch never would exert
themselves to win the shield till it became a reality,
The first year there was merely a chalk drawing ex-
hibited, without even a glass to protect it ; last year
there was a plaster cast, and on both occasions Eng-
land won. But as soon as it appeared in substan-
tive iron Captain Ross and his seven Scotchmen
exerted themselves, and they were now going to
take the shield down to Edinburgh, to show what
they had won. Lord Bury, the captain of the Eng.
lish Eight, said that before the shield was carried
away ho wished to ask all Englishmen present to
join him in three cheers for Scotland. Any Scotch-
men who might be present he begged to reserve
their cheers till Captain Roes asked for them next
year in honour of the English victory. When the
laughter and very cordial cheering which this ad-
dress elicited had subsided, Captain Horatio Ross,
not only leader but father of an important section of
the Scottish Eight, acknowledged the compliment,
and, admitting that it had been hard work to get the
shield down to Scotland, said that now they had
got it they meant to keep it there. He in turn
invited cheers for Lord Bury and the English
Eight, which were warmly given. A voice pro-
ceeding from among the spectators tuggeated
one cheer for Mr. Ross himself. Lord Elcho re.
plied, " You had better have said for the
Ross family,'" and the amendment so worded
was carried unanimously. In the absence of any
tangible symbol of victory, certificates were next
presented to the 20 English winners in the Inter.
national Enfield match, the members of which ex•
changed reciprocal courtesies likewise. When the
Wimbledon Cup was being handed to Mr. Martin
Smith, Lord Elcho explained that the prize was
substituted for the benefit of former prize winners.
who were debarred from competing in the meeting
of that year for many objects of value. Mr_ Smith
not only proved himself the best shot by day, but
also by night, having won the Owl prize, and when-
ever the promised silver owl, value £5O, came out
of the ivy-bush it weuld be his property. The
Dudley Prize, the Duke of Cambridge's Prize, and
that given by the Prince of -Wales, were severally
awarded, and then the last and greatest distinCtir
was reached. Lord Elcho stated that the Cannel,
this year felt themselves justified, notwithstanding
their large expenses, in
giving a prize of £5O to the
winner of the first or Enfield stage cf the Queen's
Prize, who heretofore only gained a rifle and a silver
medal. This announcement, which came by sur-
prise upon most of those present, was hailed with
such general satisfaction that there can be no doabt
it will do much, if that be possible, to add tr: the
popularity of this competition next ye :r, Private
Haward, lst Suffolk, unfortunately was not present
to hear of his good fortreae, and the eyes of the
spectators accordinto,y turned to Private Wyatt of
Brigade, who, by making the
the London IV*,
highest sco-re in the second stage of the Queen's
Prize, entitled himself to £250 and,the gold medal
of the A ssociation. When he stepped forward the
guard of honour came to " attention," the baud
played " See the Conquering Hero," and Lord
Echo expressed the pleasure which he felt in know-
ing that the grout prize of the year went to one of
the steadiest shots in pee of the beat, if not the best,
metropolitan regiment. Loud cheers for the sic-
c'-'seful competitor toliowed, as ho received a purse
Lord from the hunch of Lady EICIIO.
TAs snnn as private ‘l,rsrAtt had retired,
Bunt came forward, and said the proceed.
ings ought
not to terminate without an acknow-
ledgment of the graceful manner in which Lady
Elcho had distributed the prizes.
Three of the
very heartiest cheers given during
the day followed this request, and the band chimed
plarowceiethdin"glis eorrstha healthepreaenttoatailolngomodaylabsseesta:P Theltenin
strictness to have terminated at this point, a 9 Lady

Eleho bowed and returned to her seat ; but they

certainly would have been incomplete without the
proposition made by Csptain Ross. Bearing brief
bat emphatic testimony to the service rendered to
the Volunteer movement by Lord Elcho, he asked
Volunteers—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 Elcho
was compelled to deliver quite a short address in
reply. He assured those who heard him that he had
not taken up the Volunteer movement from any idle
fancy, but with the firm conviction expressed 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

people, or the amusement of the youth of the coun•
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
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instice 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 o:

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 meanwhile had been enliven
by the steady flow of Volunteer regiments. Some, in spite
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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 five o'clock, and proceeded almost
immediately to the hospital tent, whore he learnt from the
medical attendants of Cooper that his state, far from 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 therenpon directed
that powder should be ignored in the review as completely
as if it had 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-
tended 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 manceuvres. 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 net 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 Renelagh,
Lieutenant-Colonel Walker, Colonel Luard, Lord Radatock,
and Lieutenant •Colonel Bigge, passed the flagstaff in the
following order :
FIRST DlVlSlON—Commanded by Major-General Sir J.
