Every one admits that the Review was a success as
an assem- blage of fine units of different arms ; and in this sense it may perhaps compare fairly with any other that the Shah has wit- nessed. Yet it seems impossible for the Horse Guards to do anything without blundering, and in their collection of typical corps there were gaps visible even to a layman's eye. Engineers there were none to be seen. This, perhaps, may be owing to a delusion of our military chiefs that armies take the field without engineers,—a story which they certainly have not heard from the Germans, who have learnt how to make science the handmaid of war in all its needs. But besides this omission, there were no Lancers, no Light Infantry. Yet it is the boast of our Staff that there are no Uhlans finer or more active in the world than our modest contingent of Lancer regiments could produce ; nor any more dashing specimens of the Chasseur than we have in our light battalions. Why, then, these obvious exceptions? Have we no head in Pall Mall that Mr. Cardwell can use to solve an easy problem, if the Commander-in-Chief fails to do it for him?
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