The Daily Express has been publishing some very pungent criticisms
of home affairs by a "Colonial." We tremble lest the editor should ask him to express his views in regard to the exclusion of the Volunteers from Richmond Park. The present writer has often hoped of late that he should not have the ill- luck to be interrogated about Richmond Park by some Colonial visitor to London during the Coronation,—a visitor who had perhaps seen or served with our Volunteers in South Africa, and felt, as so many Colonials do, a warm feeling of admiration for them and their soldierly qualities. How could one possibly explain to him without bringing the Motherland into ridicule and contempt that though we solemnly promulgate regulations requiring the Volunteers to be trained in field tactics in open order, and not merely in drill-halls and on parade-grounds, our Government deny them access to the only available open public space near London, for fear, as a Cabinet Minister gravely stated in his place in Parliament, of injuring "the wild birds, especially the herons," or, as other people assert, of injuring the pheasant preserves ?
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