The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-23 00:00:00

ASYLUM 10! 11,1078.

List evening arming the 18th annual festival of this
lastitstios was ealsbnitsd at the Lomas Tama. Bishops.
ple.ettest, miler the praddeucy el Mr Isaias Z. Getz-
atm Bart., M.P., sip vas supported by Mr. Aldsmas
Dakis, Yr. Alelormas AMA" Kr. Mews's Dear, air
Bablessa. Mr. Seholedsid. M.P., Mr. F. D.
ids .bat
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likely ts hesass Pravalost, sad the tota oareber ti rourld
illeds shout 170. TM ceekokes appeal vas IsiMatol 07
viumporlieglisqpradess al saathas"t us the pew Mbar
puttee" trio sdvissurd its shwas to it. es of all
vie Ten butersebed to the cease of true
TM mull of this wheezy vu that satomplims md
Assatims IMO 11•110011111 d sessatiag to upwards of 2,000 L,
iselstlisi 100 plasm hem the chains's.

ClASSallireff Trios tkrettrr.—The debate on
Tuesday led wee ea the follow* resolution :—'• Thee in
the opinion of this house the set bliebad clash is Imhof
ought to be maintaised as as endowed establishisset by
ewe gomeimrsat.” Oa • division the namben were—Toe
Use metiers, 54 ; aphid it, 53 ; majority for the meths, I.
LICIIIISID Vicrertizatte Hctiools.—ElscrriON OF
MISTY Chinaned—Yesterday electioo of thirty_ ail-
dim ids this lestitutios took plate at the School Hems.
beenbegtoerisse, and mated as extreordhery sairmat of
inilt•lt- smog he pstiONl end among those also cis the
assdiddee far edesimies. Os the present ocession there
were so fewer than 44 essdklates, of when 21 were
boys, and although is eossideratios of that eironmehmoe
the Governor sod Committee of lianseement had reedved
to admit five more obiklren dim they bed origlasily
soutemplated—samely 24, it Mrs seldom ha
that ma deaths is this institution has been so king=
tested. 'I'M whole eirenmetascos of the election, Weed,
and the large somber of Meade aid supporters et the
school whom it attracted. were of • nature to afford the
utmost ratification se well to the Renard body of the
trade, se to the gmitlemen urn whom the admiableition
of the charity specially derrolves. W boa it I. observed
that the first candidate ow the successful hat polled 21,900
votes, and that the lasing madidde—that IS the 31st.
polled 8,320, same ides may be fenced of the high ad-
mits' is whisk the beadle maimed by this truly
sable establishmeat andheld by those for whom they 'list.
—Morning Advertiser.
AN MR= JOINT STOOI COXPANT.—In • tows in
the math of England some youths have formed themselves
late a joint stark company for becediog sod Milling pitmen
• pair of these birds brad eight or Is. times io the cronies
of • year. end hem twe at • breed. Their keep mem about
14. •• week end ; they will fetch 9d. each for the bade
whet • month old. sad than is always • dented for them.
Faster rpm filch• meek higher price. The stock con-
sist* of sherd twisty paha (Firma are monogamous) which
produeszareadel 400.libirkiraser. Not aloft the actor
Pfay of 10 per met. The tumbler
dome, which over sad over in the air, are wittily
idled aeooropmay'a follies stock.
Coax Cultalerre. —A number of empty bottles
hnvm been throws tab thesis the west coast of Africa,
sad lam his doled spas the Irish ecsat. One from sear
the Osneries was ford at Noes floods ; and three or four
have dosed from Davis Straits to the oord-weet oust of
Irelesd ; sedans beat the heath Atlantic. to Jersey. Om
bee hem feed after 18 rem. mother after 14, and • third
after 10 years. Oos was thrown into the Caribbean tee. sad
sitar the digs wee diked me 210 miles distant. A bottle
wee thrown in et Behring's and 200 days afterwiude
was f mid on thillesduradmist. Davie' travelled 3,500 mules.
A Furs PORPOISE CAVORT AT MAROATR—OR
Friday r Robert Helmet and' William J *skim, mariners
of that tows. were stendiag en the pier, watching a dip at
dry perceived • Ilse porpoise struggling amidst the
breakers at the back of the pier. Holams immediately ran
off the der into the ender sod could it by the tall, but
the fish, beim • powerful one, nearly dragged him csit to
sea. sad bad is not been for Jenkins coming to his seat-
anis, he must ham left go hi bold. The parpolot w 111.
Unlailly secured and *bed is • box, rind • telegram der
spaded to the authorities at the Zoological Guises,
Regent'apark, and the next day they soot does • uses to
fetch It away, in the bops that they might be able to keep
it alive, resanibi Holmes sad derricks' with N. fee their
trouble. This is the oily fish of that description is the
society's poinsesion.
Posettr's Plirisa. —A curious disco has re-
am* been made la at
to repair thee semed of
Nisth celebrated inoeumest. which seemed to threads rule.
Assed Bey, • Thick engineer, haviog bean &podded
by thn Viceroy ei Rad is direst the work of eoesobas-
two, be Int of all caused • few oi the loose doses feensim
the briemeet to he removed with all proper precaution ;
but it wee mom toad that these *tome had sodded to do
with the support of the pillar, and that tho Lam
meted entirely on • cube of very bard maertausn
peddiegstose within the basement. Ups forth.,
essidsiatien it was dismemed Ibis this mho hem sa
isseriptios in hieroglyphics tarred upside dews, sad wee is
feet the mead of °dame bolooging to me of the temples
of Lipper Red. sad eouveyed thither for the siren pur-
pose el series far the UN) a the colorise. N. Iteristie bee
deciphered the imeriptios, sad [mod the name of therdais
IL, the father ci the peat ltemstria, mentioned la it ; so
Sid Peamey's !Sae. sew 1,500 years old, reds au •
freeload of • minument erected at least 17 embarks
before the Christi's era. A sere hemmed his sow been
coestraded, with a parer all round the stem. so that
diatom may hoped the hieroglyphics ; sad the while bas
hem railed is to pretest the mosumeot from daterkerathrs.
--ffistignard

