The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-25 00:00:00

MEDICAL ADVICE.

Saturday the 23d of June, of this stormy and
threatening 1860, will henceforth be a memorable
and remembered date in the military annals of the
nation. The reddest of red letters cannot give it
more than due prominence in the calendar of na-
tional events ; it is the day that saw the culminat-
ing point of the revival of the military spirit of the
British people. Something—an impulse, an infla•
ence, an instinct, perhaps—it is difficult, exactly to
define it—has passed over the land, entering into
the heart and life of our manhood. In a few short
months of preparation the soil of this commercial
and industrious England echoes the tread of legions
of soldiers, and the rarely accorded gleams of this
summer's sun have glanced back from thousands of
bayonets. Hosts of men trained to occupations of
peace, to whom war and military life a year ago
appeared so foreign that a conviction of a national
unfitness for them had gone abroad in the world,
have turned from the beaten paths of their ordi-•
nary pursuits, and—almost as by the wave of an
enchanter's wand—appear ranked side by side
with the " men of war from their youth," and
in no essential quality inferior to them. How, or
when the dragon's teeth were sown, we will not here
inquire ; but very certainly and visibly have they
sprung up armed men. Be the cause or consequence
what it may, there they are, a force which no other
nation in the world could have raised by a volun-
tary and popular movement.
If we consider this great change in the direction
of the national mind, even apart from the wonder-
ful and spirit-stirring display of Saturday, which ho
one could have witnessed without a brightening eye
and a beating heart, it is one of the most extraordi-
nary events of our history. A man need not have
reached, by many years, that dubious period of life,
middle age, to remember the tone of feeling as to
" war and the great in war" that prevailed down
to a very recent time. The battles of the giants
ceased with the exhaustion and ruin of the most
formidable wielder of the thunderbolts ; and during
the life of our own military chief, who so long sur-
vived his conflicts, "the land had peace 40 years."
That condition of things, we thought, could never
be broken ; our army being virtually invisible, was
all but forgotten, or chiefly remembered by the an-
nual cutting down of the estimates, the heads of
which were hateful to the economists of the House
of Commons as the heads of Hydra. The House is
now rebuked by Secretaries of War for its extrava-
gance; but it was not so 20 years since. The links
that connected the citizen with the army had dis-
solved in the tepid atmosphere of peace, or yielded
to what it was the fashion to call its " humanising
influences." A militia had only a possible legal ex-

istence ; volunteers there were none, and the yeo•

manry had become a mere annual apparition in the

rural districts, of the burlesque kind in mount and
accoutrements, and its most evident result was occa-
sionally to put country gentlemen into amazing uni-
forms. Practically, the army and the nation in those
years of peace, were divided by the deepest gulf and
highest wall of partition; the nation went one way
to its farms and its merchandise, the army another, to
Indian and Caffre _wars, which were rather expen-
sive than exciting; they came near our purse at
times, but never touched our heart. The army fell
under the exclusive control of a cluster of autho-
rities and departments, and as years rolled on our
military system got deeper into the rut of use and
wont—all that, when the time of awakening came,
we had to denounce as routine. Things military

became at last such mysteries that it was profane
for civilians to touch, or even speak of them, and
it saved trouble to accept the proclaimed opinion,

that we are not a military people. The facts of our
history completely contradicted the theory, but it
was only "so much the worse for the facts." We
had progressed, and got beyond all that; " Com-
merce, cotton, and universal brotherhood " was the
motto of the fature. The Peace Society, with
appalling statistics, laboured to prove, what no real

soldier ever doubted, that war is an evil. But we
all,•more or less, forgot there was another side to
the question. Except by a warning voice here and
there, an occasional trumpet note amid the general
piping, the nation was encouraged to forget the