Y. Scarlctt—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 four guns—the
let Middlesex (Victories), under Major Greenhill-36th
Middlesex, Lieutenant-Colonel Wood, the 19th Middlesex
(WorkingMen'sCollege), Lieutenant-Colonel Hughes—the
23 Essex Administrative Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel
Davis-3d City of London, Major Richards—the sth Ad-
ministrative Battalion of Essex, Lieutenant-Colonel Capper
—the sth Administrative Battalion of Middlesex, Colonel
Grey—let 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 and Adjutant Hotham
—the 7th Surrey, Major Beresford—the St. George's,
Colonel Lindsay—the West Middlesex, Captain Dear—the
Ist Tower Hamlets Administrative Battalion, Lieutenant-
Colonel Buxton—the 4th and Gth Tower Hamlets, Lieute-
nant-Colonel Money--the 12th Surrey, Colonel Cole—the
39th Finsbury, Colonel Penton.
SECOND Divisfox—Commanded by Major• General RUM-
ley—The Ist Middlesek Artillery, Colonel Creed, six guns
—3d Middlesex Artillem two batteries of six guns, the
2d, Bth, and 9th Tower Hamlets, Lieut.-Colonel Samuda-
-Ist Middlesea Engineers, Lieut.-Colonel M'Leod of
M'Leod--the South Middlesex, Major Atherley—the North
Middlesex (29th), Lieut.. 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 Middle.3ex, Lieutenant-Colonel Wilkinson—
London Scottish, Lord Elcho—the Queen's (Westminster),
Lientenent-Colonels Lord Grosvenor and Lord Gerald Fitz-
gerald—the City of London and Tower Hamlets Artillery,
Major 'Walmsley—the 48th Middlesex, 4th City (Foresters)
the 2d City of London, Lieut.-Col. Cruikshank 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 eat it out had it lasted
much longer. The favourites were, as usual, loudly cheered,
especially the 'Victories 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 racts,"
which was In much request during the meeting, *souk" do
good tervico, itt these days of similarity of dress, if he en-
abled the public to distinguish at a glance between the uni-
- forms of different regiments.
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The Late Lieutenant-Colonel Brewster,

On Wednesday last was buried, at the Bomptom Ceme-
tery, Lieut.-Colonel Brewster, late of the Inns of Court Rifle
Volunteers, who, to the deep sorrow of his family and
friends, and to the heavy loss of the Volunteer service, has
been cut off in the flower of life after a few months' illness.
His body was escorted to its las; resting place by the regi-
ment which he so efficiently commanded, and all the simple
and touching rites of a soldier's :uneral were performedevith
affectionate respect over one who was in heart a soldier. If
we might venture to guess whit would have been Colonel
Brewster's wish, we should say that, as Providence forbade
his finding a grave on the Crimem battlefields, he would have
chosen the place and manner of interment which his friends
adopted. Both in the church cf Warwick-square, Pimlico,
and at the Brompton Cemeterytthe ceremonial was faultless
in arm gement and execution. The Burial Service of the
Church only needs to be read audibly and reverently to speak
to every heart, and the " Dead March in Saul" is in another
way equally impressive. After the last prayer had been
read, a party of the Inns of 3ourt Volunteers fired three
volleys over the grave, and,hering quitted the cemetery, the
corps marched homewards wth its band playing a lively
tune which was a special favotrite of the deceased colonel.
This is the usual practice of military funerals, and it is
dictated by that reason— teeeeet6
which still hath cried,
From the first oorpse ill he that died to-day,
This must be so.
