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London, England, 1861-01-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. 12.

The appeal made to the PIEMIZ/1 in favour of
retrenchment in the national expenditure by mem-
bers of the Hones of Commons who last Session
assented to estimates unusually large is equally
well conceived and well timed. The public outlay
of 1860 has no precedent in our national annals.
Never before were so many millions voted by
Parliament for the Civil Service of the State;
and never befog, in time of peace were so many
millions asked for by the Government and granted
by the House of Commons for the defence of the
country. Uninterrupted prosperity in needy all
the great branches of industry has elate enabled
the community to bear with patience the imposi-
tion of burdens in the aggregate so large. But it
were folly to deny that should any contingency
reduce materially the profits of capital and the
wages of labour in any of our more important
staples, the high rate of taxation, coupled with the
enhanced prices current for most of the necessaries of
life, would sorely try the tempers, and dangerously
stir the thoughts of men. It would be no allevia-
tion of popular suffering, and no answer to popular
reproach, for them who are responsible for the
national outgoings to say, as they might un-
doubtedly say with truth, that when it was
proposed seriously to augment the Esti-
mates and to increase the weight of taxa-
tion, no wide-spread murmurs were raised,
and no formal protest was uttered by the
nation. As regards the enhanced expenditure
on certain object," and more especially on the
Navy, it might indeed he said with truth that the
only limits to the proposals of the /dialler were
those suggested by hie own discretion. The smea-
ry had, wisely or unwisely, angered itself to be-
come possessed with the idea that it was in danger
from a foreign enemy, who might at any moment
land an army on our coast, and threaten the secu-
rity of our capital. Rightly or wrongly, the com-
munity harms possessed with this idea ; and the
some of humiliation and hazard was so intolerable,
that had the Ministers of the Crown demanded
tarty millions instead of thirty as indispereable to
avert the danger, Parliament, we believe, would
have granted it, and the coestitomicies would m
pereal have approved. But this can be no rearm
why, under altered eiretundanose, anything re-
assab/ing the same lavish expenditure should take
place again. Circumstance have very materially
altered for the better during the last twelve
months, and the people are entitled to have the
benefit of the alteration. Our seedy quarrel with
China is at an end ; our ties of amity with
France have been signally and securely multiplied;
the Italian question has advanced towards the
settlement we all desire by steady and successive
raided ; and the most incredulous alarmists of the
old school of diplomacy have been compelled to
cream that the struggles of one great nation for
internal liberty need not involve the rest of
Europe in war. The only two Powers besides
France whose ill-humour upon any aooount would
justify our raising as additional regiment or
putting an additional ship in commission, are
Russia and the United States ; but no some man
will gravely say that we have at the present
moment any cause for uneasiness from either.
Even were it otherwise, a change has come over
the spirit of the nation since Parliament met twelve
months ago, which has wrought an essential change
in its defensive condition. A supplementary army
of defence having been wanted, the people have
invented one, vast in numbers, brilliant in array,
and matchless in morale. Instead of petitioning
Parliament to enrol more regiments of the Line,
to be fed, clothed, housed, and paid at enormous
additional cost, 100,000 of us have enrolled our-
selves, submitted to drill, learned the use of the
rifle, and proved to demonstration that without
pay or punishment a peat army may be forth-
coming to defend the land against egression. We
have never been of these who sought to exaggerate
the importance of the Volunteer movement, nor do
we now believe that it should be suffered to dis-
pense with the creation of a greet Local Militia,
On the contrary,we adhere to the opinion we have
always expressed, that, under the more permanent
form of strictly Lana Militia, the Volunteer move-
ment might be married further than it has yet been
with honour and advantage ; and now that we are
on the eve of gettingrid el that blundering substitute
an Embodied Militia, destitute by its faulty or-
ganization of all the best qualities of the force we
have so earnestly and importunately advocated,
we are not without hopes that during the coming
session we may see a beginning made towards the
establishment of such a force as one of the greet
instillations of the country. We do not believe
that anybody grudges the amount voted hat year
for the Navy ; and if it can be shown that no ,
materiel reduction in that department can be
sigooted during the present year, we do not think
the public will be disposed to parable.
It is dear that to go on spending seventy-two
tailbone annually, in the Naiad of profound peace,
is utterly out of the question. Were an unpropi-
tious turn to come in trade, the thing could not
be done at the instance of any Minister or by the
criminal aid of any Parliament. Well, then, it is