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LONDON, WIDNZIDAY, SEPT. 23.

P.XOII-011:0 bristles with lack Stories." 1 ook
where you will at those organs of public opinion
which, in the present dispersion of the British Legis-
lature. ars the true and only representatives of the
British people. and you will see everywhere the
lame story. The youth of the middle classes are
astir hem one end of the empire to the other. They
want no bounty, they desire no favour, they simply
ask to ►e allowed to light the battles of their coun-
try. Free tranniort to the seat of war, a soldier's
subsistence when they get there, is the petitionary

prayer olf stalwart thousands, the flower aid
strength of the empire, the Weal and the bravest in
the land. lust gimice at the letters which are now
crowding the columns of the press, and klum from
them the temper of the youth of these kingdoms.

" I have no influence," writes one, " to obtain a corn-
" 02641011, and for lack of means cannot purchase ono

N nor pay my passage to India. I do not feel inclined
" to enlist in the ranks, and after several years' hard
" service to be promoted to the dignity of a sergeant
" major. lam one of hundreds who arc willing to
" place themselves at the disposal of the Govern-
" went. without bounty beforehand or the promise
" of gratification afterwards, if it will only give 1.3.1
-.. . . .

active eervice. a fair chance of cliatinguih ing our-

*elves. and pPonotion accordiuy to ow;rit." 7* The

" duo I allude to,- writes another, " are young men
" in the middle tank of life, of good education, but
" with insane and desires falling short of those re-
" quired for spending a lifetime in the army."

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" They want nothing hut to have sufficient means
" allowed thaw, daring their temporary absence from
" the country, of maintaining themselves without
" detriment to their present position, and with the
_ . . . .

" promise of honourable dismissal , after their deeds
"of valour have been accomplished." " Let the
" bounty remain for the present," writes a third,
" and let the nation, if it is in want of troops for
active service, 0(1114 the ojera if the frilling:.
Can patriotism possibly utter a nobler, a sincerer, or
more touching appeal ?
What is the response of Authority ? It is the old
heart-wearying story of official formalism and chill-
ing rejection. "Letters scr.t to the War-office,"
says one of the writers referred to, " are of no avail
"if offering service. I myself received an answer
" this morning, that Government had no occasion
" for my minims; and I am only one of a legion who
" receive the same answer for want of influence at

" the Hone Onsrda." And yet these same Autho-
rities find at this very time so much difficulty in filling
the ranks of the Line that they are being feat driven
upon the expedients of at once wasting the resources
of the nation by increasing the scale of the bounty,
and humbling its pride by inviting the aid of alien
mercenaries. Surely there must be at last a limit
_ . . .

to the patient endurance of such suicidal folly as
this. Surely Lord PILNERIrros, who ham never been
slow to appreciate the signs of the times and the feel-
ing of the people, mast see that the hour has come for
interfering with the high hand—for insisting that
some immediate step be taken towards enlisting, in the
military service of the country, the generous ardour
of the most valuable military class of the community.
We are told that a commencement has already been
made—that the services of some 600 volunteers from
Sheffield have been already accepted. We trust it
may be so, but the isolated acceptance of isolated
offers is no adequate return to the general feeling of
the country. We want a collective act, an authori-
tative public declaration that Government is pre-
pared, on conditions specified, to accept tenders of
voluntary service in the East. The pretext that
such a declaration would interfere with recruiting
for the Line is utterly untenable; for those who would
alone be affected by it are precisely the clan with
whom the Recruiting Sergeant never by any chance
comes into contact, and never will.
It is very instructive to note the manner in which
enlistment in the Line is spoken of, not only by the
volunteers thernselees, but by those whose function
it is to give a summary of their case, " They are of a
" rank," rays the Time., " which would not permit
" them to enlist as common soldiers." " They
" would be quite content with any admission into the
0 army that slid out socially siegrad• Mem." What a
truth, but whit a satire! la it possible that our
contemporary does not see in this state of thine the
most (occlusive condemnation of the present
system of managing the British Army ? It is come
to this, that the youth of the middle and lower
middling ranks throughout the country cannot
enlist in the ranks of that Army without " social
" degradation." Such are the results of that System'
which has nothing to refuse to money, nothing to
grant except to money ; which draws a golf pcacti-
ally
inipamable between the Ranks and the Mesa.
room, and prefers a force composed of patricians'
who rite by the purse, and proletarians who never
rise at all, to a noble and national institution
which reflects every phase of the Society it is estab-
lished to &feud, where all ranks find a place, where
every avenue to advancement is thrown open, and the
highest honours are within the reach of the highest
desert.