But, although other duties claim attention and other
thoughts occupy the mind, i will be long before the Inns
of Court Rifles replace, and sill longer before they forget,
their lamented colonel. He vas the model of an officer
adapted to command a regiment of intelligent and educated
volunteer, and the loss of Colonel Brewster will be felt
throughout the volunteer service, and not merely by his
own corps. He showed whit could be done in a short
time towards making vounteers efficient, and the
value of his assistance was understood by Colonel
M'Murdo, the Inspectoi.General of Volunteers,
who was among the fiends who followed him
to the grave. Colonel Brewster gave the impression of
a man equal to any emergemy of actual service, and for the
training and leadership of tle Inns of Court corps he pos-
sessed special advantages ofbirth and education, as well as
the pre-eminent qualificatiot of thoroughly understanding
the work he had to do. Beng the son of Mr Brewster,
Q.C., formerly Attorney-General for Ireland, he had an
hereditary claim to the esteemof a corps of lawyers. Further,
he had graduated at Oxford before entering the army, and
thus he was well acquainted with the feelings of members
of the universities, of whom he had many under his com-
mand. Twenty years ago the number of men who went
to Oxford or Cambridge as a preparation for the army
was even smaller than it is now. The advantage of
such a preparation is indisputable, but unfortunately
commissions are usually obtained before the age at which
degrees are taken. It happened, however, that Colonel
Brewster's youth fell on a time when applicants were kept
waiting almost beyond endurance for commissions, and
he turned this period, which is too often one of mental va-
cancy or weariness, to excellent account by reading for a
degree at Oxford. And, besides reading for a degree, he
acquired in various ways a reputation at Oxford which en-
sured his popularity with the Inns of Court of Volunteers,
and inspired in that corps a well-founded belief of his great
capacity as an officer. He was noted as an undergraduate at
St. John's College for being good across country with
hounds, and good upon a coach-box with four-in-hand, but
it was as an oarsman that he gained his most enduring
fame. In 1842 there was a boat race between Oxford and
Cambridge over the o!d coarse from Westminster to
Putney, which Oxford won. and No, 4 in the winning boat
was Brewster of St. jokes. Next year, at Henley, there
were entered, for the Grand Challenge Cup, the Oxford
University boat and the Cambridge Subscription Rooms'
boat. On the day of the race, the stroke of the Oxford
boat was taken ill, and as the Cambridge men ob-
jected, as in strictness they were entitled to do, to
a substitute, the Oxonians started with seven oars, and won
the race. Brewster at his old place, No. 4, bore his full share
in achieving one of the most remarkable of aquatic victories.
In 1816 he took his degree, and soon afterwards entered the
Ist battalion of the Rifle Brigade. He was made adjutant of
the battalion in 1848, and in the same year went out to the
Cape of Good Hope. Reserved in the Kaffir war of 1852-3,
and received a medal. The exposure to climate and hard-
ships which he underwent in these campaigns brought on
severe attacks of rheumatic fever, and doubtless laid the
foundation of the disease of which he died. When the
battalion of the Rifle Brigade to which he belonged
was ordered to the Crimea, he marched with it as far
as Portsmouth, hoping against hope that he might be
permitted to display his military ability and experience
upon a European field of warfare. He had the reputation
of being one of the best adjutants of a regiment ever
known. and his friends would have confidently expected
to see him attain high distinction if Providence had allowed
him to enjoy health and opportunity. But the decision of
a medical board forbade his embarkation for the Crimea,
and, although he continued to hope for improvement, he
hoped in vain. The adjutancy of the battalion was kept
open for him as long as there appeared any possibility of
his satisfying medical requisitions, but ho was reluctantly
compelled to abandon his life's most cherished hopes. A
few years afterwards he determined to retire from a position
which must be beyond expression irksome to one who feels
intellectual capacity for service which his bodily health re-
strains from undertaking. He is remembered in the Rifle
Brigade as one of the most popular officers of his time.
There was nothing that his men would not do for him or
with him, and in bush-fighting against the Kaffirs he was
very active in finding work for them. To all qualities which
are deemed peculiarly soldier-like ha added piety of heart
and purity and sobriety of life. He left the army in 1858,
having attained the rank of captain, and he married a few
weeks afterwards.
The beginning of the volunteer movement found Mr.
