The review was about as useful and successful as such gatherings usually were, or could be under the circumstances of their management. A few yeomanry collected together from the troops of adjacent counties, some local artillery, horsed from cabs and drays, and three or four brigades of infantry, under the command of volunteer officers. Bands very plentiful and manœuvring space limited. Each battalion on its arrival at Bath was marched away to the racecourse, and all felt that the beer and sandwich given by the citizens of Bath to each volunteer, was well earned as he reached the summit of the terrible Lansdown hill. It was a trial for many, unaccustomed to be dressed up in tight-fitting tunics, wabbling chacos with gaudy plumes, cross belts, and haversacks, to say nothing of a heavy rifle and some rounds of blank ammunition, toiling up that hot and dusty road in the hottest part of a day in hot July; but few fell out, and panting upwards, they could afford to smile at the greetings offered in honour of their coming, "Welcome!" "Our brave defenders!" &c. &c., were civil and perhaps flattering; but when half way up was reached, and strangers asked how much further it might be, the answer "Excelsior," inscribed on a banner crossing the highway, said the end was not yet. The corps attending from the 1st Administrative Battalion were as follows:-- 2nd Brigade. Lieut.-Colonel J.F. EVERETT, Commanding; Captain Max, Major of Brigade. 1st A.B. Wilts Rifle Volunteers. Major Clark (in command), Major Penruddocke, Captain and Adjutant Gibney. _1st Corps, Salisbury._--Captains Pinckney and Smith; Lieuts. J. Brown and Payne; Ensigns Wilson and Kelsey; Sergeants, 7; Rank and File, 51; Band, 26. Total, 90. _2nd Corps, Trowbridge._--Captain W.P. Clark; Lieut. Stancomb; Assist.-Surgeon Seale; Sergeants, 5; Rank and File, 76; Band, 16. Total, 100. _6th Corps, Maiden Bradley._--Lieut. Festing; Ensign Harding; Sergeants, 4; Rank and File, 40. Total, 46. _9th Corps, Bradford-on-Avon._--Lieut. Beavan; Ensign Adye; Sergeants, 5; Rank and File, 46. Total, 53. _10th Corps, Warminster._--Lieuts. Scott and Ingram; Ensigns Grubb and Smith; Rank and File, 50. Total, 54. _13th Corps, Westbury._--Lieut. Gibbs; Ensign Pinniger; Sergeants, 4; Rank and File, 40. Total, 46. _14th Corps, Wilton._--Lieut. King; Ensign Powell, Sergeants, 3; Rank and File, 32. Total, 37. Total of all ranks, 430. The idea was that the enemy were advancing from Bristol on Bath, and in the defence of Kelson Round Hill, the Bath battalion, supported by some artillery, covered themselves with glory; and doubtless would have been annihilated had not the whole of the force, accompanied by several thousand spectators, moved forward to their assistance. It was late in the evening before the review ended, and still later ere many a corps reached its head quarters.