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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15.

THE lamentable accident which has just
happened at Dover brings for the first time before
our eyes in actual experience the nature of the
loss which would fall upon the nation should its
Volunteer defenders ever be called into actual

service. That in every war, the holiest as the
most reckless, a certain number of the combatants
must be mere "food for powder," is an axiomatic

truth. Beside every rampart of stone must rise a
wall of dead bodies. No material defences, no
improvements in weapons, can redeem the inevit-
able sacrifice of human life. Nor has it been our
fault of late years that we have too lightly re-
garded the loss of those who have thus fallen for
us in battle, or, less mercifully, amid the miseries
of disease-stricken camps. The heart of England
was wrung with the story of the carnage of
Waterloo, and with the slowly and surely
confirmed tidings of the pestilence that walked
over the heights of Sebastopol. To a thousand
families came the individual grief ; but the whole
nation mourned for the general loss. Yet then
death lighted impartially, all classes in proportion
to their number sent their victims, the greatest
number by consequence came from the class which
contributes only thew and sinew to the nation's
store of strength. What will it be if at any time,.
next year, or the next after, or twenty years hence,
that event happens the prospect of which has called
our volunteers to arms i Should that possible
war ever break out, it will be a war bloody beyond
any that history has yet seen. There will be no
chivalric feeling towards the invader' of our shores
and the ravagers of our homes—it will be a war in
which quarter will neither be given nor accepted,
and in which victory, on which side Kamer it may
rest, will have followed only on extermination.
Who then will have fallen on our side, even should
victory be ours? The masa of the nation as before
will be represented, in nearly just proportion, by
the slain among our few regulars and militia.
But the bulk of the army, on whom our safety
will depend, will be our volunteers, and where
they go we may be sure they will be foremost in
the fight and their bodies lie thickest on the
field. All this loss will come practically out of
only one clam. That class is the educated, the
professional and middle clan—the class by which
the framework of society is bound together and
the life of the nation is nourished. Each
man who falls among the volunteers is
more or less a representative man, by whose
loss not his own individual labour only
is lost, but the labour of hundreds may
be disorganised and rendered futile, or who
was to hundreds the comfort., the help,
and the encouragement for which they will
look vainly for the future elsewhere. What town
is there in the kingdom that could not better spare
fifty of its inhabitants than five of those who as
undistinguished private soldiers have thus offered

to die for their brethren I What will a battle be
to the realm when a chance accident to half-a-
dozen men has wrought consternation and confu-
sion in its neighbourhood like that which we see
at Dover? Row shall we count up our loss
when side by side with the nobility of birth falls
the nobility of nature—when our men of highest
genius lie dead upon the breach which there was
none but they to fill—when artiste, men of letters
and science, doctors, lawye's, manufacturers, mer-
chants, alone are among the slain—and the hands
cry vainly for the head, without whose guidance
they hang idle and purposeless f
From such disastrous victory one thing only
can save us, that which shall make defeat and
victory alike out of the question. Were we now
five hundred thousand as we are but barely one
hundred thousand under arms, the chance of in-
vasion would disappear. Our Volunteers may at
this moment be enough to guard the realm if it
wore attacked, but at what a fearful cost !
For the sake of them, for the sake of
ourselves, we are bound to support those who
truly, if invasion come, would be our forlorn
hope. They may seek no such support—many
among them doubtless would prefer that their
constancy should be put to the proof—and would
disavow whatever might diminish the chance
that the saving of their country should rust
with them alone. But we cannot afford
to be so spendthrift of our children's
blood and our nation's strength. Nor, in trnth,
will the glory of saving the country be less if it be
saved from attack as well as from defeat. To do
this, we need a far more general enrolment than
we have yet attained. We have exhausted one
class—the class which can furnish the cost of
arms, accoutrements, ammunition, and other
necessary expenses, over and above contributing
their time. Wu must now draw upon other
classes, which can give little more than their
time, but who are as reedy and earnest as any
of us to give up their spare time for instruction
as volunteers, though they will not, at Lord
HAILDWICIA suggestion, abandon their employ-
ments to enlist in the militia or the line.
We are therefore rejoiced to see that symptoms

