The Express.
London, England, 1865-02-22 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22.

How shall the British army be recruited ? This
is • question which had risen into serious im-
portance before the Crimean war, though its ur-
gency, or rather its official discovery, may be sup-
posed to date from that administrative catastrophe
which destroyed somany illusions. Major Oltram.v,
who has studied the difficulty very closely, and
stated it with the most convincing clearness
_ _ _

and simplicity hat night, reminded the House of
the last months of that struggle, during whioh boys
of fifteen or less, and of almost any size, were sent
out to the Crimea to fill up the wasted ranks.
There can be little doubt that the sufferings

of our troops during that terrible winter on the
height. of Balaclava were not without effect on
the population at home, from whom their ranks
were to be recruited. Mr. KINGLAKE, in his prose

Iliad of that war, describes the shudder that runs
through " society " when, as at the Alms, the
Guards have paid the noble debt of honour in the
foremost of the fight. Mr. Hutokaar., in his
Homeric way, sings of the heroes of "society"
only. But an army is made up of thousands of
unnamed heroes, whose glorious deaths may not
send a shudder through "society," but whose un-
returning footsteps are mourned in thousands of
village homes. These are days of a devouring
publicity. Every relative or friend of a soldier
who has died in the prime of his years, whether
as a soldier should ask to die, at the enemy's hands,
or as no soldier should deserve to die, by the
incapacity of his commanders or the neglect of
his Government, reads or hears through some news-
paper or other the story of the campaign—reads or
bears it with pride or indignation. In these days,
too, of national schooling, many soldiers write
letters home. Is it (improbable that the fireside
stories of that wasted army may be remembered
even yet in places where the recruiting sergeants
were once most busy andsuccessful? It may be that
our military authorities and our officers in Par-
liament do not sufficiently acknowledge the altered
conditions of the larger world they live in—conditions
which affect the recruiting of a volunteer army, as
_ _

they affect in many ways and degrees all the trades
and professions of peace. Philosophers and phil-
anthropists may rejoice in these altered con-
ditions, and see in them, as in the per-
fectibility of guns and armour-ships, the
reduction of all war ad absurdum ; but
then this sort of philosophy would be misplaced at
the Horse Guards, and it would sound very
strangely in the mouths of gallant military critics
in the House. The Indian Mutiny, and the con-'
Regnant necessity of maintaining a force of seventy
or eighty thousand men as the garrison of our
Eastern Empire, have brought the recruiting diffi-
culty home to us all, soldiers and civilians alike, in
a still more practical and pressing shape ; and this,
we must bear in mind, is a difficulty of which it is
impossible to foresee the discontinuance, or even
to expect the diminution. Add to this constant
and increasing figure in the calculation the
Irish depopulation and disaffection, the state
of the labour market in Great Britain,
the increasing opportunities of emigration, the
immense development of industry, the rise
of wages, the demand for " hands" in all
the enterprises of peace, ithe tendency of
the age towards pursuits more lucrative and
perhaps more intelligent though not more honour-
able than fighting for fighting's sake, and that
democratic spirit of inquiry which education breeds,
and which is fatal to the food-for-powder theory
of aristocracies—and we are at no loss to compre-
hend the full significance of the question discussed
in the House of Commons last evening.
It seems only the other day that a British re•

cruit joined the Army for life. Whether it would
be possible, supposing the system of enlistment
for life to have remained unaltered until
now, to recruit the service on such
terms, may well be doubted. At all events,
as Major O'REILLY says," it is the opinion of those
" who are best informed that it would be impoe-
" Bible to abolish " the present system of limited
service : ten years for the infantry and twelve for
the cavalry. But the Major is not one of those
facile critics who are content to state difficulties,
and leave to others to solve them. He
makes two immediate and practical sug-
gestions ; and, without pressing his motion
for a Royal Commission, he is modestly embol-
dened
by the official adoption in the Estimates of
the year of certain of his suggestions of last Session
to let his present counsels fructify in the pub-
lic, and even in the official, mind. Major O'RELLLy
suggests—and it appears to us a very shrewd and
practical suggestion—that the term of enlistment
should be, for both infantry and cavalry, twelve
years ; "it being found that the prospect
"of a further term of only sight pan