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London, England, 1856-09-10 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10.

Tar reduotion of the Army will, we Wove, tab
place from the Ist of October, w►en all Beginseets of
the Line that served in the Crimea will be placed
permanently on a Pesos Establishment of 12 com-
panies. As these regiments bad been raised to 16
companies, the redeotiou of 12 compaeiss will
necessarily seed a large member of diem cm half-
pay. Nomisally, the reductialef men will, however,
appear greater than it really is ; fce.,'of coarse, all the
vacancies le other regiments will be supplied, so far
se they me, from the regiments in coarse of redivi-
des:. Henceforth the steength of the regiments si
British Inhntry will stood at 1,000 mak sad Me.
Whilst other journas have hese pretty steadily,
urging the Government to keep up our military mar
blishmests se a large seals, it bas hese me thatleml
sore to recommend a more temperate sal essimMlie
policy ; ore that shield give vs an dhstive MO&
army, without please trash a weight se our hums
as would, is the coarse of a few years, reedit all mili-
tary establishmeuts sapepuLri and this is themes's
which Lord Pssaameronse Cabinet has very wisely
preferred. The Treaty of Penes was esselsded cm
the 30th of Marsh, and rattled in about a mouth
from that date. Four swaths have fines shooed I
and in that time the Turkish Coalesced, tosolados
of some 26;000 men, has been restored to the 111 -
Tilt; poet of the Foreign Legions has already
been disbarled, sad ensagesents to aced the
rest to South Afries, a without farther delay,
have been ereelnded ; the midis British Army has
bees either brought home, or sent to our Muddier•
rams gamines, se to Camas, without a giallo am*
ally t the Militia, with the excepdoa of a .fitment
or two, has be.. disembodied; sod all the snlooli.
sate Crimean imps have bees reduced. Caesemmtly
an sedeely sew system of military organhaties hes
tees adopted at berme sad in Canada. The Delthit
Army has se Imger to be scattered sad dispersed Is
small bodies ever the British Empire, dais( pollee
work at home sod abroad; bat is sow formed lab
divkiess and brigades, to each of whisk peeper stag
an appointed. Is this way the troops are being
massed sad taught the defies of ea army, and will
be at all times in a state of pesgantisa fre
'onto service at the shortest •odes` Bo that
whits we as, on the ono hand, esegratelsee
the country ea the large reductions that have bees
most wisely mode in our military establiolumote, we
can, on the other, congratulate It m the respell of
bevies au available army mooed in efaciesey to eons
is Europe, available moreover for the purposes of
imam freedom, act for the suppreadou either of the
liberties of Eogland or of the just hopes and reeseedie
aspirations of other countries.
Nor Is this all; the English Army, from the
drummerboy to the General Commasding-in-Chisf,

is an army Of voleateers. Not a man is there exempt
by his own Ira choice. It is a profeenica that
no Englishman is compelled to enter into. It
Is, therefore, the fair and free embodiment of the
'military spirit of the natio.. It has no co scripts
torn from their homes and villages, no Forehead
sabstitstes ; it is not oaeoposed of unerltheg soldiers
eager and anxious to escape from their three years'
traising. It has knits sad viers cd its own, se
doubt; but it has this especial and ansptional
'merit—that it is the has may of • bee people.
Is that respect it is esrivelled in Europe. Com-
pared with the esseneous military establishmeats
of &spode Europe, It appears small; bat why I. it
"mall ? Beeson it is net, as they are, the support
sad bulwark of Oovernments adios' and hateful to
the people which they omen; it is sot meant a
Waded to preserve to Queen Vicroath the crown
spinet tee nation's wW; its primary duty is not the
maintsnaace of public order at home, ce of Hipp
hateful to their subject" abroad. For sash ru-
pees England has so need ti any arm.
The papas for which a British Amy i.
annually voted by a British Hoene of 0)1111110118 are
annually stated la the potable of the Malley Ad,
and the 'sly gouda is, whether a not it is 'easiest
in pant of facie for those purees:
Whereas the rah*: or keeplag a Asa/flap Gray within
the trained Marlow ol Great Betels tad !Mead I. tine
of peace, unless it be with the esnosat of pediment, is
modest law ' • sad whereas it is adjudged asetasimy by was
Kejesey and Ws present partiaseest that a body of Isms
Amid he seatiettad for the whip of the Ileited Warless,
the dames of the petesseleas of la Ityptre mows, sad
the presereettea of the muses of power la Zereps, to.
The safety of the realm, the defines of the colooke,
the poservatioa of the bathes ef power is Beep t
these are act idle words; they aro the annual
reiteration of great principles, which deans es
clearly the objeets and intents of an English Army
es it is parable for language to do. Compare them
with the primly's' oet which and the purposes fir
which enstiseetal armies are raised, and the cost set
bourses a British sad a French, be en Ambles, or a
Premiss, or a Beau Army becomes more mmeark.
able. Oar army is sot annually motioned fa the
purpose of goverement, for the pupae of eggressies.
for the pewees of overawing oar osighboun, fir the
purpose of imposing a particular form of goarement
or a particular family on oneselas or ether people ;
it is maintaisod for objects that are purely end solely
defensive and innocuous. Therefore it is that the
British Army is and ought to remain a small army, as
effective, complete, and available, se it is possible fir
mosey sr skill se &atlas to make it. But to raise
use moss more than is seeneery for the safety of
the reeler, the defense of the yokel's, or the poser
plias of the balsam of power (not, be it observed'
throughout the world, bat) is Europe, is to acs.
sense a fatal inroad os the law and osestitaties el
the country, sad to alter on a policy which would
sonar or later raise the army above either, es it Is
everywhere else in &reps.
In this view of the Maeda we are inclined to
give Lad PALAU/TON and his manses very M
praise. They wanted net temptations, many red
sad street, to samasees a new system; bet they
have preferred adheres', to the old and wise prls.
dirks es whisk England has rises, withest legs
ender, I. pew and greases', and they have dew
▪ naturally, naiseemlyr opostaseasly, as Weems
the apostituticeal Ministers of a limited meserehy
and a Ire people.
Within six menthe of the eslaelhel If She
Treaty of Pesos the deism of rte saumby gal
have bear relieved of the pessiery vabbtd .a
then 120,000 tose. This surely is a pat het; sod
one creditable to the Minister for War. Is the sane
of redatiose to se large an peat, Lord Panting
has ef aerie emend many disappoistmeste, and has
et care brought down es Mead the wrath of those
who have been &applaud. But is the podeemense
at a disegreseb:e duty, he be., we smolt say, twee