The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-20 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO ALDERSHOT

On Saturday last another imposing military spec-
tacle, in the shape of a grand field-day or review,
took place at Aldershot, in which her Majes.y was
not only a mere spectator, but a prominent actor.
The troops, under the command of Lieutenant-
General Knollys, Major-General Lord. W. Paulet,
Major-General the Hon. J. Scarlett, and Major-
General the Hon. A. Spencer, took up their posi-
tions shor ly after nine o'clock. They consis:ed of
the Ist Dragoiu Guards, the 6th Inniskillingß, the
4th Light Dragoons, the 7th Huisani, 15th Hussars,
the Coldstreatn Guards Ist Battalion, the 60th,

the 54th, the 22d, the 15th, the 9611,- 20th, and
97th Regiments of the Line, the Ist and 3d batta-
lions of the Rifle Brigade, two troops of Horse Ar-
tillery, one troop of Foot Artillery, with field bat-
teries, three companies of Royal Eugineers and
Sappers and Minere, and pontoon train, &c.,
amounting altogether to about eleven thousand
men.

Her Majesty left the Pavilion precisely at ten
o'clock,. and shortly after the booming of the can-
non announced the arrival of the royal cortege on
the ground. The Queen, instead of being present
in an open carriage as on the previous day, was
mounted on a splendid charger, and attired in her
equestrian military costume.
As soon as her Majesty reached the p'ateau on
the west of the south camp, the first division of the
army, under the command of Major-General the
A. Spencer, c,insisting of the Scots Fusilier Guards,
the 3d Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, and the 96th
and 22d Regiments, took up a position on the
north bank of the Basingstoke Canal. The evolu-
tions of the troops continued in that direction, the
cavalry t►king up a position on the right and lest
of the long valley, whilst the artillery having
gained the ridge of the various hills, kept up a heavy
tire in the direction of the supposed enemy.. By
this time her Majesty, the Queen, the Prince Con-
sort, the Commander-in-Chief, and the royal cor-
tege, had gained the point of au immense hill, from
which a splendid view of both armies in the valley
beneath, as well as the pontoon practice on the
Basingstoke Canal, at a place called the " Cove,"
was obtained. It was at first supposed fri m each
division throwing out its skirmishers of Rifles that
a general sham fight would take place ; but this
notion was speedily dissipated, for no sooner had
the pontoon bridge been completed than the Cold-
streams and the other regiments which held the
north side of the canal marched over and joined
the anticipated enemy. The cavalry then threw
out their videttes, and after manceuvring for some
time charged at full gallop across the valley.
The Queen and party then made their way in a
south-westerly direction to the ridge of the splendid
hills known at Caesar's Camp, and which commands
a view of the entire valley. Across this the in-
fantry, after a vast number of evolutions in con-
junction with cavalry, flanked by the artillery,
formed in one immense line, which kept up a suc-
cession of volley and file firing which filled the
valley .with smoke, until the want of ammunition
put a stop to the tremendous fire of infantry and
artillery.
Shortly after one o'clock the sound of the bugles
intimated that the review was at end, and her
Majesty and the Royal cortege having descended
the hill to the plain, the whole of the troops marched
past the Queen, each regiment being headed by
its respective band, playing lively airs, and it was
not until nearly two o'clock that the royal party
left the ground for the Pavilion.
II- r Majesty quitted the camp at Aldershot,
and started with the Prince Consort, the Royal
family, and suite, at four o'clock, under an escort
of the 7th Hussars, for the Farnborough station,
to proceed by special train, via the South-Western
Railway to Gosport, and from thence to her Ma-
jesty's marine residence at Osborne.
The Hon. R. Dutton, M.P., and other directors
of the company, attended her Majesty from Farn-
borough to Gosport. The envie was driven by
Mr. Beattie, locomotive superintendent ; and Mr.
Scott, manager, and Mr. Crornbie, secretary to the
company, travelled with the train.

LIVERPOOL, July 18.—The Royal Mail Ftearnship
Europe sailed hence tc.-day for Boston, with about 150
passengers and a full cargo of dry go ids.
INDIAN MAIL.—The Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany's steam-packet Pera, Captain Soy, Admiralty
agent Lieutenant Bolton, RN., arrived at Southampton,
July 18, with the heavy portion of the India mails.
Her dates were : Aloctridria, July 6 ; Malta, 10 ; Gib-
raltar, 14. She brought 132 passengers ; amongst whom
were Colonel Jervis and family. Messrs. Lushington,
Betts, Bailey, and Palmer, from Calcutta ; Dr.
M'Kecknie, from Malta ; Sir G. Leith, from Gibraltar;
Mr. Smith, of the War Department, from Hong Kong.
FALL IN WHEAT ON THE CONTINENT.—The Cologne
Gazette states that the harvest has commenced over all
Prussia, and promises to be most abundant. A tele.
graphic dispatch from Marseilles states that wheat fell
in that market on Friday if. the hectolitre. At the
fair of Bescancon three days hack wheat was offered at
lower prices, but without finding many purchasers.
GREAT FIRE IN SOUTHWARK.—On Saturday night
last, about 10 o'clock, a fire broke out upon the premises
of Messrs. Wilson and Co , builders, of Great Suffolk-
street, Southwark, by which a large amount of property
in building materials and nearly a dozen adjacent houses
were destroyed, or greatly damaged by fire and water.