The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-27 00:00:00

MISTLEY, THORPE, AND WALTON.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at
Manningtree on Wednesday; Capt. Jervis, M.P., in the
chair.

The report stated that the directors had purchased, on
equitable terms, the land required for the first section of the
line from Mistley to Tendring, a distance of nearly six
miles, and the contractor held out hopes that this portion of
the line would be completed and ready for traffic by June 1.
Arrangements were being made for the construction of the
second section of the line, from Tondring to Thorpe, a fur-
ther distance of nearly three miles. The capital account
showed that £14,119 had been expended, leaving a balance
of £646.

On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, the report was adopted.
Mr. W. Brooks and Mr. P. Daniels, the retiring directors,
were re-elected, and Mr. W. J. Shansfield, the retiring
auditor, was also re-elected.

KETTERING, THRAPSTON, AND HUNTINGDON.
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on
Thursday at the offices, Poet's Corner, Westminster ; Mr.
Lancaster in the chair.

Mr. Arbuthnott, the secretary, read the report, which
stated that considerable progress had been made in the con-
struction of the works by Messrs. Waring, the contractors,
and the directors confidently believed that the line would
be ready for public traffic in August next. Under the
agreement with the Midland Company the interest on the
debentures would be a first charge on the gross receipts of
the railway before making any deduction for expenses. The
Midland Company ware to work the line for seven years,
taking 40 per cent. for working expenses, and handing over
the 60 per cent, to the company. After the expiration of
the seven years the Midland Company were to take 50 per
cent. for working and maintenance, handing over the
balance to the company.
On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. PALN,
the report was unanimously adopted, the retiring director,
Mr. W. B. Greenfield, was re-elected, as was also theretir-
ing auditor, and the meeting separated.

The Wanderer of Vienna states, on the authority
of a communication from St. Petersburg, that the Russian
Government intends to take away from the city of Warsaw
the character of a capital, transferring elsewhere the prin-
cipal administrations, the university, and the Bank, and
leaving nothing but the head-quarters of a body of troops.
The report that Russia had levied taxes in Bok-
hara is formally !denied by the Journal de St. Petersbourg,
which adds that Russia has no representative at Bokhara
and has not taken possession of Tash-end, as announced
by late accounts from Bombay.
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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOITRNALS.

THE " SPECTATOR" ON MR. VILLIERS' BILL.-

Mr. Charles Villiers is a very " safe " man, perhaps
there is no safer man in Lord Palmerston's Govern-
ment. When he has anything considerable to do
he does it quietly, annoying as few interests and
shocking as few prejudices as he possibly can, post-
poning symmetry to fitness, and subordinating
everything except principle to practical expediency.
It is a wise policy, particularly in matters like
changes in the Poor Law, on which so many people
have crotchets, and everybody thinks himself qualified
to form an individual opinion. It will, we believe,
in this case enable him to carry a very important
improvement with very little dangerous opposition,
and without arousing the latent suspicion with
which country gentlemen are apt to regard every
movement of the Poor-Law Board; a body which,
existing as it does chiefly for the purpose of judi-
ciously snubbing local crotchets, can never be very
popular with those who are snubbed. The way in
which Mr. Villiers has in this instance steered his
way through opposing interests and conflicting
opinions, yet arrived safe at his goal at last, is a
specimen of very highest constitutional style. Most
of our readers are aware of the strong objections
which have from time to time been raised against
the Law of Settlement, and which have rendered
opinion almost ripe for its abolition. That law, a
relic of the days when to be a " masterless man "
was to be a criminal under sentence, formerly com-
pelled a labouring man to reside in the 'parish in
which he was born, under penalty of losing all claim
upon the poor-rate. If he went further afield, where
he was wanted, that is, where wages were high, he
was on the first lull in demand or fit of sickness
carted back to his parish, which very often carted him
back again. Fortunately the cartage of a pauper
costs money, parishes began to find that a carrying
trade of that sort was very oppressive, and Sir R.
Peel passed an act making any man who had resided
five years irremovable. By another act his ex-
penses were charged upon a union fund, which, in
1861, was directed to be levied according to the
amount of rateable property in every parish of the
Union, that is, in fact, though not in theory, by a
Union rate. The parish raised it and paid it over,
but as the amount varied with property the cost of
the irremoveable poor was really defrayed by a
Union rate. At the same time a further and very
great improvement was introduced, the time neces-
sary to establish a settlement being reduced to three
years. This, again, succeeded, and the country
began to imagine that the Law of Settlement, which
visibly interferes with the ebb and flow of labour,'
might be swept away altogether, or at all events the
time of residence reduced to three months. That is

