The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-15 00:00:00

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LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—Ihtring the STORMS referred to ; but they may be wan • Qfoccuicll,l4
of the past twenty-two mouths the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT ,_
INSTITUTION, by its Lifeboats and other means, contributed to ko annex, to invade, and Cojt con
the SAVING of 1,475 PERSONS sem diffident WRECKS on oar siona of territory from neigh 'ng not,
COASTS. The Institution also expended g 48,000 In the same
period on its Lifeboat Establistunents, in addition to granting how will they help to preserve a rank which, we
Asikse for EE wands= samosa, Ansa. to or are to suppose, is regarded as impeached ?It is
Ile, ihilialdelEgq 6hemnewor re the continued to, presene this rank that the EMPEROR iLS going
ars Oa London and Country 141 levy I," Tasn-tat exceeding in magnitude any
-' ,r4l,!,.A—lfoiliflri)..,,,dewlls. I'a. "4" yet levied by him upon the French people. When
'Ean.'.----.—-----------#--v-re—, he ban got his 160,000 men, he pro-
CiOLD CHAINS.—jOILN BROGDEN heir poem to divide them info two classes.
NJ, to call the attention of the public to the FORM of I. - One
VOICE which he delivers with Gold chains purchased at his half, chosen by lot, will have to adopt a
maw:wary: soldier's life for six yearP, and then spend three
To workmanship of WM= chain, 54 inches long as 1.5`. do
To klir carat gold, w 2 on., at LS 94. bed morein the GardeNationale Mobile ;the other half
per Ounce, MLitt price
-- will be forced to undergo military instruction for
Total £2 2 6 some unspecified period. It will be subdivided into
Upon this system, the grAum WEIGHT, and VALUE of
the gold are actual efined, and guaranteed to the purchaser; two parts, chance presiding over the distribution
John Brogdon kingloong for a fair remuneration on the workman-
ship only, which is charged according to the intricacy or simpli-
city one part, called the first ban, will be at the beck
city of the pattern.—Manufactory, 16, Itentietta-street, Covent- and call of Mate and used to reinforce the
-rden, London. active army other half will be liable to be
called out only by virtue of a legislative act, un-
'eu the Legislative Body is not in session. Now,
the effect of this will be to place an additional
60,000 men each year at the disposal of
, the EstrEsea ; and the number is placed so
' much higher than it has ever been placed before
in order that the army may be largely augmented
in the shortest poesible time. What does that
I. point to ? Peace or war ? But that does not
represent the full force of the change ; because in-
stead of some number short of 100,000 taken for
the army, disciplined by continuous service, and
entirely occupied in military duty, the EMPEROR
will get the whole 100,000 for his active army.
This alone is an important change. But the sig-
nificant fact which we have to digest is, that the
French EMPEROR is providing himself not
only with a vast active army, backed
up by the ordinary recruitment ; he is pro-
viding in addition a reserve larger than the
standing active army itself. It is this enormous
provision for the contingencies of a campait.jn
which is the characteristic of the scheme. ][~ is a
portent in the political sky which no State can
aff°Wrdiltol the. French. people endure this new draft
on the lifeblood of French in
for hand
vaationgriculf
-
ture, said to be necessary e preser o
her rank, decidedly necessary for the realization of
plans devised by Prince Louts BONAPARTE when
iie was an exile ? Who can say ? The
answer to the appeal of the economists
is a demand for a draft of men far
larger than they contemplated. How will
Frenchmen like to be half soldiers half civilians,
every engagement they makebeing liable to sudden
rupture on a call from the Minister of War?
How will they relish the addition that must be
made to the War Budget, not only to provide pay,
II but arms, uniforms, accoutrements, stores, anunu-
inition, provisions for these inordinate masses?
11The experiment has now to be tried. What has
been done in Prussia, on a scale scarce'y less
gigantic, may be done in Fur ce. But will it ?
What if the Legislative Body rejected the scheme?
It would amount almost to revolution. Never-
theless, we must not forget that the EMPEROR has
accomplished twice before nearly as much as he
proposes to accomplish now.
Europe presents at this moment a saddening
spectacle. There is something wicked in this
quenchless thirst for myriads of men armed with
the deadliest of weapons that the wit of man can
devise. The military monarchs have found the
means of doing, by means of decrees, which they
dignify by the sacred name of laws, far more than
their forefathers ever did by means of force and
caprice. But depressing as the facts are, these
facts we must recognise and profit by. At pre-
sent there is among us only a slight tendency to
follow in the wake of our powerful neighbours.
Yet, example is infectious, and none can say whe-
ther we shall be able to resist temptation, and
place our military service on a soond and reason-
able footing, without being led to overstep the
boundaries of reason, and to join in the mad
rivalry of these continental Kings.

