The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-01 00:00:00

claims to magnanimity. " I have helped you to
partial emancipation, therefore be grateful—l refuse
you still a part of your own, but try to take it if
you dare"—is unworthy language of France at
present.

In that delightfully Roundabout way that we
are all of us so well accustomed to in our deal-
ings with the Circumlocution Office the
intricate maze of all the twistings and wind-
ingo of which we can only hope to traverse
securely by following a clue of red tape—
after this most pleasant official manner we have
at last been enabled to learn what General Lord
CLYDE thinks of the Brighton Review, and of
the Volunteers generally. The gallant and
noble Veteran, it now appears, wrote, on the
24th, to Lieutenant-General Sir J. Y. SCAR-
LETT, the Adjutant-General of her MAJESTY'S
Forces, a communication, in which he
expressed his admiration of the bearing and dis-
cipline of the Volunteer force that had passed
before him on the Monday preceding the date of
his letter, being, in fact, the Easter Monday of
1862. This communication of General Lord
CLYDE was, thereupon, laid in due course by its
recipient, the Adjutant-General, Sir J. Y. SCAR-
LETT, before his Royal Highness the Duke of
CAMBRIDGE, the General Commanding-in-Chief.
By his Royal Highness, Lord CLYDE'S letter to the
Adjutant-General was subsequently forwarded on
to the Right Hon. Sir G. C. LEWIS, her MAJESTY'S
Secretary of State for War. And now, by order of
the Secretaiy of State, the Earl DE GREY and
RIPON, Sir GEORGE'S Under Secretary, for wards
the report on to ourselves, among others, for the
purpose of publication. So that at lent, nearly a
fortnight after the Review, at any rate ten days
after it has passed by, the public learns what was
thought about it by the gallant and noble veteran
who on Easter Monday presided over it.

Lord CLYDE'S excellent letter, it will be seen by
those who turn to it in another part of our issue of
this evening, gives us in an admiraby lucid and sue-
ciuct form, within the compass indeed of a very few
sentences, a record of the extent and character of
the whole of this last and very interesting
demonstration on the part of the Volunteers.
General Lord CLYDE recalls to mind at the
outset the fact that the force reviewed by
him was a force of 20,000 Volunteers. His
Lordship commends—and with reason the
" excellent arrangements " entered into with
the Railway Companies, long before Easter Mon-
day dawned, by Colonel *Mum)°, the experienced
Inspector-General of all the now numerous corps of
our Riflemen, "Aided by the punctuality and order
of the Volunteers themselves," says Lord CLYDE,
" the whole of this large force, portions of which
came from distant districts, arrived at the times
appointed, and immediately proceeded with perfect
regularity to their several places of rendezvous,
where the companies were told off, and the bat-
talions formed for drill and manoeuvre;' Their
march thence, that is from the various places of
rendezvous, to the White Hawk Down, is then
duly noted down as having been performed,
in each case, with laudable precision.
The summary then given by Lord CLYDE,
is, in its brevity, strictly in harmony with
the review itself, which the noble and gallant
writer himself explains, was judiciously conducted
with all convenient speed, so as to enable the
Volunteer to return home at as early a date as the
inspection itself would admit of. " After riding
down the front of the lines," he says, " the march-
ing past in open column at once commenced; and,
on the whole, was admirably performed; showing
what pains must, have been taken by the officers,
non-commissioned officers, and men to arrive at the
high degree of efficiency which they had attained/
Finally came the simple manoeuvres, observed with
so much bewildered satisfaction by the specta-
tors assembled upon and around the Grand
Stand. Having thus specified, in a few words,
what it was that had been actually done at the
Review of these 20,000 Volunteers, General Lord
CLYDE distributes the proportion of praise re-
spectively deserved, according to his judgment,
by those who were engaged more or less promi-
nently in getting through their movements. From
Colonel M'MURDO and his Staff downwards each
comes in for his due share—commanders, officers,
non-commissioned officers, and men, Altogether
the noble Veteran's communication is a most grati-

Eying souvenir of a Review, that was not only a
delightful, gala-day's show, bat really remarkable
also in a patriotic point of view.