the ideal towards which matters are obviously tend-
ing, but meanwhile there are some serious obstacles
still to be overcome. Big boroughs are by no means
prepared to dispense with the law all at once. They
want to see the flow of labour made easy, but do
not exactly appreciate the flow of idleness. They
are afraid that in every bad winter or time of scant
labour the country population will flow to the cities
in search of work, and not finding it come on the
rates in numbers which will seriously affect the value
of property. London in particular would be dread-
fully burdened in that way, while Liverpool would
be absolutely inundated with Irish. They swarm
there already, and but for the power now latent in
consequence of emigration, but still existing, the
town would be eaten up with them. That is a real
difficulty, and there is besides a distinct grievance
calling for more immediate redress. This is the
condition of the permanent poor. The parish is
still to support them, and there is therefore an im-
mense temptation on the part of its owners to turn
them out, pull down their cottages, and decline to
erect new buildings, leaving the Union to pay for
the labour required within the parish. The State in
fact throws its burden upon the Federal taxes. When
the whole of a parish belongs to one man this is done
to an enormous extent, and in some instances by
complete depopulation, and people evicted are huddled
as lodgers into the over-filled cottages of the open
parish, more especially town suburbs. To such an
extent has this system been carried, landowners," add-
ing house to house and field to field till there be no
room for the poor," that, says the President of the
Board, by the census returns in 1821 agricultural
parishes in England there are between 1851 and
1861 a decrease of houses accompanied with an in-
crease of population. The total decrease of houses
in these agricultural parishes within these ten years
has been 3,118, while the increase in the number of
persons has been 16,497." This is an intolerable
mischief, sapping as it does the very foundations
of population, health, comfort, and chastity, and
urgently demands a reform. We may not yet be
able to redress the great evil of English country
life, the defective condition of the mass of cottages,
but we may at least avoid aggravating it by a legal
incentive to overcrowding. Mr. Villiers, upon
whom, as upon Sir Cornewall Lewis, this point
seems to have made a great impression, thought it
possible, without encountering any of the just ob-
jections pleaded against the abolition of the Law of
Settlement, to remove its main defects, and at the
same time the temptation to this grievous over-
crowding, and he has, so far as we can perceive, ac-
complished both his ends. His bill, a very short
one, does not abolish the power of removal, which
would hurt London and Liverpool and the great
cities, but transfers it from the overseers to the
guardians. These, though sometimes amazingly
stupid, are usually men of a very superior class to the
overseers, are always a good deal more humane, and
usually very indisposed to the expense of removals
and of the law-suits growing out of them. They
have in fact the brains to see that saving five six-
pences at the cost of half-a-crown is not a profitable
occupation. The second change is much greater.
The whole cost of the Union poor, whether their
settlement is inherited or they are only irremoveable,
is thrown on the Union fund, and not, as now,
divided between the Union and the parochial in-
come. Consequently, althoUgh the ebb and flow of
labour as between Unions is still imperfect, as be-
tween parish and parish of the same Union it is com-
pletely free. It is no object of the parochial magnate
to pull down cottages, for he must have labour,
and if his men live within the Union they will tax him
just as much as if they lived in his parish. It would
pay him to expel them from the Union, but very few
Unions indeed are " close," i.e., owned by one or
two men, and distance has to be taken into the ac-
count. If the labourer has to walk too far he can-
not do a full day's work, and if the distance be
stretched beyond his patience—we wish we knew
its limit—he will not come at all. Whenever
therefore the employer does not happen to live just
on the boundary of a Union with a village just across
it his tendency will be to house his labourers close to
their work, to make occupancy part of wages and
dismissal the equivalent of eviction, a system which
as labour gets scarce will compel the employer to
offer good cottages as an attraction for good la-
bourers—a vast improvement.
THE " EXAMINER " ON THE INDUCEMENTS TO
MILITARY SERVICE.—If we look back to what was

