The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1861.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—APRIL 10.
BOROUGH FRANCHISE BILL.
Order for second reading read ; motion made, and question
proposed, "That the bill be now read a second time :"
—Whereupon previous question put, " That that ques-
tion be now put." The house divided ; ayes 193,
noes 245.

AliV4 —193.
Adair, H. E. Evans, Sir De L. Moffat, George
Adam,W. P. Ewart, William Monson, W. J.
Alcock, T. Ewart, J. C. Morris, D.
Angerstein, W. Ewing, H. E. C. Norris, J. T.
Ashley, Lord Ferguson, R. North, F.
Atherton, W. Fermoy, Lord O'Connell, D.
Ayrton, A. S. Forster, Charles Onslow, Guildford
Bagwell, J. Forster, W. E. Owen, Sir H.
Barnes, Thomas Fortescue, Hon. D. Padmore, R.
Bass, M. T. Fox, W. J. Paget, C.
Bazley, Thomas Freeland, H. W. Paget, Lord A.
Beale, Samuel French, Fitzstephen Paget, Lord C. E.
Beamish, F. B. Gavin, Major Paxton, Sir J.
Bellew, R. M. Gibson, T. M. Pease, H.
Berkeley, F. Gifford, Earl of Peel, F.
Bethel, Sir R. Gilpin, C. Peto, Sir M.
Biggs, John Gladstone, W. E. Pigott, Francis
Bouverie, E. P. Glyn, G. G. Pilkington,:James
Bouverie, P. P. Goldsmid, Sir F. Pinney, Wm.
Bowyer, Sir G. Gower, F. L. Ponsonby, A.
Brand, H. B. Graham, Sir J.R. G. Pritchard, John
Bright, J. Gregson, S. Ricardo, J. L.
Briscoe, J. I. Gurney, Samuel Ricardo, 0.
Bristow, A. Hadfield, Geo. Robertson, D.
Bruce, Lord E. A. Hanbnry, R., jun. Roebuck, J. A.
Bruce, H. A. Handley, John Rothschild,Baron 31
Buchanan, W. Hankey, Thomson Roupell, W.
Buller, J. W. Hardoastle, Jos. A. Russell, Lord J.
Buller, Sir A. Ileadlam, Thos. E Russell, A. J. E.
Bury, Viscount Henea,ge, G. Russell, Sir Wm.
Butler, C. S. Henley, Lord St. Aubyn, J.
Butt, Isaac Hodgkinson, G. Scholefie,d, W.
Buxton, C. Hodgson, K. D. • Scott, Sir W.
Caird, James Howard, Hon. C. Scrope, G. P.
Calthorpe, F. 11. Humberstone, P. S. Seymour, Sir M.
Cardwell, Rt. Hn. E. Hutt, W. Seymour, H. D.
Carnegie, Hon. C. Ingham, R. Shelley, Sir J. V.
Cavendish, Hon. W. Jackson, W. Sheridan, H. B.
Childers, H. C. E. Jervoise, Sir J. Sidney, Thomas
Clay, James Kershaw, J. Smith, J. B.
Clifford, C. C. King, Hon. L. Stansfeld, J.
Clive, George Kinglake, A. W. Stuart, Col.
Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Kingscote, Lt.-Col. Sykes, Col. W. H.
Coningham, Wm. Kinnaird, Hon. A. . Thompson, H. S.
Cowper, Hon. W.F. Langston, J. 11. Tite, Win.
Craufurd, E. H. J Langton, H. G. Tollemache, Hon.F.
Crawlbrd, R. W. Lawson, W. Trelawny, Sir J. S.
Crossley, Frank Layard, A. H. Vane, Lord H. G.
Dalglish, Robert Leatham, E. Verney, Sir Harry
Davey, R. Lee, W. Villiers, Rt. Hon. C.
Davie, Col. F. Lewis, Sir G.C., Bt. Warner, Edward
Denman, G. Lindsay, W. S. Wemyss, J.
Dent, John Dent Locke, John Western, T. S.
Dillwyn, Lewis L. Lysley, W. Westhead, B.
Divett, Edward McEvoy, E. Whalley, G. H.
Douglas, Sir C. Marjoribanks, D. C. Whitbread, S.
Duff, M. E. Marshall, W. White, Jas.
Duke, Sir James Martin, P. W. Wickham, H. W.
Dunbar. Sir Wm. Martin,J. Willcox, B. M.
Duncombe, T. S. Massey, W. N. Williams, W.
Dundas, Sir David Mellor, John Wyvill, M.
Dunlop, A. Merry,' James
Dunne, M. Miller, William TELLERS.
Ellice, Rt. Hon. B .Mills, T.
Enfield, Viscount Mines, R. M. Baines, E.
Ennis, John Mitchell, T.A. Seymour, Digby