Brewster unemploved, having had ample experience of a
kind of war well calculated to teach one who had the gift of
learning how to discriminate between those parte of the
English military system which are essential, and those
which owe their existence to custom or caprice. Here was
exactly the man to instruct volunteers in what they ought
to do and how to do it, and besides he possessed special
qualifications for managing the corps of which, by a fortune
happy alike for commanded and commander, he became
lieutenant-colonel, having no colonel over him. Under his
direction, the Inns of Court Rifles took part in all the prin-
cipal reviews and field days of the volunteer force which
have been held since its formation. Having good material
to work upon, he soon produced a valuable result. His aim
was rapidity of movement rather than that precision which
is only likely to be attained by' devoting to drill a much
larger portion of time than volunteers generally can spare
for it. Knowing from experience what war is, and having
a mind capable of appreciating modern changes in its con-
ditions, he gave always a practical business like character
to the training of his corps.
Emphatically, there was no
nonsense about Colonel Brewster, and having learned to
obey while learning to command, he possessed what
, -
must have been in the eyes of the military authorities no
inconsiderable merit, namely, he did what he was told to
do and gave no trouble, If he had his men out for a field-
day, he did not after one movement allow them to waste
time in dressing their line, but immediately called upon
them for another. On more than one occasion, competent
observers have expressed astonishment at the number of
evolutions which he put his corps through in. a
given time,
and it was truly said that he could turn that corps inside
out, and do what else he liked with it. Whether it was a
single battalion or a brigade that he commanded Col. Brew-
ster handled his force with a firm and unerring grasp.
His management of any command which left him a pretty
wide discretion was always such as to show that he tho-
roughly understood his business ; and in particular his con-
duct of the force which represented the enemy at the
Brighton reviews Wee admirable. He fully gained the
confidence of those who had time to become acquainted
with him, and even a body of well who were suddenly
placed under his orders would hate disereeered from his
first look and word that Colonel Brewster knew what he
was about. And this, after all, is the most Valuable
quality whui h a leader can possess. For we must always
suppose it possible that the 'Volunteers may one day be
called upon to perform the duties for which they have
undertaken to hold themselves prepared. That is a con-
tingency which may be regarded with various feelings,
according to the position in life, habits, and tastes of those
who turn their minds towards it. Theoreticallb, we all
desire that—

Every man shall eat in safety
Under his awn vine what he plants, and sing
The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours.
But still it may bo suspected that among men of pacific life
and conversation lateat seintillula forma; and even in the
depths of minds well-stored with legal rules and prece-
dents, and
obligations' there may yet lurk unconfessed a hankering
after an untried sensation,
Penetrated with a Fenn of social and family
and a feeling that a taste—just
one little: taste—of the certarninis gaudium would be very
pleasant. In the Inns of Court corps in past years some
men may have thought of such a day, with joy, and all
certainly without fear ; and always the belief must have
been universal, that if they had Colonel Brewster to com-
mand, and they were ready to obey, their bleed would not
be spent in vain.
Thus far we have spoken of what wo conceive to be a
public loss. But there were between seven and eight hun-
dred members of the Inns of Court Rifle Corps to whom
the same event was the death of a dear friend. They will
have thought many times during the past week of all that
their late Colonel did for them, and of how he did it.
Considerate of everybody but himself, always at his post,
instructing, advising, and encouraging' knowing exactly
under all circumstances what to do, prompt to repair the
error 3 of anlyallinates and almost incapable himself of
error, with a
cheerful voice, he banished the sense of fatigue from others
noble look and bearing, a light heart and a
and seemed unable to feel fatigue himself. Such was the
commander whom the Tuns of Court of Rifles, attended
to his last resting-place in the Brompton Cemetery. The
sight of the oak coffin recalled the memory of that stature
Iwhich rose above every crowd, and of that length of limb
which gave to ono of the oars of the Oxford University
boat a far-reaching and. vietor:ous sweep. The sword
which rested upon the coffin, with the simple unplumed
cap which was part of its late wearer's own conception'of
dress enitable for a rifleman who meant business, recalled

the last public occasion on which he wore that sword and
cap. It was the Volunteer Review at Wimbledon, which
will be a year ago next Saturday. He said thhat a cold
caught upon that day was the beginning of his illness.
Deeply will his corps feel the want of him at the next of
these annual reviews, and often and sadly will they think
that he is gone, and the place which knew him shall know
him no more.
