The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-29 00:00:00

THE MAILS.

•
MAILS DUE.
Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South-
ampton) .. .. April 18.
Do. (via Marseilles) April 12.
Brazil and Cape Verde .. April 6.
Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c.

Cuba and -Melico • • •• - • . •• • • . April 1.
Canada.. &c. (via L'derry) .. .. .. March 27.
Cape of Good Hope, &c... .. .. .. April 3.
China, Pena,: g, and Singapore (via S'ampton) April 4.
Do (via Marseilles) Mar. 29.
Gibraltar (via Sonti,''ampton) .. .. .. Mar. 28.
India (Calcutta), Ceyloz, &c. (via Southampton) April 4.
Do. (via Marseilles) Mar. 29.
India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. .. Mar. 28.
Do. (via Marseilles; • • .. April 4,
Lisbon ~ .. .. .. • • • . April 1.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via SouthaoPton) .. Mar. 28.
Do. (via Marseilles) .. Mar. 29.
Vigo, and Oporto_ .. - .. April 1.
.. Mar. 28,

,Ic.

THE CONVICTS AT CBATILIIII.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—As the character of Chatham Prison has
been undeservedly prejudiced in the estimation of
the public by the exaggerated and false reports
which have been circulated of riots among the
convicts, I would venture to ask the favour of
your allowing the insertion in your columns of
a letter which appears in the Times of this day,
from Captain Powell (the Governor), explaining
that no such riots took place.
It is unnecessary for me to say that his letter
contains a faithful and accurate statement of the
facts.—l am, sir, your obedient servant,
JOSHUA JEBB, Major- General.
45, Parliament-street, March 28.

"TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
" Sin,—As a matter of justice to me, who am
responsible, as Governor of Chatham Prison, for the
discipline and good order of the establishment, I
must beg the favour of your allowing me to state
that you have been misinformed in regard to the
continued outbreaks which are represented as hay-
ing occurred ; especially that any disturbance either
took place or was contemplated upon Sunday last.
Indeed, so little apprehension did I feel on this
subject that, instead of taking any extra precautions
on that day, as stated by your correspondent, I gave
leave of absence to one-third of the prison officers,
and allowed my children to attend the services in
the prison chapel as usual.
" Since the outbreak which occurred on the 11th
of February, and which was promptly and
vigorously suppressed, there has not been any
symptom of disorder but once, and that occurred
.during the dinner hour on Wednesday, the 20th
inst., when a very few men rapped at the cell doors,
&c., and five or six voices were heard by those who
were in the corridors close to the cells. This did
not last more than a few minutes; indeed, Major
Ogilvie, the deputy-governor, who was within the
corridors during the whole time, mentioned to the
visiting director that he never even heard any
voices.

" Intimation of an intention to create a disturb-
ance had been given by several well-conducted
prisoners on the previous day, whieh induced me to
take some extra precautions ; and, among others, I
requested the general commanding at Chatham to
send a stronger party than usual to the ground, in
the immediate neighbourhood of the prison, where
the troops are in the daily habit of being exercised
at target practice, and to authorise me to call in
their assistance in the event of any disturbance
taking place. The party thus sent might amount
to about 100 men altogether, not much in excess of
the number frequently on the ground.
" With respect to the civil guard, a force of 24
men, having loaded with buck-shot, that descrip-
tion of ammunition has been served out for years
past ; and it will be easily understood that if ever
it should unhappily become necessary to fire, its
effect would be less severe than ball cartridge.
" I may mention, in conclusion, that any precau-
tions which I may deem it my duty to maintain are
chiefly necessary in consequence of the directors
having determined, in accordance with my sugges-
tion, that not a single man should be moved to Mill-
bank or Pentonville. The whole, therefore, of those
who were ringleaders in the outbreak before re-
ferred to, are still inmates of the prison, although
they are more or less under restrictions and priva-
tions. It cannot therefore be expected that under
such circumstances these men will at present be
entirely reconciled to the position into which they
have brought themselves.
" The extra force maintained at the prison is a
military picket of 24 men.—l have the honour to
be, sir, your obedient servant,
- T. FOLLTOTT POWELL, Governor.
" Chatham Priaon, March 27."

LITE.RATURE.

BULWER'S LIBRARY EDITION.

Leila and Calderon. By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton.

One Vol. Wm. Blackwood and Sons.

