The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-13 00:00:00

panies to proceed to the terminus of the Chemin de
Fer du Nord, in the Place des Nations. It had be-
come dark before they marched, but all Brussels
was coming out to witness the reception ; and when
the march commenced dense masses of people crowded
all the main thoroughfares, more flags were hung
out, and it became evident that the torch light pro-
cession under such circumstances would be a sight
worth seeing. At 8 o'clock, the hour at which the
latest telegrams stated the coming men would ar-
rive, the Place des Nations presented an extraordi-
nary appearance. The great square iu front of the
station was surrounded by the Garde Civique, the
French National Guards, and the Volunteers who
had marched down to await the arrival of their com-
rades. Inside the monster ring of riflemen, and
stretching far up the Boulevard Botanique, which
goes off in such long and graceful ascent at right
angles with the Place, were the pompiers of the city,
bearing flaming torches; outside of both riflemen
and pompiers were thousands of men, women, and
children covering the pavement on both sides, and
tilling every window that looked out upon the scene.
The station was eosed to all but the Committee
of Reception, and these gentlemen waited at
their posts with a patience not less commendable
than that of the waiters outside for close upon two
mortal hours, during which telegram after telegram
I was arriving—one announcing that the anxiously
expected riflemen would not arrive for another quar-
ter of an hour. This sort of thing went on till a few
minutes before 10 o'clock, and still the people in the
streets, who had stood their ground since half-past
6 or 7 o'clock, never uttered a murmur, but con-
ducted themselves with the greatest good humour,
and passed various compliments on the Volunteers
—one of which was that they looked "so solid." At
length the approach of the long-expected trains was
announced by the stationmaster and the words "its
sont arrivees" were passed to the troops outside.
The Committee of Reception had scarce formed
themselves into a group in the hall of the station
when two long trains were drawn up at the plat-
forms amid a cheer from all the employes of the
company, which was taken up by the crowd out-
side and by them continued almost without inter-
mission till the march to the Hotel de Vile was
commenced. Before the trains had come to a stand
one of the bands of the Garde Civique had struck
up " God save the Queen," which, of course, raised
the enthusiasm of the Volunteers to such a pitch that
they mingled their acclamations with those which
were raised to their own honour. The moment Lord
Bury, heading the Volunteers, stepped into the hall
of the station the committee surrounded him, and
the Echevain, addressing the visitors in French, said :
Gentlemen,—We thank you with all our heart for de-
siring to celebrate with us the anniversary of our national
independence. We are happy to receive among us repre-
sentatives of the nations which have given to Belgium
numerous proofs of their sympathy. The visit with which
you honour us will, I hope, have for its result to draw still
closer the bonds which unite grateful Belgium to the two
great peoples which guaranteed its young nationality. I
bid you welcome."

purpose. French, English, and Swiss, we all meet here for
a trial of strength whose bloodless triumphs are almost as
welcome to the vanquished as the victors. (Much cheering.)
Once more we thank you for your reception of us. You re-
ceive us this night into the bosom of your country upon
trust, and I hope, before we part from you, your present
generous confidence will have been confirmed by experience.
And now allow me to introduce to you in turn each one of
my comrades. (Cheers.)"

Colonel Deherpe briefly responded for the French
riflemen.

Cheers were then given for the King of the Bel-
gians and others for the Queen ; after which the
Bourgmestre offered the yin d'honneur, and refresh-
ments of a more substantial kind were also provided
for the company. It was midnight before the cere-
mony of the distribution of the medals in the court-
yard had concluded, and after 1 o'clock this morning
when the proceedings of the reception came to an
end. The Belgian authorities felt very much at
being obliged to postpone the Tir and the fetes from
September. But of the splendid success of their
efforts yesterday there can be no second opinion ;
and the appearance of the Belgian capital last night
will not readily be forgotten by any one who saw
it, while the procession of its own civic guard and
the foreign riflemen defiled through its stately
streets and beautiful boulevards.

MISCELLANEOUS AMERICAN NEWS.

An official army order has been published pre-
scribing the uniform of the General and Lieu-
tenant-General in the United States as follows :
" For the General the same as for Major-General,
except that on the coat there shall be two rows, of
twelve buttons each, on the breast, placed by
fours, and on the shoulder straps and epaulets
four silver stars. For the Lieutenant-General
the same as for a Major-General, except that on the
shoulder straps and epaulets there shall be three
silver stars."

