In the second of a most important and instructive series
of articles appearing in the Times on the Cardwell system, written by its Military Correspondent, attention is drawn to the Spectator Experimental Company. Dealing with the question of the Militia, the writer says:" What appears to be imperative, in certain counties at all events, is to take the Militia recruit as young as possible, to give him a good sound preliminary training of the type that Colonel Pollock is now giving to the Spectator experimental company at Hounslow, and then to be content with such annual training subsequently as circumstances permit, allowing great elasticity and making no bard-and-fast rules to bind each and all." The endorsement of our proposals in regard to the future basis of the Militia made by so able and well informed a critic is proof of the importance of the work which is being carried out by Colonel Pollock and his men at Hounslow.
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