Another volume of this admirable :Library
Edition has placed in the -hands of the sub-
scribers two of the least known and least popular,
but not altogetherMY any 'Means two of the least
remarkable, products of ziir Edward Lytton's ima-
gination. Originally these two charming little fic-
tions appeared separately, and each of them in a far
more costly form ; being what are called gift-books,
exquisitely bound and profusely illustrated. Their
having been published in this resplendent manner
in the first instance, we cannot but think may
account in some measure for their comparative lack
of popularity, when contrasted with the more am-
bitious novels and romances penned by the same
master hand. Nevertheless, it must be borne
in recollection, that neither "Leila," nor yet
"Calderon," aspires to arrogate to itself credit for
anything at all like the elaboration of plot or the
minute delineation of character for which the
majority of the world-famous Bulwer Novels and
Romances are so renowned and noticeable. Yet,
in some respects, too, they are each of them—each
' of these minor stories (both being founded upon
trie, are
hupeapciehs,
incidents recorded in the pages of Spanish history),
the
t triinsuommpe respects,otth efr eaquutirmarl equivalent
in merit
so
u t
dramatic is " Calderon the Courtier," that Sir Bul-
wer Lytton tells us in his preface that he at one
period meditated the idea of turning it into a
tragedy. So delicately defined is the position
occupied by Almamen, between Moor and Christian,
that the romancist avows that that portion at least
of his narrative of " Leila" he could not improve
now with all the aid of his matured judgment.
Viewed as lighter sketches, penciled by the hand
of a great master, they are both of them, in their
way, as worthy of examination, and each, when
examined, will be found, after its own fashion, as
interesting to scrutinise and as delightful to appre-
ciate as the artists more extended and more gorge-
ous masterpieces. Assuredly there is scarcely one
among the more ambitious and, in most particulars,
more remarkable of the Bulwer Romances, that
closes with a more pathetic or a more bewitching
tenderness than " Leila :" where Boabdil pausing in
the Mountain pass, thenceforth called El ultimo
suspiro del Aforo, weeps over that last glimpse of
his conquered kingdom, while the trumpets and
cymbals heard in the distance, tell of the triumphal
march into Grenada of the Spanish soldiers of
Ferdinand and Isabella. Distinguished, however,
above the clangour of the cymbals and trumpets of
the Christian army—the sigh of the Moor is
appropriately enough the latest sound audible in
this romantic record of the history of the glory and
the downfall of the last of the Abencerages.

The Cotton Atantffacture of Great Britain investi-
gated and illustrated. With an Introductory
View of its comparative State in Foreign Coun-
tries. By the late Andrew Ure, M.D., F.R.S.
To which is added a Supplement, completing
the statistical and manufacturing information to
the present time. By P. L. Simmonds, F.S.S.
2 vols. Bohn, London.

Mr. Bohn deserves our best thanks for introduc-
ing into his cheap and beautiful series of standard
works the late Dr. Ure's valuable work on the
" Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain." Dr. Uie's
is a standard work. It only needed a continuation
up to the present time, which has been -furnished
by the competent pen of Mr. P. L. Simmonds.
The original work is wisely preserved intact, for it
needed additions only, not correction, and those
additions have been supplied. The illustrations are
numerous, and many of them valuable ; they seem
to have been always introduced when a figure ren-
dered description more easily comprehensible. We
do not remember any other work which gives so
complete a view of our cotton manufactures ; it is
full of interest to the general reader, while all per-
sons connected with the trade will find a collection
of statistical tables compiled from Government re-
turns and documents widely scattered, and acces-
sible in their completeness to very few, at least not
without much trouble and expense. Our cotton
manufactures have made a bound during
the last
quarter of a century, which is probably unsurpassed
in the history of any branch of industry in any part
of the world. The following znarvellous table in.
Mr. Simmonds' introduction will illustrate the
truth of this remark

COMPARATIVE TABLZ. 1835.

Population of Great Britain
~ of Manchestr
bale
ported, de-,
Cotton Production U. Cates, s
sa exported,.
in!
Cotton imported into Great Britain,l
lbs. ..... . . .. ........ ..
Cotton worked up in ditto I 33-3,043,4641
Kingdom, estimated £29,504,405
,
Capital embarked in Cotton Indus-
in Manufactures
try in England i £35,000,000
C:cthlaWervnednited
Kin
spindles at work in United Kincr-,
d0m........................... '''
Cotton
No. of Persons employed in Cotton!

17,564,138
170,000
1,`:54,328

1860.

