The peace campaign in Berkshire has been abandoned, to the
great irritation of the whole country. We have discussed the matter elsewhere, but may state here that Sir Henry Storks said on Monday the single difficulty was the lateness of the harvest, but for which "the Control Department would have performed the service required of it ; " but that in the official reports, on which Mr. Cardwell says he relies, the same officer alleges, besides the lateness of the harvest, the sanitary difficulties likely to be -caused by bad weather, the difficulty of procuring local trans- ,port while horses are in such demand, and the expense of the 'Whole proceeding. It is evident, however, that deficient trims- port is the true reason, for the Quartermaster-General proposes as an alternative plan that there shall be three camps, at Woolmer, Chobham, and Aldershot, that these camps, "be supplied only "with the quantity of transport requisite for camp duties," and that "each force be provided with sufficient transport in rotation to allow of its being moved at least four marches." One lot of marts, in fact, is to do duty in three places. Well, British soldiers have often been proud of being "rooted to the ground," but then it was under fire.
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