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Did I manifest anxiety and concern at losing the train ?
A very great deal.

Did I request you to take me to a good telegraph office ?
—Yes, you said to a respectable telegraph office, and I
said Charing-cross was central and would be the most pro-
per place.
Did you drive me to Charing-cross ?—Yes.
Did I go into the office and stand at the counter to send
a message ?—Yee, and I supposed to write one.
was I not in conversation with a clerk at the office for
some time ?—Yes.

What is the distance from Chester-square to the station?
—lt exceeds two miles. 1 cannot say how long I was
waiting at Chester-square. I cannot exactly say. It
might have been 10 or 12 minutes. I was first engaged at
116, Piccadilly. The distance from Picv.dilly to Chester-
square is about a mile. Chester-Fquare does not lay in the
direction between Piccadilly and Waterloo Station.
Captain Sir F. M'Clintock—What train did you miss

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Captain Sir F. 11PClintock—Did you ask if there was a
later one to Portsmouth that night ?
Witness—Yes, but we found that was the last either by
the South Coast or South Western.

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South Western Railway Company, at Waterloo Station,
said—Prisoner came to the station in a cab on Saturday
evening, Oct. 29. There was 35 minutes to spare. He went
away and returned just as the train was going out. He left
his luggage with me for the 8.30 train.
By Captain Sherard Osborn—The prisoner missed the
8.30 train. He took his luggage away from the station.

By Prisoner--I believe it was only a carpet bag and hat
box. I cannot say for certain.
By Count Gliechen—The 8.30 train is the last train from
Waterloo to Portsmouth,

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P
echo in the breast of each ine4eithattaft*4'cli
individual man is ready to leap-iqo'his
he may discharge the duties belenginglo a Stizen
of his country, without command, without coercion,
from the free spontaneous impulse of his own mind
and heart. (Cheers.) And therefore, gentlemen, the
volunteer force of England is not merely an addi-
tion to the defensive power of the country. It is
most important as an addition to the defensive power
of the country. There is not a military man who will
not echo that sentiment, or who will undervglue for
a moment the strength, the new strength that it has
contributed to the nation for every purpose of legi-
timate defence, and fir no purpose of illegitimate
aggression.;:, Bat besides all this, it is something
yet more than this., it is an emphatic expression of
the national character—a remarkable result of the
character and working of British insti.utions.
(Cheers.) Well, how great the question is, nnd
question is one of very great interest-1,3 this Vo-
lunteer power to be permanent ? Is it an el:02( meral

By the President—What trains run on Sunday ?
Witness—Trains leave at 9.15, 10.15, 5, and 8.30.
The Court then cleared, and remained in deliberation
upwards of one hour, when it re-opened.
The officiating Judge Advocate read the charges and the
determination c,f the Court. The Court having heard the
circumstances under which the prisoner broke his word of
honour, found the second charge proved, and did for the
offences admitted and proved adjudge prisoner to ba dis-
missed from her Majesty's service.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and the

Volunteers.

Yesterday being the Eve of St. Martin, the 13th
and 14th companies of the Queen's (Westminster)

Volunteers, comprising the St Martin's Division,
assembled at the Freemasons' Tavern for their an-
nual festival. The Chancellor of the Exch( quer

was present, and presided on the occasion. At the
back of the right hon. gentleman were placed the
colours of the St Martins Division of thre old West-
minster Volunteers, which had been for many years

production of momentary public emotion, or is it to
be cdded in fact and in the page of Ili,tory, as it h,; s
been in the breasts of our public essc.mbiics, to the
iostitutioni, of the country ? When we spec.,/: of toe
institutions of Euglna, we spcak, thank God ! ci
something not transitory, but durable; and what we
wish to know is whether this Volunteer power is to

iii the custody of Capt. Irving, and were by that
gentleman formally presented to the division about
two years since, and they are now the recognised
colours of the St Martin's Corps. About 150 mem-

hers of the corps and their friends sat down to a
very substantial supper, and after the cloth was re-
moved, and the ordinary toasts had been duly ho-