27,435,325
450,000
4,675,770

1,390,938,752
1,105,965,000

£22,128,304

£52,013,482

£69,350,976

£100,000,000

9,350,000

33,000,000

Factories in (iittO..
Aggregate Value of the gross Im-
ports of the United Kingdom- £48,911,542;
Aggregate Value of Exports of Bri-,
tish Produce and Manufactures...
Revenue of the United Kingdom...

216,858!

500,000

£214,000,000

£17,372,2701
£51,347,3201

£135,892,817
£71,967,191

Surely every Englishman ought to be acquainted
with the history, progress, and present state of a
native manufacture like this ; and nowhere will he
find the information he should have more easily
than in the present edition of Dr. Ure's book. We
should not omit to state, for those who do not know
Dr. Ure's work, that it contains an interesting ac-
count of the cultivation, growth, and manufacture
of cotton from the most ancient times to the pre-
sent, and of the state of the trade in all other,
countries as well as in our oven.

THIRD EDITION
Commissions, under the conditions of the Horse Guards'
Circular Memorandum of February the 15th, 1861:
Captain and Brevet-Major Henry J. Coote, half-pay,
18th Foot.
Captain Richard Wm. Wake, halt-pay, Royal African
Corps.
Captain Francis Pitts, half-pay, Unattached.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock

LONDON GAZETTE-(7731S EVENING).

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MARCH 29.

19th Foot—Major-General Sir Abraham Josias Cloete,
C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Sir W.
Rowan, K.C.8., transferred to the 12d Regiment.
52d Foot—Lieutenant-General Sir William Rowan, K.C.8.,
from the 19th Foot, to be Colonel, vice General Sir Archi-
bald Maclaine, K.C.8., deceased.
2d Regiment of Life Guards—Frederick Stephens, Gent.,
to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Stewart, promoted.
2d Dragoons—Lieutenant John Stansfeld, from the Ist
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Samuel Seggie, who ex-
changes.
4th Light Dragoons—Captain Henry Benjamin Pedder,
from the Tipperary Artillery Militia, to be Cornet, without
purchase, vice Cave-Browne-Cave, appointed to the 9th
Light Dragoons ; Staff Assistant-Surgeon Edwin Wilson
to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Campbell, appointed to
the 42d Foot.
18th Light Dragoons—Walter Yeldham, Gent., to be Cor-
net, by purchase, vice Tisdall, promoted.
Military Train—Ensign Christian Fred. Gardner to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Alexander M'Donald, who

retires.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Samuel Seggie, from
the 2d Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice John Stansfeld,
who exchanges.
sth Foot—William Assheton Eardley Wilmot, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice James Fergussoe, appointed
to the 73d Foot ; Henry Robert William Miles, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Legge, promoted.
9th Foot—Edward John Algernon Smith, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Arthur Piercy Cosens, ap-
pointed to the Ist West India Regiment.
12th Foot--Ensign Arthur Leroux Whipple to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Christopher Hodgson, who re-
tires; James Inge Duncan, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Latouche, promoted.
15th Foot—William Fhineas Bury, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Grier, promoted.
17th Foot—Captain Arthur Charles Elliot, from the 94th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Thomas George Brutton Atkin-
son, who exchanges.
21st Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Banbury Eames, from the
let West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice John
Blaksley, who exchanges.
22d Foot—Ensign George Robert Henry Daubency
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ernest Theodore
Evans, who retires.
24th Foot—First Lieutenant Thomas Carroll Dempster,
from the Tipperary Artillery Militia, to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Francis Arthur Holmes Yonge, who
resigns.
25th Foot—Richard Thomas Higgins, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Praed Praed, promoted.
33rd Foot—Lieutenant Hon. R. H. de Montmorency to be
Captain, by purchase, vice John McKay McKenzie,
who retires ; Ensign Frederick Easton to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Hon. R. H. de Montmorency.
42d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon John Charles Campbell,
M.D., from the 4th Light Dragoons, to be Assistant-
Surgeon, vice Maclean, appointed to the Royal Artil-
lery.
43d Foot—Coll McLeod, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Gerald Henry Baird Young, who retires.
49th Foot—Edward Foot Gilbert, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Roberts, promoted in the Ist West India
Regiment.
50th Foot--Lieutenant Robert H. Patrick Doran to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Tillbrook, promoted, by pur-
chase, to an Unattached Majority.
54th Foot—Farrand Haig, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Lambard, promoted.
63d Foot—Henry Christopher Beadnell, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice myth, promoted.
67th Foot—Robert Patch, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Fraser, promoted.
75th Foot—Lieut. Godfrey Goodman Mosley, from half-
pay, 7th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice James Streets, who
retires upon half-pay ; Ensign F. Bullen Morristo be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Mosley, who retires.
81st Foot—Ensign George Buchanan Bevan to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Tristram Charles S. Speedy,
who retires ; Ensign Rowland Purdon, from the Kerry
Militia, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bevan.
83d Foot—John Olphert Gage, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Edward Meyricke, who retires.
90th Foot—The second Christian name of Lieut. Murray is
Paterson, and not Patterson, as hitherto stated.
92d Foot—Captain and Brevet-Major Edward Eldridge
Haines, to be Major, without purchase, vice Mackenzie,
promoted to an Unattached Lieut.-Colonelcy, without
purchase.
94th Foot—Capt. Thomas George Brutton Atkinson, from
the 17th Foot, to be Captain, vice Arthur Chas. Elliot,
who exchanges.
Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant John Blaksley,
from the 21st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Thomas Bun-
bury Eames, who exchanges.
Gold Coast Artillery Corps—Francis Charles Gavegan,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice George Kerr
Ross, deceased.
STAFF.—Captain George Bernard Morgan, from Town Ad-
jutant at Gibraltar, to be Town Major of that Garrison.
UNATTACHED.—Captain Philip Limborch Tillbrook, from
the 50th Foot, to be Major, by purchase; Captain and
Brevet-Colonel Archibald Campbell, half-pay, 2d Ceylon
Regiment, Staff Officer of the Pensioners, to be Major,
without purchase.

