The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-16 00:00:00

THE GRAND VOLUNTEER REVIEW
AT AINTREE.

THE Volunteer Review at Aintree, rielt to that
at Hyde Park before the' Queen, was, in every
respect, the grandest and most triumphant event
that has yet been recorded in connection with
this great patriotic movement for national self-
defence; It behoved Liverpool, 'as second in
importance only to the Metropolis) to assume a
corresponding position in the great army of
British Volunteers; and, on Saturday last, it was
proved that this town has no reason to be
ashamed of its efforts in the cause ; nay, more,
that we may well be proud of our success,
whether as regards numbers,. appearance, or
proficiency. AVe do riot overlook the grand
musters at Claughtot and at • -the Chester
Rhoodeye. So far as they went, they were as
nearly perfect as possible, and proVed that the
Cheshire men had done their duty. It is no
detraction from their meritswhen we state that
the Liverpool Review as' far excelled those as
they excelled anything else that had preceded
them. It was indeed a glorious- and • exciting
occasion, whether' we ennsider it as a brilliant
spectacle, gratifying to the eye ; as a viholesome
moral demonstration, reflecting, credit on the vir-
tues of the people ; or as a grand military display
proving the alacrity of all classes to enrol them-
selves for service, and an equal aptitude in the
acquirement of ease and precision in the field.
The beautiful and far spread plain at Aintree was'
most suitable for such an assembly. The fine
level area within one of the best racecourses in
the country was amply sufficient to contain and
show to advantage an army of many thousands.
Stretching around and for miles beyond is One of
the richest woodland scenes in -all England.
Peering out picturesquely in every direction may
be observed the ancient residences of. some of the
most noble in the realm, and the modest church-
tower 'S
or spire calmly pointing upwards into the
soft, blue, ethereal sky—fit emblem of that peace
and purity for which we seek in vain amid the
excitements and imperfections of terrestrial life.
The sun shone brightly, and sometimes with great
strength upon the armed men whose weapons
reflected back a thousand times o'er and o'er the
gladsome rays; and upon the tens of thousands
of gay visitors, who hearts rebounded with
delight under the influence of the life-giving sun
and the inspiriting object of the gathering. The
brilliancy of the weather and the acclaims of the
assembled thousands acted also upon the noble
Volunteers, whose splendid demeanour re-acted
again upon the multitude; and the heart and
voice of that great and countless throng was one
loud, harmonious, and unbroken him a of patriotic
devotion to the throne and Constitution of Eng-
land. Could we have asked that vast gathering,
in the words of SCOTT,

Breathes there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
- This is my own, my native land ?
we believe every heart would have responded—our
own dear .native hind—its institution's, its free-
dom, and its safety from invasion, are our upper-

Most thoUghts ; for tileSe We are prepared to
sacrifice every comfort and part With every trea-
sure ; for the. Maintenance of these precious pos-
SeSsiOn:tlie life-Wood of ourselves and of our sons
is tiottoc, tOStly a price, of more than we are pre.;
pared to lay dowtL
It might have been said of the ancient "Roman
warrior and statesman, CINCINNATUS, that in
maturer years he preferred agriculture to arms,
just as it has been said of modern Englishmen,
that they prefer commercial to military pursuits.
But, as in the former case, the readiness with
which the old Roman left his plough at the call

