New-York tribune., 1869-04-14
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moro strong language, and at once ordered tha
bugers to sound the assembly, and sent his ads to
gather the scattered volunteers. Engishmen like tor
grumbe and they like to cheer, and perhaps they dG
not object to energetic" language from RoyaLi
Duke. When assembled on the esplanade the volun-'
teers grumbed at the weather and cheered at being
dismissed. When the weather cleared up they
grumbled at having come so far to do nothing, and
cheered when they received orders to reassembe.
The order went out about noon and by Q o'clock the
volunteers had reformed. marched about three or
four miles, and the first brigade passed the saluting
point, where flOated the standard of England and
where were assembled the Duke and other royal and
noble personages. After the march passed, which
occupied about an hour. tho troops were got into
postion and as much of the original programme az
could be carried out was performed.
The Royal Sovereign, turret-ship. and one other
turret-shp, with several gunboats, were to have
taken part in the sham-fght but the sea was SD
heavy that eventually only the two turret- ships
used their guns So powerful was the force of wind
and wave that all the vessels had to keep to their
anchorage with steam up Some idea Of the nature
of the storm may be gathered from the fact that
early in the morning an eight-gun brig, used as q
training ship for boys driven from her moorings
and cast to the Admiralty pier massiVe stone
structure, where she smashed to pieces her crew
of 50 boys and 20 escaping almost by miracle.
No more rain fell but the wind still continued high.
and up on the nights it was bitterly cold. The mud
| on the roads was some inches deep and Of q most
unpleasant consistency and after marching through
some miles of road and newly-plowed fields. tho
accumulation of earth on the mems boots, and the
slippery footholdng, made very uncomfortable for
them. But volunteers do not go out for days worc
with any idea of being comfortable. Certainly, uni
forms wet through, percingly cold wind aud pounds
| of mud on the boots would not improve the temper
of the coidestboOded individual, and when the vol
unteers got back TO London tley might safely con-
slider they had really had trying day of it.
Under the disadvantages have related the mill
| tary display was, though not failure, still not
! such q success as might have been anticipated.
The vOlley- firing of the rihemen was excellent,
and the pop pop popof the London rifle in the hands
of those regiments of the line who took part IN the
sham fight demonstrated their effectiveness agansn
an enemy. The sight from the top of the hills al
nearly the close of the days proceedings very
fine one The two long lines of attacking and de-
Tending forces backed by the artillery the guns oe
the castle belching forth their tremendous IRE, and
the heavy guns of the ships in the bay down below
playing on the castle, gave one very COED idea oh
what a real battle might be like. Being so late in
the day before the fight commenced, the programmes
was considerably abridged and the volunteers werd
marched off to the stations about six o'clock. tbe
whole of them being safely conveyed back to London
by eleven o'clock.
As have said as military display the affair would,
! hardly be worth recording, but the exceptionaF
occurrences illustrated the organization Of the volS
unteer force its discipline and the material of which
| il is composed in such marked manner that thef
doings of the British Volunteers Easter Monday
1 of 1862 will doubtless have great effect on their
! future At present, although the volunteer army
| numbers 10000 men, it has no organization which,
would render it available in of need and it has
| therefore been designated by Lord Raneagh a
| proninent volunteer commander, and one OF tho
| earliest promoters of the movement, as sham
! The Government makes a capitatlon grant Oh twenty
shilings to every volunteer who goes through pref
scribed number of drills in the course of year. with
small additional grant to those men who go through
certain amount of musketry practice. The present.
allowance is not considered by the volunteers as suf-
cient for their maintenance and application has beeR
made for further grant this the present Governs
ment refuses to allow and it is expected thai vota
will be taken on the subject in Parliament, and there
is no doubt that the doings of Easter Monday VIII
have some influence when the matter 10 oiscussed'i
The different volunteer corps commanded by off,
GERS most of whom have retired from the army thelr
adjutants are invariably military men, and many OF
the commanding officers men who have attained
distinction in service. But when such q gathering
as an Easter Monday Review takes place, all organs
izaton is taken out of the hands of the volunteer
commanders, and officers are placed over them Dyl
the War Department with whom neither they mon
the men can feel any sympathy. With railway CON-
panies which can convey $1,000 men eighty miles in
three or four hours, and back again in the sama
time without hitch; with such esprit de corps
among such number of men. that they can be dis
tributed over a large town, and its nelghborhoods
and reassembed in an hour; with the pluck which
enables men to undergo, III face OF wind and weatherS
such an amount Of hard work, the volunteers SEEM
to deserve better of the Government. The younteec
force has done great deal for this country, MILL;
tary spirit has been infused into the people, which
they had not before The 10000 men, Of which the
force now consists. does not reckon the number OIL
men who have passed through the ranks aud re-
signed and who cannot forget some of the military
| training they have gone through. Physically. tha
Young men of England are much the better for IT.,
for in this aday-age the healthy exercise ot
! the muscles, which they would not otherwise baye
| had has considerably improved the appearance OF
| the young man of the period, especially the town.
Young man, used to sedentary occupation. EVEN
supposing Government refuses further aid, and tbd
volunteer force dwindles away in consequence, cons
siderable good will have been done to the generations
THE NEW MINISTER FROM ITALY
The Cable dispatch from Florence, 18th inst. con-.
veys the intelligence that Signor Bernati s to be
transferred from his present position as Italian Mn
lister at Constantinople TO Washington, in the samo
capacity The present chief of the Italian Legation
at Washlsgt Sgnor Marcello Cerrut retres FROM
active diplomatic duty in consequence OF very SCI
we're eye-disease amounting almost to blindness,
with which he is afflicted. He will return to Europo
on an indefinite congo hissuccessor arrives
| o+ Suuor Rertinatti OF the most.