NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE great Volunteer Review of Saturday in Windsor Great Park was an unexpected success. Great trouble was taken to ensure that the most distant Volunteers should not start until the previous evening, so that everything might be done as if at -twenty-four hours' notice ; but the regiments came up in -admirable time. No railway failed, and 58,000 men, including Regulars and officers, came upon the ground, marched past the 'Queen, and returned to their homes, without a hitch. The men were fairly supplied with food, and fully supplied with water, always the grand practical difficulty, and there were no com- plaints. The only professional criticism seems to be that the companies did not keep distance well, and it is admitted that the Volunteers are bigger than the Soldiers, and as well set up. 'The Review was remarkable as a display of the largest armed force of Englishmen ever collected. No English General has ever in any battle commanded so many of his countrymen, Marl- borough's armies, which seem larger, having been composite. It is noticeable, considering the permanence and popularity of -the movement, that the force of cavalry is so small ; but the English, though good riders, are not a riding race. Horses for riding cost too much.