- NOES, 245.
Adderley, C. B. Goddard, A. L. Mowbray, Rt. Hn. J
Annesley, H. Gordon, C. W. Murray, William
Astell, J. H. Gore, J. R. 0. Newdegate, C. N.
Baillie, H. J. Gore, W. R. 0. Newport, Visct.
Ball, E. Graham, Lord Wm. Nicol, William
Baring, A. H. Greaves, Edward Noel, G. J.
Baring, H. B. Greenall, G. North, Col.
Barrow, W. H. Greenwood, J. Northcote, Sir S. 11.
Barttelot, Major Gregory, W. H. Packe, C. W.
Bathurst, A. A. Grey deWilton,Lord Packe, G. H.
Bathurst, F. H. Griffith, C D. Pakenham, Col.
Beach, W. W. Grogan, Sir Edward Pakington, Sir J. S.
Beaumont, W. B. Haliburton,-Justice Palmer, R. W
Beaumont. Somerset Hamilton, Lord C. Papillon, P. 0.
Beecroft, G. S. Harcourt, G. G. V. Parker, Major W.
Bentinck, G.C. Hardy, J. Patten, J. W.
Bentinck, G. W. P. Hartopp, E. B. Paull, H.
Benyon, R. Hassard, M. D. Beacoeke, C. M.
Beresford, B. Heathcote, G. H. Peel, Sir R.
Bernard, Thos. T. Henley, J. Peel, Gen.
Black, Adam Hennessy, J. P. Pevensey, Viscount
Bond, J. W. Henniker, Lord Phillip 4, G. L.
Botfield, Beriah Herbert, H. A. Potts, George
Bovill, Wm., Hervey, Lord A Powys, L. P.
Bramston, T. W. Heygate, Sir F. Pugh, D. (Carman)
Bridges, Sir 8., Bt. Hill, Lord E. Ramsden, Sir J. W.
Brooks, R. Hill, Hon. R. Re ton, G. W. J.
Browne, Lord J. T. Holford, R. S. Ridley, Sir M. W.
Buckley, Maj.-Gen. Holmesdale, Lord Rolt, J.
Bunbury, Capt. W. Hood, Sir A. Rowley, Hon. R. T.
Burghley, Lord Hope, G. W. Salt, Thomas
Burke, Sir T. J., Bt. Hopwood, J. T. Selater-Booth, G
Burrell, Sir C., Bt. Hornby, W. H. Scully, V.
Cairns, Sir H., Ho: call T. B. Selwyn, C. J.
Cartwright, Col. H. Horsmb.as ,E. Shirley, E. P.
Cecil, Lord R. Howes, Edward Smith, M.
Cholmeley, Sir M. Hubbard, J. G. Smith, Abel
Clive, H. G. W. Hume, W. Smith, S. G.
Close, M. C. Hunt, G. W. Smollett, P.
Cobbold, John C. Ingestre, Viscount Somerset, Col. E.
Cochrane, A. D. Jervis, Captain Somes, Joseph
