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LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1854.

WAR GALLERY-GREAT GLOBE.-
The Portraits of Lord RAGLAN, Marshal ST. ARNAUD,
OMER PASHA, SCHAMYL, and the the Costumes of the Armies
of Europe, are at the Great Globe, Leicester-square. Admission to
he Whoie building One Shilling. Open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Children and Schools, half-price.

SIEGE OF SEVASTOPOL, GREAT GLOBE.
—A large model of the country around Sevastvol, including
lnkermann, Rataklava, and the Tchernaya, with the positions of the
nritish. French, and Turkish Armies, and the siege works, at the
Great Globe, Lticester•sgnare.—Open from ten a.m. to ten p.m.—
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thorised the Government to raise. As the result of the
deficiency, when Lord Raglan urgently demanded rein-
forcements, lads of eighteen were sent him, unfit for the
service they bad to perform. When pressed on any point
connected with the war, the Ministers are compelled to
admit error or mistake. "We were wrong, I admit,"
Mr. Herbert exclaims, as if absolution must, as a matter
of course, follow cnifession,—" We were wrong to send
out these boys as reinforcements." If asked why he did
not, by reducinc, the standard, advancing the age, and
increasing the bounty, secure more serviceable troops, he
replies—" We have reduced the standard, we have vd•
vanced the age, we have increased the bounty ;" but he
forgets to aid that he has not only done so quite re-
cently, and that, as a result, the number of recruits has
increased sevenfold. The fact is beyond dispute that,
while our army was 90,000 men or more below the num-
-ler sanctioned by Parliament, and below the number
the country supposed, the Ministry made no adequate
effort to recruit it. In the actual circumstances this
neglect was more than an error: it was a crime. By
embodying the militia they might have obtained this
number at once, and now, to cover their culpable ne-
glect, they bring in a Foreign Enlistment Bill, and make
out a case for its necessity by the appalling mortality
which has occurred among the lads of eighteen, whom
in their panic, when the cry for reinforcements was
raised, they hurried off to Balaklava.
The country does not want men more than it wants
money, or arms, or stores, but it wants a Government
able to draw forth and manage its resources. The effect
of this bill must, in any case, be mischievous. If it suc-
ceeds, these foreign troops must, from the necessity of
the case—from their requirements of lodging, of pay, of
transport, of supplies of every kind—be a subtrac-
tion from the British force which could otherwise
.be maintained, and, if it fails, time and effort will
be lost, and we shall humiliate ourselves in the
eyes of Europe by the express and public declara-
tion, through our Government, that our power of re-
cruiting our army from our own population is at an
end,
_that we have more wealth than courage, and
that we freely open our coffers to purchase mercenary
aid, but solicit it in vain.