MR. WHITEI wish also, Sir, to ask the right hon. Gentleman a Question, of which I have given private Notice, on a subject of great interest to my constituents. It is, Whether, so far as the War Office is concerned, it is intended that the usual Volunteer Review shall take place on Easter Monday next at Brighton?
§ MR. CARDWELLI am glad, Sir, to inform my hon. Friend that the difficulties which were in the way have been removed. The area at first offered was quite sufficient for an ordinary Volunteer Review, but insufficient for those manoeuvres which were proposed by the Chairman of the Committee of the Metropolitan Commanding Officers, and ap- 396 proved by the War Department. But subsequent negotiations took place, and the following resolution, I am told, has been to-day unanimously adopted by the committee of Commanding Officers:—
That inasmuch as the Brighton Committee have succeeded in obtaining the whole of the site required by the War Office, the resolution, of the 19th instant, be rescinded and the Easter Monday Field Day be held at Brighton in accordance with the plan proposed by His Royal Highness the Field Marshal Commanding in Chief, and set forth in Lord Northbrook's Letter of February 14.