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Adelphi-terrace, the Irish at Burlington-house, and
the Civil Service Corps in the quadrangle of Somer-
set-house, where they were joined by the 'corps
formed of tho students at King's College.
The scene along the various lines of march to-
wards Hyde Park was most interesting. Omni-
buses from all peas of the town, heavily laden
both outside and in, carriages,
cabs, and other
vehicles, besides great crowds of pedestrians, were
all making their way in one direction, and to-
wards one point ; while with them and through
them, now passing easily. and without let or
hindrance, and anon almost stopped by the throng
of carriages and pedestrians marched the long black,
green, gray, or blue lines of the Volunteers. In
some of the principle thoroughfares flags had been
hung out, and almost all, the windows were filled
with ladies and children. Perhaps the march
through the Strand and the streets communicating
with it was the most imposing, because the several
corps which had to reach the park by that line had
arranged to meet at certain times and at fixed
' places on the route, so hs to form a continuous
column, and so great was the sympathy displayed
by the public that no interruptions were experi-
enced, except, such as arose naturally from the
great number of vehicles which were about and
the generally crowded state of the streets. The
Hon. Artillery Company started from Finsbury at
1 o'clock, marched through the city and up Fleet-
street, and joined the Ist and 2d battalions of the
City of London Rifles, the 4th, sth, 6th, 7th, 39th,
and 40th Middlesex, the 2d City of London, which
started from Gray's-inn, with another division from
Finsbury-square; the 2d and 3d Tower Hamlets,
the 33d Middlesex (Tottenham), the Ist Essex
(Romford), the 2d Essex (Cranbrooke), 3d Essex
(Brentwood), 4th Essex (Chelmsford), and the 7th
Essex (Rochford). These (2,800) at Somerset-house
took up Lord Bury's 21st Middlesex (the Civil Ser-
vice Regiment). Passing the opening from Water-
loo-bridge, this long line joined to itself another
column, consisting of 909 men ; three Surrey regi-
ments—the sth (Reigate), the 14th (Dorking), the
16th (Egham) ; five Kentish regiments—the sth
(Canterbury), the 9th (Chatham), the 19th (Roches-
ter), the 26th (Maidstone), and the 31st (Leeds
Castle) ; the five regiments of the Cinque Ports
—the Ist (Hastings), the 2d (Ramsgate), the 3d
(Rye), the 4th (Hythe), the sth (Margate), with
two from Sussex—the Ist (Brighton) and the
7th (Horsham). At the Adelpb i the Scottish
(19th Middlesex) and the Working Man's
College Corps fell in, and thus, with 4 ,500 men
Charing-cross was reached. Here the Ist Kent
(Gravesend), the sth Kent (Blackheath), the 9th
Kent (Plumstead), the 10th Kent (Royal Arsenal,
Woolwich), starting from Westminster-bridge at

half-past 1, joined the column, to which also, by

;his time, had been united three additional Essex

Regiments, the sth (Plaistow), the Bth (Stratford),
and the 9th (Silvertown), coming from Fenchurch-
street. On entering the Mall, St. James's Park, on
the way to Constitution-hill, 14 Kentish corps
starting from the back of the Poor Law Board
added 1,560 to the thickly-gathering masses of
grey and green coated riflemen—viz., the 3d (Lee),
the 4th (Woolwich), the 7th (Kidbrooke), the 9th
(Chatham), the 13th (Greenwich), the 18th (Brom.
ley), the 21st (Lewisham), the 25th (Blackheath),
the 27th and 34th (Deptford), the 28th (Charlton),
the 32d (Eltham), and the two battalions of the
26th, from the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. At Carl-
ton-terrace, Lord Grosvenor's regiment, the West-
minster (Queen's) fell into the column. At Bucking-

ham Palace six Surrey regiments from St. George's
Barracks, the 2d (Croydon), the 4th (Brixton), the
Gth (Esher), the Bth (Epsom), the 9th (Richmond),

and the 11th ( Wimbledon), added their forces, the
concluding aggregation accruing at the top of Picca-
dilly, from Colonel the Hon. C. Lindsay's 3d batta-
lion, consisting of the 11th, 12th, and 13th Middle-
sex, and Captain the Earl Spencer's 4th battalion,
which included the London Irish. A somewhat
similar march took place on the north side of the

town, regiments from St. Pencras and Paddington
uniting into column, andproceeding together to the
Marble Arch and the Bayswater Gate.
TWO or three hours before the time fixed for. the
arrival of even the first of the Volunteers the crowd