Codrington, Sir W. Johnstone, lion. H. Spooner, R.
Cole, lion. H. A. Jolliffe, Sir W. Stanhope, J. B. '
Collins, .T., jun. Kekewich, S. Stanhope, Lord
Corry, H. L. Kennard, R. Stanley, Lord
Cross, R. A. Kerrison, Sir E. Stirling, Wm.
Cubitt, George Knatchbull, W Stuart, Major W.
Cur..., Viscount Knightley, R. Stracey, Sir H.
Dalkeith, Earl of Knox, Lt.-C01.8.W Sturt, H. G.
Darner, L. 3. IV. D. Knox, major W. 3 gt.. 2.4", Cap*. .C. N.
Dawson, R. I'. Lacon, Sir E. Talbot, Hon. W. C.
Dickson, Col. Leeke, Sir ii. Taylor, Colonel
Disraeli, Benjamin Legh, G. C. Thynne, Lord E.
Drax, J. E. Le -h, W. Thynne, Lord H.
Du Cane, Chas. Leighton, Sir B. Tollemache, J. H.
Dunne, Col. Lennox, Lord G. G. Torrens, R.
Du Pre, C. G. " Leslie, W. Trefusis, Hon. C. H.
Dutton, Hon. B. H. Lindsay, Colonel Trollope, Sir John
East, Sir J. B. Long, R. P. Turner, J. A.
Edwards, Major H. Longfield, Robert Upton, Genet al
Egerton, Sir P. Lopes, Sir 111., Bt. Vance, John
Egerton, A. F. Lovaine, Lord Vansittart, Wm.
Egerton, E. C. Lowther, Col. H. C. Verner, Sir Wm.
Egerton, W. Lyall, G. Walcott, Adm. J. E.
Elcho, Lord Lygon, Hon. F. Walker, James R
Elmley, Viscount Lytton, Sir E. B. Walpole, S. H.
Elphinstone, Sir J Macaulay, K. Walsh, Sir J. B.
Estcourt, S. M'Cormick, W. Walter, John
Farquhar, Sir M. Macdonogh, F. Watlington, J. W.
Fellowes, Edward Mackinnon,W.(Rye) Way, Arthur E.
Fergusson, Sir J. Malcolm, J. W. Welby, W. E.
Filmer, Sir E. Malins, R., Whitmore, H.
Finlay, A. S. Manners, Lord J. Williams, T. P.
Fitzgerald, W. S. Marsh, M. H. Woodd, B. T.
Forde, Lt.-Col. W. Maxwell, Col. Wyndham, Hon. H.
Forester, Col. G. C. Miller, T. Wyndham, Hon. P.
Franklyn, G. W. Mills, A. Wynn, Col.
Gallwey, Sir W. P. Montagu, Lord R. Wynne, C. G.
Gard, R. S. Montgomery, Sir G. Yorke, Hon.E.
George, John Moody, C. A.
Getty, S. G. Mordaunt, Sir G. TELLERS.
Gilpin, Colonel Morgan, C. 0. S. Cave, S.
Gladstone, Capt. Morgan, Major Smith, Augustus

