It is reported that an excellent example has been set
to Volunteers by the Inns of Court Reserve Corps. At a meeting of the Corps the members passed a resolution that they would " welcome the oppor- tunity " to offer their services for the period of the war. This was in effect an answer to Lord French's appeal to Volunteers to consider whether they would be willing to forfeit their right under the Act of 1863 to retire from the Volunteers at a fortnight's notice. The nature of their services, of course, would remain as now. The point is that before the authorities spend money on the Volun- teers they want to know whether the Volunteers intend to stick seriously to their self-imposed duties. The expression of feeling by the Inns of Court Reserve Corps was therefore a most valuable indication. It should be widely imitated.
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