Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-07 00:00:00

SOLDIERS BY MEASURE.

Soldiers are wanted by thousands, " for Christian eet%i
vice r_ad true chivalry,' to fill the ranks of an army tilog%
shall revenge swiftly and surely atrocious outrages °v„ie-
rnitted on English women and Euglishohildren. 'Yet 'of
cruiting goes on but slowly, considering the urgency,
our need and the load cry for vengeance on the Inulf
miscreants that resou ds through the land. Airea of
su,tgestions are being male for auttmenting the number„or
recruits. and one practical hint from a recruiting 00,
(The Times, Sept 39:h) especially claims aidentie„,
During my service," he wrires, " I have posserl4.
many hundreds of fine, sturdy fellows as unfit to serv° nc
Majesty because Nature had denied them in length viwn'y
she had bountifully.- given theta in strength of limb. 31574
a time have I seena stout, broad-shouldered lad go 3,l—if
disappointed, and. envying the good fortune of his lan•
comrade, the former being worth a dozen of the latter'„
Tne absurdity: of the present system of seleetiP;,
soldiers by height, and making a regiment consist of
00,
;!many feet of human nature—long measure—cannot be tn,t,
forcibly condemned. Tee physical q taliacations of a gtii,
soldier do not alone consist in his length of leg, by wh`,3s.
height is principally made up. Those trenaendous
who " dazzle the eyes and bewilder the brain" of asPir'"ol
housemaids, and who look like the evening shadows_acl.
somebody else, are not always proportionally endOw"
with strength.
We earnestly trust that the necess:ty of allavrf,ag
n.
a far larger discretionary power to surgeons el-.3:ey
int: recruits will soon. be admitted, that L ,113ii'est
may take into considera!ion the weight, the clot
measurement, and the cl.velopment of adult volunteers: bt•
these are. often of more importance than mere belga
It might he that thus we should obtain regiments in °ea ;
service of less awful aspect, but it remains to be prove
that they would be less efficacious. Oae of the greatest
of modern warfare was actmoaplished by that troop ofs,-ofr
dy mannikins knows as the Chasseur de Vincennes. ltg.
they swarmed like bees up apparently inaccessible height
and fought like heroes at the sun nit, is a well.remembervet
incident in the Crimean campaign. Tna exercise
bravery, the physical working out of personal tour e.
requires certain corporeal endowments which only PhYsist
logical knowledge can aocurately guage. Ye this is aside, and the soldier is measured by a standard abou', oi," °-
reasonable and inex)rable as the bed employed by 'ill*
crustes to insure the uniformity amongst his guests,'"
Lancet.

At LEWIS & 031? A NY'S, Ranelagh-street,
BUTS are CLOTHED from the Ages of Six to Treaty YeSt

PErtstAx CRA FT% -Th 3 Bushire correspondent of vtli°
Bombay Times, writing on the 25th of July, says
ports nad reached Teheran that we were in a fis in Inh-O-rt
and required the best of our tr,-,,ps from this; to 'd-0f
they had most exaggerate" stories of the Bengal MU:A- A 4
and the China war. The truth, is, the Persians can %lied
far as we can into a mill stone. They have ou'-gerier. err
us with the treaty ; no one who knows them hereref it
placed any hope or emfilence in their observant° °toP
further than suitA their purpnse. So long as We 11,01
here, spending thou-ands of rupees monthly at mo3', yr
do not want us to leave. The Shah says th it his fivP",,(l
will not give up Herat ; he has kilted' the mcs]engerPye
threatens to kill any others that are sent to him. Ofe°`tr
-to
he will not give it up. We ought to assist the 6.311 for
turn him out now ! It would suit the S:aah's purViie
us to march up via Shiraz, to do this; we are his frieoo
and would not now stir up the emntry and the cad'
tribes against him, but we would keep 11
them down is
spend plenty of money—the very thing the Shah "
done."

At LEWIS lk COMPANY'S, Ranelagh-stroet.
ROTS Are CLOTHED from the Arm of Six to Twenty *"'"