The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-04 00:00:00

7HE ARMI' .

The Ist Life Guards, under the command of Lieut.-
Col. Lord de Ros, left the North Camp, Aldershott,
on Saturday for Windsor.
The 3d battalion Grenadier Guards, under the
command of Col. Curzon, are to leave their encamp-
ment on Cove-common, Aldershott, to-morrow
(Tuesday), and return to Wellington Barracks.
The battalion has been under canvas a month. They
are to be replaced at Cove-common by the Ist bat-
talion Grenadier Guards, who are to leave Welling-
ton Barracks at the time of the Grenadiers leaving
Aldershott.

The btrength of the depots stationed at the camp
at Colchester has been considerably reduced during
the past month by the draughts which have left for
service in the East. Ensign Marvin, of the 2d
battalion 6th Foot, has proceeded to Landguard
Fort, Harwich, to perform there the duties of Adjt.
and Quartermaster. _

In consequence of the difficulty experienced by
volunteer corps in obtaining a sufficient number of
sergeant-instructors, the Secretary of State for War
has decided upon extending the provisions of the
Volunteer Circular of Aug. 22,1861, by the employ-
ment of a second class of instructors. A War-office
circular has according been received at Chatham,
defining the rules and regulations under which the
new volunteer instructors will be appointed. The
qualifications required for second-class sergeant-
instructors for rifle volunteer corps are as follows :
—Service in the Imperial or Indian army or embo-
died militia; a competent knowledge of infantry
drill, to be ascertained from the report of an officer
appointed by the Secretary of State to institute a
practical examination ; a good character, established
by satisfactory testimonials. A second-class ser-
geant-instructor will receive consolidated pay at the
rate of ls. 4d. per day. A second-class instructor
will be permitted, with the sanction of the com-
manding officers, to work at a trade, or follow any
other occupation approved by the Secretary of State,
within a radius of one mile from the head-quarters
of the corps, on the express understanding that he
is at all times available for the public service, and
that the trade or occupation is not to interfere in
any way with the duties he is liable to perform
under article 167 A of the regulations.
Capt. Bolton, of the 12th Regiment, has during
the past week been trying at Aldershott his newly-
invented telegraph with the lime light for night
signals. On one evening he telegraphed to the
Crystal Palace, from which the light was distinctly
visible to the naked eye. On Friday messages
were sent to the flying column at Ascot, and it is
stated that the experiments generally have proved
satisfactory.
The vacation at Sandhurst having expired, the
gentlemen cadets returned to the college on Satur-
day. The following is the present staff of the
college ;—Governor, Sir H. D. Jones ; Lieutenant-
Governor, Colonel R. Scott ; Superintendent of
Studies, Col. Lacy; Adjutant, Capt.
Patterson ;
Captains of Companies—A, Major Farmer ; B
Major Boulby ; C, not yet gazetted ; as:
ter, Capt. Brooke; Surgeon-Major Bradford: As-
sistant-Surgeon Collins ; Paymaster Hilton ; Quar-
termaster Davis.

The next competitive examination for assistant-
surgeoucies in the army will commence at Chelsea
Hospital on the 11th inst.

INTERNATIONAL EX.IIIBITION.—The number of
visitors at the Exhibition. on Saturday was :--131 °totalyl
tickets, 8,635 ; by patents and day tickets 15,W;
23,820.

VOLUNTEER FIELD DAY AT ASCOT.

