The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-15 00:00:00

!IGADE!

vice at sea.
The screw steamship Princess Royal, 91, Captain
Charles Fellowes, flag of Rear-Admiral Robert
Smart, K./1., having been repaired, was removed
on Saturday, from No. 3 dock in Keyham steam-
yard into the basin, preparatory to her making a
trial trip.
The screw steam frigate Emerald, 51, Capt. Ar-
thur Cumming, went from Hamoaze on Saturday
outside Plymouth breakwater, to try her ma-
chinery.
A Dutch 6-gun storesbip, from the eastward, ar-
rived in Plymouth Sound on Saturday, outward
bound.
The line-of-battle ship Meeanee, 80, which has
been converted from a sailing vessel to a screw
steamer, and fitted with engines of 400 horse-
power, was taken out of Sheerness harbour on
Friday, and proceeded on a trial trip to the Nore
to test her machinery, under the direction of the
officers connected Trith tho .to4m department at
sheerness. The trial lasted nearly seven hours, and
was a most successful one, the machinery working
remarkably well. The draught of water aft was
23ft. 10in. ; forward, 20ft. 10in. ; pressure, 20 ;
vacuum, 25 ; number of revolutions per minute, 56
The Meeanee is attached to the first-class steam re-
serve in the Medway, and has all, her stores, spars,
gear, and armament on board. She can be prepared
ready for sea in 48 hours, as she requires nothing
but her provisions and ammunition to be placed on
board.
The Undaunted, 51, 600 horse-power, is ordered
to be attached to the third-class steam reserve at
Chatham.
The screw corvette Challenger, 22, 400 horse-
power, has been put out of No. 1 Dock at Sheerness.
The Argus, 6, paddle, Commander Ingram, was
at Gibraltar on the Ist of April. It is expected
that she will be ordered home before her time is up,
in consequence of the defective state of her boilers.
On her last passage from Malta the pressure of
steam had to be reduced as much as possible, owing
to this cause. Commander Ingram has been made
a knight of the order of the Rose by the Brazilian
Government, in acknowledgment of his kind treat-
ment of the survivors of the crew of the corvette Isa-
bel, wrecked on the Morocco coast in November last.
The docking of the Duncan, 101, screw, at Ports-
mouth, has been delayed owing to a want of water
at the dock entrance. She will not be enabled to go
into dock now before the next spring tides.
The paddlewheel steam-sloop Geyser, 6, Cora•
mender Jackson, left Plymouth on Saturday, accom-
panied by the gunboat Procris, Lieut. and Com-
mander the Hon. J. Carnegie, for Gibraltar. The
steam gunboat Cockatrice, Lieut. and Commander
Robert Gillson, left at the same time for Malta.
Up to 10 o'clock yesterday morning no intelli-
gence had been received of the steamvessels Avon
and Zephyr, despatched on Saturday by Port Ad-
miral Sir Houston Stewart from Plymouth in
search of the capsized ",derelict ship seen the day
before about 12 or 14 miles south by east from the
Eddystone lighthouse.

The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Lient. H. M. Carre, to the
Cambridge ; Emilius W. Dubue, acting assist.-
surgeon, to the Cossack ; W. E. Kelly, paymaster
in lieu of a:clerk, to the Impregnable ; and W. K.
Harriot, assist.-paymaster, to the Princess Royal.