of country, so in our own instatice the enthusiasm
with which our merchants, their assistants, and
even our artisans have forsaken the counting-
house and the work-shop at the voice of patriotism,
have proved alike that in modern as in ancient
times, zeal in these peaceful pursuits is not incom-
patible With the sterner virtues of the military
profession. NV hen We consider the highly ener-
vating influence of a protracted peace, and the
contrast existing betwixt the luxurious ease of
modern middle-class life, and the somewhat rude
character which necessarily belongs to a soldier's
career, it is not astonishing that most minds
should at first thought discredit the sin-
cerity of the Volunteer movement. But of
what value are mere surmises or opinions as to
improbabilities in the face of broad and unde-
niable facts, which set all speculation at defiance?
We are a military people. We have proved it
by the sudden emergence of our peaceful and
intelligent people from the quiet shades of industry
into the open field, amid all the pomp and eircurii •
, stance of glorlotis warlike preparation. We are
neither cowards nor braggarts. We shrink not
from necessary organisation for armed defence
but we thrust neither our fists nor our arms
into any man's face. If we have enemies, we wish
them to know that we are ready to meet them ; but
we give no challenge, offer no menace, and seek
no quarrel. There is, we say, a moral grandeur
about such a spectacle as that of Saturday,
which far oetstrips the mere external show,
glittering and attractive ass it undoubtedly
was. We are not affronted by the great
NAPOLEON'S taunt, that we are a nation of shop-
keepers. We are something more, however,
which we have no desire to boast of, but
which we shall
.whisper into NAPOLEON'S (the
nephew's) ear, when he comes across the channel
with his Zouaves and Chasseurs de Vincennes.
We are not Afraid of him or of them, or of all the
world besides, so long as the people of England
continue to develop the Volunteer itioVettient in
that high spirit of patriotism and love of freedom,
civil and religious, which they have recently and
so signally manifested at Aidtree and elsewhere
throughout the land.
Where now be those military martinets that
were want to tell us that a Volunteer force could
never he aVailible with effect in the field ? They
now hide• their professional heads abashed; or
openly confess with uplifted hands and upturned
eyes their perfect astonishment at the military
attainments of our Volunteers. The fact which
has been now so far demonstrated is of course no
longer to be denied. We know that some hun-
dred and twenty thousand Volunteers may at a
moment's notice be brought into the field in an
advanced and highly effective state of training--
such as could not be excelled by any regular
troops in the world. This has been accomplished
in an incredibly short space of time, without any
immediate or palpable danger to our shores, and
almost without cost to the national purse. How
thliCh more might be achieved were efficient
pecuniary support, given to the movement
by the Government; or even in the absence
of such aid were there any visible and imme-
diate danger, to our security. But why should
we wait for the undesirable event of a direct
threat to rouse the Government to a sense
of its duty to the country and to those who at so
much cost have initiated this glorious movement?
It will be too late to assemble the people for the
first time in the very hotir of danger. They must
be first drilled and taught the nee of arms,
Indeed, this might prove to be the whole battle,
or, at all events, the best half of it. Let all the
vorld knoW that not alone at Aintree can be
assembled so many well-trained thousands under
arm's, but that a similar and even greater array
may be presented at every assailable point along
our coasts, and thronghout the interior, and
invasion becomes an impossibility or certain
destruction to the invader. The movement—it has
been unanimously and repeatedly proclaimed over
the whole land—artist become permanent—must
be more amply supported at the public cost—
must be more generally embraced by the working
people—before it can be said to have reached
that point of efficiency which will make
it worthy of the generous efforts already
made far its promotion, or of the great,
glorious, and free country for whose defence it
has been so spontaneously and spiritedly orga-
nised and sustained. All honour to our patriotic
Volunteers! May the memory of Aintree and
the Fourteenth of July, 1860, never be tarnished
by diminished zeal in peace, or dereliction in the
hour of danger. The brave VOlunteers have
hitherto 'done their duty, and done it well. Our
beloved Queen, with her usual good sense and
devotion to her duty, has not failed to appreciate
their efforts. What remains to be done, whether
by Lords or Commons, or by our landward gentry,
we trust will not be left undone. Let it never be
chargeable against them when too late, that they
knew or were told their duty to England and to
themselves, but that they did it not, for the fate
of England depends upon the success and perma-
nency of the Volunteer movement.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

(Fros, our own Carrealiewietal.)
• PARIS, Saturday-Evening,
July 14, 1860.

The following letter, which has been addressed
by Garibaldi to Mr. Parker, shipowner, Liver-
pool, has been made public
,here. In case your
readers have, not previously seen it, I send you a
copy of it from the French :
Sir,—l have received your letter of the 9th ult.,
which contains the list of vessels which you have for
sale. I thank you for your offer, and I am quite ready
to go• into your idea relative to the two ships named
under Nos. 4 and 16. Send them to Palermo as soon as
possible. The coast is quite clear ; besides, as these
vessels would sail under the English flag, they could arrive,
a; so many others have done, before the departure of
the Neapolitans.
As to the price, I am willing to give the sum you
have named for both, deliverable at Palermo ;
they shall be paid for on their arrival. The larger
-steamers, Nos., 30, 31, &c., which you say are' suite&
to carry guns, are unfortunately constructed of
iron, which renders them unfit for operations of war.
What we have need of is something of the same kind as
your English gun-boats (crtnnonierc's). If you could
build some of these, and especially, if you can contrive
to fit them out with guns, I will pay a good price for
them.
I thank you for 2U your good wishes, and I can
assure you that I feel very deeply the sympathy which
England manifests for our cause. She must (or ought)
to remember that she has no sincere allies except
among free peoples, and there are very few of such on
the continent. A frea and united Italy will fill this
void, and will become one of the greatest obstacles to the
projects of the French Government.
Send us quickly arms, vessels, cannon, materiaux of
all kinds, and I guarantee that this result will not be
long of being realised. Y. G. GARIBALDI.
The words italicised are done so by the Consti-
tutionnel, which remarks upon the letter as
follows We know not if this letter be
authentic: it would be allowable to doubt it on
account of its impolicy and strangeness; but if it
be the veritable production of General Garibaldi,
that circumstance will not prevent us from judg-
ing of it with all freedom.
To glorify England, which has declared that
6.0 cause of Italy is not worth one shilling, or
one drop of blood (?), and to attack. Prance,

which has lavished her 'blood and her money for
Italian independence, would be an act of manifest
ingratitude; if it were not a ridiculous absurdity.