On Saturday last the Berkshire Volunteers,
assisted by some metropolitan corps and the largest
contingent of regular troops which has yet been
seen at a Volunteer display. finished their week's
encampment on Asc3t-heath with a review and
sham fight, which had been intended to be very
brilliant and imposing, but which, from more than
one untoward circumstance, was considerably cur-
tailed of its anticipated splendour. The public are
already aware of the existence of the encampment
—how the volunteers of Berkshire, being manfully
determined to see what the "tented field" was
really like, had collected on Ascot Heath, and
established their canvas city according to the
strictest rules of military discipline. The heath
was speckled with bell tents, warranted to
carry ten inside, but sometimes these were
rather inconveniently crowded in consequence of
the mysterious anxiety of stout men to don the
volunteer uniform. The gallant civilians had,
however, come to the ground firmly determined to
"rouge it" and this, as well as other minor incon-
veniences, was submitted to not only without
grumbling, but with the greatest hilarity and good
I humour, just as the whole affair had been a
grand military picnic, and that the usual deficien-
cies of a picnic were to be accepted as legitimate
features in the entertainment. The week had been
exhausted in playing through the whole drama of
camp life, happily, however, without the terrible
" blue fire" of real war, in which the drama of real
warfare too frequently culminates. The Volunteers
formed their camp, and guarded itin true military
fashion. Never was unhappy stranger accosted with
" Who goes there ?" by more ferocious sentry than
during the past week at Ascot-heath. There was
gun-fire morning and evening, parade ditto ditto,
daily shooting match, and at night the joys of the
bivouac, the song, the pipe, and the can, after the
most glowing pictures in the manner of " Harry
Lorrequer." Happily the part of the heath selected
for the encampment was dry and the weather over-
head delightful, so that the doctor's weekly " state"
is exceedingly free from " rheumatic affections."
The men took to their work honestly and faithfully,
never shirking either a turn-out or a parade, always
prompt to answer to the bugle, and steady in their
attendance at the canteen, where beer and other
approved military refreshments were served out
exactly the same as at Aldershot or the Curragh.
It was a capital idea this Volunteer encampment,
and it was honestly carried out. We trust it will be
the precursor of many others, and that the rest of
our Volunteer corps will emulate the stout men of
Berkshire, and, not contented with " the pride,
pomp, and circumstance," will also be ready, like
them, to submit to some of the actual hardships of
military life.

