The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-26 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 26.

To-utottr the Militia Bill will come once more
under discussion in the House of Commons, only, we
trust, to be "ejected altogether.
A foreigner, unacquainted with the defensive
appliances of this country, would suppose, on read-
ing a report of Friday's proceedings in parliament
on the Militia Bill, that Britannia had not so much
as a bum-boat with which to " rule the waves." The
houourable orators on both sides the berme, in
reckoning our resources and in emu llog dm east of
national protection against the invader, appear to
have cunningly conspired to abstain from the
motet allusion to the wooden wall's of Old logliad
as if they had coalesced with our enemies lo dolt
the navy. For aught we were told to the maiway.
our homes and hearths, our lives and fortumm am to
the sole keeping of 24,000 infantry and 17,000
cavalry soldiers, besides a very venerable army
of reserve, consisting of elderly pensioners, and
a not numerous, but highly select, volun-
teer force, composed of the Peckham, Kil-
burn, and Stock Exchange sharpshooters--admirable
marksmen, we arc told, in their respective shooting-
grounds after dinner, in the cool of the evening ; but
whose precision of long range has never yet had an
opportunity of display in the battle-field under an
enemy's fire.
However entirely the public may confide in the
courage and efficiency of these combined forces in
a time of peace, our land troops are not, it must be
conceded, numerically strong enough to resist such
simultaneous attacks upon various points of
the coasts of the United Kingdom as would—
Lord PALXLSSION is good enough to prog-
pesticide—be the result of the French dropping
down upon us from Cherbourg "in a single night."
Were indeed these all the defences we had to depend
upon, there could be no possibility of resisting a
mega of our shores, upon even duo notice of the ad-
versaries intentions being given ; yet read the debate
from end to end—begin with Sir DE LACY EVANS,
and wind your weary way down to the compensating
playfulness of Lord rstoritsrox's banter sad exag-
geration—and you will be led to au= tam,
except in the Magid of and
foot, and in tho sprinkling Tiervokataw
rangers, then is ao hops he yew sew
try. If, you aromart, yea le ash wad
400,0001. on MAO men, aor=l44swer can
WO yak from Weigle dawiaistkra.hm. being
converted Into aee of provincial..
This is, to say t 11. Miantiadag • yet,
ws have Mt it to be a kegw admildstw, from; tame
to aim @Mideast doses 411111pir. by shades that
a vide is, kr all Waft mei purposes, Wreaks-
bk. mad would not awake leseshes in our motional
dimes if it was otherwiss.
Oaa mmeitlaradua has been smell kat_ sight of in
the militia iissenka. It is •emidsa which is
best illustrated by Lord PALIII2OIO*II Segment in
favour of a militia. Answering also passe who
do not believe as pomade that a lirlibinne Invasion
will buret forth in a minis night, he said
• When pos sekr to tbe brow sew stlingis • proof
thatlnes& be abase es alarm se to the of lava
• des ases,l hal that it le Jost is it yew ens Is is• that
boomere VD roe ego it leek those days p hoe Leeds&
Is 11Iabarga. it weld be fast to is tasjexElio
' besot sr IBS biome, II years ohs% the of
Dellis swig est est sews hen Lowish is leo
week, dohs Is set sow s peeesallity of its usosaieden in a
' •
fewb.
Mr. Nisei as mike hroiseelme et the
impsysolob of Mien Wass army mas gi toga pen
apes sisstses whit might lama raw.
Esastly. Because, alas. thame was a militia IS
pars ago, it equilly argots sa satire Wisiaem te ,
the meal misrelate of to-day towwn that, thew
fore, a militia can" he as readily raises sow. la 30
years the population has nearly doable& Thirty
years ago Ike shank he mitoses was mesh
Ism sewn; than was men him' I pospio maid
alba to take thus days to gs from
amt maid wait a Ina he auk DAME
Thirty ears years ago Oa Ink mimillso-
bad as used he work tweisspitirear-
tem et=asabses a dyke @Agates's.
was as aseaskia he Ism beam dory atis. Thirty
• ISM Sp* in sheet. Swaim Ism valuabis than time
Is sew. To the we, in, above ell other
deism, wheals it is mew messed to draw the mill-
. ea. time b emphathally messy. The industrious
wallow weld abk himself, "what shall I gain by
eithhassins myself from my regular earnings
andni ow 21 days in the year the govern-
' meat mar imp to call me out?" H. males his
selsalatie: se much bounty monej and so much
per tweadrees days. What shall I lose ? I shall
Ism see emir that number of days, bat any number
of days or masks or months in use my military see-
doss be wend btu foll activity. I shall lose my
liberty ; far Ibe_ placed under menial law,
.• which as
being abloA to the eaprisesas will of
nether men, perhaps an igwersat sinew. I shall
also be liable—if the mutat set pase—to
bo marched
away ham hoses ; and, on orison book. lad I am
mined, sad amongst other lames have to add that
orly ftiodso. Such s man strikes a basso. and
• Safie that bassos to be in favour of st=eser.t
• ' basic Thsee will not, therefore, be wail
kg into the militia. To gored men into' rogimeakis
11, seeking t/sem ballot for service is equally impreo-
*abbe. TIN sin of all this is, tbat—whatsver may
bare been the as thirty years ago, when then were
a great many lielidapeotheaksto wee Ludt a week
in the banking sakadarerithout its ssilittse day
—there is now so tigithelllgistat mums. 41140,
• oar the Zr -11 eenta4 thohlutow away
• my tame damsel =re leadama asehedias by
• itolasst abases,l pi* asitossatn-
• lbnasalltdo unstialullh IlZarainstbropont, I
wool* Mbar no tlionsonot hid lot upon was who
will give their whiled= to the badness, and become
Wage
thfVitlt mil tier, thea, it may
.be asked, with
=thing to deka& wi hat it small ma'am of our
ofondiag araiy, RIM* lien a begs ? Shall we tint
wait witheat ea rt the arrival of
hardeo to swallow as up alive P
1"1";;""'• means. Even without a militia, with our
400A001.adll in OW pooh*: or, if we mast spend it,
that sam applied to Sas training of__ sided aoldiers,
hus i bi immursti by that id WM eii sestina was
=Wed as All
Wisp. Moir ot awoke** *ill
vanish if mos nap issk lensibity Oat mast
asaissni,ossitpswoolislosaihat. and ant iisponsbio
of all our aslitiud defeaseo, tbe sal sserinsr.
Mal navies dame kWh. We awl be oak and
rsiissosh. am sad pointed too, without a um.

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h UsTasiLt.—
Tea Miry (Barry) soesiog, sleet tarot eels* theory
▪ lioatseil to be the Sod sang yowl due wet left
• • Wlmel lArerl3o4 dm Mussy, Woad kr Pert
via boom these =I bre Imbed es
The brads stile kiss =
, heueberl ofthe rake mod arse beer I&
SIMI mar Fars silo& mg* or, els Ind two so
=reio. Tbge smodilool is /Neu by
milasseries. ma seer rim
le she lerilotelue fa eelidealles et mess.
=ftie MOM Melee Edit. lel pi* ins the eisedhar
ties at dr dirdpeleisa goodie ea oat the shrike.
Martiordialis OodatieeloX w 113wshee—Oil
=missiest.spedi Oro of Sewer vie held sr dreier,
Sae, se resin essearsa, sad Ow the twee-
emirs et lemma boolseee. Prune c Mr. IL loose
fobolopm=sf eaer purees.
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