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

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1860.

ROYAL VOLUNTEER RE

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 tle day that saw the culminat-
ing point of the revival of the military spirit of the
British people. Something—an impulse, an influ•
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 preiaration 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 no
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, tho 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 profgressed, and got beyond all that; " Com-

coerce, cotton, and universal brotherhood " was the

motto of the future. The Peace Society, with

appalling statistics, laboured to prove, what no real

soldier ever doubted, that war is as 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
possibility of having again to put on its armour,
and " hold fast the mortal sword." But deep down
in its heart, under all the account-books and cotton

bales, there was a misgiving that sterner times
might come. Some even doubted whether peace,
if it brings a worship of wealth as the supreme
good, is an unqualified blessing. Wordsworth
lamented the tendency of the age to change swords

......._
for ledgers, and feared for the nation if the tendency
should increase ; he reminded his contemporaries
that the old warriors who made our history were
neither fools nor ruffians, as they.wae beginning
to be thought when war had rolled so far from our
gates that we believed it impossible it should ever
return. The poet would have rejoiced to see the
thousands who have now shut the ledger and
grasped the sword ; which, he may be certain, is in
no degenerate hands.
During the morning of Saturday the various
corps from the country which intended to
take part in the review arrived in London either by
railroad or steamer, and were welcomed by large
crowds who had assembled to witness their arrival.
The Woolwich local force of Artillery and Rifles,
consisting of about 1,800 men, was conveyed to Lon-
don in three steamers. They arrived at Westmin-
ster-bridge about 12 o'clock, and marched through
Birdcage-walk and up Constitution-hill to Hyde-
park. The first corps which arrived at the King's-
cross station was the 2d Durham Artillery (Mar-
chioness of Londonderry's), and it was followed
during the morning by the let, 4th, and sth Nor-
thampton Rifle Corps, the Ist and sth Derby, and
the 7th Stafford (Burton-upon-Trent), the 14th
Worcester, and the 20th Cheshire. There also came
to the same station the 3d, 6th, and 25th Lancashire,
all from Manchester, and numbering together about
1,600 men, and the Ist Nottingham (Robin Hood
Rifles), nearly 600 strong. The following corps
were in the course of the forenoon brought to the
Paddington station :—The Ist Glocester, the 3d and
6th ditto, the Ist, 2d, and 17th Somerset (Bith),
the Ist and 2d Warwick, the Ist, 3d, 4th, bth, and
6th Berkshire, and the 2d Oxford ;:the Ist Hertford
(Hertford), 2d ditto (Watford), and the 3d ditto
(St. Alban's), were also among the arrivals. Nearly
all these corps had bands with them, and upon
reaching the platforms of the several stations they
were formed into line, and afterwards marched off
to their respective rendezvous.
About noon the several corps in the metropolis
began to muster at their head-quarters or parade
grounds, where they were inspected by their com-
manding officers, and formed into columns for the
march to the Park. The gatherings were regarded
withmuch interest by the public, and the assemblies
of the principal corps were attended by considerable
crowds, who in many cases loudly expressed their
admiration
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Parringdon-street, Fleet-street, and the Strand to
Hyde Park. The 2d City of London mustered in
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the company, and mounted Artillerymen. After
being inspected by the officer commanding-in-chief
they marched from the Artillery-ground by way of
Moorgate-street, Cheapside, and the Strand. The
Queen's Westminster Rifles mustered twelve com-

panics strong in Carlton•terrace, the Scottish in
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 the students at King's College.
The scene along the various lines of march to-
wards Hyde Park was most interesting. Omni-
buses from all parts 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 thelong black,
green, gray, or blue lines of the Volunteers. In
some of the principle thoioughfares sags 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 tin several
corps which had to reach the park by that line had
arranged to meet at • certa times and at fixed
places on the route, so as lo 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 awl, 2d battalions of the
City of London Rifles, the 4th, sth, 6th, 7th, 39th,
and 40th Middlesexf 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 Middlf.sex: (Tottenham), the -Ist Essex
(Romford),the 2d Essex (Cranbrooke), 3d Essex
(Brentwood), 4th Essex (Chelmsford), and the 7th