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INDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15.

THE POST-OFFICE AND THE TELEGRAPHS.

Our contemporary, the ;War,lay Re,iew, in its
impression of this day, and in an article on the
proposal for the transfer of the telegraphs to the
Post-office, makes the following ohservations :
" The reported details of the plan are not alto-
gether encouraging, for it is gravely asserted that,
while the price of despatches is to be largely re-
duced, the messages are to be delivered by
letter-carriers in their regular rounds, and that
an additional payment is to be made for the
services of a special messenger. :Co further proof
is required of the official authorship of thc para-
graph which appeared in a Sunday paper. Only a
public functionary, and perhaps only a head of a
Post-office department, is capable of a contrivance
for ensuring the contemporaneous delivery of tele-
grams and letters. It may be presumed that any
parliamentary committee to which the scheme may
be preferred will provide some protection for the
not inconsiderable class of transmitters of tele-
grams who have the weakness to be in a hurry."
We aro informed that the paragraph which
appeared in the Sunday paper referred to was nut
due to official authorship, that it did not correctly
describe the details of the scheme, and that if the
scheme be adopted by the government it will
be found to offer a more rapid rate of transmission
than is now given as well as a lower rate of chary
than now prevails. The plan provides for a consi-
derable extension of the area within which telegrams
w ill be delivered at once by special messenger without
charge, and offers additional facilities fur the con-
veyance of telegrams beyond that area. A general
and contemporaneous delivery of telegrams and
letters has never been contemplated.

