The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, ZUNI 26.

Is the effect of the grand spectacle which thrilled
us on Saturday to pass away in compliment and
congratulation T We are all agreed in admiring
the true martial qualities our Volunteers exhibited
in Hyde-park. It was very satisfactory to per-
ceive that all the twaddle written about " loose
" order" had not led the men astray, nor diverted
them from the steady purpose of acquiring for
their corps that solidity which makes the difference
between an army and an armed mob. In the
General Order issued by the COMMASDZA-
m-Cuazr, at the command of the Qurxx,
these merits have received the well-deserved

tribute of admiration. We may expect
that u one consequence of this review an immense
impulse will be given to the Volunteer movement.
The itnitsramt G . informs us that, in 1851,
there were 2,500,000 males in England, Scotland,
and Wales between the ages of fifteen and thirty ;
so that if only one in five of our young men were
to go into military training we should have a home
army of half-a-million to begin with. This is •
matter which we willingly leave to the patriotism
and right feeling of the younger part of the
population.

We shall be much disappointed, however, if one
consequence of the celebration on Saturday ehonld
not he to induce the public to pay greater and
better regulated attention to the military adminis-
tration of the country, at least in its main Im-
bues. We have now a volunteer army of 122,000
men, because the nation, thoroughly disgusted and
tired out with expenditure which brought it no
nearer to security, at last took the matter into its
own hands. It was ready to do so eight yeah
ago. In the early part of the year 1851 there
was a very general disposition in the country to
form Rifle Corps. Applications from several
places for authority to form them had
reached the Government, and it had been
resolved that that authorisation should be granted.
Earl GREY—whose statement, made in Parlia-
ment, we are now following—expressed his con-
viction that the number of Volunteer Corps which
would have been formed if their intentions had
been carried out would have been so large as to
supersede tho necessity of raising a Militia. This
is what Lord Gan', in 1852, believed an army of
Volunteers could do for the country :
I believe that, if we had such corps of volunteers, by
mean* of the electric telegraph and of railways a large
portion o.f them might, in the event of an 41%4.1600, be col-
hetet! iu forty-eight hour. on any point which might he at-
tacke.l. When the country was in danger, not a ma, of
then), who by any exertion mull he at his pot, would
have lase absent ; and though they might not have hose
able to execute complicated !UM VU'rfell iu the field, or to
state! in the 'hock of battle against the regular and disci-
plind troop. of France or of Kum* surely the flower of
the plum( men of England, armed with weapons of which
they thoinughly underdood the use, and supported by the
regular troupe owl the formidable artillery which we have
at nor disposil, would have rendered as attack on this
country by an invading force an affair of extreme difficulty
and de uger.

We know, however, what happened. The
Government was overthrown by a vote of the
House of Commons, and we heard no more of
Rifle Volunteers until the recurrence of intolerable
panics, in the face of increasing belligerent expen
diture, touched the nation to the quick. As long
as people were content to believe in the saving
virtues of money expended, ways of spending
mnn••y were invented without end. We spent
then on our army and navy 16,000,0001., we now
spend 26,000,0001., and are we any better
defended 1 Let the Report of the National De•
fence Commission and the propositions for increased
military burdens, of which we have just had warn-
ing, answer the question. Here is the kind of
article we get for the money ; it is an official
report by Mr. WILLIAM LADD, Master Shipwright
at Malta, to the Admiral Superintendent, on one
of her Mummy's ships :

31.0.ter Shipwright'. Dike, Jan. 21, Pkirl,
lu iihedieme to your direction. to examine awl report to
you th” etite ..f the toillien of the frame in the forepart of
her llAieety's ship l'opiette, 1 leg to acquaint you that
hare been "tilled to take down the whole of the fitting. of
the etore.esoos in the bows, unikr the lower deck, for tl,i.
purpose, to-,,,Ther with the ceiling between the thick striates
to tie le•olv reel bre I. ..f the timbers, and the flat of the
etore•rooni deck. :.ail have found several of the floors,
fillings, timber, of tho frame., and planking, completely
rotten, soil the renismiler of the planking and framing
k eliisively taiutill.oll the surface IT the deleteriotui agent
which has deetroyed the oth 7 purtious herein mentioned,
sis
lhv.iptinw of Start...ill Port
Timber. side. Kole.
Nu No.
Cant timbers
Ihtto
Ditto
Flans
Ditto
Ditto
Fist
Ditto
Ditto .........
&rood fatback
Ditto
Ditto
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Nature of
Irefecta.
. Map mttea.
• Rotten.
. !/elective.
• /toilet,
• Sap rotten.
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.. Rotten.
Map remota.
Defective.
.. Rotten.
.. Defective.
. Sap r..tteo.
. Pap rutted.
..

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Defective.
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