miles of residents and visitors; secondly, to show that a promenade pier is wanted, we being behind other fashionable watering places in that respect; and, thirdly, now while the local authorities are about to discuss the point, that a central position be fixed upon.
I am, sir,
yours, &c.
G. G., Upper Maze Hill"
The Volunteers
The Artillery Fifers and Drummers (Band of Hope lads) marched the rounds of the towns on the 20th of March, with a spirited tootle-too and row-de-dow, after partaking of a good tea in Mr. Foster's schoolroom provided for them at the expense of Capt.-Commandant Scrivens and Mrs. Scrivens.
The Volunteers (Artillery and Rifles) were actively preparing for an important part allocated to them in Brighton Review. When the day arrived, the Artillery carried with them two great guns, and our local corps were praised for their general efficiency and soldierly bearing on the so-called battle field. The steady increase of the volunteer movement and the sacrifices of its followers furnished no contemptible index to the traditional English character. The sneers of the evil-disposed and the jibes of the bilious when the movement was inaugurated had been often disproved and requires no comment in these pages, but a few remarks on the minor details of the great national event may not be out of place. For three years a large body of English volunteers assembled on the Brighton Downs at Eastertide to undergo the trying ordeal of an inspection by an officer of the regular army in such branches in the art of military manoeuvering as should best attest their merit. In all three occasions they proved themselves equal to the occasion, and came out of the ordeal with honour and credit. Though comparitively a small army, twenty thousand was a large body of men to bring to a high state of efficiency. The aggregate skill of the volunteers there assembled represented an immense amount of care, expense, labour and self-sacrifice - a collective action which in its self-denying attribute shone forth pre-eminently in the English character. It was hoped that Englishmen might never be called upon to defend their hearths and homes, but the then unsettled condition of foreign politics was, not favourable to the continuance of European peace. The display at Brighton, therefore, though taking place as an annual pageant, was regarded as a significant reminder that the loyalty of Englishmen remained undisturbed, and that our volunteers would be as ready as ever, did occasion require it to protect their country's interest. In this case the enemy in the mimic battle was the "invader", and the fight terminated as it should have with the pseudo invader's complete defeat. Happy would it be for the peace of the world if such a discomfiture was never rendered necessary. Though equipped and drilled in such completeness as -