possibility of having again to put on its armour, began to collect in Hyde Park, and to surround the
and ".hold fast the mortal sword." But deep down large space which had been set apart for the evolu-
in its heart, under all the account-books and cotton tions of the troops, and which was occupied by de-
bales, there was a misgiving that sterner times tachments from each of the regiments of Guards, a
might come. Some even doubted whether peace, regiment of Life Guards, and the 10th Hussars.
if it brings a worship of wealth as the supreme This space extended • from the line of the statue of
good, is an unqualified blessing. Wordsworth Achilles to another line drawn northward, but in-
lamented the tendency of the age to change swords clining somewhat to the west, from the eastern end
for ledgers, and feared for the nation if the tendency of the Serpentine, and
on the north and south
should increase; he reminded his contemporaries reaehed nearly to the carriage drive. At first the
that the olel warriors who made our history were people were scattered only thinly round this area,
tinuousvarying from .
neither fools nor ruffians, as they were beginning but as the morning wore on the crowd thickened
to be thought when war had rolled so far from our and closed up, until they were standing in one con-
deep.
gates that we believed it impossible it should ever circle five to nine or ten persons
Behind them were ranged rows of benches,
return. The poet would have rejoiced to see the
thousands who have now shut the ledger and chairs,
grasped the sword ; which, he may be certain, is in variety of those wonderful
no degenerate hands. enterprising proprietors describe as " good strong
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or their crowds who had assembled to witness their arrival. generally demanded f occupation was half-
The Woolwich local force of Artillery and Rifles, a-crown, and any offer below 2s was treated with
consisting of about 1,800 men, was conveyed to Lon- the most supreme contempt. A. mong and behind
don in three steamers. They arrived at Westmin- these rows of stands Was a-se
second crowd, consisting
ster-bridge about 12 o'clock, and marched through of persons who, unable •
or unwilling to bear the
Birdcage-walk and up Constitution-hill to Hyde- crowding and squeezing of
the front ranks, were en-
park. The first corps which arrived at the King's- deavouring to obtain at least a glimpse of what was
cross station was the 2d Durham Artillery (Mar, going on by peeping over the shoulders or between
chioness of Londonderry's), and it was followed the heads of those who were before them. Behind
during the morning by the Ist, 4th, and sth Nor- them again were other groups, who had wisely
thampton Rifle Corps, the Ist and sth Derby, and abandoned all hope of witnessing the proceedings of
the 7th Stafford (Burton-upon-Trent), the 14th the day, and were sauntering quietly about watch-
Worcester, and the 20th Cheshire. There also came ing the occupations and amusements of their neigh-
to the same station the 3d, 6th, and 25th Lancashire, bourn. The carriage-drive, both by the shore of the
all from Manchester, and numbering together about Serpentine and to the south of Rotten-row, was
1,600 men, and the Ist Nottingham (Robin Hood covered with carriages, and along that portion which
Rifles), nearly 600 strong. The following corps runs by the side of the Bayswater-road, and which
were in the course of the forenoon brought to the more closely approached the space occupied by the
Paddington station :—The Ist Glocester, the 3d and troops the horses had been removed from the vehicles,
6th ditto, the Ist, 2d, and 17th Somerset (Bath), and a long line of carriages were standing packed
the Ist and 2d Warwick, the Ist, 3d, 4th, sth, and closely together, as they stand by the side of Epsom
6th Berkshire, and the 2d Oxford ;,the Ist Hertford Racecourse on a Derby-day. Most of these carriages
(Hertford), 2d ditto (Watford), and the 3d ditto were occupied by gaily-dressed ladies and children;
(St. Alban's), were also among the arrivals. Nearly and upon the road there were to be seen many
all these corps had bands with them, and upon parties of equestrians, both ladies and gentlemen.
reaching the platforms of the several stations they The walk under the trees on the north side of the
were formed into line, and afterwards marched off drive was also covered with groups who had as-
to their respective rendezvous. sembled here to watch the Volunteer
corps march
About noon the several corps in the metropolis into the park. The ground in 'the immediate
began to muster *at their head-quarters or parade vicinity of the south and west of the space occu-
grounds, where they were inspected by their com- pied by the troops presented an animated appear-
manding officers, and formed into columns for the ance, and many of the amusements of a country fair
march to the Park. The gatherings were regarded or a racecourse. " Knock-'em-downs" and " Aunt
with much interest by the public, and the assemblies Sallies" were in great force, and you could not walk
of the principal corps were attended by considerable far without being repeatedly invited to ring the
crowds, who in many cases loudly expressed their bull, or to try the strength of your arms or the
admiration of the soldierly appearance and bearing force of your lungs. There were numerous vendors
of the Volunteers. The first battalion of the Ist of " rifle nuts" and " volunteer gingerbread," and
City of London mustered at the Guildhall, whence in order that those who ate might drink .also, the
they marched to Christ's Hospital, and joined the dealers in these comestibles were closely followed by
second battalion which had assembled there. The men who, from cans of every variety of form,
two battalions united under the command of Lieut - colour, and degree of cleanliness, dispensed,
accord-
Colonel Hicks, and marched through Snow -hill, ing to the means or wishes of the purchasers,
Farringdon-street, Fleet-street, and the Strand to spring water from the pump in Hanover-square,
Hyde Park. The 2d City of London mustered in sherbet, or porter. The last-named liquor was in
Gray's-inn. The Inns of Court Corps, familiarly great demand, and many casks of it had been
known under its old title of the " Devil's Own," broached and emptied in different parts of the
assembled in the Inner Temple-gardens, where a ground long before the review commenced. The
lunch had been provided for them by the Benchers trees all round the enclosure, and some also within
of the Middle Temple. The Hon. Artillery Com- it were early taken possession of by the more
pany assembled at the head-quarters at the Artil- active and enterprising of the spectators, and for
. lery-ground, Finsbury, with two guns belonging to once those who had obtained seats among the
the company, and mounted Artillerymen. After branches were allowed to retain them undisturbed.
being inspected by the officer commanding-in-chief The police were too much engaged in assisting
they marched from the Artillery-ground by way of the military to keep the crowd out of the enclosure
Moorgate-street, Cheapside, and the Strand. The to have either time or attention to devote to the
' Queen's Westminster Bilks mustered twelve corn- protection of the trees. The windows, balconies