Of all the strongholds of Routine this Pur-
chase System in the Army is the one that
will be defended the most obstinately. The Fits-
%admixes arc entrenched there in force, and they
will hold their owe to the last drop and the last
pap. Rut it will have to go nevertheless. There
sre mutineers in the camp. Some of the best and
►bled of those trained up in the System itself h►ve
turned against it. Like other fictions and follies of
the past, like the Rotten Boroughs and the Bread
Tax, it carries its doom within it—the doom
inevitable to every human institution that is
opposed to Justice and to Reason, to the growth
of Society and the ureds of the Time. It bu got

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thss far already : it has rendered it imperials for the
moat valuable amain the British community to enlist
in the ranks of the British Army without incurring
what the most widely circulated of British journals
not untruly characterises as "social degradation:*
It is impossible to go far beyond that ; • Sys-
tem which has brought mitten to that pass is
System which stands self-condemned. But the ex-
posure and ultimate annihilation of the Purchase
System is • work for the future ; the priming object
fir the present is to enforce upon the War-office and
the House Guards the imperative duty of devising
. •

soma speedy means of utilising, for the public ea-
vim, the military ardour of the middle classes in the
present emergency. What the Authorities have to do
is to declare their readiness to accept the free " offers
of the willing, instead of subsidising by increased
bounties the services of the reluctant, or going
beyond the limits of the United Kingdom to find
Mercenaries, when within those limits they can
raise, at ler ant, an array of Volunteers.

Wo see with regret the announcement, by sub-
marine telegraph, of the death of M. Mania, the
heroic defender of Venice, one of the most single-
minded, devoted, and resolute men whom the great
struggle of 1848 called forth u a champion of Italy
against Austria.

BALMORAL, iVrT 11.

The Owen, the Prince Consort, and the Princess
Royal attended Direst Service .t the l'ariah Church of
Creole s, yesterday.
Lady Churchill, the Hoe. Flora Hardee.td, Fad Gran.
vine. Idepor-Ciesseed the Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel
the Hoe. C. B. P►ippy were in attrndan, e upon her
Ilajesty.
The suelce was performed ►y dr Re►. John Stuart.

Viscountess Jocelyn will shortly leave St. Leo-
adoon-nos, to join Lady Palmerston at Bruerlianda,

7
e regret to announce the demise of the infant
eon of Viscount and Viocountro Milton, which took place
at Woolworth Wodhouso on thounioy lost_

•
Baron and Baroness Lionel do Rothschild will
return to Gannett/cry on Friday neat, from Scotland.

Major the Hon. Alexander Fraser, of the Scots
Fusilier Garda. mosed SOIL of Lord Loral, is about to wry
the &aghast of Mr. 0. F. Message, M.P. for Lincoln.
Lead Otsego asd Lady AdeliLa Manners have left
the Dahl of Ralliad's shooting-boa in Derbyshire for
Cheri* Perk, are Newmarket.
Aimapt the distinguished visitors at Manchester
an Priam George of Fronds (second eon of Prince Fie lerkk,
a brother of Fredrick William 111., the late King of
Prussia), with his side-drcerep, the Coates Perponobir
end Lelandorff, and suite, who s isited the Exhibition yes-
Matey.
Lord Ward has presented the Rev. David Mel-
ville, ILA, honorary noon of Worcester Cathedral, and
rector of Ithelaley Beenshemp, near Worcester, to the rec-
tory of Great Withy, seer Mearport, rendered recant by
the death of the Rev. flows Peaseres, M.A. Me tr.:Amy
of fatiekhry, which thee became meant, Is In the gift of
Ina Wird, and I. worth SOW, a yes,.
. .

Galigoisni sap the F.arl of Clarendon has arrived
in Paris for a share visit to his Camay, Lady Clarendon hav-
ing Imes lows kw some time put.
His Excellency the French Ambassador and the
Carsten as Perim are expected in tow o, from Pure, on
astarday aid. Than excellencies will shortly go to lit
Lammors-on•See fir about six weeks.

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His Excellency the Brazilian Minister arrived yes-
trday at the rosidunc• of the Legalism at Cavendishmquare,
Ikon a taw in Gersisay, and will resume his official duties at
this mod much meow then was anticipated. Madame do C.
Menke bee net accecapsaisd his excellency, and • ill, it la
torlsolsol, roam her effeisr on the Continent.
The Edinburgh Courant says:—" Lest week,
wham lobo M'Kenzia, Esq., and party, were returning in
• des-amt fice• a shooting excursion in the neighbou-hood
of Peablee—Xr. MiXamie driving —the horse, a line spirited
animal, teak fright at the sudden spring made by • goat to
the Sep elf a Mee on one side of the road, sod, darting in-
stantly be the opposite ride, leapt over a low wall, relessing
tWf tram the hernias and leaving the vehicle behind. Mr.
Witexis and one of MX friends were ejected from the can-
. . . . . .

wrysees,— bat b-e;Ond tlii with the aeinial dightly bruised
and s damaged deipeart, astkiag various cam tad."
Tan INDIAN RELIEF Ft:NlL—The Moniteur of
yesawasy states that • saliseriptka in (*tour of the English
Omaha victims of the Indian insurrection, has jest bean
opened model the saspices of the Prefect of the Seine in the
orryaraltics of the arroadiswanents of Paris, and of the com-
munes of the srnindiesements of &Asia sad St. Denis.
According to a letter from Berlin, Sir Culling
Esidley, bead of the English deputies In the Evangelical
Congters, had suddenly fats enviously ill.

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I EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1857.