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take its place among those durable institutions. Now
I venture humbly to say, in the first place, that it is
desirable it should—and, in the second place, wo
may with reasonable confidence trust and reckon
that it will. (Cheers.) It is desirable, I say first,
that the Volunteer power should take its place
among the durable and permanent institu-
tions of the country, and it is so for many rea-
sons. It is desirable for our defence, for I confess
that that not beicg one of those who have shared in
the alarm which has passed over the public mind,
yet, notwithstanding, 1 cannot fait to recognise, as
every Englishman must do, the absolute necessity
of maintaining, if need be, with a high and strong
hand, at all times and under all circumstances, the
independence and the just and legitimate influence
of the country. (Cheers.) The more we are able
to use, in the spirit of that independence, the
means which are essential and necessarily defensive
means, the sounder and more secure our position
will be. But, then, the profession of arms is one of
those professions with regard to which the most
loyal of those who follow it must always hope that
the occasions for its active exercise may be few and
far between. And, therefore, we must try the
Volunteer force likewise by some other test over
and above those of the uses we should expect
from it in case of the last necessity. Looking to the
Volunteer force as a part of the pacific apparatus
of this country, as belonging to the ordinary course
of peaceful English life, I rejoice in its existence :
for, in the first place, what attractions does it give
to the minds of the young P At the time when the
blood is warm and courses rapidly through the
veins, and when the movements and enjoyments.
excitements, in one form or another, all commend
themselves to the man, the Volunteer force presents
to the youthful mind high objects, high motives,
and disinterested ends, and enables them to asso-
ciate their own recreation with that es hick is useful
to their country and mankind. (Cheers.) Well,
then, gentlemen, we are also a great commercial
country, we are a great money-making country, a
great mechanical country, and I hope we shall
always be. (Cheers.) I certainly am net here to
disparage those gifts of Englishmen which I think
lie at the very root of the English character, crud
which I think lie at the foundation,combined with the
spirit of the nation, both of our success in war and of
our prosperity and happiness in times of peace.
But, at the same time, I think it is well that when
we tie ourselves to the pursuits of the desk we
should not forget altogether our corporeal existence,
and that active exercise in every shape should con-
tinue to be among the distinguishing marks of
Englishmen; and therefore that you—especially
not engaged in the heart of this huge end almost
unmeasured metropolis—should have these manly
exercises presented to you, is, in my opinion, au
object of the greatest value, as it is one which you
have shown }'ourselves worthy to forward and ap-
preciate. Aed it is remarkable that in our greet
towns and our more populous districts particularly
—I say nothing in disparagement of the rest of the
country, for I think the Volunteer movement hes
spread over the whole of the country—but nowhere
has it been welcomed with greater warmth end
enthusiasm than in those great towns and cites
where undoubtedly it was most desirable it should
be so incoived by way of compensation to we at I
may call our sedentary pursuits. (Cheers.) There
ie, however, ono cf the points connected pith this
movement to which I do not know whether I have
before referred in this room cr not, but I feel so
strongly upon it that I will venture to mention it
again. It is this—Until the Volunteer force came
into existence there was one special gap and one
special defect in the military institutions of the
country. We had an incomparable army and navy.
I hope in this assembly we may call them incompar-
able without disparagement to the army and navy of
any other country. We had an admirable army and
Inavy, composed of officers and men. The officers
were taken, speaking generally, almost uniformly
from the upper classes, and the men from the lower
classes of society. lam not going to set up against
the upper or against the lower class, or any other
class of society; but still I do maintain that bee
tween those two classes of society there is a class
which is of considerable importance termed the
middle classes of society. (Cheers.) That middle
class of society has, like every other class, its merits
and its faults. But it is a class of very great weight
and very great consequence is every well regulated
country. In point of fact, if you go into any ill
ordered country you will generally find it has not
a good sound middle class; and if, on the other
hand, you go into a well ordered country, you will
find there is a strong middle class. In fact, the
middle classis in a very great degree the cement
between the upper and lower classes. (Cheers.)
Until the Volunteer force came into existence an
Englishman of the middle class, possessed of politi-
cal power, and wanting in none of the gifts and
qualities which belonged to the other classes, had,
I may say, speaking generally, no opportunity of
exhibiting his desire for, and contributing
his fair share to, the defences of his country.
(Cheers.) 1 hold it to be a great permanent, na-
tional, and social gain that the creation of the Vo-
lunteer force has united as it has done in perfect
harmony every class from the highest aristocracy of
the land, which you see at the head of some of your
metropolitan regiments, and the honest, laborious,
industrious, ingenious mechanic, who has contributed
so large a share towards making England what it
is. The Volunteer force has brought all these to-
gether into one well-commanded body ; it has sup-
plied the lack and defect which existed before, and.
has added a new social bond as well as a new mili.
tug defence to the institutions of this country.
(Cheers.) Well, now, gentlemen, I believe that your
indulgence is very laudable, but at the same time,
though perhaps you will think I am not in a condi•
tion to say so, there is such a thing as modesty and
decency in determining the length even of an after.
dinner speech. (Laughter.) I have said quite enough
on this matter, but what 1 have said I have spoken.
with entire sincerity and undoubted conviction, and
I believe it to be more desirable that the Volunteer
services should become a permanent institution.
I believe also that every reasonable ground justifies
us in the anticipation that that is the position which
the Volunteer force has now in substance already
assumed. There is no sentiment of alarm in the
public mind at the present moment. A peaceful
consciousness of strength pervades the country,
with an increased desire to cultivate friendly rela-
tions with every nation of the globe, and an in-
creasing belief that these pacific sentiments which
govern in our own country are growing in other
countries not our own, and an increasing sense of
the innumerable benefits that attend upon the
peaceful intercourse of nations, and the innumerable
miseries that attend upon their conflict and collision
in arms ; but with that pacific sentiment pervading
the country, with that stable and confident expcca
nation of continued tranquillity, notwithstanding
we eee that the Volunteer force flourishes
still--flourishes by its own merits, flourishes rest-
ing upon your conviction of its utility—and, there-
fore, I think we are justified in saying that, founded
as it is upon the loyalty and patriotism of Eeglish-
men, and upon the reasonableness and useful less of
its own character, we may, along with the ardent
wish, give utterance to the sanguine anticipation
that it is destined both to take and keep its place
among the permanent institutions of our country.
The right hon. gentleman concluded by proposing
the toast of " The Army, Navy, and. Volunteers,"
which was drunk with great cheering.
Colonel WOOD acknowledged the toast on behalf
of the Navy.
Col. M‘MunDO replied on behalf of the Army and
Volunteers.
Several other toasts of a complimentary character
were proposed in the course of the evening, including
" The Health of the Right Hon. Chairman," which
was appropriately acknowledged by Mr Gladstone.