BANK OF ENGLAND.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE COMING 8.11.41 if

BREVET.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Augustus Whitmore, upon
half-pay (Military Secretary to the General Commanding
in Ireland), having, on Feb. 15, 1861, completed five years'
continuous service as Lieutenant-Colonel, to have the rank
of Colonel under the Bth clause of the Royal Warrant,
Captain Richard William Wake, half-pay Royal African
Corps, to be Major in the Army.
Captain and Brevet Major Richard William Wake, half-
pay Royal African Corps, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the
Army.
Captain Francis Pitts, half-pay Unattached, to be Major
in the Army.
Captain and Brevet-Major Francis Pitts, half-pay, Un-
attached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army.
Paymaster Duncan Cameron M'Naughten, 13th Foot, to
have the honorary rank of Captain under the Royal War-
rant of 27th January.
The undermentioned promotions to take place conse-
quent on [the death of General Henry James Riddell,
Colonel of the 6th Foot, on the 6th March, 1861 :
Lieutenant-General Peter Augustus Latour, C. 8., Colo-
nel of the 3d Light Dragoons, to be General.
Major-General William Cowper Coles, Lieutenant-Co-
lonel, on half-pay Unattached, to have the rank of Lieu-
tenant-General.

Major-General John Eden, C. 8., Colonel of the 34th
Foot, to be Lieutenant-General.

Brevet-Colonel John Crofton, from Lieutenant-Colonel,
half-pay Unattached, Assistant Military Superintendent
of Pensioners, to be Major-General.
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Edward W. C. 'Wright,
Major of a Depot Battalion, to be Colonel.
Brevet-Major James William Graves, Captain, half-pay
Unattached Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel.

Captain George Dean Pitt, 80th Foot, District Inspector
of Musketry, to be Major.
The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent
on the death of General Sir Archibald Maclaine, K.C.8.,
Colonel of the 52d Foot, on the 9th March, 1861:
Lieutenant-General Sir De Lacy Evans, G.C.8., Colonel
of the 21st Foot, to be General.

Major-General The Hon. Charles Grey, Colonel of the
3d Foot, to be Lieutenant-General.

Brevet-Colonel John Grattan, C. 8., from Lieutenant-
Colonel, half-pay, 18th Foot, to be Major-General.

Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Alexander George Russell,
Rifle Brigade, to be Colonel.
Major Demetrius 'Wyndham Grevis James, 2d Foot, to
be Lieutenant-Colonel.

Captain John Vize O'Donnell, 27th Regiment, to be
Major.
The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent
on the death of Lieut.• General Sir Lovell Benjamin Lovell,
K.C.8.. Colonel of the 12th Light Dragoons, on the 11th
March, 1861:
Major General William Lennox Lascelles Fitz Gerald
Lord de Roe, Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower, to be Lieu-
tenant-General.

