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" telling "in its effect. He was cheered loudly, esp a
cially—as an Honourable Member remarked--ley title
with gless3r complimen u"eclared his respect for die
landlords behind him, who lived in 'Cent and the swath
anal well
tularnoerdd
sle'natlenenecresst, d
Minister and his plans. All he wished was to sale-
etittne one statute of George 111. for another;
to make the militia really an efficient force; moveable
from one part of the kingdom to another. It was only*
word—forty-two for fifty-eight. But that word wax
fated to upset the Ministry. The speeches that followed
Divide,
Lord Palmerston's told for nothing. " divide,"
was the muttered interruption from the well filled Tory,
benches; Lord Marcus Hill was industrious, but unsure.
cessful; the Whigs were not at their posts, the bra
rung. and on the desired division—in a House of lei
Members—Lord John was left in a minority of 11.
few hasty words of inquiry, explanation, and rejoinder,
arid then the loud cheers of the Tories told how gladly
they received from the Prime Minister an intimation
that he felt bound to resign. " The last feather breaks
the back of the camel," says the Arab. His last folly
broke down Johu Russell's Cabinea Ile tem-
pered w:tte the patience, reed d the endutanee, and
scorned the e,unsel of. the men who advised :himrisefy, whilstlhey refused to fli7ter his mistakes. 'What
right had he to k,t; for wl:,,n the 07111171
raying many millions is year for niular
Alp#z, and seamen ? 'l'o thei,e pairs 4
r•tu.titit,4l to look for national • d.leric.-I—to -flit,' mighty
.oievt; the paints are
seep, veal the
.good seamen, and the gallantry :het,
thn hour of petit, has ever hren ready and true—to
it
41,-ie'rd in the lest )war and in the,
drilledhov e
s seen
di;ersry ei,cf-etha, officered the men who
many colonies of, Great Britain.. And" if this navy and
near
d
this army are not maple, when
properly siiiiioire
the coast, then the Minister should. have accepted. the
free oiler 0f those tnousands of young meet who prof-
fered their services in the national dcfwuce as members
of rifle corps. But no.
i Lord John Russell would try a
m who woulds' time.onth
militia. The country n the present etete of Europe
wasnot s cure, he thought. At any moment we might b,
in danger, and to stave off what might affect us to-eight
phr6ispalabill y wasbs trocaodiy•gatno h.izegehetne in a
e 0 striplings, few
Fight they doubtless would, and as well as en). raw
muster could do—for they would be Englishmen; but if
the danger said to be in our neighbourhood be real, the
enemy might sack London twice over before local mili-
tiamen could bo ballotted for, enrolled, clad, armed,
drilled, and be made ready for fighting and defeatingea
disciplined invading army. The House saw. The Minis-
ter's ease was weak, and his enemy strong. But he
would have a militia—and he has already got enough of
it. But why was the enemy strong, and why should
Lord Palmerston seek to establish a general militia force
instead of a local one? and, why, on a defeat of such a
character, should a Ministry resign? The Cabinet break-
down was so sudden—so unanticipated—that there is
little time for investigation of circumstances, but on the
first blush of the subject there are certain evident proba-
bilities involved in the affair. To take the last point
filet, it is just possible that Lord John Russell might
prefer a crisis on this subject to ono on the impending
Cape debate, where the feeling might be more unitedly
unfavourable to him than on the subject of militia; and,
left in a minority of eleven, he may offer the " resig-
nation which her Majesty might not think it necessary,
under the circumstances, to accept:. Should this be
so; and should Lord Palmerston not join Lord Derby
in forming a Cabinet, Lord John, coming back to office,
may turn to the Liberals with the exclamation, " If you
do not support me as a party I shall hand the reins to Ma
Tories." Such calculations may have rendered him less
unwilling to meet the event of last night than the world
might imagine. Be this, however, as it may, the Tory
I muster in the House last night to do the work they ef-
fected is explicable upon the knowledge of the fact that
Lord Palmerston and the Peclites were ready to sup-
port any attempt for damaging the Ministry. They
could scarcely have expected how successful they
would be. The tactics of the ex-Foreign Secretary
are clear enough. He will have no local militia—not
for the reasons that urge the Liberals to reject it—but
from a widely different motive. A local militia is, as
Lord John Russell declares, a constitutional force. It
might be called. indeed, a body of armed county special
constables. It is a force raised in a locality to be em-
ployed in that locality, with local prejudices and local
inefficiencies. If good for anything it would be—when
drilled—useful only for local contest. A general militia,
on the other hand, is in truth an addition to the stand-
ing army of a mass of indifferent troops, from which
the line could be recruited—a reservoir from which an
efficient fighting army could be fed. Such was the mi-
litia during the last war—a contest the very naming of.
which points out what Lord Palmersten had in view in
all probability last night. If that long and bloody cot-
test which left the bones of tens of thousands of English-
men to whiten on the fields of Spain, of France, and of
Belgium, and left us millions of debt to cripple our
energies and finance—if that long and sanguinary
story of foreign war teaches anything, it teaches
how fond English Governments have been of
interfering with the business of foreign nations.
We interfered to overthrow a Bonaparte to put up a
Bourbon in his stead, at tho cost of millions sterling, and
from the days of that costly intervention we have ever
had some small job of the sort on hand—Syria, Portu-
gal, Spain—nay, even Lagos to wit. No man more ready
at this work than my Lord Palmerston. No man more
prompt in launching the forces of England against whom-
soever happened to do aught which seemed inimical to,
his " foreign policy." In the presence of the clangs
said to exist from France, with the possibility of Gallia
legions marching upon Savoy or the Rhine. or of the
cliques of the Tuileries seeking, ei kc Brothel. Jonatham,
to annex" Belgium for the glory of nsodernGaul7in
the very presence, we say, of such probabilities in Eu-
rope, what would England be—iu the thought of a man
like Lord Palmerston—without troops available for
foreign intervention? How could England make 'her-
self 'felt without soldiers for service in Flanders. or iu
Portugal, in Hanover, or in Spain? And should the
great misery of war on the Continent arise, our present
English army—even with the English fleet and English
volunteers—would all be needed for the protection of
England herself. We could spare nothing—no' armed
interventions could be tried. On the defensive, and the

