PETERSFIELD
VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS.—The 12th Hants mustered for company drill in the square, on Thursday afternoon, at two o’clock, and marched to the Heath, under Captain and Adjutant Cooke, Captain Seward, Lieut. Mintz, and Ensign Soames, with four sergeants and forty-four file, when the volunteers were out through a variety of evolutions, with skirmishing, till about six o’clock (the whole of which were creditably gone through), when they returned to town. After falling out, the members of the corps proceeded to the appropriately-named hotel, the Volunteers’ Arms, when the worthy host, Morgan (late messman of the Royal Marine Artillery at Fort Cumberland), for the first time amply and satisfactorily catered for their enjoyments. During the evening the merry toast and song passed throughout the assembled numbers of this flourishing corps in happy succession and true volunteer style till the full hours of the night warned them to depart, after an evening spent in soldierly enjoyment.