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

WINDSOR STEEPLECHASE-WEDNESDAY.

The Scurry Handicap Steeplechase of 5 sovs each, with

25 added.
Capt. Boyce's Escape, aged, list (Nightingall) 1
Mr. B. Land's Savernake, aged, 9st 101 b .. (J. Land) 2
Mr. Hoof's Hazard, aged lest (Mr. W. Beville) 3
Borderer and Prince Charming also ran.

Betting-5 to 4 agst Escape, 3to 1 agst Hazard, 4to 1
agst Savernake.
Escape won literally in a walk.
The Military Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 25 added

list each.

Mr. Starkey's Nimrod (10th Hussars) aged, list
(Mr. Lawson) 1
Capt. Coates's The Dodger, aged
Mr. Pott's (11th Hussars) Knight Errant, aged, list
(Owner) 0
Betting—Even on The Dodger, 6 to 4 agst Nimrod.
Whilst running, 5 to 1 was betted on Nimrod.
Nimrod won after a slashing set to by a head.
The Windsor Open Handicap Steeplechase.

Mr. B. Land's Oliver Twist, 5 yrs, 9st 51b.... (J. Land) 1
Baron de la Motto's Franc Picard, 6 yrs, lOst 71b
(Lamplugh) 2

The following also ran :—Jerusalem, Freshman, Queens -
ferry, Johnny, Mauchline, Sir Charles, Cockatoo, and Grey
Peter.

Betting-7 to 2 agst Freshman, 4to 1 each agst Red
Rover and Johnny, 6 to 1 agst Franc Picard, 8 to 1 agst
Mauchline, 10 to 1 agst Cockatoo.
Land's horse running the longest and the gamest, just
landed the stake for his lucky owner by a neck. Nothing
else passed the post.

THE NAVY.

The screw steamship. Centurion, 80, Capt. H. D.
Rogers, C. 8., the Aboukir, 90, Capt. Douglas Curry,
and the Hero, 91, Capt. Alfred P. Ryder, were
appointed to leave Hamoaze yesterday afternoon,
and go into Plymouth Sound. The Donegal, 101,
Capt. Henry Broadhead, will probably follow to-
day, and the Conqueror, 101, Capt. E. S. Sotheby,
to-morrow. The ships belonging to the Plymouth
division of the Channel Fleet have sent up their
lower yards and topmasts. Nearly all arrived at
Plymouth on the 20th Dec. last.
Yesterday the steam floating battery .tna, 16,
at Chatham, commenced shipping her shot from the
gunwharf. She is to be supplied with 880 68.
pounder shots, in addition to which she receives 14
boxes, each containing grape and case shot. Her
powder and shells will be supplied from Upnor
Castle. A similar quantity of shot and shell will
be put on board the Thunderbolt, 16, steam floating
battery.

The Royal paddle yacht Victoria and Albert,
Capt. the Hon. Joseph Denman, will leave Ports-
mouth harbour on Friday. A gunboat will be in
attendance at East Cowes pier at daylight on Satur-
day morning, from which she will convey live stock
and luggage to the Royal yacht, which will imme-
diately afterwards sail for Madeira, where she will,
with the Osborne, be placed at the disposal of the
Empress of Austria.

The COssack, 20, screw, Capt, Moorman, steamed
out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday to Spithead,
where she waits orders for sea. Before anchoring
'she steamed out some distance to test machinery,
under the supervision of the officials of the dock-
yard. Everything worked in a very satisfactory
manner, and it was found that, owing to the sug-
gestions made and carried out by the steam factory,
the ventilation of the ship has been greatly in-
creased ; and steam is now kept up without the
never-ending trouble which formerly attended that
operation.
The Icarus, 11, screw, Commander N. Salmon,
V.C., will be undocked from No. 1 dock at Ports-
mouth-yard to-day. The Octavia, 51, screw, will
also be taken out of dock at, the same yard to-day
on the completion of her conversion from a sailing
frigate to a screw, and placed in the steam basin to
receive her machinery by Maudslay, Field, and Son.

The Duncan, 101, screw, was taken into the steam
basin at Portsmouth yesterday, and to-day on the
Glasgow being taken out of No. 8 dock will be
placed in the same dock to ship her shifting blade
on her new three-bladed iron screw, with which
some experimental trials are about to be made by
order of the Lords Commisgoners of the Admiralty.
IThree of the large 40-pounder Armstrong guns
have been landed at the gun-wharf, Chatham, from
the Marlborough, Government transport, and are
intended to be put on board the Defence, 22, now
building at a private establishment for the Coast-
guard service. A further number of the Armstrong
guns will arrive at Chatham from Woolwich in the
course of a few days, four of which are intended for
the Defence, 22, and four for the Resistance, 22,
both of which will a!so be furnished with 18 68-
pounder 10 inch gups, each of 95 cwt.
The Stork gunboat, tender to the Excellent, gun-
nery ship at Portsmouth, made practiee at the Sirius
target ship yesterday, in Porchester lake. The
Sirius showed symptoms of being on fire for some
time, but a strong party of seamen proceeding on
board succeeded in extinguishing what fire was
existing.
The War Department screw steamer Lord Pan-
mure, T. Moore, master, from Woolwich, arrived at
Plymouth on Tuesday, and went immediately to
the gunwharf at Devonport, and to the powder
works at Bull Point.

