The Windsor Review of Saturday went off very badly indeed.
Some twenty-seven thousand men appeared on the ground, and went through their evolutions creditably enough, but there were no arrangements for commissariat, or—says the Lancet—for -casualties, the officers of several corps got hungry and wandered away, and on the return to the Datchet station the men, hungry, thirsty, tired, and officerless, seem to have forgotten discipline altogether. There was a scene at the Datchet pontoon bridge, which the military critics in the House of Commons were not wrong in pronouncing moat discreditable. Officers of the first rank, including the Inspector-General, were "slanged, " to use no harsher word, with a freedom fatal to discipline, while the -absence of many officers reduced the review to a grand and -disorderly picnic. An inquiry will of course be ordered, but it is --open to question whether the force when on review should not be -considered on service, and subjected to military discipline.
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