the condition of the private soldier at the beginning
of the century, we cannot wonder at the popular
feeling against the service. There was, indeed,
hardly any worse condition in the country, and a
man was considered at the last extremity of neces-
sity when he took Sergeant Kite's shilling,. But an
immense change for the better has been made in the
soldier's condition within the last fifty years with-
out any corresponding change in the common
opinion respecting it. The comforts of the men have
been studied, rational amusements provided for
them, and the inducements to .a decent
.life are
stronger than those of old to reprobate habits and
courses of debauchery. More may remain to be
done, but the much that has been done has not
altered as it should have done the popular opinion of
the service, and mothers still believe the Queen's
pay to be the next thing to the Devil's wages, only
not so liberal. Yet certain we are that the
habits and morals of the labourers of an
agricultural village will not bear comparison
with the habits and morals of a regiment, with
its library for the men, its games and resources
counter to the temptations of the ale-house. See
the labourers after work andthe soldiers off duty, and
mark which are best employed. But it is not only
what is put within the soldier's reach, and what is
put as much as possible oui, of his reach, that goes
to the formation of his better habits, but the disci-
pline is wholesome and good for him. The clown
after his day's work boasts of being his own
master, and the probability is that a worse he could
not have. The soldier in parting with some of his
liberty has the rest of it made of higher value.
Scamps and blackguards there will be here and
there, but the comparison between the average cha-
racter of the soldier and that of the class from which
he has been drawn, or, so to speak, the raw material
of which he has been made, is immensely in favour
of the soldier. Yet the old bad repute of the service
sticks to it, and stands in the way of recruiting,
without
reason in the main, but with reason in some
important respects. In the discussion which fol-
lowed Mr. O'Reilly's able speech on Monday, the
War Secretary complained,--The hon. and gallant
gentleman, Colonel North, whose object, no doubt,
is to furnish as plentiful and as good a supply of
recruits as possible, gets up and tells the class from
whom they are taken that the pay is totally inade-
quate, and that any man who has any respect for
himself and can do anything else had much better
not dream of enlisting in the army. I imagine that
that he is one of those country gentlemen who make
the village too hot for the recruiting sergeant if he
ventures to show his face in it. It is a great pity
that any member of this House who is supposed to
represent the army should attempt to send it forth
to the country that the shilling a day is the real pay
which the soldier receives. The
,hon. and gallant

member for Longford has put the question more
fairly. He stated that the advantages which the
soldier gets in the way of good food, good lodging,
good clothing, education, and innumerable other
particulars, are such that the pay is, I think he said,
fair and adequate. It is nothing but a misrepre-
sentation of the most mischievous kind to announce
to the working classes that the pay they may expect
to get in our army is a shilling, and a bare shilling,
a day." But why is there the opportunity for this
mistake or misrepresentation ? Why is it not clearly
seen what the pay is and what it is not ? Why is the
matter mystified by stoppages, the precise effect of
which is not and cannot be understood ? It is a sys-
tem of giving with one hand and taking away with
another, so that really the value of what is pos-
sessed is never comprehended. A young soldier
never knows how he stands. He has to pay for
some things supplied which he knows not to be
worth the price exacted from him, and this makes
him naturally suspicious of all the rest. Last year
we noticed some startling statements of a corre-
spondent of the Times, who evidently wrote with
thorough professional knowledge, and we may add
authority, and amongst other abuses he mentioned
the fact that the men have had to sole the new shoes
served out to them, the contractors having furnished
vamped-up articles made to pass inspection, not to
wear. Such rascally frauds may not be practicable
now, but what is nevertheless still desirable is that
the soldier should have a distincter and unmistake-
able view of his pay instead of a shabby sort of
truck system conducted in the name of her Majesty.
It is generally agreed that the pay for the recruits
and young soldiers is sufficient, and that what is
wanted is a distinction, like that in the navy, be-
tween the ordinary and the able men, the unskilled
and the skilled. It is when a man has learnt his
duty that it is the interest of the State to retain him
in the service by the tie of his interests. • But we
are told that this is not easy even with the non-com-
missioned officers, who having clerkly qualifications
get offers of more profitable employment. The cry
for better pay for a better sort of men is plausible,
but a sounder proposition would perhaps be better
pay for the better men of the present sort. They
are called the sweepings of our towns ; but
if the sweepings of our towns can be worked
up into the stuff of our soldiery, a material
that would otherwise go to waste is turned to
good uses. It is something like the sewage ques-
tion, and what would be noxious in the wrong place
becomes highly profitable in the right one. The
Queen's chaff is proverbially said to be better than
other folks' corn, and if her Majesty's ranks are
filled with what is harshly called the refuse of the
community, it is most satisfactory to find that re-
fuse convertible to so good a material. The Ame-
rican armies are now mainly recruited by classes
rather inferior to the stock of our own, and the cal-
culation is that they cost a thousand dollars a head,
which we believe to be far below the mark, as all
calculations are apt to be not based on monetary
realities. But with us an advance of pay to the
better men, whose retention in the service is most
desirable for its character and efficiency, would not
be an addition to the charges of any burdensome
amount, for the pay of officers and men of the two
services makes but a small part of the coot of the
establishments, hardly a third. It is in the civil
branches that the extravagances make their luxu-
rious shoots. It may be said that there are already
rewards for deserving men, but rewards will never
serve in place of the fair remuneration which is the
thing wanted. When a man is thinking of enter-
ing a service, the consideration that weighs with
him is what he will haVe a right to in exchange for
what he gives. A trained soldier is a skilled
labourer, and reasonably claims wages proportioned
to his acquired qualifications.