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—IIIaSSIUU.
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TOHN BROODEN'S GOLD CHAINS by troy
to weight. at nothobis value, and the workmanship at
wisterias massdnidawelf pekes. The gold In the chains gms.
*Mead, end rogerahrand at the price shared.
Bares the note.
How amok your chain weighs to the utmost carat
Ones= (Atha gold, and charge tor lashion.•
SirAZIWBUS.
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London.
Assays made of chains and jeweller, for L. wk.
N.B. This eataldlshment 4 stoma at 6 In the evening. end on
Saturdays at 1 o'clock.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 23.

No graver question MD in our generation be
debated than that of the defence of Canada. It
involves considerations more weighty than any which
arise when we consider the defence even of England
herself. For our own protection is our first and
supreme care ; to provide for it in the most effec-
tual way we can devise is a duty imperative, ad-
mitting of dispute respecting means, but none re-
specting ends ; it can, as we know by experience,
be secured triumphantly, and all that we wisely do
towards it tends to make more remote the chance
of its being put to proof. But with Canada the
case is different. Our anxiety there must be con-
trolled by our physical power. Even if we count
that dependency dear to us as ourselves, we must
still ask whether in certain events we can possibly
maintain it. And if a doubt on that subject exists,
we have next to ask ourselves whether ours might
not be a fatal friendship, inviting attack where
offence would otherwise not exist, exasperating
jealousy where but ler us there would be amity,
holding up a prize to be fought for between the
two greatest, freest, noblest nations on the earth,
and placing us in a position where we must inevi-
tably lose the prize, while inflicting and receiving
those terrible and sickening wounds which a combat
between brothers of equal strength, of equal
courage and endurance and pride, must make too
lamentably certain.
With this responsibility for the future laid upon
us, the first point for our reflection is, what can
we do in the event for which the proposed de-
fensive measures are intended to provide? Let us
assume that the whole 1,300,000/. estimated by
Colonel JERVOIB has been voted, with as much
more as in the progress of the works may be called
for, that it is all spent, and that we have got as a
result two or three places of first-class strength.
Let us sasume that they do all that such works
profess to do, that they secure the safety of our
5,000 or 10,000 British troops on the approach e£
an invader, that they "gain us time," and that we
use the time to send succours without delay. But
what succours can we send that will *veil ? Some
speakers have suggested a force of 70,000 men.
In the extremity of our Peninsular struggle we
never were able to place more than 40,000 English
soldiers under the Duke of WELLINGTON'S com-
mand—at Waterloo he had not so many. But we
bare grown since then in population and re-
sources, and let us therefore grant that we
could even, by a gigantic effort, send the
70,000 men to Canada, and maintain
the force at that strength ; and the
Comedians, Colonel Jsavon tells us, have
21,000 volunteers, and when the ballot is put in
operation, will have a militia of 88,000. Here,
then, is an absolute total of under 200,000. But
what is the force to be brought against them
We have not official rolls before us, but good
authorities estimated that last autumn the North
had 300,000 effective' in the field. without counting
those in Missouri, Mississippi, and Louisiana, and
that the South bad 170,000. Now it is the case
of those who urge the fortifying of Canada that
these two parte of the States will, in some form
or other, be united when Canada is attacked.
Here, then, without question of further efforts, is
an active force in the field of 470,000 men to
come against our 180,000. Nor is this all. While
we must send across the Atlantic all the munitions
and supplies subject to the perils and delays of
maritime war, liable to be intercepted even after
they are 'ended, before they reach our strongholds,
the United States will combat on their own bor-
ders, supplied by a network of railways which
make their foundries and factories almost part
of the armies in the field. What result can