The screw steam gunboat Hind, tender to the
Russell, 60, at Falniotith, is under repair in
Hamoaze, Devonport, and will probably be finished
to-day, when she will proceed to headquarters.
The paddle-wheel steam sloop Geyser, Comman-
der Jackson, from Portsmouth, under sail and steam,
arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday. Yesterday she
was placed alongside the coal hulk Lavinia. She
is appointed to receive seamen belonging to the
Ariadne and Immortalite and proceed to Gibraltar.
It is possible that the gunboat Prooris, 3, Lieut.
the Ron. Y. Carnegie commanding, may accompany
the Geyser.
The Pigmy steam. tender, Master Commander
Johnstone, yesterday proceeded off to Portsmouth
harbour to the Dutch frigates lying at Spithead,
where she embarked Rear-Admiral Wipff, accom-
panied by Capt. Fabius and Flag Lieut. Kroef.
On the Pigmy's return to the harbour the gallant
Admiral landed at her Majesty's .dockyard, where
he was received by Chevalier Vandenberg and Flag
Lieut. Souttie, flag lieut. to Vice-Admiral Bruce,
the naval Commander-in Chief. Admiral Wipff
then proceeded to call upon Admirals Bruce and
Grey, and also upon Major-General Lord W. Pau-
let, C. 8., the Lieut.-Governor of the garrison.
The following appointments were made yester-
terday at the Admiralty:—Lieut. Frederick W.
Wilson, to the Marlborough ; Lieut. H. T. Boger,
to the Algiers; John Cotton, surgeon additional,
to the Fisgard ; Henry Cooper, paymaster, to the
Caesar; William G. Parmeter, paymaster, to the
Hannibal ; Joseph C. Paine, paymaster, to the
James Watt; and William H. Turner, paymaster,
to the Dauntless, in lieu of a clerk.

trict. Soon after the troops had been formed in
line Major-Gen. Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., the inspect,
ing officer, arrived on the ground, accompanied by
Col. Somerset, C. 8., Col. Thackwell, Capt. Milligan,
A.D.C., and Town Major J. Breton. Ilis lordship
having been received with the customary honours,
the force commenced marching past in review order,
slow and quick time, the guns in file and column at
the slow and trot. A number of other movements
followed, all of which were executed with astonish-
ing quickness and precision, reflecting the highest
credit on every officer and man in the battery. A
few words from the ►7ajor-General addressed to the
men. closed the proceedings. •

Yesterday morning Lieut.-Gen. Lumley, Inspec-
tor- General of Infantry, paid his first visit to Col-
chester Camp, for the purpose of making a periodical
inspection of the 9th and 10th Depot Battalions.
He was met by Col. the Hon. Alex. Gordon, C. 8.,
Commandant of the Camp ; Brigade-Major Caoch,
and other officers of the Staff; and having made a
minute examination of the books of the two bat-
talions, he proceeded to the inspection of the kits of
the men. The entire strength of the garrison was
subsequently assembled, and the men went through
a variety of military evolutions in battalions. The
men forming the depots acquitted themselves in a
very creditable manner, and it was understood that
Lieut.-Gen. Lumley was perfectly satisfied with the
general proficiency of the men, and their fitness for
foreign service, to which this inspection had more
especial reference.