Brevet-Colonel the Hon. James Lindsay, from Lieut.-
Colonel of the Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards,
to be Major-General.
Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel George Anthony Leaton Blenkin-
aopp, Captain 45th Foot, to be Colonel.
Major John James Grant, Royal Newfoundland Com-
panies, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain Edward Bowen, 69th Foot, to be Major.
The following promotions to take place in her Majesty's
Indian Military Forces consequent on the deaths of—
General James Welsh, Madras Infantry, on the 24th
january,.lB6l ; _ _

General Aleiander Fair, C. 8., Madras Infantry, on the
29th January, 1861;
Major-General William John Gairdner, C. 8., Bengal
Infantry, on the 3d February, 1861;
General Peter Delamotte, C. 8., Bombay Cavalry, on the
.sth February, 1861; and
General Jerry Francis Dyson, Bombay Infantry, on the
20th February, 1861.

TO BE GENERALS.
Lieut.. Gen. Pater Lodwick, Bombay Infantry.
Lieut.-Gen Suetorius Henry Todd, Bengal Infantry.
Lieut.-Gen. John Briggs, Madras Infantry.
Lieut.-Gen. Harry Thomson, Bengal Cavalry.

TO BE LIEUTENANT-GENERALS.
Major-Gen. David Capon, C. 8., Bombay Infantry.
Major-Gen. Wm. Donald Robertson, Bombay Infantry.
Major-Gen. Duncan, Madras Engineers.
Major-Gen. George Sandys, Madras Cavalry.

TO BE MAJOR. GENERALS.
Col. George Farquharson, Bengal Infantry.
Col. William Robert Corfield, Bengal Infantry.
Col. Robert St. John, Bombay Infantry.
Col. Richard Horsford, Bengal Artillery.
Col. John Christie, Bengal Cavalry.
'I he undermentioned Officers retired upon full pay, to
have a step of honorary rank, as follows :

TO BE MAJOR-pENERALS.
Col. Josiah Wabbe Goldsworthy, Madras Infantry.
Col. Herbert Jacob, Bombay Infantry.
Col. Richard Rodney Ricketts, Madras Infantry.
Col, Edward Hume Hart, Bombay Infantry.

TO BE COLONES. :
Lieutenant-Colonel John Powell,L
Bengal Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Augustus Cooke, Bengal
Infantry.
Lieutenaut-Colonel Frederick Burgoyne, Madras Artil-
lery.
Lientenaut-Colonel Andrew Henry Duncan, Bengal In-
fantry,
Lieutenant-Colonel Lionel Percy Denham Eld, Bengal
Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Edward Mawdsley, Madras
Artillery.

E
.11.alliiietTENANT COLONELS.
Major WillraOmß
Major Hugh HigAis),:t.irfrey, Bombay Infantry.
IMadras Artillery.
Major James G. Gaitakell, g_al Infantry.
Major Arthur Walton On' slower, Bengal Infantry.
TO kE MAJORS.
fantr y
Captain Archibald Montgomery Campbell,
111•Adras In-
Captain Trevor Henry Shunt, Bengal Infant
Captain James Dann, Bombay Infantry. ry
MEMORANDA.

Major John Edward Ellay, half-pay Unattached, has
been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his
Commission, he being about to become a settler in North
America.
The undermentioned Officers, upon half-pay, have hem
permitted to retire from the Service by thn tiale of their

FIGHT.

(From the Brighton Examiner.)

The proposed interview between Lord Ranelagh and the
Mayor of Brighton, with the view of facilitating the pro-
ceedings of the volunteers on their approaching visit to
Brighton, took place on Thursday evening, in the Mayor's
room at the Town Hall. Many gentlemen coinected with
the volunteer movement were present by invitation, in-
cluding the principal officers of the corps, the chief officer
of police, &c. Lord Ranelagh stated what arrangements
had been proposed, on which he invited those present to
give their opinion, and to ask questions, which his lordship
readily replied to, and intimated his determination to go
through with the matter, notwithstanding the opposition
which it had met with had been more than was anticipated.
On the following day his lordship, accompanied by
Lieut.-Colonel Estridge, Lieut.-Colonel Moorsom, Lieut.
Hallett, Mr. Henry Catt, and Mr. E. C. Scott, went up to
inspect the site of the proposed operations, and were led to
the conclusion that it is admirably adapted to the intended
purpose, the race-course forming the central point of view
of an amphitheatre within which the military evolutions
will be comprised.
From the statements made by Lord R....A...62" dr, ta...
meeting on Thursdayevening, we find that the Government
will have no control or supervision of the Easter Monday's
operations, but that they will be conducted by the volun-
teers themselves, to try the experiment of their efficiency or
deficiency and ascertain the probable value of the force
should it be thrown upon its own resources, or called upon
to repel some sudden and unexpected attack. Lord Rene-
lagh, from his own experience of the qualities of our vo-
lunteer forces, has expressed his confidence in the result of
the present proceedings.
The office of Commander-in-Chief will be undertaken
by Lord Ranelagh, assisted by Lieut.-Colonel Loyd Lind-
say, Lieut.-Colonel Cole and other officers; the Sussex
Artilleryßrigade being commanded by Lieut.-Col.Estridge, I
and the Sussex Rifles by Lieut.-Col. Moorsom. The corps
who have engaged to come consist chiefly of those of Mid-
dlesex,
Surrey, Kent, and Sussex, with the Cinque Ports
Artillery, and the whole number is calculated to be from
16,000 to 20,000 men.

