The Queen, followed by the whole of her brilliant Court, drove to the extreme left of the volunteer line, and thence slowly passed along the whole front to where the extreme right came close up to the lofty houses at Albert Gate. Then turning, she drew up on the open ground, the Royal Standard proudly waving above her. The bands of the Household Brigade being placed opposite her, the volunteers now began to defile past, between Her Majesty and the bands. The march was commenced by the mounted corps, few in number, but admirably equipped and with remarkably fine horses. The infantry were headed by the Artillery Company, to whom, as the oldest volunteer body existing, not only in England but in Europe, the priority has always been accorded. For an hour and a half corps after corps marched past, until the long succession was closed by a regiment from Cheshire. When the whole had passed, and all had returned to their original positions, the whole line advanced in columns of battalions, and, by signal, cheered Her Majesty with vociferous earnestness. After expressing her high satisfaction with what she had seen, the Queen left the ground about six o'clock. Before eight o'clock all the volunteers had been marched out of the park, and there remained within its gates only meagre remnants of the enormous crowd of spectators. [Sidenote: THE REVIEW AT EDINBURGH.] The opinions of competent authorities on the creditable manner in which this experimental review passed off were of the highest character. The Commander-in-Chief issued a general order, by command of the Queen, in which His Royal Highness spoke in the highest terms of the efficiency displayed by the various corps, and of Her Majesty's appreciation of the loyalty and devotion exhibited by the volunteer movement. Later in the season the Queen, when on her customary autumnal route to Balmoral, reviewed in the Queen's Park, at Edinburgh, the volunteers of her northern kingdom, to the number of 12,000. CHAPTER XXI. THE QUEEN IN HER HIGHLAND HOME. The Queen as an Author--"The Early Years of the Prince Consort"--"Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands"--Love for Children of all Ranks--Mountain Ascents on Pony-back--In Fingal's Cave--"The Queen's Luck"--Salmon-spearing, and a Catastrophe attending it--Erection of a Memorial Cairn--Freedom of Intercourse with Humble Highlanders--Visits to Cottagers--"Mrs. Albert"--Travelling Incognito--Highland Dinners--"A Wedding-Party frae Aberdeen"--A Disguise Detected.