It was stated on Monday last, in our naval and
military column, that, in consequence of the irre-
gularities in the lower part of Woolwich, General
Dacres had established a permanent picket to patrol
that part of the town, in order to prevent any in-'
terference with the men in picking up stragglers
and absentees, It appears, however, that the picke t
alluded to is not newly formed, but is now made
into a garrison picket consisting of the various
corps quartered there, instead of a regimental one
composed of the Royal Artillery alone, as hereto-
fore, without an increase of strength. It is satisfac-
tory to add that the irregularities in the town have
been almost entirely checked by the.measures taken
to punish the publichouse-keeper who abetted them.
A detachment of the depot brigade Royal Artil-
lery, consisting of 53 non-commissioned officers and
men, left Woolwich garrison yesterday morning to
pass through a course of gunnery exercise at the
school of instruction at Shoeburyness.
A squadron of the 7th battalion Military Train,
consisting of five officers and about 130 noncommis-
sioned officers and men, is expected at Woolwich
to-day for garrison duty, to replace the squadron
of the 6th battalion, departed for Ireland.

VOLUNTEERS'• EQUIP 3IE LV TS IN WAR.

On the invitation of Colonel O'Halloran, ad.
dressed to the commanding officers, officers, and
members of the several volunteer corps resident in or
near London, a public meeting was held on Tuesday
evening at St. James's-hall, under the presidency of
Colonel M'Murdo, C. 8., Inspector-General of Volun-
teers, when Colonel O'Halloran submitted to inspec-
tion a knapsack and field-service kit, and delivered
a lecture on their constructive principles, and their
claims in a military point of view.
Among those present were Lord Ranelagh, Mr.
Bodkin, assistant-judge, Captain Taylor, civil ser-
vice, Captain Henry Cartwright, &c.
Colonel M'Mußpo, in taking the chair, said he
was not there to advocate any particular pattern of
knapsack, but to call the attention of volunteers to
the general question of eqUipment for the field.
He thought that the time had come, now that all
corps had attained efficiency, and many a very high
standard, when it was important that they should
turn their attention to this matter. The consti-
tuent parts of an army were these—first, men,
that was obtained in the volunteers; next, drill,
that had been obtained in a high degree; and the
third was equipment for the field. The soldier
was like the snail ; he walked with his house on
his back ; but there was this broad distinction
between the volunteer and the soldier—
that the latter lived in barracks or, camps, he was
in North America, he was in China, and everywhere
he carried with him his whole necessaries. Now,
if there should be a war in this country—if Eng-
land should be invaded—we should not have less
than from four to six months' warning. How
would war be indicated ? Not by the movement of
large bodies of troops or by political differences,
perhaps, but there were the means of knowing when
a nation was going to war by the contracts she
must make, for she must have hay and food for the
purpose of carrying on war. Therefore he consi-
dered that volunteers, without going to the expense
of field equipments now, should decide what they
should be. They should have a sealed pattern in
the orderly-room, and should have a contract made,
so that each corps should be provided with them
whenever they might become necessary. With
regard to the articles which volunteers should carry,
they were different from the soldiers, for if volun-
teers went into the field it would be for a very short
campaign. They must, however, have a change of
things, so that they might replace the wet by the
dry. He had rather staggered his gallant friend,
Colonel O'Halloran, when he told him he would
allow no shoe-brushes—the volunteer must grease
his boots with his thumbs ; no clothes-brush—he
must hang his coat on the branch of a tree and beat
it with his ramrod. (Laughter.) No hair-brush ;
they might have a comb ; no tooth-brush. (Laugh-
ter, and cries of " Oh, oh.") He could tell them
that, when he was quartermaster-general with Sir
Charles Napier in Scinde, he stepped out before
daybreak, thinking the general was asleep, in order
to wash his teeth at a stream, when he was sur-
prised by Sir Charles calling out, " What have you
got there, a tooth-brush ?" " Yes, general, a tooth-
brush." " Well," replied Sir Charles, " it's the
first tooth-brush which has ever been seen on these
hills," and rode away. (Laughter.) Now, when
he had deprived Colonel O'Halloran of all his
brushes he had reduced the kit of the volunteers
31b. (Hear.) He should be happy to recommend
to the Secretary for War any knapsack which could
be approved on obvious principles, and which was
calculated to carry a volunteer's kit, and a volun-
teer's kit only. The gallant chairman then called
on