The Chicago Minute says :—" The Loyal Sol-
diers'•Convention at Pittsburgh exceeds the Cleve-
land bread-and-butter gathering in the proportion
that a house on fire exceeds an ordinary lightning
bug. Pittsburgh is in a blaze of enthusiasm. The
city is crowded with delegates and bespangled with
lights and banners. The soldiers are there. Those
who congregated at Cleveland were looking after
commissions in the regular army or the revenue
service. Those who have assembled at Pittsburgh
have come to speak the sentiments of a million men
who have carried muskets in the service of their
country."

From the same source we extract the following •
•
—" It is reported, upon pretty good authority, that
the New York Times has lost 12,000 of its daily cir-
culation since the holding of the Philadelphia Con-
vention, and that the decline has been so rapid as
to cause the utmost consternation in the ownership
of that concern. This is a righteous punishment
—the only punishment, indeed, which Raymond
can feel. By the time he loses 12,000 more he will
be as Radical as Thadeus Stevens.

Lord Bury thanked the Echevain for the sentiments
he had expressed in the name of the city of Brussels
and assured him that the volunteers entertained
feelings of the greatest regard for the poeple of Bel-
oium•

An Arkansas paper says that a company of United
States troops were fired upon by a person who did
not know that the war was ended. This seems to'
be the general impression' also in Texas. We hear
that the people of the town of Benham have be-
sieged a company of United States troops—that the
besiegers had telegraphed to the State authorities for
reinforcements, and that other besiegers have sent
to Galveston for ammunition. General Sheridan
has set out for the scene of hostilities. This news
has a familiar sound. It resembles the tidings which
came from Texas in 1861, when the ruffians of the
Lone Star State surrounded the handful of troops
stationed there, and inaugurated war against the
nation. In the absence of any precise information
as to the nature of this new outbreak of the rebel-
lion we forbear comment.

