§ VISCOUNT BURYI regret to state that the Dissolution of Parliament, as announced yesterday, affects the question of the Easter Monday Review. The Volunteer Regulations lay down that Volunteer corps are not to be assembled for any purpose whatever between the issue of the Writ and the termination of the election. It is possible that proceedings in connection with elections may be going on in some boroughs on Easter Monday; and if the polling is not fixed for that day in Brighton, it is quite possible it may be fixed in other boroughs where Volunteer corps may assemble. If troops of the Regular Forces should take part in the Review, 669 as we had anticipated, the Volunteers would be liable to the Army Discipline Act (section 169–8) and thus come under the Act, 10 Vict. c. 21, which makes it illegal for them to assemble within two miles of any "city or place" on days of nomination, election, or polling. There is the possible alternative of allowing the Volunteers to assemble without any Regular officers or troops. But this would seem to be very unadvisable; and then arises the further question, whether the Review, if so held, would not run the risk of failure, by Volunteers who are electors absenting themselves from the Review for the purpose of attending the elections in their own boroughs. On the whole, in view of the legal and other difficulties, it would seem to be advisable to postpone the Review. If, however, a desire be expressed to hold a Review at Whitsuntide, the authorities will, no doubt, be ready to grant the same facilities as those which they were prepared to give at Easter.