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LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 14.

Taut oil in no seuse great, Sir ARs'HIBALD MA-
NOR may be fairly called distinguished, if not, in
some respects, unique. In an age of unexampled
progress heat utterly incapable of moving himself,
or of perceiving the manifold movements of the
world around him. The last few years have been
rich beyond all precedent in new experiments, in
significant changes, commercial and political, both
at home and abroad, but these changes have not
l4ought a single new idea to the voluminous his-
torian of modern Europe. Observation and expe-
Acne, teach him nothing, and he is impervious
to the plainest facts and the strongest arguments.
A surgical operation, it has been said, is necessary to
enable his countrymen to perceive a joke, but even
this extreme measure would not avail to open Sir
Aa. iiiivite's eyes or enlighten his understanding.
He is, in fact, a kind of natural curiosity, a moral
pleenonienon—the living specimen of a poli-
tical species almost extinct. He represents the
extreinest type of provincial Toryism. No bucolic
squire, living in the obscurest corner of the most
Bo.otian county, could be more obstinately wedded
to a set of obsolete doctrines and exploded fallacies
than the Sheriff of Lanarkshire, living amidst all
the stir and bustle of the second manufacturing
metropolis of the empire. Many of his political con-
temporaries no doubt have held doctrines equally
narrow, and been the victims of theories equally
fallacious ; but they have learnt wisdom by ex•
periume, and reluctantly accepted the decisive logic
of facts. But Sir ARCHIBALD is guilty of no such
weakness. Instead of surrendering his arguments,
he simply says tau t pour k fine. Other men who
sire arotig protectionists, during the great battle
of Free Trade, gradually abandoned the position
w Lica thu results of the victory proved it to be
utterly untenable. But Sir ARCHIBALD is quite ea
strong a Protectionist to-day as he was fifteen or
twenty years ago. He still believes that Free
Trade is the curse of the land, the source
of innumerable evils, and that our only safety
lies is going back to protection. He still looks
on the abolition of the corn-laws us a Protectionist
deluge, and is himself a fossilheol specimen of the
ante-diluvian period. The only explanation to be
offered of such an anomaly is, that the great his-
torian exhausted the whole power of his nature
in that wonderful work, fairly wore himself out in
that voluminous party pamphlet, and that his iutel-
lect has been condemned ever since to move in
the mill-horse round of its false statements and
fallacious reasonings.
Whether correct or not, this hypothesis answers
the end if all hypotheses—it accounts for the fact.
It explains how it comes to peas that whenever
Sir AIicHIBALD opens his mouth in public he is
sure, consciously or unconsciously, to talk what he
had formerly written, and give orally the substance
of certain chapters in his great work. He ia, as
the reading world knows to its cost, the historian
of the great war, and the object of his History is
to prove that Providence was on the aide of the
Tories during that long struggle. The country
came triumphantly out of the conflict, after ail
enormous expenditure of blood and treasure. This
expenditure, however, the simple-minded historian
looks upon ea the normal oondition of our
prosperity, on which Heaven has in a
peculiar manner set its approving seal. He
directly connects Providence with an invasion
panic, and has a fixed idea that the pnaperity of
the country absolutely depends on heavy taxes
and lavish expenditure. Amongst our recent po-
litical and national movements there are many
which seem to point in this direction. Just nos,
therefore, it may be naturally imagined, the state
of the country offers some cheering symptoms
to the conservative historian who has not advanced
a single step since the year 1815. These favourable
symptoms of our present state Sir ARCHIBALD
dwells upon in an address just delivered at Glas-
gow on " The beet System of National Defence."
This address is the first of a series of lectures on
" Common Things," to be given for the Tempe-
rance Isnion of that town. Wu hope the Glasgow
tietsiners were satisfied with Sir ARCHIBALD'a
immoderation ; but we must say for ourselves that
his statement* and suggestions, instead of being
COMMON are amongst the most extraordinary
and utterly extravagant we have recently taut
with. Of course the lecturer applauds the
Volunteer movement, but its present dimensions do
not by any means satiety his vast desires. After
all, however, it appears he has not much faith in a
volunteer self-supporting force. He neither un-
derstands ner is willing to trust mere moral power
of any kind ; but Covenunent pay is something
subetantiaL He wonkl have an additional local
volunteer force of 150,000 " called out by the
`• I kiverninent, Mal by government, armed by Go-
" vernment, and exercised forty days in the year."
We have all along urged the calling out and keep-
ing up of An effective Militia ; but to secure this
no such serious interference with the regular occu-
pations of the country is neomsary. Half the
time t.ir Alu'lltßALP suggests would be amply suf.
teient for the purpose of effective drill. But the
:;00,000 Volunteers half supported by the country,
instead of supplying the place of a large standing
army, are, in Sir .11tellIlisLit's scheme, only pre-
hiniaary to a large increase of the regular force.
He coolly jeoprees not only that oar regulation
standing army should be doubled, but that the
pay of the individual &Adler should lie nearly
doolil,l as well ; that it should be raised to •2a. a
44y instead of Is. ld., as at present. Rut all
tots inervase is not nearly enough to satisfy Sir
He argues that our naval force