To say that Colonel Brewster died in the prime of life is
almost equivalent to saying that h© fell a victim to one of
the varieties of that terrible malady, consumption. It may
be, although we would not willingly think so, that his con-
stitution suffered something by the gallant aquatic feats
of his early years at Oxford. But he endured in Southern
Africa enough of hardship and exposure to lay the seeds
of the disease which in the 45th year of his age attained
its fatal ripeness. He has died a soldier's death as much
as if he had fallen by steel or shot, and because he was
worthy, therefore was he so soon taken; for, as ene of the
warrior-poets of Greece has said-
116Xepos (ail; avSp e Kan,
ape rovripOv, cIXX(I Toys. xpriaroi)s

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE AMERICAN
WAR,—The military operations in America are
almost as confusing as the Federal finances. It
seems at first sight almost paradoxical that General
Grant should be summoning Petersburg to surren-
der, while General Ewell is approaching Baltimore,
after defeating the Federal army of Maryland. The
correspondents and commentators of the Northern
journals earefully abstain from any attempt to elu-
cidate the warlike movements which furnish them
only with materials for triumph and congratula-
tion. Like preachers they make it their business
not to explain their text, but to decorate or darken
it by fluent expositions of their own preconceived
opinions, A careful and credulous study of their
columns has probably convinced their indigenous
readers that Grant was successively in the best
positions on the Rapidan, at Spottsylvania, at
White House, at Chickahominy, on the north bank
of the James River, and at City Point. It is not
impossible that the last conclusion may be acciden-
tally just, but observers at a distance would be
grateful for more definite information, especially if
some distinction were occasionally made between
defeats and victories. The public instructors of
New 'York are highly gratified with the success of
General Wilson, who escaped with the loss of his
trains, of his artillery, and of a large portion of his
force; and their enthusiasm is still more strongly
excited by General Hunter's advance on Lynch-
burg, followed by his retreat with the loss of seve-
ral guns, and involving the subsequent abandon•
meat of Harper's Ferry, and the passage of the
Potomac by the Confederates. Those who wish
to understand in some degree the progress of the
campaign must wholly disregard the ebullitions
of sanguine patriotism. It is not even safe to
assume that the Federal cause is hopeless because
its supporters habitually disregard all truth and
probaiility. General Grant is not a newspaper
correspondent, and he is responsible for the
safety of his army. His pertinacity in threatening
Petersburg, and in disturbing the Southern commu-
nications of Richmond, implies his belief in the pos•
sibility of inflicting a heavy blow on the enemy,
even if he fails to occupy the Confederate capital.
The defences of Petersburg have been found too
strong for assault ; but siege artillery will now be
brought into play for the first time in the present
campaign. Scarcely any fortifications aro impreg-
nable, if they are regularly approached by a supes
rior army. If Gen. Beauregard is conscious of his
inability to encounter Grant in the field, he will
probably, after prolonging the defence of Petersburg
to the best of his ability, retire to some other poste'
tion. Gen. Lee has judged wisely in entrusting the
command of the garrison to the best engineer in the
Confederate service. The position of the Federal
army, in some respects, resembles that of the French
and English armies before Sebastopol. In both cases
the assailants were unable to invest the enemy's
stronghold, and Gen. Grant's demonstrations on his
left flank against the Confederate communications
aro perhaps as effective as the menaces of the allied
fleets against the Russsian line of supply by the
isthmus of Perekop. The Federal army has the
great advantage of depending on the sea for its
communications, and, since Gen. Grant has blocked
the upper channel of the James River, City Point
is as unassailable as Balaklava, The:Government
which he serves, notwithstanding its financial em-
barrassments, still possesses a vast superiority of
wealth and material resources; and if it thinks fit
to persevere in its enterprise, and if it can defend
its own territory without recalling troops from Vir-
ginia, it may hold for an indefinite time the
ground which its forces occupy on the James
River. On the other hand, the Confederates are
not, like the Russians, separated by hundreds of
miles from their centres of operation. The seat of
government is in the immediate neighbourhood
of the scene of action, and Richmond is connected
by railroads with every portion of the Confederacy.
