The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-06 00:00:00

SPORTING.

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nod at Oho slaw was aloud as pod • &mains as Home.
brewed. atplast whoa/ ta I wen doe highest odds obtain.
alio is the eady part of tb. ahersoss.
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Mr. Bhigherfethes 'Mew
The pries* quoted wan Wan la the owes of the day,
but were currently Ahead at Ors dose; Stilton, Merry
Bird, and Poodle wens and i ragnat.
$ to 1 apt Mr. I=l/4176 /Mb (t wed an old)
11 to I
IN to Lad INlNEinailUat t
17 le 1 lard Cleweleme
17 to 1 Mr. J. IL etriersOwlit (1 le to I)
Nto 1 Amite Uele Many
73 to 1 Mr. J. eretth !heath
Bobbie Noble was bodied La miens at 11 to 2
and 6to 1, Augur at W and II to I, I iht body, first at
20 to I and finally at 17 to I, Clavethowee at 17 and 18 to
I, Little Harry at 20 and 22 to 1, and Phadein freely at
40 to 1. We did not hear • bat yet Alias, hat were an-
homed that 60 to had been Lid at We Turf Club ;he was
biessdiees.
ablesnir Pod is seratchod lie the Newmarket Handicap.

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eteeeme....e built as tie Thom will be loanekvi a
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Wrdeeeday ham the yard et Ilion. Mu. awl Co., at
Blearsll. hite le sheerly 2,00010. teethe., oid
tended fee the Wier smell web* vie the Cape. Ilhe b
sarred tie bedieme. Mild ether eleeeres, mid* ere
babe, la the sane yard, will he limashed le the N el
the noses.

Laisoweson Woaimo HEN'S Issirrom—On
Wedinneig so $, Seat annual meeting of this neafal
ingllMAina wee held la the large room, or bell, of the 'natl.
Masa lamliDsdley Colette Smart, td.P., in the chair. After
as iMmeafing and useful address from his lordship upon
Ne ingertesee et edmation, especially to working men,
the men TN nod by Dr. Thorn, frcen:which it appeared
NM Ida mime elite institute had been duly appreciated!"
them fin viten benefit it was intended. The members of
1111111 i.(writing), about slaty in comber, had presented 1
their termer with a silver inkstand, in testimony of their
granesen Nevertheless, the committee were geeatly ia
need pecneuary help to assist in the formation of the
Jitney, en 4 to give greater eibeiney to the CIMINO.