of a more general organization to bring such
claases within the pale of our Volunteer army are
spreading over the country. From various guar-
tent we have accounts of the establishment of
artisan corps, in which the main part of the inci-
detital expenses are borne by honorary members.
As Government now supplies weapons, the per-
sonal charges of the effective members are thus
limited to the purchase of uniform and accoutre.
meats, and it is arrauged that these should be paid
for by weekly instalments. Yet, as this expense
cannot be brought much below 3/., a heavy sum
for many an artisan to make up in one year, we
are not sorry to learn that provision is being made
for diminishing it to a certain extent in the cue

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deers ere enroll to meet,''.' icould there
'be a better use of money thant4the bestowal
on the bulk of the population of lose physical
and Ram' advantages which military training
yields. The obedience to discipline and subflr-
dination of self which are inculcated in striking
union with the teaching of independence and self-
reliance, form a habit of mind which cannot fail
to yield a rich fruit of national improvement
The supremacy of this country in all the aria of
peace will be enormously promoted by the educa-
tion which fits her sons for war. All that is needed
to ensure these benefits is that pecuniary obstacles
should be removed by the rich, and other difficul-
ties smoothed down by the co-operation of the
employers of labour. It is the interest of the
rich and of the employers of labour above all that
this should be done. Till the stout hearts and
strong arms of the working men are enrolled in
the ranks of our voluntary defenders England is
not safe from invasion, and the repulse of invasion
would be bought at a cost which would fling
back civilisation fifty years. Those who have
been killed at Dover will have done inestimable
service in their death if it shall make us think
what it would be to us to lose a hundred thousand
such as they.

Vbe Court.

BALMORAL., Accu err 12.

Her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and Princess
Alice attended divine service in the pariah church of
Cathie.

The ladies mad gentlemen in waiting were in attendance.
The Rev. Dr. MTherson officiated.

Deepatches were sent from the Colookl•office, yesterday,
to the Lord High Commissioner of the kakis blurt's.

His Excellency the Danish Minister will leave
town at the latter end of the month, for Denmark, for •
short time.

His Excellency the Marquis of lama has left the
Brunswick Hotel, Jarmyu-street, for Paris, en route for
Madrid.

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are
passing the season at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland.
The Countess of Lichfield was safely delivered of
a daughter on the 12th inst., at Shagborough. Her lady-
ship and child are doing well.

Viscountess Palmerston will have an a.s.sembly
this evening.

Signor Principe di Pandolfina, Envoy of the
Provisional Government of Sicily, has left Claridgee Hotel
fore few days. _ _

In consequence of the necessarily prolonged
absence of Lord Elgin, it has been determined to make
some other arrangements for conducting the business of the
pat-office, and the Duke of Argyll, who has filled the
office of postmaster-general pro tem., will succeed to that
Aloe, which he held under a previous administration. The
Lord Privy Seal will thus become vacant. The names of
several peers have been mentioned for this high office, which
will be filled up in a few days ; amonpt others, Lord
Belper, Lord Broughton, Lord Lyveden, Lord Llanover, and
Lord St. Germane.

Wt; (Scotsman) learn that Sir Roderick Murchison
and Mr. Geikie have gone on a geological tour to the West
Highlands and Islands. They are at present in Islay,
whence they intend to proceed northwards as far as the
Lewis, with the view of determining the relations of the
great quartzite awl schistose mountains of Argyles 'hire, and
how far these represent the system of rocks already eluci-
dated by Sir Roderick Murchison in north-west.

The Halifax people yesterday inaugurated the
statue erected to Mr. Frank Crossley, the member for the
West Riding, who made a gift of the public park which
Halifax possessors. The day was observed am a holiday, and
about 40,000 persons witnceasd the ceremony. A public
dinner wound up the proceedings.
_

To-morrow, on going into committee of supply on
Education Estimates relating to Ireland, Kr. Scully will
mo►e, "That, in the opinion of this home, all funds pro-
vided by parliament for public education in Ireland should
be so administered as to banish all just suspicion of prose-
lytism from the national system, and conciliate cordial
so-operation from clergy and laity of all religious denomi-
nations."