THE-"LONDON REVIEW" ON LORD COMBERMERE.—
A death which in the common course of nature might
have occurred any time in the last quarter of a cen-
tury, took place on Tuesday, and removed from this
mortal sphere a man who began to earn his laurels
in the days of Willia,m Pitt. It might almost be
said of Stapleton Cotton, Viscount Combermere,
that for a long time past he had been even more re-
markable for his years than for his achievements.
When he appeared on horseback in Hyde Park on
that memorable occasion of the reviewing of the
Volunteers by the Queen in June, 1860, people
marvelled at the sight of a man who had dis-
tinguished himself in the closing years of the
eighteenth century still taking an active part in
affairs, and identifying himself with the new citi-
zen soldiers, many of wtiom, and men with beards
on their faces too, were the grandsons of
those who shouldered musket in his earlier days,
when the Firbt Napoleon threatened an invasion of
these shores. The veteran must even then have
been ninety-one ; and it was a strange and unwonted
sight to see such a relic of the past still moving in
the living sunshine of the present. It was one of
the subjects of the day on which newspapers com-
mented and men talked ; and every one thought
that of course such a phenomenon could not last
much longer. Yet the aged lord had even then
nearly five years before him. When he at length
succumbed to that " lean fellow" who, as an old
poet says, " beats all conquerors," but who seemed
as if he would never make up his mind to grapple
with this particular conqueror, he had attained, we
believe, the extraordinary age of ninety-six. We
say " we believe" because there has alwaysbeen some
uncertainty with regard to the precise number of
his years. It would seem as if the hero had had
something of a woman's dislike to letting his exact
age be known. At any rate it was not recorded in
the Peerages, and the accounts in the Biographical
Dictionaries varied in a most perplexing manner,
some making him out to be seven or eight years
younger than he probably was. Now that he is
dead, however, it appears to be agreed that he was
born in 1769—the same year which saw the birth of
Wellington and (unless he falsified his age by a
twelvemonth, as some affirm he did) of Napoleon
Buonaparte. That Stapleton Cotton could not have
been born much later, is evident from the subsequent
career of his life. He was appointed second lieu-
tenant in the 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers as far back
as 1790 ; was a captain in the 6th Dragoon Guards
when Robespierre was making the streets of Paris
run with blood in 1793 ; had become a colonel in the
following year ; and greatly distinguished
himself in the campaign of 1798-9 aninst
Tippoo Sultaun' ending in the death of
that potentate at the storming of Seringapatam.
We thus find the late Field-Marshal a man of posi-
tion and note before the end of the 18th century;
and this will give us something like an idea of the
time at which he must have been born. He was a
contemporary of Wellington and Anglesea, of Na-
poleon and Soult, and was the elder of men who
arose in the present century, and who belong to the
later ranks of the chieftains who fought so gallantly
in the last war with France. Lord Clyde, who, as
plain Colin Campbell, won a reputation in the
Peninsula, and who died a year and a half ago at a
ripe age, was very considerably Lord Combermere's
junior. So with many others, some of whom still
linger among us, while several have already con-
fessed their mortality. Combermere was, without
an exception, the oldest of our public men. The
Premier, over whose age we have been in the habit
of lifting up our hands for some years past, was
quite youthful by his side. Brougham himself looks
like the formation of a later geological period ; even
Lyndhurst, were he now living, would be two years
younger ; and Lansdowne would not be entitled to
enter into the comparison. There is something in
this marvellous accumulation of years—this indefi-
nite and preternatural postponement of the common
fate of all living beings—which is almost a fame
and a glory in itself. The man who contrives to
live longer than his fellows is by that very fact a
species of hero, as having successfully conducted for
years a defence against the most pressing enemy in
the world. We regard him with a certain mysteri-
ous awe, as if he were the accepted champion of
humanity in a contest with Fate. We know
very well how the struggle will end—how it
must end ; yet we take a breathless interest
in watching it go on, and in marking with
what art, or what happy turn of fortune, the human
being continues to foil his grim foe, as if he were
really endowed with the immortality of the gods.
The veriest clodpole, fighting such a fight, would
assume something of heroic proportions in our eyes
if he only came under our observation, as the hum-
ble Yorkshire fisherman, Jenkins, has become a per-
son of distinction from the mere fact of its being
said, whether truly or not, that he lived to be one
hundred and sixty-nine. How much more; then,
does a singularly old man interest us when his life
has been associated with the greatest events of modern
times ! Viscount Combermere had no need to fall
back upon his age as a title to distinction ; and per-
haps he has even met with some injustice on this
score, most men being irresistibly moved to talk of
his years rather than of his deeds, owing to their
wonderment at the unusual extent of the former.
He should have died twenty years ago, and then we
should have thought more of the brilliant cavalry
general of the Peninsula, who commanded the
whole of the allied horse, and flashed like a meteor
before the eyes of the French at Talavera, Llerena,
at Fuentes d'Onor, at Salamanca, at Orthes, at
Busaco, at Ville Garcia, at Castiglion, and at El
Bodon. We should have spoken with greater inte-
rest of his achievements at Toulouse, and of the
services which he subsequently rendered, in 1825-
26, by the reduction of Bhurtporc, in India, long
supposed to be impregnable, and before which Lord
Lake, in 1805, lost a large number of men in a vain
attempt to take it ; and we should the more readily
have called to mind that Lord Combermere was at
that time supposed, and not without reason, to have
saved our Indian Empire from the most serious
dangers. Few English generals of modern times
have achieved more signal successes ; and we hardly

