Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-01 00:00:00

not .dependant upon the

went for protection

of not small importance, how far this country is

called upon not only to supply the colonists with
troops, but also to defray the cost of these troops

within their territories. ,It appears by the return

moved for by Colonel SYKES, the Hon. Member for
Aberdeen, that while the taxation upon the inhabit-
ants of the United Kingdom for Army, Navy, and
Ordnance, was as D. per head, Canada, which tells

least for the argument, as it bears a greater propor-

tion of taxation for its own defence, upon the assump-
tion that it contained a population of 2,000,000,
would be as £1 per head for 50, as against £1 per
head here. The military defences -of our colo-

nies cost us £3,000,000 per annum ; to which

they contribute

only • £337,000 per annum

Deducting the cost of such military stations; as
Gibraltar; Malta, the lonian Islands, the Bermudas,
and Ceylon, which was £2,500,000, whilst the sum
contributed is only £220?000, the proportion con-
tinues the same ; our colonies proper paying only one-
tenth of the cost of their own defence. And among

the colonies 'there is a .greater disproportion, of the
distribution of the Imperial expenditure. `1
ADDERLEY observed, that' so absurdly unequal was
this distribution among the colonies 'themselves, that
hp might almost say, as a general rule, those who
ought to pay the least paid the most, and those who
ought to pay the most paid the least.
When, therefore, we .consider that at the present
the whole military force, including militia, which
we have at home, amounts to 11'0,000 men,.,
of which only 35,000 , could 'be brought
into the field for , effective service ; that
we have in India 85,000 European soldiers; indepen-
dent of native troops, subtracting the forces in Malta
and Gibraltar; and other 'purely military stations;
• ,
we have distributable among our colonies proper, all

over the globe, to garrison our vast possessions of
Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand,
only 22,000, men. This is, a force quite inadequate
for their 'defence against any hostilo' aggression ; a
source of no security to thecolonies, in which these

Archaeologists, but by

nerally, has been

chiefly concerned, th

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of the town is evinced by thos
every intellectual and improving subject, rather than by
public generally. , The Society, therefore, had oceasito
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congratulate itself on several account

proceedings was taken by the M

Mayor himself, we find, beih

;hat the city was indebted for

visit of so distinguished and learned a body. A A tong
latory address to the Association was adopted by

Corporation, and duly presented to the Society. I
course of the week, visits were paid to the Castl(

Cathedral, the Deanery, the Fratery, and several object
antiquarian interest in the neighbourhood of the c

Several interesting papers were reau
by Dr. Bruce, on the Roman Wall ; another by 3fla
Hodgson Hinde, on the early history of Cumberlalloi
another by the Rev. W. Monkhouse, on the etymology
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local names in Cumberland ; and a very interesting one
tea
Mr. Joseph Coulthard, on that popular border hero, "ir;ibie
Will," a valiant and distinguished member of thef 11
house of Howard. Altogether, we repeat, the Arohwolog
have had a very great treat, and must have left the off
with many grateful recollections.

during

re clad to s,

large and hi

ghly influential meeting (1
has been held at C°l.'

learn from the So-utltern Rep or; e

for the purpose of extendin,%
the west of that important count)
Skibbereen and Bantry. The immediate object was t
extension
_of the Bandon Railway, which, it seems, lj
hitherto failed .to pay, simply -because the line stoPP

railway communication

at Bandon, and did not penetrate the rich and .protlut
districts lying towards the western seaboard. " The

sent project," it is stated, " supplies the short-coming
former projectors, and will, if 'realised, as it'Ultimately'
be, render the scheme, of railway communication in til

great county perfect. • This undertaking must force it°
upon the attention of capitalists. Its object is the extensie
of railway and' telegraphic communication from Cork i
Skibbereen, Bantry, and the other principal towns in
western part of this county—to its magnificent harbour,'
and its important mineral and agricultural districts." P,
enterprise .of this kind must possess great interest, evett,,i
this country, since it is so eminently calculated to devell
the resources of Ireland; and 'thereby create fresh and'Pr‘w
table markets for English produce, at the same time it in°
increase the Irish supplies,
"It must be anything but agreeable to the Liberals ii
this country," says the Manchester Guardian, "to find o'l
four Liberal members of the House have already beei
unseated for bribery." This candid confession and COls
plaint is very significant. It is honourable to our conteo
porary, we admit, to make So honest an acknowledgment g
Liberal profligacy. tuf it shows that the great fact catin'ni
be denied or glossed over, that the popular Liberalism °i
,
the day is now quite as. much identified with corruption.
was ever, the rankest Toryism of days gone by. Thy
cases refeired to are those of WakeAeld and' Dartmouth'
for each of which places a member has been unseated
on the score of bribery ; and that of Gloucester both t",,
,Liberal members for which have shared the same fate
;
The latter case perliaps,—the worst of all—one of
worst, indeed, of which we have any records in the annul'
of electioneering. An emissary of the London Refn,
Club was sent down to the city With bags of gold,
15:
he distributed with a lavish hand among the humblest do'
of voters, for the purchase of their, votes ; and this pole',
was constrained to state before the Committee that he re'
ceived a note, requiring him to proceed to Gloucester on
infdmous a mission, in Lord John Russell's committee -Wit:
in the City of London ! So that, it is evident, "the great
Liberal party" at head-qUarters had set in motion the Or
chiiiery for bribery and corruption ; throughout the country
at the last general election ; having first, of course,
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vided the necessary funds for the purpose. 'As a contrast
,
to . these: cases, we , may fairly present that of Mr. Asten;
the Conservative member for Ashburton, against whom tu
charge of bribery and corruption was got up, but whiclt,
when it came to be examined, was found to be Utterly de'
void of truth. We do not kno4 that the Liberals hush
actually come to monopolise altogether these corrupt po c
tices at elections ; but, undoubtedly, they now seem to tak
the lead in them everywhere.

We are sorry to learn that the forbearance of the mesh
builders towards their men, which we remarked upon a cit.,
or two since, in this part of our paper, is not, after all/
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be extended so far as to prevent that great calamity
we hoped had been avoided. It is well described by th
Artie& as " one of the greatest calamities which M
befal an industrial nation ; a calamity, tdo, which
fall most heavily on those whose wrong-headedness an
folly are the causes of it." As we have already sh°;
the workmen in the building trade have long bee,
agitating for a reductibn of the hours of labour to nine, 111;
stead of ten hours, on the same wages ; and as the agitawto
have mischievously induced a number of the workraell strike, on this account, the principal firms in the trade hale
at length resolved to close their establishments, rather tbs:
s'abmit to such unwarrantable- dictation. The result

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