Thefe N this considerable difference between
the support (cotiejdarA) given by France and the
exciting diatribes of certain journals and of some
meetings, that France has never separated the
cause of order from that of Italian nationality,
whilst the English provocations have been
uniformly calculated to create disorder, without
caring for this nationality.-
We ought not, however, to be 6Eionished that
the alliance of France is viewed with suspicion
by demagoguism, for the policy of France haa
never contemplated pushing things to an extreme :
it has desired to render Italy free without setting
Ise re-rolittion. It is easily seen why revolu-
tionists coMplaiti of it: These remarks bear the
signature of Si. Einesi Preolle: •
Some reports have beet pieVdknt within the
last two or three days that the Emperor' T:x4al been
ill. lam assured there is no foundation for tfida'
The Empress, however, has been suffering from a
slight indisposition. Prince Napoleon is to have
the Palais Royal for a residence, as well as the
Cha:tedit of Meudon, the use of which was pre-
viously enjoyed 4 the Prince,

The disagreement betweeri We (Jonseil d'Etat
and the Corps Legislatif has been got tic, of in
this way. The former has passed a resolution to
the effect, that it cannot, in present circumstances,
come td a. vote on the amendment proposed by the
latter on the bill for permitting the exportation
of rags, for want of the necesgtry documents, and
that a new inquiry will be necessary. This course
is equivalent to a resolution to adjourn die dis-
cussion on the original measure sine die ; and
the result is, therefore, a decided victory for
the Corp, Legislatif, especially if taken in con-
nection with the sticeessful opposition which
the Deputies have made to the measure pro-
posed by " the Senate for the reorganisation of
the. present judicial system. It is to be regret-
' ted, however; that the Deputies Should have
chosen to exercise their legitimate influence in
arresting the progress of a Ur, such as that re-
lating to the exportation of rags, for this measure
is justly considered as a step further in the path
of commercial freedom, in which the government
has been so happily engaged for some time past :
and the amendment is, besides, justly viewed, as
an additional source of discouragement to the
promoter's Of the English Treaty. The adjourned
: discussion on the Budget and the Judges Bill,
was very liVely ode, and afforded opportunity
for the delivery of some furthei eloquent and able
speeches by M. idles Favre, and others.
The plan of the line of telegraph which is to
unite France and the United States/ by India
and China, simultaneously, and the details of which
will be made public in the course of a few days,
has excited a very lively interest among those
Deputies who represent the great centres of manu-
facture. The men of science who have examined
the project have expressed themselves warmly in
favour of its feasibility, and no time will be lost
in pressing forward the carrying out of a measure
which is felt to be of such great and immediate
interest to western commerce in both hemispheres.

It is said that Fuad Pasha, who has been sent
as Commissioner Extraordinary to Beyrout by
the Sultan, will be accompanied by a force of
16,000 men, but in addition to the liability of
this force to undergo desertions, the Porte must
be at a loss where to get the wherewithal to pro-
vide fdi. the expense of the expedition, as it is
announced that the attempt to raise a loan in
England has failed.
The Italian question seems now to be " Italian
unity, or the Italian confederation of Villafranea?"
France, you Will see, is now openly espousing,
and its semi-official journals advocating, the latter
plan. One of the Paris journals of yesterday
gives out that a special courier has been dis-
patched from Naples to Turin with most impor-
tant despatches for the Piedmontese Government,

which are said fei contain certain propositions

agreed on by the representatives of France, Rus-
sia, Prussia, and England, for bringing about a
good understanding between the two Govern-
ments on the principle of a confederation, but this
story is somewhat doubtful, I inc!ine to think.
The financial difficulties of His Holiness, should

the proposed loan of fifty millions not be

obtained, of which there now seems to be every
,probability, will not be by any means the least

that the • Father of the Faithful will have to
contend with. At present there is a deficit in the
temporal chest of the Pontificate of about three

LATEST NEWS.

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FRANCE.

L'irOIVS, July 14.
The trial of the prisoners for the murder of
three ladies has been terminated by the following
judgments :—Joannon, Chretien, and Deschamps,
have been condemned to death; the woman Des,
champs has been discharged ; and the woman
Chretien condemned to six years' imprisonment,