The Volunteer Review on Easter Monday, which was expected to
prove a failure, turned out a decided success. Not less than 28,000 Volunteers reached Portsmouth, and went through all the evolutions of a mimic combat without mishap or failure. Two objections only are raised by military critics,—that the men do not march solidly enough, and that the officers are decidedly less competent than the men. The first defect is alleged to have existed throughout the American Volunteer army, which, never- theless, killed its opponents successfully enough, but the second is a serious one. Not one Volunteer General can be said to have shone decidedly in the Civil War, and they had four years of active service to learn their lesson in. In the event of an invasion, we should not have four days. If two years of West Point makes such a difference, could we not expand Hythe ?
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