The week up to Friday inclusive had been occu-
pied with shooting matches, diversified with "pool"
and " Aunt Sally," and on Friday evening there was
a volunteer ball, at which we regret to learn the
waltzes were much inconvenienced by the sharp
gradients of the flooring of the salon de danse, and
at which a much more serious cause of regret was
that no private volunteer was present except by
" special invitation." This was an exclusiveness
which cannot be too strongly censured, as per-
fect social equality is the very basis and keystone
cf the volunteer movement, and without it the
respectable young men of the country will fall
away, and the ranks will be filled with subsidised
men who would have been much better absorbed by 1
the regular army or militia. On the parade ground
a gentleman who may be a private will know with-
out being told the duties of respect and obedience ;
but when he finds the distinctions of rank carried
into the social intercourse of private life, he will
hardly like to continue in a force where his per-
sonal status is to be the sacrifice for the pleasure of
wearing a volunteer uniform. It is a singular but
incontrovertible fact that, whereas in the regular
army the distance between the commissioned and
non-commissioned ranks is being lessened every
day, when officers attend the men's balls and
merrymakings, and bring their ladies with them,
when they join in the cricket matches and football,
and, in fact, show their sympathy and military bro-
therhood in every way that is consistent with the
discipline of the service and the Queen's regula-
tions amongst the volunteers, on the other hand, an
affectation of exclusiveness on the part of the offi-
cers becomes daily more perceptible. The broadest
possible line is drawn between them and the men,
who are all theoretically, and nearly all practically,
quite as " good" as themselves, and in cases of balls,
concerts, &c., the latter are much too often snubbed
and excluded. The volunteer officers enjoy all the
popularity which the efficiency and zeal of the
men has obtained. The men, in fact, do all the
work and earn all the praise, and the officers mo-
nopolise all the fun, and honours, and the public
applause.
On Saturday morning the men in green and grey
commenced striking their tents in the heath, and
the men in scarlet came from Aldershott and
pitched theirs in the immediate vicinity. The per-
manent volunteer force consisted of the Berkshire
corps, assisted by, we believe, one or two metropoli-
tan and provincial corps, and the regular force in-
cluded two battalions of Horse Artillery, the 13th
Hussars, the 9th Lancers, and the sth (Fusiliers), '
26th (Cameronians), and the 20th Regiments of
the Line. The regular forces therefore must have
amounted to between 3,000 and 4,000 men, horse,
foot, and artillery, being the largest amount
of regulars that had yet appeared at a volunteer
parade. The original intention was, we
believe, that the volunteers should have been pitted
against the regulars, but there was something wrong
in the preliminary arrangements of the former
which prevented the arrival of more than one half
of the corps until the field evolutions had nearly ter-
minated. Many of the best metropolitan corps were
absent altogether, and of those that did come not one
half the men answered to the roll. Blame is cast on
every one, especially the South Western Railway,
Company, for the defection, but we really can-
not see that 3s. for officers and 2s. for men was a
very extravagant charge for 58 miles, especially as
the company had to borrow extra carriages and put
on treble the force of men to meet the extraordinary
demand. As to the service, we believe that the
volunteers were taken down as fast as they arrived
on the platform, and in the train in which we
travelled ourselves a whole corps as
that their shipped
within about four minutes of the timew
band was heard playing them up the Waterloo-
road. If the expected corps did not keepthe railway station, the company was
tryst
at
not to blame,
and from all we could observe every exertion was
made by the South Western C
get the men to the grounds ompany's officers to
as speedily as possible.
There may be jealousies i
and differences amongst
the metropolitan corps, which cooled the zeal of
some of those who were expected at Ascot en Sa-
turday, and it should be ascertained whether such
was actually the case, before sentence
of neglect or
extortion is too hastily railway com-,
passed on the
pany or their officers. it may, the fact
where .
However, let the blame be
was considerably
niuster
and many of the
Was that the Volunteer
short of what had been
corps who did come were
the evolutions. The firstplace at 3 o'cloctic: too late to take part in
expected,
business of the day took
ben General Pennefather de-
the Grand Stand, the prizes
livered, in
been won during the week, and imme-
diately had "
the forces were mustered preparatory
diately after _ ~ .
In order to witness these the
to tbe evolutions..
considerable numbers taken
nublie had in very
r
Places in the Grand Stand, but after they had been
f COmfortablyseated,and had all got their field- glasses
sea
' to the proper focus, they were disagreeably sur-
prised to see the whole army march off to the un-
known bog behind, leaving the race-course and the
encampment deserted, except band
by one military
which had been compassionately left to console

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boxes at sixpence a piece by professing tt::fill Slim'
with shillings. Some of the company, on finding
the actual state of affairs, rushed up to the back of
the roof, and in this way one row of spectators were
enabled:to catch on occasional glimpse of smoke over
the unequal ground behind ; others rushed manfully
to the skirts of the bog, reckless of the half-crowns
they had paid for seats in the grand stand ; but all
agreed they c)uld see nothing but smoke, either
the modesty or the military zeal of the volunteers
having carried them so deep into the bog that their
evolutions were all, as far as the public were con-
cerned, performed in the strictest privacy and seelu-