follow ? What can 180,000 of the bravest
men in the world, three thousand miles
from their real base, do against 470,000,
or even 300,000, men of the some
race, fighting within sound of their own workshops
Our men will be shut into those fortifications we
are prepsriug for them, they will be iuvected by a
force double their own, they will gain time, but
the time will be useless when no more succour can
be sent ; and when that period has passed within
which every soldier knows that it is a mathematical
certainty that a place besieged by a superior force
must fall, they will be captured or compelled to
surrender.
We have followed this inquiry to its conclusion,
giving every possible assumption in favour of the
theory of Canadian Defence. But it is beyond
reason to expect that this will be the case if war
break' out. What the Americans can do we
know, for they are doing it, and it will be as easy
to them on the St. Lawrence as on the Potomac.
But what we can do in such conditions is proble-
matical, for we have never done it. We have
never yet transported 70,000 men across the
Atlantic. We have never attempted to supply
each an army when our supremacy on the sea was
disputed by a great navel power. But we have,
to the best of our strength, already fought against
the Americans on their own soil, and we have
bean worsted and driven out. We tried with our whole I
power to hold them when they revolted ; and though
we sent against them disciplined armies, and theyl
had none but raw levies to oppose us, we failed
because we could not keep up a sufficient force at
such a distance. It is true that we are stronger
now, and e e have steam navigation. But the
growth of the States has been infinitely more rapid

than ours; what was this • firsok colony is now
an equal nation ; if we wrioAdises they hoe
railways, and the balance is more - than ever

against us.
Such, then, would be our prospect in that
future to which Governments en the recommenda-
tion of • Deputy Director of Fortifications, invite us
unthinkingly to enter. It is a future note ven
doubtful. There is no doubt attaching the
conflict of two armies of Anglo-Saxon bloqd, when
the one is double the other. There is no doubt
attaching to a campaign between two powers when
the one is based on its own frontiers, and the other
is fighting 3,000 miles from its bass. Against
these demonstrable certainties we have no
sesames to set, except our PROltileil
assurance that be does not see why Canada could
not be defended, and that he does not see why we
should not undertake it even if we cannot. We
have nothing more to say against his lordship's
confidence on the first bead. But we must pro-
test against our forces being sacrificed to his point
of honour on the second. A commander acts con-
trary to even the rules of war who attempts to
hold an untenable post. He deserves the exec=
tion of his country if he sacrifices his men in
• hopeless and futile enterprise. If we satisfy
ourselves that we cannot to the best advantage
make Canada our battle-field in the event of war
with the States, it is our bounden duty to avoid it
and choose another ; and every stone that is laid
or spadeful of earth that is moved with the design
of confining us to that position is • national crime.
But a still more important reflection remains. It
will be our professing to defend Canada on Cana-
dian soil that will invite the invasion of Canada.
There is, or need be, no question of con-
flict between that colony and her neighbours,
except such as our professed amistance supplies.
It will be to wound us that Canada will be
smitten. And it will be a deadly wound. With
this temptation between us, war is closer at hand
than it would otherwise be. A war that will
expose our own coasts to insult, that will annihi-
late our commerce, and that will wrest Canada
from us, is the result to which tends our attempt
to do what nature forbids, to maintain a depen-
dency in another hemisphere in the face of a
people as powerful as ourselves lying on its bor-
ders. If ever, through unhappy misunderstandings
or disputes, we must fight with America, we shall
fight with all our strength. But let us not at
once court assault and make defeat inevitable by
hurling defiance from • position that we cannot
defend, and by staking the inane in a field where
the odds must be so fatally against us.

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