Essex (Rochford). Thcse (2,800) at Somerset-house
took up Lord Bury's 21st Middlesex (the Civil Ser-

vice Regiment). Passing the opening ;eon). Water-
loo-bridge, this long line joined to itself another

column, consisting of 909 men ; three Surrey regi-
thents—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), end the 31st (Leeds

Castle); the five regiments of the Cinque Ports
—the Ist (Hastings), the 2d (Ramsgate), the 3d
(Rye), the 4th (llythe), the sth (Margate), with
two from Sussex—the Ist (Brighton) and the
7th (Horsham). At the Adelphi 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

this time, had been united three additional Essex
Regiments, the sth (Plaistow), the Bth (Stratford),

and the 9th (Silvertowa), coming from Fenchurch-

street. On entering the Mall, St. James's Park, on
the way to Constitutioa-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, froth 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

6th (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 lion. C. Limlbay'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, aud.procceding together to the
Marble Arch and the Bayswater Gate. _ _

T cs,3 or three hours before the time fixed for the
arrival of even the first of the Volunteers the crowd

began to collect in Hyde Park, and to surround the
large space which had been set apart for the evolu-

tions of the troops, and which was occupied by de-
tachments from each of the regiments of Guards, a
regiment of Life Guards, and the 10th Hussars.
This space extended from the line of the statue of

Achilles to another line drawn northward, but in-
clining somewhat to the west, from the eastern end
of the Serpentine, and on the north and south

reached nearly to the carriage drive. At first the
people were scattered only thinly round this area,
but as the morning wore on the crowd thickened
and closed up, until they were standing in one con-
tinuous circle varying from five to nine or ten persons
deep. Behind them were ranged rows of benches,
chairs, in some cases small tables, and an infinite
variety of those wonderful structures which their
enterprising proprietors describe as " good strong
stands," but the strength of which is too often un-
equal to the tests to which it is subjected. The let-
ting of these " bad eminences" must on Saturday
have proved a most lucrative business ; the sum
generally demanded for their occupation was half-
a-crown, and any offer below 2s. was treated with
the most supreme contempt. Among and behind
these rows of stands was a second crowd, consisting
of persons who, unable or unwilling to bear the
crowding and squeezing of the front ranks, were en-
deavouring to obtain at least a glimpse of what was
going on by peeping over the shoulders or between
the heads of those who were before them. Behind
them again were other groups, who had wisely
abandoned all hope of witnessing the proceedings of
the day, and were sauntering quietly about watch-
ing the occupations and amusements of their neigh-
bours. The carriage-drive, both by the shore of the
Serpentine and to the south of Rotten-row, was
covered with carriages, and along that portion which
runs by the side of the Bayswater-road, and which
more closely approached the space occupied by the
troops the horses had been removed from the vehicles,
and a long line of carriages were standing packed
closely together, as they stand by the side of Epsom
Racecourse on a Derby•day. Most of these carriages
were occupied by gaily-dressed ladies and children;
and upon the road there were to be seen many
parties of equestrians, both ladies and gentlemen.
The walk under the trees on the north side of the
drive was also covered with groups who had as-
sembled here to watch the Volunteer corps march
into the park. The ground in the immediate
vicinity of the south and west of the space occu-
pied by the troops presented an animated appear-
ance, and many of the amusements of a country fair
or a racecourse. " Knock-'em-downs" and " Aunt
Sallies" were in great force, and you could not walk
far without being repeatedly invited to ring the
bull, or to try the strength of your arms or the
force of your lungs. There were numerous vendors
of "rifle nuts" and " volunteer gingerbread," and
in order that those who ate might drink also, the
dealers in these comestibles were closely followed by
men who, from cans of every variety of form,
colour, and degree of cleanliness, dispensed, accord-
ing to the means or wishes of the purchasers,
spring water from the pump in Hanover-square,
sherbet, or porter. The last-named liquor was in
great demand, and many casks of it had been
broached and emptied in different parts of the
ground long before the review commenced. The
trees all round the enclosure, and some also within
it were early taken possession of by the more
active and enterprising of the spectators, and for
once those who had obtained seats among the
branches were allowed to retain them undisturbed.
The police were too much engaged in assisting
the military to keep the crowd out of the enclosure
to have either time or attention to devote to the
protection of the trees. The .windows, balconies

