The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-06-25
THE SCOTCH VOLUNTEERS.
Queen Victoria First Reviewed Them
More Than Thirty-Five Years Ago.

Queen Victoria First Reviewed Them
More Than Thirty-Five Years Ago.
The queen reviewed her Scottish vol
unteers on the 18th of August, 1860, as
the court was moving from Osborne
to Balmoral, taking in Edinburgh by
the way. The gathering was a truly
national one From all parts of the
country vast multitudes focked to Ed
inburgh to testify their loyalty to the
queen, and the hold which the volun-
teer movement had upon their hearts.
AS the English countries had sent the
flower of their local corps to the re-
view in Hyde park in June, SO now came
a goodly array of the best blood and
bone and sinew from nearly every
county in Scotland to swell the general
muster.
From the Orkneys, unto even so far
south as Tynemouth and Sunderland,
came the picked men of each district;
while Glasgow and the west of Scotland
furnished about one-third of the en-,
tire force of at least $4,000 men who
came together on that day to salute
their sovereign under the windows of
the ancient palace of Hollywood. Her
majesty left Holyrood at $3.50 o'clock,
attended by a most brilliant retinue
The marquis of Breadalbane, the earl
Of Rosslyn and other noblemen were in
the ranks of the volunteers; and Lord
Elcho, one of the earliest and best vol
unteer pioneers, in the uniform of the
London Scottish. The volunteer army
was commanded in chief by Gen. George
Wetherall, and the two divisions re-
spectively by Lord Rokeby and Gen.
Cameron.
There were about $50 different corps
on the ground, marshaled into 35 bat
talions-one of mounted rifles, six of
artillery, one of engineers and 81 of
rifles. On her majesty's arrival at the
position assigned, the royal standard
was hoisted, and the volunteers gave a
royal salute. The officers returned to
their places, and her majesty, attended
by the Prince Consort and the duke Of
Buccleuch On horseback, with the whole
of the staff officers on the field, pro-
ceeded slowly round in front of the
troops. Precisely at four o'clock the
whole of the battalions were put in mo-
ton. The van was worthily led by the
Mounted Rifles of Fifeshire. Then
came the First artillery brigade, hav-
ing in front the Edinburgh city artil-
lery, followed by strong force from
Tynemouth, Alnwick, Sunderland and
Whitehaven; but the mass of the three
battalions of this brigade, about 1900
strong, were made up, in addition to
the large quota furnished by Edin-
burgh, of seven companies from Forfar-
shire
The Second artillery brigade was
headed by the Greenock corps. The
Third battalion, composed entirely of
Lanarkshire and almost all of the G1as-
gov corps, drew forth special cheering
by their handsome appearance and the
steadiness of their march. The engi-
neers, in number nearly 200, came next.
The rifles, forming, of course, the great
mass of the force upon the ground, fol-
lowed The glorious cheer which the
volunteers gave at the end of the re-
view-far louder even than the hurrah
of the more than tenfold more numer-
Gus spectators at it's commencement
was thing to be enjoyed. Lieut.. Gen.
Wetherall, at the close of the review,
expressed to the staff and battalion of
officers her majesty's Admiration Of
the steadiness and precision which
characterized the large body of volun-
teers whose movements she had wit
nessed:' '-Spare Moments.