British Manly Exercises

FEATS IN WALKING. 13 by Captain John T. G. Campbell, of the 91st (Argyle- shire) Regiment, accoutred in heavy marchingorderof a private soldier, viz., with knapsack and kit, great coat and mess-tin, musket, bayonet, and sixty rounds of ball cartridge; total,50lbs. weight. Heavy bets werepending on the issue. The captain started at 8 o'clock, A.M., and performed this undertakingin the short time of 107^ minutes, thus winning the match, andhaving12f minutes to spare. At the rate of five miles an hour, pedestrians of the firstclass will do forty miles in eight hours, and perhaps fifty in ten.* At the rate of four miles an hour, a manmay walk any length of time. In the art of walkingquickly, the circumstanceperhaps most important is, to keep the knees somewhat bent and springy. • A clever writerin Blackwood's Magazine says, "There canbe no doubt that, out of the British army, on a war establishment, ten thousand men might be chosen, by trial, who would compose a corps capable of marching fiftymiles a day, on actual service,for a whole week. The power of such a corps is not to be calculated—it would far outgo cavalry." C