The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-01 00:00:00

TEE FIELD DAY AT WIMBLEDON.

The grand military display of the Volunteers of
the meti-opolis and surrounding districts to-day at.
Wimbledon-common, so far as the numbers of effec-
tives attached to metropolitan regiments are con-
cerned, exceeded those at Brighton. Wimbledon-
common to-day was converted into a complete sup-
posed field of battle, with lines of attack and
defence, with, it is stated, artillery, cavalry, and
commissariat, all arranged in due and proper order.
At a meeting held on Saturday of the officers
commanding corps intending to take part in the
field operations, the following arrangements were
made:—

A general muster of the various Middlesex corps
will take place at Knightsbridge, from whence
they will march at 11.30 to Wimbledon, where they
will be joined by the Surrey corps.
The division will halt for an hour, and then pro-
ceed to execute the various brigade movements
which have been decided on.
The chief command will be taken by Viscount
Bury, M.P., Lieutenant-Colonel Civil Service Vo-
lunteers.
Aides-de-Camp—Captain Lord Seymour and
Captain Du Plat Taylor.
Acting Adjutant-General—Major Nelson, Dis-
trict Inspector of Volunteers.
Acting Assistant-Adjutant-General Captain
Lewis, Artists' Corps. _ .

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Acting Quartermaster-General Lieutenant
Walliker, Civil Service Corps.

FIRST BRIGADE.

Composed of Middlesex Corps, and commanded by
Viscodnt Enfield, Lieut.-Colonel 29th Middlesex.
Ist Battalion—Under the command of Major
Whitehead, Victoria Rifles: Victoria Rifles, Cap-
tain Clarkson ; 4th Middlesex, Major Lord Truro.
2d Battalion—Captain Jonell: 29th Middlesex,
Captain Ross.
3d Battalion—Captain Hawker, Civil Service
Corps : 21st Middlesex (Civil Service), Captain
Harrington ; 38th Middlesex (Artists'), Captain
Phillips; 2d city of London, Captain Spottiswoode.

SECOND BRIGADE.

Composed of Surrey Corps, and commanded by
_ _ _

Lieut.-Colonel M'Donald, Ist Surrey Rifles.

lstßattalion—Colonel Campbell : Ist Admini-
strative Battalion Surrey Rifles, Major Jones, 7th
Surrey, Major Beresford.
2d Battalion—Major Cochrane, 12th Surrey :
12th Surrey, Captain Arnold.
3d Battalion—Captain Freeman : Ist Surrey,
Captain Rouse.

CAVALRY.

Under the command of Captain Mellor, Ist Surrey

Mounted Rifles.

Ist Middlesex Light Horse; Ist Surrey Mounted
Rifles.

The 20th Middlesex, under Colonel Bigge, will
probably join in the course of the day.
The Surrey corps will march back ; but the
majority of the Middlesex corps will return from
Wimbledon by a train specially placed at the ser-
vice of the volunteers by the South Western Rail-
way Company, on very liberal terms.
That the comparative probable strength of the
metropolitan forces to be engaged at Brighton and
Wimbledon may be ascertained with approximate
accuracy, we subjoin the list of the various regi-
ments which have signified their intention of taking
part in the Wimbledon Review.

In the first place we have the Ist Middlesex
Artillery, 200 ; the Ist Middlesex (Victoria) Rifles,
500; the City Brigade, two battalions, say 1,200 ;
the Queen's (Westminster), 1,000; the North Mid-
dlesex (Lord Enfield's regiment), 600; the Hon.
Artillery Company, 400; Ist Middlesex Light
Cavalry (Lord Truro's regiment), 150 ; the Civil
Service, 400; the 4th Middlesex (Islington), 400;
the 20th Middlesex (Railways), 400 ; the Metropo-
litans (to keep the ground),; 500 ; the 37th
Middlesex (Bloomsbury), 200; the Inns of
Court Volunteers, 400 ; the 39th Middlesex (Fins-
bury), 400; the Ist Surrey, 400 ; other Surrey
corps, 500; the 38th Middlesex (Artists'), 100.
Thus here we have an aggregate of something rPnr
8,000 men expected to take part in the display ut
Wimbledon, as against the 4,000 or 5,000 metropo-
litan Riflemen who will be engaged at Brighton.
Nor have the arrangements with respect to this
important gathering been forgotten. Alost of the
Middlesex regiments are under orders to muster on
their respective parades at 9 a.m., and march to that
portion of Hyde Park facing the Knightsbridge
being accompanied by its
Barracks, each regiment
band. Having assembled and formed in column,
the march of the entire brigades will take place at
11 36 by the Kensington-road to Putney-bridge,
and thence to Wimbledon. common. The sight will,
no doubt, be a very imposing one. The Surrey