The Morning Post of Thursday contains an interesting article from
a special correspondent in regard to the progress and position of the National Reserve. That force has now reached close on 170,000 men. Though delighted, we are not surprised, for we ventured to say last May that the National Reserve Parade in Hyde Park must, by the force of example, double the numbers of the Reserve before the end of the year. Our prophecy then seemed much too daring, but the National Reserve is one of the few things of which it is possible to prophesy and see fulfilment come, not much later, but much earlier than one expected. Not five months have gone by since the Parade, and the numbers have a great deal more than doubled. At the end of last May, if we remember rightly, they had not reached much beyond 60,000. The London Reserve, we are glad to say, is now nearing 36,000, and it certainly ought to be 40,000 by the first of January.
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