E thought Europe knew what it was to suffer
. the strain of an armed peace. But we were
mg. The Emperor of the FRENCH, by demand-
from his people a million and a quarter of
diers, has shown that the system pursued ever
ice 1850 was only in its infancy. Twenty years
we thought that armies reckoned up by tens
thousands were enormous. Novs (irons Shang!
eels. Two years after the coup-detat we
began to count by hundreds of thousands ; the
lhange was made in anticipation of a war, and the
- was used to justify the change. Now we
, to count up the standing armies of
;mope by the millim. There are, and are
) be, as many soldiers on foot in Europe as there
'ere in the first decade of the century. The
rench Revolution and the Napoleonic era be-
leathed us the legacy of these monstrous over-
growths of Force ; and although there was a period
' decrease, the evil recommenced when ex-
mated Europe had recovered her strength,
_ad it has grown to what we see it now. Truly
this is an age of military progress. We have
Ine from garrisons to camps, and now we have
nne to what they call armed nations ; and the
,orst aspect of the case is that these armed
nations are almost literally at the disposal, not of
half a dozen responsible cabinets, but of half a
lozen irresponsible monarchs. Is it a step in
ivilization, or is it a step towards barbarism T
The outcome of the great military commission
in France has justified the worst fears of those
who watched the progress of the feeling out of
which it grew, who recorded its appointment as a
portent, and who have waited impatiently fur the
result. And what a project it is—nothing more
nor less than a scheme for arming and placing at
the disposal of the EMPEROR the strongest men of
every generation of French manhood for nine
years—nine years of the prime and vigour of life.
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This is what the EMPEROR insists upon. The
A telegram has been received at the Admiralty,
very figures have an appalling look. There is
from her Majesty's minister at Lisbon, dated the 14th
to be an Active Army of 417,483 men ; these
inst., 1.30 p.m., announcing the arriv:d at that port of
are to be supported by a reserve, in two her Majesty's ship Zealous for coal. All well, and no
classes, of 421,746 men ; and these again by a defects.
further reserve of 389,986 men—each body UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AND THE MENTAL PH!to-
being in itself a very respectable army for
B°PtHecTl aCti4XeLp— t u
re°use e
nrezitt
itlerisn(silyvlnthebPerorerrottoweimll
abelithatteof
any State—and the total mounts up
to ! the Council of University College:—President—Carl
1,232,215, or a few men short of a million and a Brougham; ice-President—Lord 13; ' .
ITS; , TZemunclier
quarter. To lay hands on this mass of men and irMr. JGarrersgeßoGrk, D(2-1,-; , LI "„::
C.B. Mr'. H. .117....z5u5k ; Mr.
divert them from the desk and the wmluillop, the : Ebenezer Charles, LLB. ; Mr. Hillf!..Cviens-Ildardyi
factory and the farm, to the camp and the garrison, - L1...,8iA
.Hoo. G_._
the law of conscription is invoked and stretched to n_! Mr.
_.T W De
Evnans nil ?...( 'Mr. E.. W. Field ;w7.1.
E N. Fowler, M.A. ; Mr. 'W.. Fowler, LL.B. ; Mr. T. F.
the breaking point. A little while ago 80,000 Gibson ; Sir F. B.idGo;l,sniti,
jatiesrt.,
QM6l'.. ;31r Mr.
aWf4ll.
annually were deemed sufficient for the #
thews, I:L.B.D,SIar. a. &hi; itobin'son.,lll;. E.. ROmilly,
service of the French Mars. Then he Sir Edward Ryan, Mr. Samuel Sharpe, and Mr. F. T.
took 100,000. Now he swoops down upon Wood, LI..
tiD.
M
160,000 ; and he does so on the plea that he T CALAMITY AT TALES
The sudden destruc-
tionliofEeigahLtY 'colliers in a mine in the north of this county
wants them for defence and for the preservation of is an event
.so terrible and so sad
.that we can find no
the rank of France in Europe. The first plea may
shorts
of ii watch tofnmeaik. oref
istitonwti.cah
fmwuoulwd,i;moet.cflite
inll
be set aside. Looking to what France ia, from the
.me mind or every reader. We trust the pity and
point of view of military geography—the strongest sympathy they create will prompt to a
.Iliibtrtre cootritill-
country in Europe; looking to what the French ti some
iatymater o he
tfiftydwidowass wand atwll otherwise
ndred
people are—how easily fired to patriotic exertion °el:Miens. The sacrifice of some slight indulgence for
by the tread or threat of an invader, how ready a few weeks by a
uilarget nounncieberr..ofeuothisrommha rl inhabitants
y
to march to the frontier and over it ; looking to ? !
the the on the victims of the exosion.
the resources and genius and wealth of France— No doubt the leading people of the county will come for-
how can it be said that she requires 1,200,000 ward liberalliitatn
nd we,:lizieir
waoliUtthops o fez!
.forotahe snot,-
men permanently afoot or availablefor field or gar- tre:,:cilicircle. shall want an opportunity of expressing
risen duty to defend her t The second branch of in substantial form the
.sympathy they feel.
we hope
local
ocilbtlessi:rucei
the plea—the preservation of her rank—is far banks lirera:lilytncobnu:rwilatieant! soft
en
more pertinent. But that plea is susceptible of a findthwatilialt
blow which has fallen on so many. But for this Stafford-
variety of interpretations. The armed hosts may shire calamity. we should
a"torVihree ;..wiltertehrse presentbythe
be wanted to serve as a physical threat, may be Tase Lseta In•rein whichl)e
oar accidentduty cuilearly lies at amnia—SS/Seri
intended, without fighting, to preserve the rank shire dcloertiser.

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