think the reputation of the old hero at the present
clay is, equal to the services he conferred upon his
country. Almost to the last, Lord Combermete
was a vivacious, vigorous old man ; fond a so,
fond of angling, and moving the surprise of those,h
who knew him by the gay elasticity of spirits with
which he bore his weight of years and honours.
THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE DEFENCE OF
CANADA.—The problem is to save the country freto
Lli
being conquered almost before it has had time
realise the fact that it is at war. To achieve at
this will require vastly more sacrifice than the
colonists have yet thought it incumbent on theal d
endure; but a militia force such as could be ralse
without any difficulty would, in Col. Jervois'op
amply suffice, with the aid of a small. British con-
amply
to hold the strateic Lower, supper
to the defence, not only of but of uPgi
Canada. The lower province, from its preiillllof
to England and its geographical situation, Is,
course, in a military sense, by far the mesti,llll,i
portant ; and as long as Quebec and Montreal
ab-
out, this portion of the country could never be
jugated. If, addition to this, a naval preponuleic'e
ante were established on the St. Lawrence andk be
Ontario, a large part of both provinces wow' re
safe from molestation. For this end two things
,a,id
essential—one, that Quebec and Montreal she`s
be covered by fortifications suitable to the conditionua
of modern warfare, and Kingston, Toronto, as
Hamilton adequately protected against a Mien'
descent from the lake ; the other, that a sulus-
force should be available at the first outbreak of yea
to hold, at any rate, the two most importantirfon
fie' until reduced by a regular siege. No PrePald
short of an army capable of taking the dis.
equal terms against the enemy would make th,,e,on
trict which lies between Lake Erie and Lake -07,101
absolutely secure from insult ; but the Power '''tely
held Ontario and the St. Lawrence must Ultima
Bing
remain master of the whole country. These ast-
the known conditions on which the national e` t g
ence of the Canadians would depend in the 80'14,1
war, it might have been thought incredible that '',eo
should hitherto have been utterly neglected. Quvaii
has no fortifications which would be of any Holly
against modern artillery, and Montreal is w of
without defence. Kingston, the importar,necioa
which as commanding the mouth of the 11,1 opg
Canal is very considerable, might be made a storks,
position by some additions to its defensive w° As
but at present it has no adequate fortifications: at
for the other Lake towns, they are absolutellear
the mercy of an enemy who might gain, 303,te-
porary naval superiority. Even if all WI they
real resources of defence were supplieu:.„ant
would be useless until the small con force
of British troops was supported by a raiSe'
such as Canada has not yet attempted t° 010
Some 10,000 English soldiers and 21,000 Call wel
Volunteers, who may perhaps be nearlY 911,..ants at
in trainin with average Volunteer reg.n?—cota-
home, constitute the whole force of which tnike
mander-in-Chief in Canada would have to such 5
Even if the requisite fortifications existeul "rploliS
force would be useless in opposition to the en like,
armies with which an invasion would in u'",othiog
hood be attempted, while up to this time nothing
has been done to put the vital points of the
in a creditable state of defence. Afters ilLe- Brim
play of apathy in the fourth year of the be
war, it was indeed time that the truth Should
openly told both to England and to Canal'
The
has been told in Colonel Jervois' able ItePer;d
history of the relations between Canada a.i-svoniti
Home Government during these years of per,,'d ling
have been ludicrous if the issue at stake° oing
less momentous. On both sides the lnaPe gcla
hut co'
danger was seen, and in terms admitted; -
persistently refused to do anything for her 01°,0t