Colonel O'HALLORAN, who said he desired to ad-
dress them on the constructive principles of the
knapsack and field service kit, in the construction
of which he, at the request of the inspector-general
of volunteers, had been engaged i but before he en-
tered into details he would point to the military
considerations which governed this proposed addi-
tion to their accoutrements. They were aware it
was the wish and the intention of the War-office
authorities to place the volunteer force upon an
efficient war footing. Now, the state or condition
of a war footing could not apply to any body of
men, however efficient in drill or the use of arms,
if they could not carry with them a change of
clothing. Pointing to the Crimean war, he asked,
was it wise to await the day of trial before they
took the necessary precautions, and only to adopt
them when disease and sickness had created greater
ravages than the enemy P He had heard it said of
the volunteers " that there was no doubt as to their
fighting qualities, and that to the majority of them
fighting would be as welcome as the flowers of
May, bet they would never be got to submit to a
load—they would never like the knapsack." Ad-
mitting the first two propositions, he totally dis-
claimed the third. Admitting. that the volunteers
would be willing to fight, he could not withhold
from them credit for the military capacity to en-
dure. Of what use in a protracted campaign would
be the soldier or the volunteer who refused to march
or was unable to carry his kit ? It was a libel on
that patriotic movement. It was folly to suppose
that the railways of this country could be made
available for the transport of the personnel of
140,000 or 150,000 volunteers, in the shape of port-
manteaus and carpet bags. Therefore it was ne•
cessary that the volunteer should learn betimes to
carry his own kit, and thus double his value. The
late operations in India, China, and Italy, all
afforded proofs of the importance of goad
bodies of marching men, and in order to
render them effective the knapsack and kit must
form part of the personal status of the volun-
teers. It was the element of obedience; it was
the sacrifice of private will on the shrine of
public duty which rendered this body—self-raised,
self-equipped, and self-supported—without a parallel
—it was the element of obedience, he repeated, ema-
nating from the motives to which he alluded, which
had given to the volunteer movement a moral gran-
deur, and had imposed a moral restraint on the ag-
grandisement of foreign powers. He had himself
served her Majesty and her Majesty's predecessors

sic. 4.1). STAMPED, SD.

for 42 years, and he was willing to serve her again
as a private in the volunteers, with his knapsack on
his shoulder, if ever the occasion should require it.
It was said that the enthusiasm which marked the
early stage of the volunteer movement had been
kept up by sham fights, and reviews, and balls,
and that these things w( nld soon give place to our
old business habits. He thought differently, and
his opinion had never undergone a change. Despite
discourageinents, business habits, and the weather
--three powerful influences—the volunteer forces
had rapidly increased. Having remarked on the
inapplicability of the haversack and tunic pockets
as a substitute suggested by some for the knapsack,
the gallant colonel proceeded to say that that which
he had submitted to them was a combination of the
principles in the inventions of Mr. Beerington and
Colonel Spiller, R.A., and the result had not fallen
short of his expectations in being enabled
to present to the volunteer force a knapsack more
adapted to the moral and physical laws which
govern nature than any other. He then exhibited
his invention, describing its various advantages and
and the mechanical contrivances to which he had re-
sorted. Amongst these were that it was easy of
adjustment, that it secured ventilation for the back,
and was not susceptible of derangement, and was
adapted to the mechanism of the human frame. Col.
O'Halloran, knapsack on back, then went through
the manual platoon exercise, and although 60 years
of age, with an ease and rapiditywhich drew down
frequent bursts of applause. He then unpacked
and packed up the kit, the whole weighing 12-11bs.,
while the regulation knapsacks is 201bs. as ?.119.1Vec1,:
by the Inspector-General, and also drew the
attention of his auditory to another inrvprition
called "The Volunteers' Sporrhan," ittsimit-ifttra:
over the hips or across the shOulders "iol Ecacd
sionists. The two specimens contained plate, knife
and fork, &c., necessary for the soldier and the
tourist. The gallant colonel having girded one
round his loins and exhibited the contents of its
various flaps, caused considerable amusement.
The proceedings then terminated.