Lord Fermoy on Friday will call the attention
of the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, to " the
sacrifice of human life about to be made by the present
King of Dahomey in memory of his father ; and to ask
him whether he is prepared to cause some daps to be
taken with a Caw to averting this barbarous slaughter."
Prince Edward's Island has been constituted an
archdeaconry of the diocese of Nova Scotia,under the Queen's
letters patent, and the Rev. Herbert Read has been ap-
pointed its first archdeacon.

The King of Holland left Wiesbaden on the
11th for the Hague, after a day of six weeks. The King
of the Belgians arrived these on the preceding day, and had
an interview with his Majesty, of, it is said, an hour's
duration, in the latter's villa. King Leopold intends to
stop six weeks at Wiesbaden.

balignani, of yestenlay, says :—" We bear, on
good authority, though we own the fact seem quite in-
credible, that Mario and Grisi are engaged at her Majesty's
Theatre for live years!"
_ _ _

M. de Baulincourt, the French military attachd
at Berlin, has been killed in that city by a fall from his
hone.

Since the late additions made to the city of Paris
it corers a apace of 78,020,000 yards. Of these 15,000 me-
ant of gardens, or of wade ground laid out for building.
By the census taken in the year 1858 the population is set
down at 1,174,34 G souls At present it is calculated that
in oonsequence of the limits being extended to the fortifica-
tions, the population of Paris amounts to 1,800,000.

It is expected at Lyons that, iu consequence of
the great importance which manufactures have acquired in
that city, an English consul will be shortly appointed. Of
360,000,000 fr., at which the manufactures of France are
estimated, Lyons produces annually 200,000,000 fr. worth,
of which the greater part is exported to England, the
Gaited States, Bosnia, Germany, Spain, and Belgium.

A letter from Cologne, Of the Bth instant, states

that the inhabitant& of that city are occupied with the pre
panties' fore grand festival which is to take place et the
eod of the present month or the beginning of September.
There is to be • general German shooting match, to which
are to be invited Swiss, Belgians, Dutch, and English. The
prise to be gained is a castle, of the value of about 6,000 f.,
situated opposite to Coblents, with a magnificent view over
that city, Stoleenfels, the Rhine, and the Moselle. The
building is perfectly new ; it is constructed according to the
fashion of the middle ages, with drawbridge and tower*.
This, if true, is great news for the rifle corps.
Ailvices from Alexandria announce that the
Alyptian government, which has for some time past been
in pecuniary straits, has just 'obtained a loan of 800,000 f.
from Paris, to be advanced through the house of Latltte.
The rate of interest is to be 6 per cent.
A letter from Rome of the Bth says :—" The
indocility of the Irish soldiers, and the little progress
they make in their organisation, has afforded matter
for complaint on the part of General de Laimoricii,re
to Major O'Reilly during his last inspection of the
garrison at Spoleto. The unwillingness of some of the
mom, and the incapacity of others, to become soldiers, must
be widened as the motive of this unsatisfactory state of
the battalion; and the general expressed himself as fully
penuaded of the zeal and personal exertions of Major
O'Reilly, of whose previous distinguished services he was
well aware. The battalion is not yet armed, but it will
be supplied in • day or two with the muskets hitherto
used by the Swiss riflemen, who have just been armed with
improved rifles. The pay of the Irish is now twelve
balocchi (sixpence) a day for corporals, and nine liajocch;
for privates. In the morning they have coffee and bread ;
at dinner, soup. • pound of meat., and vegetables ; and in
the evening coffee sods. The 500 Irish recruits now at
Ancona are eNpectell soon to join the battalion at Spoleto.
It is thought that • few Austrian instructors will be sent
to infuse some ideas of discipline into the St. Patrick's bat-
talion."