Then commenced a demonstration, which for
grandeur and picturesque effect has not often been
equalled on any occasion of a civic festival. For two
hours previously the torches had been numerous ;
but as the volunteers commenced to pour out from
the station these lights increased a hundredfold in
number and brilliancy, as if by magic. At the same
moment the double lines of the Garde Civique, who
kept a pathway, raised their rifled aloft, and the bayo-
nets shone with singular and surprising brightness ;
those of their body not under arms rushed forward
and shook hands with every volunteer they could
seize, each cheer sounding louder than the previous
one. Mixed up with all this jubilant expression of
popular joy was the clanking of the hoofs of officers
chargers, the shouting of the word of command, and
the music of some half-dozen bands. But after a de-
lay of a few minutes in setting the men in order the
procession moved on. First marched a band, and
next a battalion of the Garde Civique ; next came
another baud ; then followed the Committee of Re-
ception, followed by all officers, foreigners and Bel-
gians, not charged with commands ; next, Les
Gardes Nationaux Francais ; then the Volunteers of
Great Britain ; after them the other foreign riflemen,
arranged alphabetically ; and lastly, another bat-
talion of the Garde Civique, and another band.
Torch-bearers at short intervals lined the procession
at either side, and these were flanked by a vast body
of the citizens. The night was very dark, which
was all the better for the effect of the torches, the
gas-lamps, and the wonderful illumination of the
tower of the Hotel de Ville. This lofty and gorgeous
piece of architecture is in what may be called three
open storeys. During the whole of last night these
were illuminated with lights the colours of which were
constantly changing. The illumination was on the
plan generally known as the " blue fire" when used
in theatres. This moment the centre story would be
illuminated in green, and the upper and lower in
red. Presently the centre became red, and the
upper and lower one turned green. All the colours
of the rainbow were introduced, and varied up and
down in that manner. As the procession passed up
the Boulevard de Botanique the effect was marvel-
lously fine ; thence it turned into the Rue Royale,
on through the Place Royale, when, descending by
the Montagne de la Cour, it passed along through
the Rue de la Madeleine and the Rue de la Colline
into the Grande Place. Bouquets were thrown at
the Volunteers from several windows. The entire
space in front of the Hotel de Ville was kept for the
troops. It chimed a quarter to 11 as they began to
enter it. Oue of the bands of the Garde Civique
played the " Brabanconne" as they did so, and
" Partant pour la Syfie" and " God Save the
Queen" followed. The Bourgmestre, accompanied
by his Echevains, all in full official costume, des-
cended and received the foreign riflemen in the court.
Having passed through the lines, and distributed a
small memorial medal, with riband attached, to each
rifleman, the Bourgmestre received all the officers in
the beautiful saloons of the Hotel de Ville, which
were brilliantly lighted pith wax lights, and hung all
round with the famous old Gobelins tapestry. When
he had assembled all the officers around him, ad-
dressing them in French, he said :
•" The popular acclamations have sufficiently told youhow
welcome you are in the old Brabancon city. (Cheers.)
Volunteer soldiers, citizens armed for the defence of your
homes, you prove by your presence among us that the cause
of patriotism is also that of fraternity and of the indepen-
dence of peOples: (Cheers.) Hail ! children of the two
great nations in whom Belgium has found, in days of trial,
powerful and loyal support. Hail ! Germany, Switzerland,
Holland—to all our friends, indeed. (Renewed cheers.)
The town of Brussels is proud to be the rendezvous of
neighbouring countries, and to see forming, in the noble
rivalry in these tournaments of the 19th century, bonds of
reciprocal affection and esteem that the future will be
able to develope. All hearts are open to you. Belgian
hospitality awaits you in all its simplicity, in all its cor-
diality. It does not offer you brilliant fetes, but that spon-
taneity, that unanimity of sentiment that will have more
worth
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ship as they are to their independence, and to the august
dynasty that personifies it by its virtues. I drink to the
worthy allies of Belgium, to the fraternisation of peoples.
(Loud and continued cheering.)"
Colonel Loyd-Lindsay, in reply, said :
" The friendly invitation which has brought us to your
hospitable shores, and the splendour with which we have
been conducted into the capitol of your kingdom, demand
an acknowledgment on the part of the British Rifle Volun-
teers. (Cheers.) It is my high privilege, of which I gladly
avail myself, as intrusted with the command of that corps,
to address you a few words. Those words will be few,
bat they will be warm, sincere, and cordial, because they
are spoken on behalf of the British people, who are always
sensitive of any act of kindness, and ready to recognise
?Mess of international friendship. My words will be few
because we appear before you in the garb of a service
whosei Prominent duty is not in professions, but in ac-
.....atrlio:. words, but deeds. In behalf of the whole force,
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The Rev. Edward Beecher has published a long
and able letter, addressed to his brother, the Rev.
henry Ward Beecher, in which he expresses
powerfully his strong sentiments of disapprobation
at the course his brother had recently taken. " You
insist," says this gentleman, " mainly on an Imme-
diate restoration of the revolted States to the Unio❑
as essential even to the welfare of the freedmen ; you
say, in effect, let them be restored, tranquillised,
prospered, and cheered by success in business and
commercial enterprise, and it will redound to the
freedman's benefit as truly as to that of the State
and the nation. Your whole letter implies this false
assumption that there are some who are not in
favour of speedily restoring the seceded States. It
is au argument against such. You try to prove that
in our system there is ' no place for a State but in
the Union,' and that the Federal Government is
unfit to exercise minor, police, and local government,'
and that it is vain to attempt to govern disorganised
and disordered States by an army. It is indeed
true that there are millions of loyal men who are
opposed to a restoration of a certain kind of States
with certain powers, either immediately or at any
future time. And they oppose it because it will
neither tranquillise society, nor benefit the freed-
men, but will tend to disorganise the nation, enslave
the freedmen, and plunge us into another civil war.
But it is not true that even the most Radical Re-
publicans are opposed to the immediate restoration
of true Republican States, whose spirit and prin-
ciples are those, not of that spurious Democracy that
dishonours the name, but of true Christian Demo-
cracy, based on the law of benevolence and justice,
in which all men are equal in rights and franchises
before all-embracing, all-ennobling, all-protecting
law."

With reference to the law requiring a homestead
settler to occupy and cultivate the land for five
years before he can acquire a title, the question
has been raised whether the improvements made
by the settler within that time can be taxed before
the title has been passed to him. The Commis-
sioner of the General Land Office has delivered
an opinion on the subject, in which he says :
" If a qualified settler goes upon the land, resides
there, and cultivates the tract for the full term of
five years, the United States Government stipu-
lates that he shall on paying a small fee get a com-
plete title. The consideration is mainly a labour
consideration similated, not only for the interest of
the claimant, but for the benefit of the State. The
statue in virtue of the supreme law of the land
cannot, therefore, be rendered inoperative, or
abridged by such an exercise of the taxing powers
as would defeat the privilege conferred upon the
settler. The spirit and purpose of Congress in this
respect is clearly manifested in the fourth section
of the said Act of May 20th, 1862, which declares
that no lands acquired under the provision of this
Act shall, in any event, become liable to the satis-
faction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the
issuing of the patent thereof. It is the generous
purpose then of the United States, through the
National Legislature, to protect settlers in their
homes under the law until their titles reach ma-
turity."