sion.
The commandant of the day was Lieut.-General
Paenrinieni
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her, Lord George
took
was also Faulet conunancied the
cavalry, and his Royal Highness the General Glom-
nid
p present, but in plain
clothes, and ook i
no art in the proceedings of the
day. Sir R. Airey and a good number of cfficers of
rank accompanied his Royal Highness. The plan
given to thew
of evolutions amsethat f theß l u
khonouroo
,tehree tacka should
be and
obtain possession of the heights between .Ascot and
Aldershot. They had to assist them a battery of the
Royal Horse Artillery and the whole of the 13th
Hussars. The defence was maintained by the sth
Fusiliers and the other regiments of the line, who
were to have been strengthened by the London con-
tingent, but they, like Grouchy at Waterloo, were
not up to time. The London Scottish and the St.
George's got up when the fight was at the hottest,
and fired some volleys, the close regular sound of
which was much appreciated by those on the Grand
Stand. The regular cavalry distinguished them-
selves, although the grcund was not adapted for
frequent charges, and after a few more evolutions
the proceedings of the field day ;orminated, and ar-
rangemeets were commenced for that only sure
card at volunteer field day s, the final "march past,"
The people on the Grand Stand now at last began
to understand, to admire, and to applaud. At first
their attention was attracted by the Lancers in
front, who were clearing the ground, and who
effected quite a series of brilliant charges against
solitary little boys who would run across the COUfSC,
and " dodged" the mounted dragoon in the most
daring and reckless manner. Sometimes two or
three soldiers would close round the juvenile gue-
rilla, but the latter, nothing daunted, would duck
in and out under the horses' bellies, and break out
in a fresh place, perfectly secure that his enemy,
however he might frighten, would never think
seriously of hurting him. The crowd shouted and
applauded, and, after an exciting passage of arms,
the guerilla would be driven to the rails, which he
would clear with a bound, and by several sugges-
tive gestures would then intimate his opinion that
a mounted dragoon was not after all so very dreadful
an opponent. After this the trumpet sounded, and
General Pennelather and his staff were seen to take
their places in front of the grand stand. A cloud
of dust was seen to rise on the left side of the
stand, which gradually approached, and from its
centre emerged one of the finest bodies of cavalry
in the world—the Royal Horse Artillery. Like so
many mailed statues, these perfectly
disciplined
soldiers took their places in a double line at the
entrance of the course, and there waited until by
slow degrees the whole advancing column was
formed. Close behind the Horse Artillery the
Hussars and Lancers fell in, after them the regi-
ments of the line, and finally the volunteers, as fast,
as they could be pulled together. A considerable
delay occurred in the muster, through waiting for
the City of London, the North Middlesex, and the
Queen's Westminster, none of which corps arrived
until the evolutions of the field day had terminated.
At last the bugles sounded the advance, and it would
be impossible to imagine anything finer than the
march of the regulars. The Royal Horse Artillery
were cheered to the echo, and the Hussars and.
Lancers became equally popular favourites ; but
the climax of the public approbation was reserved
for the line regiments, whose marching was abso-
lute perfection. Without saying anything invidious
of our citizen soldiers who followed, we must ex-
press our opinion that nothing could more lead to
the making of their discipline perfect than their
being as often as possible set thus to act with re-
gular troops, in order that the marching and whole
department of the latter should serve as a standard
by which they might be able to measure and to per-
fect their own proficiency. There were numbers of
Volunteers on the stand, and nobody seemed to be
more struck with the difference between regular
and volunteer marching. although the latter was
perhaps better than any other volunteer marching
in the world. The volunteers, like true English-
men, are of course, anxious that everything they
undertake to do should be done as well as possible,
and they cannot take a better means of improving
than by endeavouring to emulate the regulars as
strenuously as possible. Some corps, such as the
London Scottish and the Queen's, marched toler-
ably well, but, as a general rule, the marching was
not first rate, and certainly suffered considerably
from comparison with that of the regular troops
which headed the column. The proceedings finished
with a gallop by the cavalry, and a
complimentary
farewell from the General of the day.

CRYSTAL PALACE.