The first train from London is expected to start at 6 a.m.,
and it will probably be 9 o'clock before the last trains get
off. They are not to be brought into the Brighton station,
but the volunteers will alight in front of the new shed, and
form on. the open space from which the immense mountain
of chalk has lately been removed, from thence marching
down the Montpellier-road to the Level, and thence by va-
rious routes—the Marine-parade, the Hospital, the Queen's
Park Wall, Richmond-street, and the Race Hill-road—will
reach the scene of operations as near the same time as prac-
ticable, entering at the south end of the racecourse, passing
between the spectators, who will be assembled on the out-
.

side of the rails and on the Grand Stand, where also will be
stationed the Earl of Chichester (Lord Lieutenant of the
county), and also the band of the sth Dragoon Guards,
which have been kindly permitted by Col. Calthorpe. It is
anticipated by Lord Ranelagh that the whole of the men
will be on the ground by half .past 11 o'clock.
The manoeuvres to be represented on this occas:on will be
those of a retreating or retarding force preparing to receive
an enemy's army, landed at Shoreham, and marching out
of Brighton to give battle. Two lines of defence will be
formed, one facing the Grand Stand, extending about a
mile; the second line on a ridge extending from the Indus-
trial Schools to Ovingdean. The engagement vill commence
by the Artillery on the extreme left opening fire on the
imaginary pursuing enemy, and a great variety of evolu-
tions will be performed, skirmishing, forming of squares to
Violist cavalry, charging by the mounted rifles, and all other
evolutions which are possible under the circumstances.
The field of action having been selected nearer to the
town than was at first anticipated, the spe,ctators will have a
more favourable opportunity of witnessing the proceedings,
in which, no doubt, the greatest possille interest will be
taken.

At the conclusion of the review the volunteer troops will
return by two routes—the Marine-parade and the Lewes-
road, under the direction of their several commanders; ax d
afterwards proceed by the various consecutive trains to
London and other localities by the main, south coast, and
branch lines of the London, Brigbcon, and South Coast,
and the South-Eastern Railways.
Refreshments will be provided for the 'volunteers so
!hat, if possible, they may not be compelled to leave their
ranks; but the arrangements for this purpose are not yet
completed. The ground will be kept by the Surrey
Mounted Rifles, assisted, perhaps, by a detachment of
Dragoons, and the county constalulary, in order to prevent
encroachment on the ground by vehicles, foot passengers,
&c., for whom bo'ho,:is will be marked out, so that no mili-
tary manoeuvres may be interfered with, nor any danger
incurred by the spectators.
Accommr,dation for those volunteers who prefer to come
down on the Saturday or Sunday will be provided as far:as
possible; and Mr. Samuel Akehurst has consented that his
office may be used as a place of reference for apartments or
lodgings, with addresses and terms, which will also be ad-
vertised for.

The above are the principal arrangements thus far, and
any others which may be deeded necessary for the satis-
factory carrying out of the whole matter, not only as re-
gards the success of the military programme, but also the
comfort and accommodation of the volunteers, the keeping
order both in the town and on the field, and the gTatifica•
tion of those of the inhabitants and visitors who will as-
semble to witness the imposing and gratifying spectacle
will be adopted. We can see nothing at present likely to
prevent the whole affair going off with great eclat, but the
possibility of unfavourable weather; against which contin-
gency it is, in our uncertain climate, always necessary to be
prepared, as much at a late season as at an early, for the
experience of all will, of course, remind theta that as heavy
(or heavier) rains may be anticipated on our hot July days,
as !ti the month of April, to which tradition has always
I Pointed as the season of" gentle showers."