and in many cases the roofs of sit s houses in Park-
lane, and in the Knightsbridge and Bayswater
road were crowded with spectators, most of them
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ladies. In some cases stages had been. erected upon
the roofs, and covered with scarlet erected upon
the roofs, and covered with scarlet 'loth, which,
the ladies'
dresses, and the more sombre hues of the gentle-
loth
contrasting with the lighter colours Of
men's habiliments, produced a very stt, eking
and agreeable effect. The crowd in the park ,was
probably the most numerous that has ever boa:
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 tremkr.dous 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 tco
narrow, as it proved, was railed in, and to this
space officers in 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, an 3 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 ofsandwiches. 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

rumpet—a most wretched and unwarlike sound,
hough it was, we believe, a signal of some kind;

certainly it was a signal 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, couldnot 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-
child 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 Com-
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, and 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.
The 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 intervening 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
men
ycaeln-
culate the time required for 20,000 or 30,000
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 WRITE FLAG, MARKED M. V.

its Grace the Duke of Manchester Ilst Huntingdonshire
Mounted Rifles (Kimbolton).
CaPtaiU ellen ; Ist 54rreY Nutted Rifles (Clapham).

PRICE 4D. STAMPED, SD.

Lord Colville (late 11th Dragoons) : the Hon. Artillery
Company of London.
Captain M‘Leod of M‘Leod : the Ist Middlesex Engi-
neer Volunteers (South Kensington) ; Captain the Hon.
T. C. Bruce, 32d Middlesex (Seymour-place).

PLUE FLAG, ➢PARKED A. B.
ARTILL IRV BRIGADE.

Colonel Tulloh, R.A., commanding; Lieutenant-Colonel
Morris, C. 8,, R.A.

Ist Battalion-Ist Kent (Gravesend) ;2d Kent, sth Kent
(Blackheath) ; 9th Kent (Plunastead) ; 10th Kent (Royal
Anenal, Woolwich) ; 14th Kent (Dockyard, Woolwich).
.2d Battalion-Ist Gloucester (Bristol) ; Ist Sussex
-8,14..ht0n) ; 4th Cinque Ports (llastings):; 2d Durham
marciin:,-naess of I ondonderry's, Seaham).
RED FLAG, MARKED 1 B,
FIRST BRIGADE.

His Grace the' Mik-e of Wellington, commanding ; Major
Hume, assistant-inpoxior,inajor of brigade.

/st Battalion—Majoiv Whitehead: Ist Middlesex (Kil-
burn) ; 12th do. (Hounsk'W) ; 18th do. (Harrow).
_ _

2d Battalion—Lieutenan,`•- Colonel Lerd Radstock : 3d
Middlesex (Hampstead) ; 9th do. (Marylebone); 13th do.
(Hornsey) ; 14th do. (Highgate)..
3d Battalion—Colonel the Hon. C. Lindsay : 11th Mid-
dlesex (Burlington House); 12th do.. (Barnet); 36th do.
(Paddington).

4th Battalion—Major Bigge, late 23d Re,-Timent : 29th
Middlesex (St. Pancras); Ist Hertford (Herfiqd) ; 2d do.
(Watford) ; 3d do. (St. Albans).
WHITE AND BLUE FLAG, MARKED 2 B.
SECOND BRIGADE.

Lieutenant Hicks commanding; Major Harman, assistant
inspector.