defensive atone, must we act; so far as armies were con-

cerned. But were a general militia organized, bow dif-
ferently should we stand! Two hundred thousand _Eng-
lish conscripts would soon have many men forward
enough for drafting into the line; whilst the rest would
be deemed amply sufficient for home defence. Our re-
gulars would cease to be necessary to our home safety.
They, could be sent abroad—if " honour" or " interven •
tion required it. Once across the seas all the former
glory
yod and
drama might be enacted again. England thoroughly
committed to a great fight would fight it out as of old.
gra.
prißonatotlfesEnangdlisgb
dTuhaellylin,e.
awseodulodpw, jnw—onalndd
bpeerfiislhle;dthoepreaggiaminenatsn,dasagain
might
wbeitwh
I:nglish treasure--and another great and " glorious"
feonr from.e mt th he
o oldme
national war be followed by another great and strangling
own i_l 1 tai as b
am
national debt. Let it not be supposed that this is an
view of the question that led to
imaginary
Minis-
terial crash of last night. An organized general militia
means—the capacity for engaging in a foreign war—and
Lord Palmerston, above all men, knows it. And he
know it right well when he talked with such glib in
nocence last night in the "louse of Commons of h;
small difference—the mere word " generafor l" " local"t
—that stood between himself and his late
Lord John Russell. The Whig mini,te colleague,
to office or they may not.
Lord Derby,rs may return
Palmerston, may possibly take office. But
with Lord.
people insist upon being guarded b 'But let the
y their 0
ships and their own tried soldierand Wilgood
them-
selvese to be taxed in pocket 's) not allow
al militia. or in person for either local

EAST KENT ELECTION,
The following were the numbers at the final close of
,hu poll :

Ashford
BRIDGES.
... Canterbury ."... ...
Ramsgate
... Romney •••
..• •••
Sittingbourne... •••

... 291
... 958
... 663
... 199
... 373

j_L 2,484

Ashford DERING.
.•• •.•
Canterbury ... -•
Ramsgate ... ...
Romney
Sittingbourne... •••

---- 2,286

Majority for Bridges ...

... 19S

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Mium.—Accordihg to the circular transmitted
to the Lord-Lieutenants of counties, her " Majesty has been
pleased to recommend that an inspection of the permanent
staff of the militia in Great Britain shall take place at the
earliest possible period." Those gentlemen who may happen
to be unprovided with proper uniform can obtain the same
at moderate cost, and with great promptness, by applying
to Messrs. Nicoll, army clothiers, of Regent-street and Corn-
hill, Nth° are also preparing designs for any fresh corps that
may be formed, when all modern improvements in mihtar.s'
clothing and accoutrements will have attention.—N.B. With
all future orders for the equipment of volunteer rifle club!.
to an official atmo
d' ffimnce-
the members for which, according
raent, may plead an exemption from serving in the militia,
Messrs. I\ icoll respectfully beg to seek timely notice in those
instances where they
may be required to provide rifles made
on the French principle - but where gentlemen merely re-
claire uniform or other clothing,' such may be obtained in any.
quantity with great dispatch and economy; the excellence in
point of material or fit will be sufficiently guaranteed by thn
well-earned reputation of this firm. Competent persons 'will
be sent to any part of the country if a fair amount of o rdera
be insured, on application at 114, 116, 118, and 120, Re,gent -
street, or 22, Cornhill.
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VERDICT IN THE CASE 01 THE HAMILLA Mire
CHIC LL.—Yesterday-, Mr. Bedford resumed and concluded the
protracted inquiry at the Marquis of Westminster, Be'grave.
road, Pimlico, OR the body of William Ward, aged 23, one of
the crew of the Hamilla Mitchell, of Glasgow, trading 13.^
tween Hartlepool and Hong-Kong, three others of whom it
was reported had died from want of sufficient food and at-
tendance, and a want of lime juice and vinegar when they
were attacked with scurvy. The evidence having been
summed up by the coroner. the ju consulted for about half-
an-hour, and then returned the following verdict :—" We
find a verdict of manslaughter against Captain William
Holmes. We think also that the evidence of the officers o(
the ship is not to be relied on, and that they did not NUT d
their duty."