We publish in another column the balance-sheet of the Spectator
Experimental Company. In doing so we must offer our apologies to the subscribers for the delay. That delay, however, was not due to any procrastination on our part, but to the difficulty of settling the complicated Government charges in connexion with the barracks at Hounslow and the loan of equipment made to us by the War Office. We may take this opportunity for once again thanking our readers for the exceedingly generous way in which they supported our Experiment in Militia Training,— an experiment the importance of which we venture to think will as time goes on be more and more appreciated. We also desire to thank the non-commissioned officers and men of the Spectator Experimental Company for the very hearty way in which they co-operated in making the Company a success. From Colonel Pollock and Lieutenant Walsh down to the youngest private in the Company, every one acted with the sense that he was performing an important piece of public work, and gave far more than could be expressed in pounds, shillings, and pence. We have called attention in another column to two articles, one in the Nineteenth Century and rue in the Monthly Review, in which Colonel Pollock deals with the subject.
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