Ist Battalion—Major Close, late 37th Foot : Ist City Of
London, let battalion (Guildhall).
2d Battalion—Captain Rose : Ist City of London; 2d
battalion (Guildhall).
3d Battalion—Major Gray: 4th, sth, 6th, and 7th Mid-
dlesex (Islington) ; 26th do. (Custom-house) ; 39th do.
(Clerkenwell).
4th Battalion—Lieutenant-Colonel Walker; 2d Tower
Hamlets (Hackney) ; 3d do. (Spitsaelds) ; 33d Middlesex
(Tottenham) ; let Essex (Romford) ; 2d do. (Cranbrook) ;
3d do. (Brentwood) ; 4th do. (Chelmsford) ; 7th do. -(Rock-
ford).

BLACK FLAG, MARKED 3 B.
Lord Ranelagh commanding; Major Nelson, assistant •
inspector; major of brigade.
Ist Battalion—Major Macpherson, late 68th Foot ; 2d
Middlesex (Walham Green).
2d Bat alion—Major Lord Bury : 21st Middlesex (Civil
Service) ; 3Sth do. (Artists).

3d Battalion--Lieutenant-Colonel Earl Grosvenor: 22d
Middlesex (Queen's).
4th Battalion—Lieutenant. Colonel Brewster, late Rifle
Brigade : 23d Middlesex (Inns of Court).

YELLOW FLAG, MARKED 4 B.
Lord Lflcho commanding ; Major Deeds, major of bri-
gade.

Ist Battalion—Captain Mackenzie; 15th Middlesex
(Scottish) ; 19th do (Bloomsbury).
2d Battalion—Lieutenant - Colonel Macdonald, late
E.I.C.S:: Ist Surrey (Camberwell).
3d Battalion—Colonel Campbell, late E.1.C.5.: 3d Sur-
rey (Croydon) ; 4th do. (Brixton) ; Gth do. (Esher) ; Bth
do. (Epsom) ; 9th do. (Richmond) ;11th do. (Wimbledon)
12th do. (Kingston).
4th Battalion—Major Beresford : 7th Surrey (South-
wark) ; 10th do. (Bermondsey) ; 19th do. (Lambeth); 21st
do. (Battersea). _ _

SECOND DIVISION.
Major-General Lord Rokeby commanding.
GREEN FLAG, MARKED b B.

Ist Brigade—Colonel Thorold, late 92d Highlanders,
commanding; Major Sherrington, major of brigade.
Ist. Battalion—Major Capper :-sth Essex (Plaistow) ;
Sth do. (Stratford) ; 9th do. (Silvertown).
2d Battalion—Lieutenant-Colonel Croyndon, late Royal
Marines; 3d Kent (Lee); 4th do. (Woolwich) ; 7th do.
(Kidbrooke); 9th do. (Chatham) ; 13tb do. (Greenwich) ;

18th do. (Bromley) ; 21st do. (Lewisham) ; 25th do. (Black-

heath) ; 27th and 34th do. (Deptford) ; 28th do. (Charlton);
32d do. (Eltham).
3d Battalion—Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson ; 26th Kent,
Ist battalion (Royal Arsenal, Woolwich).
4th Battalion—Lieutenant-Colonel Parkyn ; 26th Kent,
2d Battalion (Royal Arsenal, Woolwich).
WHITE FLAG, MARKED 6 B.

2d Brigade—Colonel the Marquis of Donegall command-
ing; Major Freeth, major of brigade.

Ist Battalion—Lieutenant-Colonel Bush, late 96th Foot ;
Ist Gloucester (Bristol) ; 3d do. (Gloucester) ; 6th do.
(Stroud) ; Ist, 2d, and 17th Somerset (Bath).
2d Battalion—Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. G. Scott,
late Scots Fusilier Guards : Ist Warwick (Birmingham) ;
2d do. (Coventry, Warwick, and Stratford).
3d Battalion—Lieutenant-Colonel Loyd-Lindsay, V.C.,
late Scots Fusilier Guards : Ist Berkshire (Reading) ; 2d
do. (Windsor) ; 3d do. (Newbury) ; 4th do. (Abingdon) ;
sth do. (Maidenhead) ; 6th do. (Wokingham); 2d Oxford
(Oxford) ; Ist Dorset (Bridport).