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The first reginiental dinner of the London Rifle
Volunteer Brigade was given on Saturday evening,
in St. James's hall, under the presidency of his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, comman-
der of the brigade.
After the loyal toasts had been duly honoured,
The CHAIRMAN said—l have now to give you
the toast of " The Army, the Navy, and the Volun-
teers." With respect to the first two branches of
the service, I am sure I but express your sentiments
when I say that the volunteers of England are
anxious to see the army and navy supported and
maintained with the greatest possible ount of
efficiency. (Cheers.) No volunteer, I ascertain,
would desire to see the army or navy reduced in
order to keep up the volunteer force. Volunteers
are anxious to be the auxiliaries of the army ; that
is their proper position, and it is one Ns hick, I am
sure, every right-thinking and right-feeling man
desires and hopes that they will retain. I am
therefore but expressing the sentiments of the vo-
lunteers of England when I ask you on this occa-
sion to do honour to the army and navy. (Cheers.)
I now come to the last part of my toast—the volun-
teers ; and perhaps it may not be inappropriate
that one in the position which I have the honour
to hold should take the opportunity of addressing
a few observations to the large and influential
assembly over which you have called me to pre-
side. I very much rejoiced to find that my gal-
lant and distinguished friend who will respond
to this toast, Colonel M'Murdo, took upon himself
on a recent occasion to give to the volunteers
whom he inspected a little advice very much
to the same purport as that which on a former oc-
casion I myself tendered in this very room. What
I then ventured to suggest was heartily and cheer-
fully responded to by all who were present at the
time, and it has since been carried out, I hope, to a
considerable extent. I then stated that the only way
to make the movement really useful and efficient
was by not allowing it to become a mere plaything,
but by taking earnestly and heartily to the study of
military duties and by beginning at drill from the
very commencement. (Cheers.) It is not less
absurd to ask children to run before they have
learned to walk than it is to expect Volunteers to
be efficient in movements upon a great scale before
they are perfect in the minor details of drill. All
who wish well to this great movement must make
up their minds to this fact—that it is only by atten-
tion to drill that the approach to perfection, which
is our great object, can ever be attained. Let me
tell you frankly what we soldiers think of the
Volunteer movement. It is almost an insult in ad-
dressing you to suppose that you do not wish to
come as near as possible to the perfection of move-
ment of the regular troops. We, as soldiers, natu-
rally believe that you are anxious to attain that
point of perfection, as far as it is consistent with
your other avocations and duties, which of course
do not enable you to attend as minutely to those
matters as those who like myself professionally en-
gage in them. But to the extent of your abilities
you are naturally anxious to approach this standard.
How does the regular soldier arrive at perfection ?
Each year every soldier in every regiment in the
army, from her Majesty's Household Brigade
down to the last number of the regiments of
the Line, goes through a regular course of drill.
They go through the squad, the company, and
the battalion drill, and then through the
brigade drills, and afterwards the movements in
masses in the field. That, I think, is exactly the
course which it is desirable for you to adopt, and the
sooner that course is adopted the sooner you will ob-
tain that end at which we are all aiming, and you
will be enabled to appear in line with the regular
troops in a manner creditable to yourselves and satis-
factory to those in charge of you. (Cheers.) Perhaps
in what I am now going to say I may be treading
upon rather dangerous ground, but I have seen
statements made from time to time respecting the
conduct of the Horse Guards ; the other day, for
instance, it was broadly stated that in pursuing a
certain course they were actuated by all sorts of
motives. lam at a loss to understand exactly
what is meant by the term "Horse Guards," but I
presume it usually has some reference to myself—
(laughter)—and the statements to which I have
referred were to the effect that every obstacle had
been thrown by the Horse Guards in the way of
—and that, in particular, we had not sup-
the Volunteer movonocuL—(urlea of <, No, ne)
ported the meeting at Brighton. Now, on that
point, if you wish to have my opinion, I sup-
pose you wish to have my real opinion. (Loud
cheers.) My belief is that the meeting at
Brighton was very well intended, and that nobody
went there who did not imagine it would be a very
great advantage to the Volunteer movement ; but I
think they were wrong, and I think the meeting at
Brighton was a great mistake. I would much ra-
ther have seen all those corps well employed at drill
on that day, and then, at the end of the season,
asking to have some extensive gathering of the dif-
ferent corps, associated with the regular troops, and
to have some officers of the regular army to super-
intend their movements. (Cheers.) Had such an
application been made to the Horse Guards, or to
my noble friend at the War-office, we should have
said that such a movement was most desirable, and
most useful for the Volunteers themselves ; and vas
should cheerfully have given the proposal every sup-
port and assistance. But, if you ask me whether
I thought as much of the meeting at Brighton, I
most candidly tell you I did not. However 'well
meant—and I am perfectly certain it was well
meant and well intended—l have no hesitation in
saying that it was a mistake, and that I would
much rather have seen a movement of the preli-
minary character I have mentioned—better calcu-
lated, in my opinion, for improving the drill of
the corps. You may ask what were the grounds
of objection to this meeting. Among others, then,
I think it was the wrong , time of year. It was
the time when every regiment in the country was
engaged in squad and battalion drill, and when it
was impossible to have the troops assembled
with you. Another point is, why go to Brighton
You have in the metropolis a very large num-
ber of corps, which can be easily got together;
and I admit that it would be a most advan-
tageous thing for any three or four of these corps to
assemble occasionally for brigade drill later in the
year, according to arrangements made by the com-
manding officers for the convenience of their respec-
tive corps. In case Volunteers should wish to go
to Wimbledon or Wormwood Scrubs, or to any
other part where it might be thought desirable for
them to assemble, there is nothing which my noble
friend at the -War-office or myself would not readily
do to facilitate the movement and to meet your
wishes in every way. But, then, it is necessary that
there should be something like system in these
movements. What was the object of this meeting
at Brighton ? We were told it was to be a sham
fight. Well, I suppose it was a sham fight.
(Laughter.) My gallant friend Sir James Scarlett
says he was present on that occasion, and that no-
thing could have been more properly conducted
than the field-day at Brighton; that the greatest
anxiety was shown by the Volunteers to do their
work properly, and that great order and excellent
system were shown in bringing the various corps
together. But still it was a description of drill
which, to my mind, had really no result. The in-
tention of the voluhteer force is to be, as far as pos-
sible, auxiliary to the army. It' it should happen
that to-morrow the volunteers were called out for
active duty, they would be associated with the
army. Then why not let us act in peaceful times,
when there is no hurry or confusion, as we should
be called upon to do in dangerous times, and
accustom ourselves to the performance of services
such as the necessities of the country may
require P Why should we not do now
what we should be called upon to do then,
associated with the regular army ? (Cheers.):l am
told that the Horse Guards throw every obstacle in
the way of the volunteers. I ask you whether my
presence this evening is not the best answer to that
most extraordinary statement. (Loud cheers.) I
rejoice to find that what I have just said has been
accepted by you in the spirit of candour and frank-
ness which I anticipated. Some persons have sug-
gested that it would be a very good thing if some
arrangement could be made which would admit of