ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4335, 22 November 1882, Page 3

ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

(To the Editor of £ho Evening Stab.) § IB| _" Volunteer" in this morning's paper' asks, why had the officers at yesterday's parade their swords drawn ? Well they were ordered to do so, I ■oppose. ' Bat from what I perceived, some had their swords in their scabbards, others had them drawn. Where ignor ■nee it bliss, 'twere folly to be wise, else one might inquire what is the Adjutant of the Thames District—is he a coramis- I iioned or a non-commiasionpd officer ? If his rank is commissioned, his sword should be drawn as soon as a s«nior offioer conies «n parade. kAn adjutant inrariably in Her Majesty s land forces Signs orders.as the. deputy of the comminding officer thu*, "John Brown, Captain and Adjutant," or " John Brown, - Lieut, and Adjutant," newr "John Brown. Adjutant," for an Adjutancy is an appointment, not a rank. ■ Nor does an adiotant hold a share in joint command with his commanding officer, as one would suppose judging'by the reports frequently

seen in I'the Thames jiurnals. The coin mand of a military body can only ! c vested in one supreme head. I have often remarked, however, that reports of volun teer parades are reported in an fbsurd manner, for instance—"The company was under the ommand of Captain A. and Lieuts. 8., C, and D." To carry out the irJea farther it should be added— " and weiv assisted by Sergeants R., P., and G., and by Corporals 11., J., and X."—l am, &c, i 1 * axe.