GRAND REVIEW OF THE VOLUNTEERS, Saturday, 23rd June.

Taranaki Herald, Volume IX, Issue 422, 1 September 1860, Page 4

GRAND REVIEW OF THE VOLUNTEERS, Saturday, 23rd June.

This stormy and thieatening 1880 will henceforth be a memorable and remembered date in the military annals of the nation. Hyde Paik saw an array such as it had not seen for half a century. An army such as any general would be only too glad to find in his hands at the hour of ueed ready for action — we might say even anxious for it — which has sprung into existence from the mercantile, professional, and othei civil classes within the brief space of a twelvemonth, in number close upon 20,000, representing only a fraction of the whole volunteer foice of the Kingdom. In stature and strength, in step, in bearing, and all that is supposed to be difficult of acquisition, even in the case of the youngest recruits, there v. as little a general might desiie had he to enconntei an army of veterans. Our leaders are aware that, except in the case of the Volunteers of 1803, there never was such an army assembled in this country for several centuries. That frontier movement is not to be disparaged, for it saved the countiy. But the Volunteers of 1860 are a very different set of men from the Volunteers of 1803. The soldiers, for soldiers they are, we now possess are picked men in every sense of thewoid.