The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-31 00:00:00

troops of all arms to rely upon their own exertions for
forming a good camp and its accessory kinds of shelter.
Two years ago and an artilleryman would as soon have ex-
pected to be told to make a watch as stabling for his horses.
Her Majesty arrived at the Farnborough station from
Osborne at five minutes past one. Royal carriages were in
waiting with a guard of honour of the 7th Hussars to con-
vey the party to camp.
Her Majesty was accompanied by hie Royal Highness
Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, Prince Arthur, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, and attended by
Lady Churchill as Lady in Waiting.
All the party immediately entered the carriages, and
proceeded at once to the Royal Pavilion in the south camp.
Immediately after the royal cortege had departed, his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge also arrived.from
Osborne in a special train, having missed that which con.
veyed her Majesty by a few minutes.

Shortly before three o'clock all the troops in camp were
under arms and began to move by various routes to the
usual review ground, the long valley on the right of the
old Oxford-road. As the troops moved a hot, stiflinf,
breeze was sweeping across the heath, laden with clouds of
sandy dust, so fine that as the Egyptians sly of the " Sa-
miel," it would enter an egg through the pores of its shell.
But in spite of the painful annoyance, the aspect of the
common, covered in all directions with masses of troops,
was beautiful and striking iu the extreme. On this oc-
casion there was a larger muster of troops than we believe
has ever before been witnessed in England on any one
spot. More than 26,000 of our best soldiers wore under
arms. There was the 4th, 7th, 19th, 20th, 23d, 330, 38th,
41st, 42d, 44th, 49th, 77th, 88th, 90th, 95th, and 97th
Regiments of the Lino ; the Ist and 20 battalions of the
Rifle Brigade, and three battalions of the Grenadier,
Coldstream, and Fusilier Guards. With this fine
body of infantry were the Ist Dragoon Guards, the
7th, 11th, and 15th Hussars, two regiments of cavalry of
the British German Legion, two troops of the Royal Horse
Artillery, and two field batteries.
The cavalry and artillery formed up on the long hill to
the south of the valley. The infantry drew up in two
double lines, extending nearly the length of the valley—
considerably over a mile.
Which formed the first line, or how the various regi-
ments were placed, it is quite impossible to say, for the
same absurd rules as to keeping all visitors at a distance,
which on the last occasion excited such discontent, were
still rigidly adhered to. What an invaluable officer General
Knollys would be to occupy a large extent of country,
since it seems to require nearly half a county to draw up
23,000 men in double lines. What would he have done if
the Government, impressed with an appreciation of his
military genius and his long and arduous services in so
many bloody campaigns, had sent him to the Crimea. How
would he then have disposed of his army of 50,000 men,
with all their material and stores, which, with the French
and Turks, were confined to less space than he yesterday
allotted at standing room for his troops. As was also the
case on the last occasion, the representatives of the press
were kept far away from the troops with the most jealous
care. Tho officer in charge of the party of the 15th Hussars,
keeping the ground, behaved with the utmost courtesy,
and promised to endeavour to procure permission for the
reporters to advance to such a distance as would give them
a chance of seeing what was going forward among the
troops. But this permission, for some inscrutable reason
or other, he was unable to procure, and the reporters from
the London papers wore consequently quite excluded. The
case, to say the least, was equally hard with the thousands
of other visitors, who had come many miles in the hope of
witnessing the review, but who, kept at a distance of
nearly half a mile, could of course discern little beyond
dust and a gleam of bayonets. If these reviews at Alder-
shot were intended as mere Court amusements we should',
not again have adverted to the illiberal and irrational re-
gulations laid down by General Knollys, but as her Ma-
jesty's gracious intention of visiting the camp is always
officially announced beforehand, it is evident that the at-
tendance of the public on occasions of such national inte-
rest is rather sought than otherwise. Under such circum-
stances, therefore, it seems doubly hard upon the public,
after having journeyed many miles, to be excluded, by the
command of one officer, from witnessing the sight they
came to see. The annoyance yesterday was not the less
severely felt and complained of, by knoting that whoever
had the honour of acquaintance with the mounted police
could always pass the lino when kept by them, and the
company of an officer in uniform was sufficient to pass
large parties through the line kept by the soldiers. While
the troops were drawn up, the three French princes, ac-
companied by the Prince of Wales, rode round the lines,
minutely surveying the vas ions regiments.
Her Majesty came upon the ground in au open pony car-
riage precisely at four o'clock, and was received with a
royal salute from the artillery and the usual honours. TI se
Royal party then slowly drove along the lines of troops
until the whole force had been inspected. The differei
rt
corps then marched past. The cavalry and artillery camel
first, then the Guards and the regiments of the line. Only
three of the latter among the newly-arrived troops require
special notice-the 420 Highlanders, 77th and 88th regi-
ments. The first named —the long famous "fighting forty-
twa," lost but few men in the East, and scarcely any from
the casualties of war, for the events of the campaign pre-
vented their participating in any of the great struggles save
the battle of Alma. The regiment, therefore, is but:little
changed in material, and is still the best drilled and finest
in our service. Their companies marched past her Majesty
with the evenness and solidity of littl3 walls—not a man
an inch before or behind the precise lino. In executing
this manosuvre they excel in appearance and equal in dis-
cipline the famous marching of the household troops. The .
83th and 77th suffered most severely in the late war, 75
per cent, of the number that left England having been kil-
led or died of disease. At the battle of Inkerman the 88th,
out of 230 men in action, lost 117 men and officers killed
and wounded—a greater loss in proportion to numbers
than was sustained by any other corps on that bloody day.
It was the bayonet charge of the 77th and 88th that re-
captured the two
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