noured,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said—l
now rise to propose to you a toast which is familiar
to every convivial assembly of Englishmen, but
which is peculiarly significant on the present occa-
sion, inasmuch as this is a meeting fairly sustained
by members of the Volunteer force. The toast
which I shall propose to you is " The Army, Navy,
and Volunteers of England." Now, gentlemen,
with respect to the navy and army of England it is

not requisite that I should say much, because the
history of those illustrious services forms an inse■
parable part of the history of our:country, and it is
written, I may say, not only in the pages of our
literature, but upon the hearts of Eaglishmen.
There has been no y cried, there has been no combi-
nation of circumstances, in all the vicissitudes of
human tffAirs, when we had had cccobion to cAll

upon the navy and army of England for the defence

of our shores and homes, wii‘,:n those services
have not answered the call in a manner
to secure to them the gratitude of the country
and the admiration of the world. (Cheers.) These
things, gentlemen, not only are truths, but they
have become truisms and commonplaces—and
therefore there is no wish that we require to r
x.-
press, no hope that we need to form on the part
of the navy and the army of England except this
—that amid all the changes which modern science
may introduce, amid all the external mutations
which the forms of warfare and the instruments of
warfare may undergo, the spirit by which these
forces are animated may remain one and the same,
and the army and the navy, or the navy and the
army, of England may be in times to come what
they have been in times which are gone by. (Cheers)
But, gentlemen, the toast which is now upon my
lips deals likewise with a younger force—a force
named the Volunteers of England—and that is a
force which is still, in one sense, in its infancy—
but I think I may say with truth that if an infant,
it is an infant Hercules. (Cheers.) It is no small
honour for the Volunteer force of England that,
by a spontaneous process, exciting no jealousy on
the part of the older services, which perfectly well
comprehended the harmonious relations subsisting
between them and the Volunteers, yet, notwith-
standing, with little aid from the funds of the
State, and mainly dependent upon those resources
which individual character affords, the Volunteer
torce—the offspring, as it has been of the indivi-
dual will of Englishmen, and the spirit of liberty
and patriotism which pervades the nation—has
within the last few years attained not only to such
material magnitude, but to such moral power, that
in every banquet where we meet together it is
associated with the ancient and glorious army and
navy of our country. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen
this is a fact of no small significance—that a body
which numbers some 160,000 or 170,000 men should
have sprung into existence as rapidly as if it had
been summoned from the ground by the wand of
an enchanter and by the exercise of preternatural
power. But it was not, as we know, by a preter-
natural, but by a spontaneous and legitimate pro-
cess—by the free will and the intelligent convic-
tions of the people of this country. Gentlemen,
there is no doubt that the creation of this Volunteer
force has been a remarkable phenomenon, a great
sign of the times in which we live. I doubt whether
there is any country in the world where any pheno-
menon resembling this could have well occurred.
Nay, more, I doubt whether in this country at any
former period such a phenomenon could have pre-
sented itself to our view. It is quite true that this
is. not the first period in our history when a power.
ful Volunteer force strictly answering to that
description has been created. Bat upon the
last occasion when such a force came into being
it was under the influence 2f immediate and
urgent apprehensions; when the powers of the
greatest military nation in the world, governed
by the greatest military genius of modern, possibly
of any period of history, were martially arrayed on
the shore within a few leagues of our own, for the
purpose of invading the sacred and hitherto undis-
turbed homes and hearths of England. Well, gen.
tlemen, they were extraordinary circumstances, but
the volunteer force of our time sprung into existence
partly perhaps in connection with a sentiment of
apprehension of some similar event, but undoubt-
edly in connection with such sentiment, it cannot
be said that that sentiment was of the same charac-
ter as the apprehension which prevailed' GO years
ago. Some alarm there may have been within the
last four or five years, and that alarm served a very
useful purpose if it contributed to the formation of
the volunteer force. But I do not believe the alarm
would have sufficed to bring that force into exist-
ence in any country except our own country, or in
any period of time except the period of time in
which we live, because I think the characteristic of
this period is this—that we have a Government,
laws, and institutions in which the governing power
is identified with the will, the interests, and the
convictions of those who arc governed, in a deg-ee
perhaps unexampled in the history of the world.
It therefore happens that the exigencies of the
country, real or supposed, whatever they may be, do
not require to be proclaimed by the voice of law, or
enforced by the word of authority; they find an

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