The article in the New York Times, on the Con-
stitutional Amendment, which has excited so much
comment, concludes thus :—" The Amendment now
awaits the action of the Legislatures of the several
States. It is just in itself, and its adoption, by
remedying injustice, and providing for the public
safety, would do much towards tranquillising public
sentiment, and preparing the way for the more
speedy restoration of peace and harmony to all
sections of our common Union. It is greatly to be
regretted that all the States were not represented
in the Congress by which it was proposed ; but it
is submitted to them all for their consideration and
action. Nothing would conduce more to the public
peace than its speedy rectification, especially by
those States which are to be most directly affected
by its provisions."
The Chicago Tribune concludes an article on the
Constitutional Amendment in these words :—" The
amendment, before the Ist day of February next,
will be ratified by the Legislatures of 21 Northern
States. Tennessee has already ratified it ; Missouri
will do the same ; if there be honest elections in
Maryland that State will also ratify it. It will not
be possible for Andrew Johnson nor the rebel States
to ignore the popular verdict thus rendered. They
will defy it any longer at their peril. They
will, by any further obstinacy, only arouse a spirit
which may not be satisfied with a Constitutional
Amendment such as is now pending, but may de-
mand security.in other measures that are even now
rapidly taking shape in public opinion. The pro.:

TBE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1866

mised rebellion will have collapsed ; Andrew John-
son's official dayi will be as easily counted as the
days of any other period having a fixed termination.
Though he may pardon Davis, it will only be to
turn him loose among a people impoverished and
desolated by his treason. There will be nothing
left upon which obstinacy or malignity can build a
hope for the future. The stern alternative will be
presented, submission or worse, and when that day
comes, then the South will take leave of Andrew
Johnson, and, obeying the commands of self-preser-
vation, will accept and ratify the amendment,
which while it strips them of their past unfair
political advantages in representation, places them
on an equality with other States as parts of the
American Union of free States and of a free
people."