and in many cases the roofs of the houses in Park-
lane, and in the Knightsbridge and Bayswater
road were crowded with spectators, most of them
ladies. In some cases stages had been erected upon
the roofs, and covered with scarlet cloth, which,
contrasting with the lighter colours of the ladies'
dresses, and the more sombre hues of the gentle-
men's habiliments, produced a very striking
and agreeable effect. The crowd in the park was
probably the most numerous that has ever been
assembled in London ; but scattered as it was irre-
gularly over a large extent of ground, it is impos-
sible to form any estimate of its actual numbers.
To describe the martial array on the ground it
would be desirable to invoke " a Muse of fire," were
there any hope she would descend at the call; but

at one time it appeared as if the opposite element
intended to come down profusely. The Volunteers
have been so continuously persecuted by the rigours

of this severe summer—the heaviest rains having
fallen on the drill Saturdays—that " Volunteers'
weather" was becoming proverbial. Her Majesty's
good fortune, however, again prevailed ; the
dreaded showers blew over, and the cool and cloudy
day was a fine one by comparison.
The Board of Works and the War-office brought
a tremendous outside pressure on themselves by
providing platform accommodation for a large num-
ber of spectators. A range of sloping galleries had
been erected facing the ground, and parallel to
Park-lane, the houses of which backed it. Gros-
venor-gate was the centre of this line, and between
it and the gallery the Royal standard was planted.
The platforms accommodated about 17,000 persons,
and there were nearly ten times that number'of
applications for tickets of admission. Below the
galleries and in front of them, a space much too
narrow, as it proved, was railed in, and to this

space officers is uniform and volunteers not in their
ranks for the day were admitted. The general
public fringed the park with a living border; but,
as it was absolutely necessary to keep the ground
clear, no transgression of the limits was permitted

o those who had no cards. The order to this effect

was enforced by the Guards and a strong body of
police. The ground on which the Volunteer bat-
talions took up their positions as they arrived
stretched across the whole of the park, so that when
the formation was complete the extreme right of
the line was flanked by the lofty houses at Albert-
gate, and the left by the Bayswater-road. Behind
the line, throwing it into strong relief, were the
trees of the park. The place of each corps was
marked out by flags.
Several companies were on the ground before 2
o'clock, but at that hour they began to arrive in
quick succession ; the long line of men, the distant
clash of many different bands, and some light
clouds of dust (that ought always to obscure a
marching body, and is as indispensable to a mili-
tary picture as smoke) had, altogether, an excel-
lent effect. Passing over two hours of time and
the order of arrival, we will put all the corps in

position at once, and leave them, with piled arms,
standing at ease, some even reclining in more than
easy attitudes. A light, bluish vapour could be
seen at times curling over the column, from which
we may infer that cigars were allowed in this
interval ; and a perfect drift of paper fragments

that blew over the ground from the same direction
indicated a large consumption of sandwiches. The