The building and grounds of this popular institu-
tion were thrown open yesterday to between 3,000
and 4,000 visitors, chiefly of the middle class and.
of the higher artisan class, who were admitted gra..
tuitously, by tickets distributed among the trade
clubs and societies of London. The arrivals began.
to be numerous towards two o'clock, and by three
p.m. the bulk of the visitors had arrived. The
grounds at this hour presented a pleasing aspect
dotted everywhere with quiet family groups, some
walking on the broad terraces, some resting on the
turf in the shadow of the noble trees whichadorn
the gardens, some admiring the sculpture—all evi-
dently enjoying the glorious weather, the pure air,
the green foliage around them, and far-spreading
landscape beyond. Within the building the
in the nave, assembled r t
after promenading
in groups,fon
of the great orchestra to hear a performance of
sacred music on the grand organ. The pieces
selected were chiefly from the oratorios of Handeli
and they were listened to with apparently as
much
attention, and as thorough an enjoyment of the
great master's solemn strains, as could have
been
felt by the most highly educated
When the music
visitors partook oflv musical audience.
number of the
was over a large
meat rooms,
the refreshment
became
after which promenading in
i the general amusement. The most perfect order
\reigned everywhere throughout the day; nothing
in the she e of games or sports was anywhere 01)-
p
enjoyment of the sacred music,
d the delirrhtful weather, AP"
servable ; the quiet
the lovely scenezi
character
ing:sy understood as in best keep-
ail6 '
peared to be
haracter of the day. We could not
with the c
but be Pleased to observe this prevalent tone,
and to reflect upon the health and refreshment
aimed
a on this occasion by thousands of
w busy
whose lives are too often passed
workers,
amidst the deleterious influences of crowded,
ill-ventilated, gas-lit workshops. A similar ex..
carsion, it is announced, will take place on the
17th of this month ; and the committee of manage..
ment, in a small paper which they have put forth,
invite benevolent persons who may approve their
object to sendltheir contributions to the care of W.
Baxter, secretary, at the Central Committee-room,
Newman's Coffee-house, 11, High Holborn. The
selection of Sunday for these excursions involves a,
question with which it is not our province to deal;
but reserving this point as one for individual judg..
ment, we cannot but wish well to any movement
tending to secure for the popular classes such
healthful, innocent, and, we may add, refined re-
creation as that which we saw several thousands
quietly ace in the Crystal Palace and quietly and its
beautiful gardens yesterday.

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EVERY WEEK.
ONE PENNY.

ORYSTAL PALACE.—TO-MORROW
k..) (TUESDAY), ONE SHILLING. Open from Nine in
the Morning till late in the Evening.

ODDFELLOW'S GREAT FETE (TO-MOR-
ROW)—Unusual combination 01 attractions.

ALL THE GREAT FOUNTAINS (TO-MOR-
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CANTERBURY HALL.
The renowned Performers,
DEBONNAIRE and AUG ONARD (from Paris).
Grand Selections from
"DON SEBAsTIEN" and "IL TROVATORE,"
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell. Signor Tivoli, Mr. Raynor,
and Mr. Russell Grover.
The great Comic Trio, Eugene, Duley, and Unsworth the
oricranal Stump orator, "Or any other man." Also the fol-
comic favourites—Marshall. as "Lord Dundreary
lowing
J, G. horde, A. B. Hollingsworth, and Miss Georg,ina
Smithson.
Visitors to London are informed that the Picture Gallery
Is open to the public on Sunday evenings.

T H E O X F OR D,
6, OXFORD STREET.

" TFE DAUGHTER OF THE ISLES,"
a Cantata composed by H. LESLIE, Esq., and written by A.
MATTIIISON. Esq., in honour of the Marriage of her 'Royal
Highness the Princess Alice, EVERY EVENING.
in addition to the usual entertainments, which include
operatic selections by Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn,
Messrs. Morley, Green:. and Albert, with Full Band and
Chorus ; the Comic performances of Miss Caroline Parkes
and Mr. W. Randall, the Ethiorian oddities of Rumsey,
.Newcomb, Little Bob, Eugene, and Unsworth (the origina," or
any other man"), and the astounding feats on the Flying
Trapeze of DEBONN Al KE.
Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes, 108. 6d.

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Mr. D. Boucicault, sole Lessee.
'This Evenincs, A KISS IN THE DARK. After which,
THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. Boucicault,
TILE
A Troupe of the Beni-Zougme -Zoug.
Comnce at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone.
This Evening, THE BALANCE OF C
Messrs. OMFORT. After
which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN Buckstone,
Sothern ; Mrs. C. Young, Miss Oliver, &c With LA CON-
TRABANDISTA Verea Nena, 4tc. And DEAF AS A
POST.