Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-28 00:00:00

shower combined, are very superior. The baths in
the Workhouse want extending and using. These re-
marks are made to invite the ratepayers to inspect the
Workhouse. Ido not consider that there is any wish
to have the whole scrutinised, although a willingness
is assumed. Much objection is shown to any question
being put to the poor, as though they were convicted
felons. The governor is quite adverse to any change
from the iron-mill grinding system, and appeared to me
to taaoify and anticipate difficulties, in trying to intro-
duce work in mat and matting manufacturing, which
the governors of prisons make to pay so well, and to
work a reformation on the hands employed 'without
interfering with the market. In a workhouse, con-
taining 2,000 inmates, and large " schools ef indus-
try" belonging to the workhouse, two miles dis-
tant, some hands light wort at mat making. Is
it not worth while for a descendant of the honoured
philanthropist and skilful deviser for the poor and
outcast, James mapper, to use his influence to sub-
stitute, for the present opprevsion and loss, a progressive
training to all profitable labour, and its attendant
virtues, in his 'responsible station as chairman of the
board? Resolution will 'be requisite it the board to
reform any grievances that may be oppresiive to the poor.
I am an entire strangerto all contractors and officials,
and it is alone on the score of humanity and justice, as
a:Christian man, I now press on, your serious attention
the foregoing comments, and thank.the public press for
bringing to 'the light of day a system of long-standing
oppression.--Yours, &c.,

JOSEPH ROWNTREE,
Post-office, Liverpool., 11th mouth 26,11859.

VOLUNTEER CAVALRY FOR LIVERPOOL

TO THE EDITORCOP THE NORTHERN DAILY TIME,

Slll,---1 have no intention of troubling you with any
remarks on the allied of volunteering generally, be-
cause it is now a settled point that we ought to have
such a means of defence permanently organised, and
constantly drilled.; neither do I propose to offer any
observations on the various forms in which the patriotic
spirit has already been developed, and practically mani-
fested, in and around Liverpool. So far. as they go,
they are welt—very well indeed; and they sufficiently
prove, that the peOple here, as elswhore, are now alive
to the importance of the movement. But while we
have Rifle and Artillery Volunteers, allow me seriously
to esk why we have not a Volunteer Cavalry Corps,
such as may be found in many other parts of
the United Kingdom, where there are fewer fa-
cilities for its organisation, and, perhaps, less chance
of its ever being so effective. I know of no place
capable of turning oat a finer array of Volunteer
Cavalry than Liverpool. Our merchant princes, our
lawyers, bankers, and many private gentlemen not
directly engaged in business, possess some of the finest
horses in the world; and I feel assured that many of
them only require an opportunity to step forward and
be enrolled. Mounted on such a fine set of animals as
Liverpool could of itself easily furnish, and in an
elegant uniform—more superb, of course, than is at all
required for the Rifle Corps—what a fine sight would be
presented to the eye by the Liverpool Volunteer
Cavalry Corps. 'But the merely spectacular glory of the
thing is as nothing compared with the valuable benefit
that the existence of such a body, as it appears to me,
would confer on this part of the country, in strengthen-
ing our great volunteer system of defence. If any one
who has not reflected on this subject, is disposed to
question the necessity for such an addition to the present
patriotic efforts, let me say to him, that if the cavalry
arm of the regular service is essential to its effective
operation—and who can doubt it ?—why should it not
be held equally necessary to the proper development of
the volunteer organisation ? Or rather I should ask is
it not even more requisite to the efficiency of the
"irregulars" than of the "regulars," if their services
ever happen to be required in action ? I think a
moment's reflection will shew that it is so. Then
again, sir, considering the possibility of an invading foe
suddenly landing on a part of our coast, at some distance
from the head quarters of our infantry volunteers, with
what instant effect our cavalry volunteers could be brought
into action, owing to the great celerity of their motions
as mounted men ? Were it for no other reason than
that they might thus promptly meet the enemy when-
ever they appeared, and to some extent keep them at
bay, or check their too rapid progress into the interior,
until the infantry and artillery could be brought to bear
upon them, I think that og itself were sufficient to
establish the propriety of immediate, steps being taken
to get up a local cavalry corps. If the volunteer
movement is to be worth anything as a system of
national defence, it can only be so by making it as
perfect as possible in every arm of the service. And let
me add that, while I, with all true patriots, sincerely
hope that none of our volunteer military preparations will
ever be called into real strife, the best and most reliable
mode of preventing that awful catastrophe, is to be well
prepared to meet it, and I submit that, without cavalry,
we are deficient in one of the most important elements
that ought to form a part of that necessary preparation.
I must not, however, encroach further; and, trusting
that this may meet the eye of the proper man for
carrying this suggestion into immediate effect by a
spirited effort in the right direction,—l am, &c.,
Liverpool, Nov. 26, 1859. W. M,