Volunteers have no official Commissariat ; and the

precaution might be no less wise if they had.
The same interval was to the spectators one of
those pauses in which small incidents acquire an

absurd importance. The galloping about of the
Staff was equal to a series of races, the object of the
running being quite a mystery to the uninitiated.
Something dreadful always appears to be happening
at the end of the line where the Staff is not, and
away the group of uniforms tear to rectify it ; it is
important 'perhaps, but to the public inexplicable.
Everybody felt grateful for the amusement fur-
nished by a trumpeter of the Life Guards, in the
heavily-laced coat and jockey cap—which favoured
the racing theory. He was attached to the Duke of
Cambridge, and occasionally blew a screech on his
trumpet—a most wretched and unwarlikc sound,
though it was, we believe, a signal of some kind;

certainly it was a signals for laughter whenever it
was heard. Another source of amusement was a
rather Lucretian and selfish enjoyment of the per-
plexities of the dense crowd of officers and military
personages of various grades in the railed space be-
low the galleries. Ten feet more of ground might
have been given, and the want of it caused confu-
sion. The pressure at last was too great, and there
was a rush under the rail into the open. The police'
could do nothing against the plumes and epaulets.
The disorder gave the Staff two or three gallops to
the spot. The Commander-in-Chief himself remon-
strated, but the disorder, which was not very
serious after all, could not be retrieved. The ground
gained was kept ; but, as a compromise, the front
ranks were directed to sit down, which they did,
and Policeman 209 was released from his responsi-
bility. There was much speculation as to some of
the most gorgeous uniforms in this military miscel-
lany, which were quite new to English eyes. Very
wild guesses were made, but opinion settled down
on Indian Horse Artillery and Cavalry, regular and
irregular. A magnificent Lord-Lieutenant, whose
place was near the Queen, but who had lost his
pass-ticket, was sternly refused ingress, and re-
mained in the crowd undistinguished. Baron Roths-
ehild was also among the military mob we have
attempted to describe.
At 4 o'clock the first gun of the Royal salute ap-
prised all that her Majesty was entering the Park.
A succession of cheers from the extreme left an-
nounced it also. A detachment of Life Guards
headed the procession, which passed from left to
right along the front of the galleries. Her Majesty
was in an open carriage, with the King of the
Belgians, the Princess Alice, and Prince Arthur.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, in uniform,
rode by the side of the carriage, near which
were also the Prince of Wales and Prince
Jules of Holstein-Glucksburg. Aides-de-Camp,
Equerries, the Adjutant-General, and other
high military officials preceded the carriage. It was
immediately followed by the venerable Lord Cora-
bermere, who was old in service before most of the
soldiers on the ground were born, for he counts 70
years, not of age, but of duty. His horse was led,
and every attention was paid to the veteran war-
rior. He wore his Order of the Bath and the uni-
form of his regiment, the Life Guards. In the two
other carriages were the Princess Louise, the Prin-
cess Mary of Cambridge, aid Mr. S. Herbert, Sec-
retary at War; Prince Leopold, Princess Helena,
the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Grand Duchess
of Mecklenburg Strelitz. In the line of the proces-
sion followed the Lords-Lieutenant of the counties
to which the several corps of Volunteers belong.
Tho cortege passed nearly to the extreme left of
the line of volunteers, then turned and proceeded
slowly along the front to the extreme right, and,
turning again, drew up on the open ground in front
of the Royal standard. The three bands of the
Household Brigade were stationed opposite the
Royal carriages ; through the intervenin 4 space the
volunteer companies marched, those on the right of
the line of columns coming up first. It was half-
past 4 o'clock when the Ist Huntingdonshire Mounted
Rifles passed her Majesty ; and at a few minutes to
6 o'clock the 25th Cheshire closed the review, which
lasted without intermission for quite an hour and
a-half. Those who have not seen large bodies of
troops under similar circumstances can scarcely cal-.
culate the time required for 20,000 or 30,000 men
to pass any given point, even without obstacles,
and with everything prepared for the operation.
The following is the official list .

FIRST DIVISION.
Lieutenant-General Sir J. F. Love commanding.
RED AND WuITE FLAG, MARKED M. V.

His Grace the Duke of Manchester :jest Huntingdonshire
Mounted Rifles (Kimbolton).
Captain Mellen ; let Surrey Mounted Bides (Clapham).