Irma We Doly Nam)
Loot night, Mr. Secretary WALPOLE, MEM the
derisive Meth, of the House of Commonsopersie
leave to withdraw his nulitiavotiog
Never was dinsmilture moth emapisbo I—never ath
=maw repudiated. Baru about ustsrt
hot, this wondsthil prodnetof
wisdom laird 111117 till M.:May evening p—ito aid
read oohing tin thrliirt opportunity ahMe the spo-
ilt ill the bOllOO, robot*, to mamas, its amiss.
Ons Wade( _
_snide was lone then it send both;
and the withleawnl snide hot Weldon to dos maids
plan may, 'where, be regarded se a femeleed•wfog
of the fate at the Miillll snare. For only NNW
was anything men unenotathable. We waY 11•11049
proper ddestan, and be willing to pay Ise time i bet
a militia Ina as the Tories propose kso Inter
defence. It soda set be either ithotive or mos•
onkel, reliable or witishatoey.
Yet the Thew shads godflathor to Mr. WALPOLE%
Militia Bill. When the netenity of as additha to
our national detenem was first rid. that her-
nal int:mead the • that it wooll not be who to
orgaitho a. mod was loud in its enitatloas
Mt Lord halo"' rodsond bill. Bat a thongs him
moo over and it endeavenee now to
arum rho geepeeed militia dews the throat of
the esnairy by dint of ossposil words—
sinisehism
just as an norm trios to calomel a dime at gin
a spoonful insp. The bill, sops the Flons, two
ir
ot, eggingter—tho ewe maids that, eet
melba anfallftwas for beset the ether, if
we mm toba=blitering, it eMali like
aslieno.dhle qua the ille Pa ..
aimed Imwee6y el co confines its athadon
to the sossad, and would with, with the mg hy-
aena log in the world, to
.provo iris in
whits. "To pat the matter in • plain light, honed
stimmittfr that a militia of 80,000 ass is to be
WA
to a molar way of 130,000 mon, ist us sup-
._that the Pridek army is to be hmossforth Ind at
WIAOO w,elwhsmBo,oooaretobeconstantlyand
stationed in the,. bin over and
above wet a mind. et the reminder as may
hod Wolf on both survive from time to time."
This mods with, but is any man likely to
be gilled by siisli statements? Instead of " sup-
prig " that me army is for the future to be
lasi at 211,000 use, let us take the cue as it is,
without any supposition. Let us argue from &eta
By the present sessnomisnt of our troops the army
andoblo for the demo, of Great Britain is at pre- I
seat vollso 30,000 men. In fact, were we to leave
'whom in the thief seaport towns, scarcely 20,000
oath 'sold be brought into the field. And how is it
rto remedy such a state of things, in order :ix is ode r Why, by forming thameg6
out the kingdom, detached all over its cud s% en
heavier, undrilled body of 80,000 MIS. PIN
whin we are told that the militia "wank be
very nearly on a par with the regular edam
et most onidnental states," we can only snips.
those who minks such an assertion must be
ignorant of military matters. How is it
that a man who is drilled only for 21 dogs Vest
per and 14 each subsequent year can rely be
compared with men who re become hared to leer
—sot to say hardened in bloodshed—th tit anSi
tratorfd Algeria, or the marshes et
y ? Will you get 80,000 orolorhardo
working population to worth to eertein death, at the
rod of their general, jut ae dm Brim advance
against an enemy's battery, biting the den with
a any of " God save the EnrmissP Lind,
bow can a man learn to be a thither is
21 days I' It' would without angswellem take that
time to accustom him to his blew stook. He
then has to learn his-4ot= step, his floolock drill, his
company drill, and battalion lONIMSIIOIj aad,.if net
intended as a mere scarecrolv, be snit be genatieed
at firing. With the hardest waiting sad meet wil-
ling of recruits this could not beitperformed under
three months. The Times is quite cornet when it
says, " Twenty-one days a year wadi snob a soldier
his exercise as well as a militiamme That is to
say,one and the other would know nothing about their
duty. But then, where are the senteimmledsod
officers to be obtained from—who are to belle OW
pools, sergeants, and sergeant-majors? Then me
who not only have to go through their .marina 8m
machines, but have to see that the machia• 11661
Then when are these militia to be taught light in
fantry drill—when are several regiments to In
exercised together, that they may learn how to
act together. To learn the bugle calla would
require far more than 21 days. Will Colonel Can-
TERTON, Colonel DUNNE, or even the SECREIVAT a
WAR, in the lower house,-state it as their delibseak
conscientious opinion that they an make a soldier
out of raw material in 21 days! Will the &a.
DIMAS, the SEATONS, the MaM=Statui, is tie
upper house, make a similar stabimont P lie : not a
man who has ever seen a day's smith would pooh
his military name by making such a notiment.
When the Duke of WELLINGTON was requested, to
1814, to send home one of his old regiments, to be
replaced by the militia,—though this militia had ban
training for years, what was his answer ? That he
would not exchange one of his veterans for half a
dozen of the others. Yet, perhaps, we shall be reminded
that this militia is not intended to glikabroad,
that it is merely to defend our housabokl gods. Why,
when our homes are in danger is the vary time when
discipline will avail us, and when mere courage
alone would be inefficient. Thee* would be no wait
of " pluck," but we should want discipline also, sod
the militia must lack that ingredient of effishaty.
We say that if our vast navy n properly dlo-
ed, the state is in no danger; that this fear ol
foreign invaders, if our present force is well h
is a bugbear—but this is a men matter
opinion. If the man of the country think differeasi
let proper moulirall at dierme be tab% he
that, for the future, palm should net mirdiow
social quietude of the monstry. Bat sash nemby
can slimly not be gained in the jatigtholit ol 60
thinking part. of the perdition, when they human
aware how miserably weak he defence the pipmed
militia must necessarily bo.
Although the Times dints to despise the maw
mists, yet it takes the trouble to attempt to emv
vert a few of them, by pointing out the ammasay of
a militia. "If we were suddenly to =raw our
'standing army' by two-fifths, we should regain a
proportionate augmentation of barracks, pars&
grounds, and so forth ; whereas a militiaman can be
lodged to the best purpose in his own house. Again
a soldier is kept in barracks, and put daily through
his work of parade, because he may at an), moneen
get the route for foreign service." Now it happens
an we do poem' an enormous barrack accommoda-
tion' which is made no manner of use of. In Great
Britain there are 118 barracks, constructed for 1,755
officers and 42,461 men of infantry, 573 Odom
and 8,442 cavalry, 298 officers and 6,649
In Ireland there are 109 barracks far 1,1
officers and 25,821 infantry ; 364 ear officers
and 3,590 men ; 99 officers and 2,093
giving a total of 227 barracks, with en scoommodn
Lion for 4,264 officers and 91,056 men.
tramt
therefore, ample spare-room for some forty
men. But soldiers are not confined to Mimi,
merely that they may be ready for maimmhstime.
They live there to be trained to that stria anon of
duty, and that perfection of discipline, without
which a soldier is a soldier but in name. Coseteady
seder the eye of their commanding officer, they smut
conform to the rules of the service' or be paneled.
If, thseofore, the militia can only be supported on
the mere of its wonsay in not needing barracks. we
would keg to refer than curious in such matters to
the report of the ocaraittee on ordnance silliest's,
where they will find each joarrack carefully entwine-
reaztlid,mittabor with the hies it can contain. 'As
ii, the whole subject mad lead to ea
orinbesse verdict that the tory militia plan is a
Mon; sad the sooner Mr. WALPOLE deals with ths
whole _same, as he did List night with his military
voting esheues, the better for his reputation, and for
that tithe ministry he belongs to.