4th Battalion—Captain the Right Hon. Earl Spencer:
28th Middlesex (Irish) ; Ist Northampton (Northampton) ;
4th do. (Northampton); sth do. (Northampton) ; 4th Bucks
(Aylesbury).
RED AND YELLOW FLAG, MARKED 7 B.
THIRD BRIGADE.

Brigadier-Gen6ral Russell, C. 8.; Captain Currie, major
of Brigade.
Ist Battalion—Lieutenant-Colonel 'Viscount Grey de
Wilton : 6th Lancashire, Ist (Manchester).

2d Battalion—Lieut.-Col. J. H. Deakin : 28th Lanca-
shire, 2d Manchester (Manchester).
4th Battalion—Lieut. .Col. E. Crawfurd (late Rifle
Brigade) : Ist Nottingham, Robin Hood (Nottingham).
GREEN AND RED FLAG, MARKED 8 B.
FOURTH BRIGADE.

Brigadier-General Taylor commanding ; Captain Stuart,
major of brigade.
Ist Battalion-sth Surrey (Reigate) ; 14th do. (Dork-
ing) ; sth Kent (Canterbury) ; 9th do. Chatham ; 19th
do. (Rochester) ; 26th do. (Maidstone); 31st de. (Leeds
Castle).

2d Battalion-Ist Cinque Ports (Hastings) ; 2d do.
(Rantgate) ; 3d do. (Rye) ; 4th do. (Hythe) ; 7th do.
(Margate) ; 16th Surrey (Eghain).
3d Battalion-Ist and sth Derby (Derby) ; 7th Stafford
(Burton-on-Trent); Bth do. (Burton-on-Trent) ; 14th
Worcester (Worcester) ; 2d West Riding (Sheffield) ;
25th Cheshire (Timperley).

We believe that some of the companies were
larger than the previous return to the War-
office made them, and that the total number
on the ground was considerably above 20,000. The
general impression produced by the appearance and
bearing of the Volunteers was very favourable, and
there was but one opinion of their efficiency—that
it did infinite credit both to the men and officers.
The Huntingdonshire Mounted Rifles, commanded
by the Duke of Manchester, were much admired
for the beauty of their horses; they were finer ani-
mals than any of ear regular cavalry regiments can
show. The City Artillery Company was the first
body of infantry that passed ; they might easily be
mistaken for the Foot Guards; but they are an
ancient corps, with a long training. Some of the
best known companies were cheered as they passed.
Lord Elcho and the Highland Company, the Lon-
don Irish, the Inns of Court Companies, and the
Nottingham Robin floods were among luny thus
distinguished.

We have heard much of the time it takes to make
a soldier ; the difference between the erect, well-set-
up Guardsman and the rural recruit, with the heavy
slouch of the field and furrow, is so immense that
it will, perhaps, justify the long period necessary
to transform him, But a glance at the men in the
Park on Saturday was enough to show that
by going higher in the social scale for the "raw
material" we find it capable of the most rapid con-
version into soldiers. Those who acquire first
essentials so quickly will take the final perfecting
in all the greatest martinet can desire, with equal
facility. The army has been so exclusively re-
cruited from the labouring class that it is some-
thing like a surprise to find that superiority of
' mere physique, in height and strength, is not so
entirely confined to this one section as is generrlly
supposed. The volunteers compared with the same
number of regulars would have rather the advan-
tage in both respects, unless the latter were picked
regiments.
The vexed question of the fittest colour of the
rifleman's Rniform was brought to a test by the re-
view. When the companies were first organised it
was feared they might run to an excess in costume,
and adopt dangerously brilliant colours. We are
not sure but there has been a slight excess the other
way ; the neutral tints are in: masses sombre, and
the very dark colours, verging on black, are by no
means invisible as a mark. The visibility of a
colour depends very much on the background; on
a bare stony soil the browns and grays would be-
come indistinct; among trees and forest the greens
would mix in with the scenery; But the absolute
black or very dark green is visible at any distance
at which a human figure can be perceived. The