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ieNDON. TUESDAY, DEC 13.

IT is satisfactory to see that in the audit of the
satlineteam which is making as a military nation, or
'bowleg that we a!ways are so at heart, there is
good rose enough among us to point out the faults
and dangers involved in this as in every great enter-
prise and movement.

The gravest fault, and that to which perhaps the
greatest n u mberof thecitixens are becoming awakened.
is the restricted character of the movement. As far
ma it is one of will, intelligence, and desire, it is con-
fined to no clans or group of dames. The mechanic
and the labourer love their oountry as heartily
as the peer and the banker ; but opportunity is
not affo.ded to them as yet to testify their
patriottem in the way which goes to increase it—by
personal action. Oa the last occasion of extensive
volunteering, the Government was harsh and un-
loved ; the people generally were distreseed and
harassed; and the labouring classes were hungry, igno-
rant, and turbulent; eo that arming them was really
vete oat of the question. We need not enlarge on
the difference now in regard to their relations to
Government, and their comparative prosperity and
comfort; but we may point out that the classes of
mechanics ar.d labonrers are composed of different men
from those of the last and the preceding generation.
The development of the arta of life his made skilled
labourers of a multitude who were mere human
mactunes half •century ago; and the intelligent
artisan class are as mach more intelligent now than
formerly as the labourers are skilled. They are
quite am fit to bear arms and prepare for the most etio-
lation' acts of citizeuship as the volunteers under
fetuses ill., and it is coming to be regarded as
the grand defect of the volunteer rifle movement.
that it produces no visible result beyond the narrow
circle of the aristocracy and gentry. While the
broader ar►a of the working classes of England is
as much interested in the safety of the country and
the deterring of invaders as the narrower circle can
he. there should be freedom to all alike to learn to
defend their homes and the sacred soil of England ;
and ttil this is does no wise noes will believe in the
perment nce or the effective character of this mode
of national defence. If any one wishes tosse what
might he dose by a more generous sad patriotic
policy in the conduct of the movement, let him lest
at what is going ea at the Working Men% College.
is Gem'? Ormeadotreet. Oar readers have many •
time sympatiiieed, we are sure, with the intellectual
and moral movements of that interesting and honour-
able body of men, from Mr. MAURICF. and Mr.
lit,. it t., who preside over the students( the Colley, to
the rawest snidest who has presented himself to learn
what he can. There is something more to sympathise
with now. A Hifie Corps of about ninety members
of the rotiege is formed, under the command of Mr.
lit known everywhere by his " Toe Blows."
Alnitet, every evening half their number may be sees
at drill in the garden behind the College, by gaslight,
snider the Instruction of • Crimean sergeant. The
spirit is the same throughout the body, though the
Council are chiefly Oxford or Cambridge men, eler•
gyeneo and barristers, and the students are clerks,
ahopmen, and skilled artisans. Thews who desire to
see the movement comprehend all good Englishmen
should give their sympathy to this corps, as an ex-
peeent of sound patriotic doctrine. The deficieccy
in their case is funds wherewith to supply a uniform.
There is plenty of readiness at present among that,
who cannot join the service to give money. The
Working Hen. College Corps ought to have some
of it. so as to be enabled to show what they can do,
and how tine • sight it is to see men of different
ranks, social and intellectual, firmly planted on the,
common grouted of religious love of country. This
corps. made complete as each an exponent, would
originate more, and help to repair the m►in fault of
the wboie enterprise.
'1 Erre are other defects sufficiently grave. This
is sh own by the call from many quarters for a com-
prehensive organisation, which should enable the
nation tad its Government to know exactly what kind
and amount of force may be depended on. Such an
organisatioo would go far to were that gravity of
wind and habits which can hardly Ds looked for
while the volunteers associate themselves sedge the
denomination of club Wherever that word is mad
in the heating of elderly people it mils. s them shriek
from Encouraging what they have before seen turn

