fifty-five rank and file; total, 64. No. 10 CORPS. WARMINSTER RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. It was not until late in the year 1859 that the good people at and near Warminster called a meeting to consider the best methods for raising a rifle corps at Warminster and in its neighbourhood. It was not the custom of Warminster, as a rule, to let other towns go ahead of her in matters of any great moment, and her doing so in a thing of such interest as the defence of the country remains unexplained. She was struggling into being with her rifle corps, when Trowbridge, Maiden Bradley, Salisbury, &c., were well on at target practice and judging distance drills: but she lost nothing by delay--not improbably gained, having thereby avoided some of the mistakes and unnecessary expenses incurred by beginners. The corps raised eventually was numbered 10 in the county of Wilts, and was known at home as the "Jolly Tenth," but in the battalion, and throughout the county generally, as a rifle corps second to none in real efficiency, and both in its officers and men possessing a smartness and cohesion somewhat unusual. On the 5th December, 1859, the following notice of a public meeting to be held at Warminster was posted in the town and neighbourhood:-- Volunteer Rifle Corps For the Town and Neighbourhood of Warminster. A Public Meeting Of the Inhabitants of the Town and Neighbourhood Will be held At the Town Hall, Warminster, On Saturday, the 10th December, 1859, At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, To take into consideration the expediency of establishing and organising a Volunteer Corps, and to make arrangements for carrying the same into effect. (Signed) Bath, H. Thynne, William Temple, Joseph Everett, John Ravenhill, Nath. Barton, John Davis, Junr., George Temple, H.G. Biggs, _Magistrates acting for the Division of Warminster_. The Marquis of Bath will take the Chair. In accordance with this notice a large and influential meeting of the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood was held in the Town Hall, Warminster, on Saturday, the 10th December, 1859, under the presidency of the Marquis of Bath, when it was resolved-- "That it is expedient to organize a volunteer rifle corps for the town and neighbourhood."