tection, lest she should diminish the con bile
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pected from England in the event of war, lifercne
Home Government, disgusted with the, tl"
of the colonists, was preparing to Avitil',reselle,,e
troops from the outlying posts, where theirYirg tl"
was all-important for the purpose of training
lilt°
native recruits who might at last be brongtiogea;
the field. This fatal, though, in certain eetiltolloio
cies, inevitable policy seems for the moire Java
been averted by the remonstrances of Colon
station
against the abandonment of the Torontoron tb•
and by the indications at length apparel' ,recia'
part of the Colonial statesmen of a better aPr f the
o A 5
ton of the dangers that surround them, gay
responsibilities which fall upon their CO
1,1!
yet the Canadian Militia exists only upon Pale
a few hundred officers have been trained in of
th
tary schools established at the headquarterst,
British regiments, and the first contingol stli'
posed exclusively of young unmarried niLl',erviee'
to be on the point of being called out kr P_A
This alone will furnish nearly 90,000 ran al tbe
while the total strength of the force, inchinii_ffiro•
If thes7l,olo
reserve, is calculated at 470,000 men.
mises are promptly kept, the aspect of the r,303i
question will be entirely changed. When the 'wolf
dians no longer grudge the expense
~,abfis°d iio
essential to their own safety, they wn.` 'Duct in
in
reluctance on the part of England to do herh'icill t.°
the common cause. As a nucleus, round w
national forces may organise themselves,
his it can
force will be invaluable, but more than, thl.,d to the
never be. Ifwe were to leave our own isla'; wonfle
sole protection of the Volunteers our arni'e of lA
still be altogether inadequate to'the
colonial frontier. Canada, as Lord f; and 'of
said, must be defended by the CanTefirstdatiof
hearty acceptance on their part of this invoutticli
every free country will ensure theu3 an w'A,"et
effective assistance from the mother' c
on. any oily
neither would, nor indeed could, be giv_ell,,nt has on'
terms. Already the Home Govern'„,,tkve 09"-es•
sented, on the implied condition of elLe-f Uectbo
ration, to bear its part of the expensP floe of fog
sary fortifications ; and the naval oe.e taoCe7.
Ontario will of necessity, in the first 111,rshe semen
Ipeasixt t. of
At
the theaff
exclusively upon the English navy' aiready
proPo,,setipbce 00
arirateisatthewthiimche withich has
t°
/
vill
struct the works, the fortifications of tz
not be finished in less than four Yearsjproko,o3
Montreal entrenchments, which are tin `1- d perloo,
the colonists, will be twice as costly,
Lana
twice as tedious. The usual official Bialy 000
that it is impossible to proceed more raltee of rid
due regard to the solidity and permane be Alte feY
work, will satisfy no one. The danger toss in 1100
is as likely to occur in a few months .00 tilrono
years, and intrenchments and fortifieatlotecl in'
up rapidly enough :,to be ready when wa he,,her
be more to the purpose, even if they sh
s• POOO
capable of standing for a thousand Yea "gbOrthe
in the proposal of the Ministers to seen
year on the fortifications of Quebec/ "Dich
movements of the Canadian Executive, Quebec/an
Ictbo
any adequate appreciation of the Jai tAte
Colonel Jervois' report enforces. Everietess 00,0
Canada remains in her present defencankifdiv
adds incalculably to the risk of wacr'tbat,'
calamity is either to be staved off, Or, inn ine'efejkh
possible, to be effectually met, somet."7s Do'
the energy with which the Confederafeste"pr
for their terrible struggle must be Ina 010
in the Colonial Office and in the Can
cutive.

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daughter of Alfred Kinsfo- rd Barber, s'l7
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tian, widow of Charles Trevor, Vs+
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