Their principal danger arises from their unaccount-
able weakness in cevairy, and from the consequent
facility with which the Federal columns can disturb
their communications. If the invader were strong
enough to extend himself across the two principal
lines of railway, General Lee might possibly be
compelled to retire to the South-West, leaving
Richmond in charge of a garrison. It is, per-
haps, partly for the purpose of sparing
his magazines that he has detached a considerable
force througn the Shenandoah Valley to the coun-
try beyond the Potomac. If he could afford to
diminish his own army in the presence of Grant,
the expedition involved little difficulty or risk.
The presence of Sigel at Harper's Ferry of itself
invited attack. The unlucky German leader is
familiar with defeat, and in Western Virgitaia espee
cially his troops resemble Hudibras's connoisseurs
in suffering :
Some have been beaten till they know
What wood a cudgel's of, by the blow.
Some have been kicked till they know whether
A shoe's of Spanish or neat's leather.
Sigel must be able to judge, as soon as skirmishing
commences, whether Breckenridge or Longstreet or
Ewell is about to administer the accustomed chas-
tisement.
THE SPECTATOR" ON THE LORD CHANCEL-
LOR'S SPEECH ON CONVOCATION,—No doubt a
certain contemptuousness, a certain cynical insolen-
ha, has always been of the very essence of Lord
We stbury's nature, so that the exuberant overflow
of itin his thoughts and speech can, in one sense,
scarcely be said to be of that secondary end merely
auxiliary character which we have ascribed to
all true unctuousness, It may be said, however,
not only of his recent outbreak against the clerical
bench, but of his raillery in general, in the words
of the Psalm, " The words of his mouth were softer
than butter, having war in his heart ; his words
were smoother than oil, yet be they very swords,"
and it re this power of summoning a milky manner
to his aid in order to second the effect of his thrusts,
this redundancy of soft phrase in which he sheathes
the sting of his remarks,—this " saponaceous" slip-
periness of sentiment through which he lets his real
drift glide like an electric eel,—that justly entitles
him to the epithet " unctuous." No doubt the Lord
Chancellor has in him all the qualifications for
an unctuous preacher, if he needed to use them
in that direction. We remember his address to
the Young Men's Christian Association at Wolver-
hampton which showed very high capacity of that
kind, and many of his official congratulatory
speeches to turd Mayors arid others have disguised
almost completely the scornful and cynical superio-
rity which just gleams fe it moment and is gone.
It is but fair, then, to conclude that if he now uses
his great command of gentle phrase only to silver a
dangerous weapon, he has all the capacity to use it
for its own sake, if once he could feel that it would
be of more use for its own sake than by way of
Contrast. He has been too eucceseful to find tine'
suppecesion of itte own overbearing intellectual per-
sonality needful or desirable,—but not the less he
shines pre-eminent in the capacity to tincture his
speech with a rich fatty substance not properly
either intellectual or moral, but expressing a sort of
voluptuous desire to indulge unduly, and eiier3 riot,
in the mood of the moment. Instead of going
straight to his object he contrives for himself, as all
unctuous speakers do, opportunities of wallowing
in the sentiment he is expressing ; he whips up his
thoughts upon it into a rich, creamy, saponaceous
lather, and this none the less that his thoughts are
now not at all the kind of Bishop-of Oxford-
thoughts he expressed to the Young Men's Christian
Association at Wolverhampton, but rather of a
directly opposite and even scoffing tendency. No-
thing could be more remarkable than the excessive
indulgence of Lord Westbury in this sort of volup-
tuous enjoyment in his speech yesterday week in
the House of Lords, which, by a sort of poetical
justice, was directed against a master in the art,.
though on the other side of the art, the Bishop of
Oxford. After describing in his peculiar lisp the
" three modes" of dealing with Convocation, " first
when they are har;nleesly busy to iake no notice
of their proceedings; next, when they sem
likely to get into mischief, to prorogue :and put
en end to their proceedings; thirdly, when they
have done something clearly beyond their
powers to bring them before a Court of Justice, and
punish them, and thus laid a good basis for the
vitriolic lather, which he was about to mix, and
apply with a leisurely but cruel hand
bur West-
bury entered fairly
on the intemperate and almost
sensuel enjoyment of his speech. The mode in
which he diluted upon applying the penaltws of
preeinunirc to the episcopal bench—the gloating
language in which he discussed the advantages to
the Exchequer of sequestrating the incomes of
all
the bishops, deans, arch;h9.conl, and other ought,