Horse racing has lately assumed in the United
States a position of importance. Certain well-known
gentlemen of high social position have formed them-
selves into an association under the title of the
American Jockey Club. They have recently laid
out a course superior to anything of the kind ever
before attempted in the United States, in West-
chester county, near the quiet village of Fordham,
in Jerome Park, comprising about a hundred and
thirty acres of land, which will become in a little
while the fashionable resort for gentlemen of the
turf, and not only for them, but for all (ladies in-
cluded) who take delight in seeing noble horses, and
in witnessing the exciting incidents attendant upon
their running. Races are already advertised to take
place in Mobile during the present month, and at
New Orleans in December. There are four millions
five hundred thousand horses in the different States,
including thorough-breds. These latter command
high prices. Colonel Hampton has been offered for
" Monarch " $20,000. " Priam " cost more than
this to import. " Kentucky," who will be one of
the horses to run in the forth-corning races, could
command almos,t any price at which his owner might
be disposed to value him.
The artillery experiments at Fortress Monroe
began 21st September, and lasted two days. The
target was a solid wall of granite, nearly eight feet
thick in the middle, and nearly twelve feet at the
ends. Four plates of four-inch iron were placed in
front of this, some resting directly on the stone,
some having an intermediate backing of sand. Two
guns of twelve and ten inches (Rodman's patent)
were used, and the gunnery officers had the use of
a railway from the firing point to the target, the
range being 350 yards. The guns were alto-
gether victorious, for it only required eleven shots
entirely to smash the target, these experi-
ments being considered conclusive against
masonry and brick forts at the range by the artil-
lery officers of the United States on the ground.
The first three shots did not produce any very decisive
result ; but the next two fired that day had an ex-
traordinary effect, The fourth shot was fired from
the 12-inch rifle, the elevation being half a degree,
charge of powder 551 b., weight of projectile, (bolt)
6201 b., and initial velocity of the shot 1,079 feet a
second. The effect of this shot was more decided
than that of any previous one. The diameter of
thee indentation produced was 13 inches, its depth
6.1 inches: The -wall at the rear of the target was
forced, or bulged outwards to a considerable extent ;
many of the blocks previously started were shat-
tered into small pieces, and several new seams were
opened. The fifth shot was fired from the same
gun ; elevation, one-third of a degree, charge of
powder 551 b., weight of projectile (bolt) 6201 b.,
initial velocity 1,103 feet a second. This shot
struck upon the lower plate at a point about three
feet from the ground, cracking the plate in a most
extraordinary manner, and tumbling to the ground
several of the blocks of granite loosened by the
previous battering. This shot, it should be remem-
bered, struck the plate over the sand backing. On
the second day after the first two shots were dis-
charged the third was fired from the 15-inch Rod-
man, with the same elevation, charge, projec-
tile, &c., as before. No remarkable results were
noticeable ; the work of demolition was simply
hastened. The 12-inch Rodman rifle was now
brought into use. The piece was given a half-
degree elevation ; charge of powder 551 b., weight
of projectile (bolt), 6201 b. The shot impinged
upon the upper edge of the upper plate, and glanced
off into the masonry, in which it nearly buried it-
self. Whole blocks of granite were tossed from
their beds of cement like straws before a gale.
Pieces of granite weighing hundreds of pounds were
cast a distance of 50 yards from the target. The
iron bolts and girders were snapped like pipe-stems
and sent shivering through the air for hundreds of
feet. The fifth shot was fired from the same gun,
with-the same elevation, charge, and projectile.
The effect was to split the upper iron plate in seve-
ral places, and add to the general smash-up. The
indentation did not, in extent, vary greatly from
that of any previous shot where the iron was not
actually penetrated. The target was now reduced
to a mere wreck, and the last shot was fired at the
south end of the wall, which was not covered by
the plates, but which had been strengthened by the
addition of 4 feet of masonry at the rear. The
smash-up was astonishing ; blocks of granite at the
rear of the target—or nearly 12 feet from the point
of impingement—were wrenched from their fasten-
ings and thrown upon the ground, and the wall was
generally disturbed and cracked throughout. Had
the wall been a section of a real fort mounted with
ordnance the guns would have been dismounted or
rendered useless. A new target is to be built and
the experiments resumed.
From Panama we learn that there are now on
either side of the Isthmus six steamship lines.
These are the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,
embracing eleven or twelve first-class steamers, mak-
ing regular tri-monthly trips between New York
and San Francisco ; the Panama, New Zealand, and
Australian Royal Mail Company, with four fine
steamers—the
the
two Kaikouri, Ruabine, and
two termini. The General Transatlantique Company
(French) running four steamers--the Luisiane,
Noveau Monde, Imperatrice Eugenie, France—
between the ports of A spinwall and St. Nazaire,
France. The Spanish Mail Packet Company, run-
ing one steamer—the Montezuma—monthly between
Aspinwall and the Island of Cuba. The Panama
Railroad's Central American Steamship Line, with
two steamships—the Guatemala and Salvador—
carrying freight, passengers, and the United States
mails semi-monthly between Panama and San Jose
de Guatemala, touching at intermediate points.
Beside these there are a number of lines of sailing
vessels on either side of the Isthmus, doing a great
business in the way of freight. The Isthmus,
in this respect, may be considered the central spot
of the globe— the half-way house in the inter-
change of nations—and its only thoroughfare is the
Panama Railroad, probably one of the mightiest
enterprises ever carried forward from the airiness
of conception to the substance of achievement.
It is almost inconceivable the amount of business
done upon this railroad. The swamps, the moun-
tains, and the abrupt defile had to be overcome
in its construction, and at last the railroad
stands completed. Only 48 miles in length, the
capital and human life expended in its building was
so immense that the millions, in the pecuniary con-
sideration, are not counted with exactness, and it is
said that under each railroad tie an Irishman sleeps
the eternal sleep ; while thousands of the Chinese,
whom they imported as labourers, in their desperate
misery, committed suicide by the knife or by spring-
ing into the jaws of the alligators which infest the
Chagres River and other streams. Everything was
conquered—the pestiferous malarial, the marsh, and
the mountain ; and to-day we have the Panama
Railroad as the grand, universal highway between
the two oceans, occupying a central position on the
globe, and doing an immense business in the way of
freight and passengers. The officers of the road on
the Isthmus must be efficient, because they are
popular among the influential people. The princi-
pal
.officials are Col. G. M. Totten, chief engineer
and general manager on the Isthmus ; Wm. Par-
ker, Esq., superintendent ; Wm. Nelson, Esq., com-
mercial agent. (The latter has been a resident for
17 years, and is much respected).
Intelligence received at New York from Mexico
(via San Francisco), dated the 19th inst., states
that the French troops and fleet had abandoned
Guaymas, and that the town was occupied by the
Liberals, The Liberal Cieneral Martinez had 51augh-

