There was a grand review of the Royal Artillery and
Sappers and Miners, at Woolwich, on 'Thursday. The Duke De Nemours, Mar- shal Soult, and a numerous body of distinguished foreigners, were pre- sent. Sir Hussey Vivian was the principal British officer on the field. Neither the Drake of Wellington nor Lord Hill attended the review. The manceuvres, discharges of artillery, rockets, and other deadly missiles, were all performed in the first style. A good deal of dissatis- faction was occasioned among the spectators, by the introduction with- in the hues of large parties at Sr late hour of the day, who prevented multitudes, who came early and wen.• kept back by the hussars, from seeing the show. The behaviour of the officers and men of the Tenth Regiment of Hussars towards their paymasters, the public, is said to have bet n very insolent ; while the Artillery and It:tic Corps were mild and quiet in the performance of their duty. After the review, there was a grand feast of roast beef and plem pudding for the troops stationed at Woolwich, with their wives and children. About 4,600 men, women, and children, dinned in the open space before the barracks. At night there was a brilliant display of fireworks, and the day's enter- taimnents concluded with a ball.
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