The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-12 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The 55th Regiment, under the command of Col.
Robert Hume, was yesterday officially inspected on
Southsea Common, this being the first occasion since
their arrival in Portsmouth Garrison from the
Channel Islands. The regiment formed in line on
the common at half-past 10, and immediately after-
wards the inspecting officer, Major-General Lord
W. Paulet, C. 8., accompanied by his Staff, arrived
on the ground, and was received with a general
salute. After a minute inspection by his Lordship
the regiment marched past in slow and quick time,
at the latter in grand divisions of companies. Re-
forming on the original alignment, the manual
platoon, and bayonet exercises were gone through.
A few manoeuvres followed, but were of a neces-
sarily brief character, owing to the inclement state
of the weather. At the close the regiment formed
square, and his Lordship, riding into the centre,
briefly addressed the men. After this they were
marched back to their quarters. In the afternoon
Lord Paulet visited the orderly-room, school, and
barrack-rooms.

The annual dinner of the 71st Highland Ligh
Infantry Club took place at the. London Tavern on
Tuesday, 10th inst., Viscount Falkland in the chair.
The following members were present, viz.—the
Earl of Morton, the Hon. H. Duncan, Sir Hew
Dalrymple, Sir Thomas Erskine, Sir A. P. Gordon
Cumming, Major-General Stack, Lieut.-Colonels
BlennerhasEett and Colyill ; Capts. Hamilton,
Halkett, Dashwood, Horne, Sigrave, Buokenden,
Mounsey, O'Malley, Fairholme ; Messrs. Howard,
Musgrave, Blair, and Morgan. •
The annual dinner of the Royal Artillery took
place at Willis's Rooms on Monday last, his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge in the chair. Up-
wards of 100 gentlemen were present, among whom
we noticed Sir G. Pollock, Sir W. Brereton, Gene.
Brooke, Sir R. Dacres, Dupuis, Tulloh, Wingfield,
G. Higgins, D. Grant, Arbuckle, Wylde, and Bloom-
field ; Cols. Teesdale, Bingham, Sandham, Burnaby,
Crofton, St. George, D'Aguilar, Wodehouse, Ask-
with, Anderson, Brougham, Gambier, and Thomas ;
Capt. Forbes, &c. The Chairman, after proposing
"the health of her Majesty the Queen and his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales," made a
speech, in which he intimated his approval of the
recent amalgamation of the Royal Artillery regi-
ments. Sir George Pollock, in returning thanks,
pointed out the advantage that he had derived from
having had command of an army in the field, and
said that every artillery officer from his particular
professional education ought to have sufficient
knowledge of military affairs to take the command
lof a division of the army. Several speeches fol-
lowed, especial honour being done to Capt. Forbes,
the secretary, whose health was drunk. His Royal
Highness took his departure about half-past 11.
His Royal Highness the Prince Carignan° and
suite yesterday visited Woolwich Garrison, and
were received by General Sir Richard Dacres and
staff in full uniform. Soon after his Royal High-
ness rode up to the review ground and witnessed
the field-day evolutions of the mounted batteries of
the Royal Horse Artillery, and the field brigades
supplied with the Armstrong guns. The proceed-
ings represented an attack and defence of a position
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dent. The Prince
visited, with much apparent
interest, Capt. Coles's
cupola on board the Trusty,
as well as the Caledonia, and
other ships under
construction in the yard, and left Woolwich in the
Commodore's State barge at 2 o'clock,

Yesterday the second annual review of the cadet
companies attached to the various metropolitan and
suburban Volunteer corps took place at the cricket-
ground of the Crystal Palace, in the presence of a
large number of spectators, among whom was a con-
siderable l roportion of ladies, who appeared to
take a peculiar interest in the proceedings, and re-
peatedly testified their admiration at the manner in
which the different evolutions were performed. The
inspecting officer was Lord Elcho, lieutenant-colonel
commanding the London Scottish Rifles, and the
arrangements were under the superintendence of
Captain Lowry, Adjutant of the 2d Tower Hamlets
Rifles, and Captain Reynolds of the 4th City, who
acted respectively as Aide-de-Camp and Adjutant.
The following is a list of the corps which were
present yesterday, together with the number of
rank and file to each, as near as could be ascer-
tained. The Queen's (Westminster), 100; London
Rifle Brigade, 80; St. George's Rifles, 90; South
Middlesex, 36 ; 4th Middlesex (Islington), 20; 19th
Middlesex, 22; 29th (North) Middlesex, 50; 33d
Middlesex (Tottenham, 70 ; 36th Middlesex (Pad-
dington), and 37th Middlesex (Bloomsbury), 36;
40th Middlesex, 40 ; 3d Kent, 80 ; 13th Kent and
28th Kent (Charlton), 60; 2d Tower Hamlets, 90;
4th Tower Hamlets and 6th Tower Hamlets, 40 ; 3d
City of London, 20 ; Islington companies of the
4th City of London, 20; West Middlesex, 46; and
48th Middlesex, 20. Each corps was commanded
by cadet officers. .Altogether, counting all ranks,
there could not have been less than about 800 pre-
sent.

Upon the arrival of the inspecting officer the
cadets presented arms, after which he passed down
the ranks and assumed the command. The follow-
ing movements were then performed : Open
column right in front ; march past in quick time;
left wheel into line ; manual exercise ; open column
left in front ; right wheel into line ; line retired
and advanced ; from the right of companies passed
by fours to the rear, and halted ; formed square on
leading company, and reformed column, which
wheeled to the left and deployed on the leading
company ; then formed open column in the rear
of the left company ; right wheel into line. The
line then advanced, halted, and formed quarter dis-
tance columns in rear of No. 1; afterwards the
column wheeled to the left and halted, retired, and
deployed on the rear company. The rear rank took
open order. The whole lino then advanced in
review order, halted, presented arms, took close
orders, and formed quarter distance column right
in front on No. 5.
The whole of these evolutions were very well
performed, particularly the advancing, retiring, and
wheeling into line, which elicited the repeated
cheers of the spectators. At the conclusion, Lord
Elcho addressed them. He said that he could not'
let them go without saying a few words. When
asked to inspect them he took it as a very great
compliment, and he was very glad to be present 1,
that day, for they had acquitted themselves very
creditably; indeed, nothing could have been done
better than the advancing and retiring in line, and
they had done what the big Volunteers did not, viz.,
advanced in line in slow march, as her Majesty's sol-
diers did. He recommended them not to relax in their
drill. He hoped that there had been many foreigners
present to see the admirable way in which they
had gone through their evolutions, because they
would see that the youth of this country was at the
root of the volunteer movement, and that, although
we were not a warlike nation—that was, a nation
which delighted in war—we were still a martial
people, with plenty of spirit and good stuff in us.
The rain fell heavily during his lordship's address,
and at its conclusion, three cheers having been
given for her Majesty and three for Lord Elcho,
the whole of the boys scampered off for the nearest
shelter, with the exception of the 2d Tower Ham-
lets and another corps, who marched steadily after
the band of the former to the Paine.