tered the garrison of Xerez. The Austrian General
Lanuberg had been killed. The Imperialists made
no attempt to enforce the blockade of Matamoros.
The Empress has suffered greatly from the mental
strain. The difficulties of the position of her hus-
band, Maximilian, have been sufficient to unsettle
the mind of a stronger frame than that of the
Princess. The Emperor is said to have forwarded
through New York a telegraph message in cipher at
a cost of £l,OOO. The example of the French is
said to have raised the style of living among the
Mexicans. Already the shops, carriages, dress,
habits of living, cooking, household conveniences,
and, in short, the whole routine of life have materi-
ally improved. The capital is in better condition
—sanitary and other—than has ever before been
known. The streets are kept perfectly clean, and
the utmost order and regulation prevail in every
district..

The Quebec Journal states that since the spring
a thousand ship-carpenters have loft that city for the
Western States of America.

New Orleans is said to be the only city that paid
more income tax in 1866 than 1865.

A little girl in the employ of the NVollcottville
(Connecticut) Manufacturing Company possesses most
wonderful arithmetical powers. She counts 2,000 percus-
sion caps and puts them in 20 boxes, 100 in each, in one
minute, and never makes a mistake.

The Board of Equalisation has determined the
amount of property in New York to be as follows :—Real
estate, $1,196,403,416; personal, $334,826,220. Total,
$1,531,229,636.

It. A. Alexander, the wealthy and well-known
turf-man of Kentucky, has retired from the racing world,
and sold out his large and -valuable stock of blood horses.
Asteroid brought $7,000; Bianca $1,500; and Bay $l,OBO.
Forty-three other trotting, pacing, and running horses
were sold, bringing prices varying from $5O to $BOO. His
stock of Durham bulls, calves, Alderney and Southdown
bucks, were also sold at low prices.

A new steam fire-engine of the second class,
built by the Gould Machine Company of Newark, was
tried in that city on Wednesday, in presence of Chief
Engineer Kingsland, and other officers of the New York
Fire Department, firemen from Brooklyn, Jersey City, and
other places, and pronounced an improvement upon any
yet constructed of the same class. It has been taken to
Philadelphia, where it will be received and tried by the
Hibernia Company, and thence sent to Carlisle, for which
place it was made.

The steamer J. R. Gilmore, bound from Cin-
cinnati to the Arkansas River with a valuable cargo of
assorted merchandise, struck the wreck of the steamer
Courier, two miles below Mound City, Illinois, on Wed-
nesday night, Sept. 19th, and sunk almost immediately.
The passengers and crew escaped with their baggage. The
Gilmore was valued at $28,000, and was insured for
$21,000. Her cargo was valued at over $200,000, and wa
principally insured.

MILITARY.—PARADE OF THE SEvENTlL—Colonel
Clark has issued the following order :—" Headquarters,
Seventh Regiment, National Guard, New York, Sept 18,
1866. [General Orders, No. 7.] In compliance with
brigade orders, this regiment will parade, for inspection, in
full uniform (with knapsack and haversack) on Tuesday,
Oct. 2. Roll call of companies at a quarter past nine a.m.
Field and staff will report to the colonel, and the non-
commissioned ztaff, band, and drum-corps will report to
the adjutant at the same hour. The resignation of
Quartermaster C. T. M'Clenachan having been accepted,
ho is hereby honourably discharged from the service. The
regular drill season of this regiment will commence on the
Ist of October. All officers and non-commissioned officers
will be required to thoroughly understand their duties,
and should be perfectly qualified to instruct recruits.
Punctual attention at drill, and an earnest effort for
military improvement, are enjoined upon the officers and
members of the regiment. By order of Colonel Emmons
Clark. Wm. 11. Kipp, Adjutant. R. L. Weed, Sergeant
Major."