The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-26 00:00:00

THE VOLUNTEERS.

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FIELD-DAY ATCHISELHURST.
There is still something in a name. Lord Rene-
,agh's parade ground at Brighton having been
adopted by the military authorities, the noble lord
was on the point of discovering, or recovering, an-
Instantly arrange-
ofotrhteurnfuotroltyh,eilVlnoelunnitneeterrsvaetneCdh. iselhurst, when, un-
ments which looked so promising a few days before
were dropped, and the projected review was tacitly
abandoned. The site was still available, the readi-
olnit. an
I et o
de-
servesrp
the consideration of commanding officers
ness of the Volunteers to turn out might equally
have been counted upon, but the purposed Com-
mander-in-Chief was absent, and the Chiselhurst ex-
peditionary force accordingly resolved itself into its
original elements. One of the et
went to Gravesend, another to Croydon, a third to
Richmond, others to Streatham, and metropolitan
so o
whether this was an opportunity thrown away for
practising those combined movements, on which the
mp
efficiency of volunteer officers was said greatly to
depend, and whether some system of alternating
;brigadiers' commands should not be instituted, or
enforced in case it already exists. There have been
one or two occasions on which the want of a timely
understanding between colonels and battalions has
led, not perhaps to rival reviews, but to marches out
in contrary directions ; and this is just the reverse
of what sound policy dictates. If the volunteer force
is to be perpetuated as one of the services of the coun-
try—and recent votes in Parliament go fully that
length—it ought to assert itself on general holidays
in its corporate capacity, and not dwindle to an
aggregation merely of individual battalions. Resi-
dents in and around Chiselhurst, as well as the nume-
rous excursionists from London, evidently expected
that operations on a grand scale would be under-
of spectators
taken, for the array was sufficient to
en •r d rquee rently to hide from view the force
9rooload'
de arms. In point of numbers thin certainly was
not i
ging. The 29th (North Middlesex) Regi
a-
•
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:he only one by Which the original pro-
ais adhered to, and it had given material
for its attendance. There is one argu-
ist which no hospitable host, no affection-
(a ever known to struggle—and that is,
lining guest or acquaintance has taken
- ~hen 'a regiment adopts the
strong
beer, fj4,0,11 its the band and head-
.'
ayabe dly fxpected to follow. As the
IdPesex were the lions of the day, their
.scrutinised with microscopic attention,
ste —the inspection creditably. In
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a 3. , ech always depends on the
atiesy olunteer regiments have through-
beat figure whose chiefs
t
wre Imilitary
present commander, Colone Whitehead,
succeeded Lord Enfield 4•in the active
he corps, served in the Crimea, and wee
me major of the Victoria Rifles.
London-bridge Station at 12.45 p.m.,
train containing the regiment reached
Station of the Mid-Kent line shortly
,sat one o'clock. Thence they marched
park, and arrived about half-past two
,he crest of the hill, Where, by the libe-
)lon'elaWhitehead and the other officers,
,bstantial meal, consisting of different
bread, pickles, porter, ginger-beer, &c.,
had been provided. The scramble often charac-
teristic of similar al fresco entertainments was

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