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London, England, 1857-09-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9.

IT is an old story that extent of territory and
population is no measure of the strength of empires.
Energy, courage, intelligence, and patriotism more
than supply the lack of numbers, and conquered
millions are found succumbing through the whole

course of hiatory to the superior rigour of conquering
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thousands. We all know this, and yet who a there
who has not within the last few weeks, at times, ax.

perieneed a momentary misgiving when comparing
the territory and population of these Imperial iamb
with the territory and population of the
rut dominions over which they hold away?
It is almost impossible to repress a transient feeling
that the strain is too great for the strength ; that
the native population of Great Britain, actively en-
grossed as it is in the pursuits of industry and the
creation of wealth, can never in itself supply a suffi-
ciently powerful force of home-bred warriors, at
once to keep Europe in check and the British empire
in subjection. That it is the bounden duty of
English statesmen to provide for both objects at
once ; that while engaged in re-conquering India
in the East, we must maintain at home as

army and a fleet capable not only of re-
pelling every attack, but of daunting every
menace that may threaten as in the West—is a truth
which the ministry of Lord PALIMILsTOS can, we
trust and believe, be in no danger of forgetting. It

is no light struggle in which we have embarked in 1,
the East. Oa the continent of Farine we have few
Mends. Steam has deprived us of half our island i
safety. Our nearest neighbour is the inscrutable ad-
venturer who, having inaugurated' a great war by
proclaiming that the " Empire meant Peace," has
now, not probably without meaning, introduced a
new gloss on the famous phrase, and told us in the
high Roman style, that Peace means " a prepam
tion for war." Obviously, no English Minister can
in such a time as this dare to leave this country
unprovided with the amplest means of defence.
Fifty thousand British troops at the very least are
required to re-establish and consolidate our Indi►n
empire. Be it eis. Let not a moment be unneces-
sarily lost in sending them there. But we want
here another army to supply their place. The whole
of the Militia ought to be embodied without further
delay, and the most active and efficient recruiting
be carried on for the line.
Bat will the population respond to the call P
Can you in this manifuldly active country procure
by free enlistment, and without an absolutely
ruinous cost, the number of men you require thus
suddenly to replace the army which India has ab-
sorbed? Then is no doubt you can. The affirma-
tive answer is already being given by the irrefrag-
able elaquatee of fact.. Recruiting is going on most

prosperonaly; the spirit of the country is thoroughly
wound The fiendish atrocity of the Sepoy is quite
another cry from the insolent aggression of the
CZAR. The one is a cry for the people, the other
was a cry for the Statesmen ; out of official circles it
was hard to get up much sympathy for an insulted
and dismembered Turkey; bat every cottage
throughout the land burns with rage for the English
women who have been ravished and hewn to pieces;
Ilor the English children who have been tossed into
the air and caught on the bayonets and swordpoints
of the Bengal mutineers. These things are mare
potent with a people than the economists are
apt to allow. Wrath and desire of a just vengeance
are far more powerful recruiting officers than any
increased bounties, where the hearts of men:are only
half earnest in a cause.

But the cue does not rest on such consi-
derations as these. One proof that the British
population is mare than suilkient to supply all the
military force that can be needed for the defence
and support of the British empire, shall be taken
from a few simple figures supplied by the Emigra-
tion Commissioners. Very remarkable Braes in-

deed they are. Have our non-statistical readers
formed anything like an approximatee estimate of
the migratory swarms thrown off by these islands in
the last 40 years to all portions of the habitable
globe ? Between the first of January, 1815, and the
31st of December, 1836, the emigration from this
country amounted to 4,41'0,319 souls; more extraor-
dinary still, of this mat number more than 2,798,163
emigrated in tAa last tea years. 'The grand
climacteric of this migratory period was
reached in 1852, when no less than 368,764
human beings, 81 per cent. of whom were Irish,
left the shores of the nsothetrrntry. Well, but,
it may be said, admitting these figures, how do they
make oat the point r to the sufficiency of Great
Britain for military self-defence? The more obvious
conclusion would seem to be, that our powers of self-
defence have been weakened by so great a drain. The
obvious conclusion in this, as in so many other cases,
is not the correct one. A very great proportion
of this emigrant population consists of those
who, in the maturity of their physical
powers, seek a home elsewhere from lack
of remunerative employment here. Let such
employment here be found, and the drain is at
once arrested. This was remarkably shown in the
war years of 1855 and 1856, when, =icily from the
demand for employment which the war occasioned
the emigration dropped from upwards of 323,000 i•
18.34 to about 176,000 in 1835, and the same in
1856. What do these figures show? Clearly this:
that any war, but especially any popular war, can in
the present state of this country command, from a
mere stoppage in the current stream of emigration, •
far greeter annual supply than is requisite for
the maintenance of such • force by sea and'
land as is fully adequate foe all the exigencies of
`• time. The Emigration which has hitherto gone