oat so ILL They remember the tipsy loyalty of
the volunteer* of sixty years sines. They remem-
ber the swaggering mirth of the mese, the
debt and idleness which mist discredit on
the name of volunteer, and are afraid that
the present movement will turn out in the
same way, a sort of patriotic dissipation, urging the
growth of pride and insolence, fatal to sobriety of
mind end habits, and going out ere long, after weak-
ening the moral force of the higher classes, and
adding nothing to the loyalty of the nation at large,
or the military strength of the country.
It needs no showing that the way to preclude this
mischief is precisely that which is urged by the
friends of the working cluses. Make each body of
volunteer* distinctive by its locality, and not by any
arbitrary sign, and you give a character of gravity
and permanence at once to its constitution. Let all
the strong and willing men of a district unite to
Ware how to, defend it, and you get rid of the club
character ; you preclude the mem sad its jollifice-
tisas, and mare sobriety by making the humblest
sesmiben the measure of the economy of the rest.
By the same method you get rid of the evils
of exclusiveaess. By the same method you
preclude the jealousies which most otherwise
arise, not only between different ranks, but between
the men of different iocalities, who, while connected
in aristocratic groups, will always be fancying some
favouritism or another, when the time comes for em-
ploying them, or bidding them prepare for actual
service. Another advantage of so thorough an
organisation is that the numbers will be kept up with
• steadiness Lever yet witnessed where volunteering
was regarded either as a pastime or an aristocratic
distioctioz. Instead of gentlemen getting tired, and
convinced they sha.l never be wanted, and dropping
off till the scheme is at en end, there will be woes-
sioce, from one rank or another, ea fast m there are
secessions by death or otherwise; so that the defence
of the country will have every chance of becoming a
permanent institution. At present, it is only neces-
sary to take a day'. journey by rail to become aware
i what misgivings are entertained by sensible citizens
of Tarim* ts ages and ranks, who do not question the
sincerity and ardour of the present movement. The
elderly eau tell of early friends and comrades whose
ruin dated from the Volunteer mem. Others do not
believe that middle-clus men will long devote their
time and eserdlce their pleasures; to military train-
ing, without some assurance that the country will
be supplied with a permanent and reliable force, by
means of en extensive organisation which shall make
every member available, and keep all alike up to
their duty. The most certain thing of all is, that
there can be no permanent and effectual defence of
the kingdom under a scheme which shuts out an
immense majority of the strong men of the nation,
who have the deepest interest in its preservation
from attack.

Some of these considerations have been well pro-
posed in a letter to the Manchester Guardian, which
indicates how the present sincere, hearty, and ho-
nourable enthiniuto may be turned to the noblest
account, viz., " by giving to the several corps a local
" instead of a sectional constitution ; by making the
" divisions between them, as it were, perpendicular
" instead of horizontal ; i.e., by composing each
corps of MU of all classes in a particular locality,
" ►nd thus making each a (sir representative of the
" whole community. Nothing would give such
" force," adds the writer, with whom we cordially
agree, " to the feeling of common nationality, upon
" which so mach of our strength depends, as this
" standing together, shoulder to shoulder.—thia
" hearty recognition among men of different classes
‘' of their equal interest in their common country."

Zoe ann.

OSBORNE, Dso. 12.

The glen, the Prince Consort, Princes Alice,
Princess Helena and Prioress Loans, wowed our to Porte-
month tote smarming in the royal yacht Fairy.
Her Hyatt, returned to Hebrew In the afternoon.
le alStioshace vete the Duerr of Atrial, Major-General
the Has. C. Om, sad Corti De Plat.

Lieetemat-Cokinsi James T. D. Crichton Stuart vas
saws Lord-Lisalismat of teem 4 Bute before the Lord
Proudest sad ether Loafs of the Coudl, at the Conseil
Chamber, Whiblmil, yesterday.
Vieoesat Palmist= retuned to Imam yesterday from
of the Cembridge University Commiesimsers
wen N 6, Mielote-terrace. as Tuesday the 6,h. Wed-
nesday the 7th, Tharedar the ffik Path.y the 9th, NIS
lietureley the 16th mat. The Commissioners present mere
thou Bishop of Chester, Lard Stanley, the Right Roc Lord
/notice Turner, the Right Hon. Sir Leavens, Peel, Vies.
Chaaaelsor Wiiihms Pare Wood, Br Rev. Dr. Vaughan,
sad Horatio Weediness, Req.
Mr. Galt, Kintaar of Fmawe of Creeds, and Mr. Wavy
finotb. hod as barrier with the Dehe Reams:fa
yesterday st the Delsidabofiloe.

Their Royal Highneeeee the Doke and Thicken
d'Aufnale 1111111661 to Grlll,ona Clarendon Hotel, lan
evegvng, tram Trentham Park.

The Doke of Newcastle has arrived in town from
Brighton.

The Earl aad Giantess of Winchilara hare ar-
rived at the St. CrooriVa Hotel trnm Easurall Park.

Lord and Lodi Edward Thynne have left town
for Leggiest, Wilts, oa a visit to the Marquis of Bath.
. . . . . .

A telegraphic despatch hag reached Paris, stating
that Lord Balked, 1.110 is now in Naples aad Lisa eon there
for sans essio, is area alarmingly 111.

Lard sad Lady Haatinititldaad the Hoa. Miss
traaset hose strived et the as. Genes Hoed.
Lord Verson has arrived at the Bt. deorge's
Hoed.

The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., and
Mn. Merril have antra at their rositlnnee at Grosvenor
Gets from Hombendea Minor, Burke.

The Lady Raglan gave birth to a son at 68, Rut-
loot-ow, a• Suniq

We hear that Slim Balre, who pored through
Berths reesady with Mr. end Mn. Belle, on their way to
Met Runtea recited for the pewee of giving concerts, is de-
lighting the subjects Mae Cur.

THI Nitw SOLICTIOS 013110tAle. William
Athena*, Q.C., K.P., be rewired the sygetattoest of
SA.ri,ot-Geaeral, reediaai ',seat by the appilianseat of Sir
Henry Keating to the jedidai Mech. The boa and learned
gtentseare wee caned to the bar of dr laser Temple 411839,
having during the previous ones years preadult as a ape,. ud
pleader. Ho boa intestate/the di, of Dadra date 1831,
sad be te what may be oteeidend • very eilwaatod lllurrb
being is favour of the ballot, • large reform Is the law, the
amoral of all religion dlaaEUltis., aid the @stool= of the
eadrege.

HORTICCLYCP.AL SOCIETY or LONDOn. A
speciel sawed westing of thi• society was held on the 9th
tom.. is the moots of toe Society of Arc. John. serest, Adelyhi,
C. Wentwoeth MU, MN., Y.P., intbs chair, when John
Chimney Keg , wee erected a orsonbe• of council is the rt•ont
of Prole...Dor Hostroy, deceased, sad the following ewe also
steered Fellows. Ins. :—The Dowser Drtebess of Norfolk,
Dowager Comdata of Craws. Loay Isokollo Staviot. Mks
M. J. Ntchole, Maier-Ckatnal Sir Travail PUHA Nam!
BOnbeich, Algoma Pathos. Raq J. P. Bull, Req., T.
Wilma. in, W. Road, Hy., J. ridaw, Rao, Rae. W. A.
Paatea, A. G. Rawer, Nog- C. Wakoa, Bq , Mr. W. R.
kamlaid. R. tkoarsoolll. Moo., J. liambrough. Rog., A.
Req.. B. B. keehaa, Esq., Mr.. J. Wentworth.
Ghodaastlag, Mr. C. Kota", Mr. L. Booth, sad
Ms. T. Poke. It woo aasoosood that the soy mortice for
the eleadoto of igloos sad Lite Mambas ,would be held on
Prify, Ys Wok of Jtasory and.

Htierrrn VOR COltarlirrlON AND DISEASES or
eau Cuss, BIOUTTOPF.—Ide peat iotereit taken thls
isnitsties by On label Rants of Wimbledon, Sarre), sod
vicinity, nee man 'sweetly manifested 0„,
when cost entopresebel et the pariah church as well se
ett cheiesceremb; se the former by the Rev. J. T. Manley,
isensabent ref Mortlake. The coegresaiioa reetteided
to the re.. gealikees'e appeal by eostribuikets antouatteg to
SSL IT& 10d. The siva at Christchurch wee preached be
Os Rev R. H. WWIO B.h , asphalt to the hospital, which
she wet with a mod Überal reeposee from the connive*.

LATEST INTELLIGENUE.

AUSTRIA.
VIINNA, Dac. 13.
The Imperial Law Gazette of to-day publishes a
decree, ordering the payment of the interest of the
national loan, falling doe on and after the Ist of
January next, to be effected in silver u formerly.