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London, England, 1871-01-17 00:00:00

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Sir W. Mansfield distributed the prizes to the London
Scottish volunteers on Saturday, in Westminster Hall.
The ceremony excited great interest, as it was expected
that the distinguished general would say something on the
great question of army reform. Lord Elcho introduced the
Indian commander with a short speech. After distributing
the prizes Sir William warmly eulogised the physique, disci-
pline, and general soldiery efficiency of the London Scottish,
and turning to the general topic of our military organisa-
tiod, proceeded to say :—My lord, you have challenged
me to give an opinion upon the military organisation
of this country. I need not say that any opinion which
I may utter in this hall is simply a personal opinion,
and any opinion which I may utter here is an opinion
which is well known to my intimate friends. It is some
years since I ventured to call the attention of people in
authority, and also, I may perhaps say, the attention of a
certain portion of the public, to the circumstance of the
military organization of this country, which although at
that time there was no cloud existing of anxiety either in
our foreign relations or in our domestic condition, still I
say what I observed in what is called the military organi-
zation of this country filled me with feelings not far from
profound alarm. I saw some years ago, and, as I say, I
called the attention of others to the result of my observa-
tions and to the fact, that there were numerous bodies of a
military kind in this country, but that they all seemed to
be pulling in different ways, instead of co-operating in
one grand harmonious whole in the service of the country.
I observed that the militia had one set of interests,
that the volunteers had another set of interests, and
that what is called the line r the regular army was a
third body, which had also interests of its own, which
were different in degree and in kind from those of the
other bodies. I observed that all those bodies sprung
from what is called the voluntary principle—as there
was no fixed point of departure except the personal
option of the individual man, as being the consti-
tuent in any one of these bodies—so it arose when we
came to consider what was to be performed by those
bodies that they were dragged aside by conflicting interest,
just as you will also see half a dozen men in a room have
each their own way of looking at the same subject. That
which may be said of individual men may be said with
ten times more force when you deal with large bodies,
because the individual option which is exercised by a
man when it comes to be multiplied by the
numbers from the body of which he is a member,
comes to have a great and vital force which influences
the destinies of the country, and which may produce
either the greatest or the most fatal results,
according to the manner in which those forces are handled.
Can there be anything more fatal than vast bodies of
armed men paid by the country, and organised with a
view to its defence, some of whom are for service abroad,
some for special service in this country, others who are
meant to be the last resource of the country, if it should
please God we should be called upon to drag out our
very last resource to meet an enemy on this soil—l
say can there be anything more fatal or more ruinous,
whether we consider it as a matter of national resource
or whether we consider it as a matter of expenditure,
as a mere Parliamentary estimate—can there be
anything more ruinous and fatal than that such divi-
sions should exist amongst the several bodies of this
so-called military organisation? Lord Elcho has told us
to-night that the session which is about to commence
cannot separate without that great question receiving a
settlement which must be satisfactory to the country.
I am not a political man, and I do not venture to say
whether such a result will follow upon this session of Par-
liament ; but this I do say, that it is the duty not only
of those who are in office, but also of those who are out of
office, to see that this session does not pass without
this great subject being weighed in a manner
worthy of it, and without such a result being attained
that the divisions to which I have alluded may
henceforth cease, and only be known as matters of history.
I have said that, according to my apprehension of this
subject, the fatal difficulty with which we have to deal is
the conflict of interests between the different bodies of
which the military organisation of England consists.
Well, what is it that causes the conflict of interests? I
believe it arises from die fact that every one of those
military bodies relies for its existence solely on the volun-
tary principle. With regard to the body to which lam
now addressing myself, it is evident to people
who stand forward as volunteers, who give up a very
important portion of their time, which we all know
they can very ill spare from their business and from the
many avocations which press upon them, it would be
simply absurd to expect that any other principle of orga-
nisation than the voluntary one could pervade such bodies.
Again, is I pass on to the line, I think there is no one
in this hall who will dissent from the opinion, whatever
may be the frame of mind with which we contemplate
what is going on on the Continent at the present time—
however we may view the vast military bodies, the drill-
ing of the nations which we see on the other side of
the water—however we may contemplate the fact that
these great military nations have conscriptions which
can train the whole of their male population, and not
merely for defence—l say however we may contemplate
these facts—we don't believe there is any Englishman
who would like to see such an organization applied in this
country. I believe it to be absolutely necessary to what
is called the line or regular army, that army which is
required to serve in tropical countries—in short, in every
other country which is not England—that that army
should rest, as it has hitherto done, upon the voluntary
principle. But, gentlemen, there is a third body
which now competes in the market-place for the
recruits of the army of the line. I believe
that the conflict of interests, to which I have
alluded as existing between the militia and the line
can alone be brought to subside by causing the militia
to be raised upon the ancient principle of obligation, which
always belonged to the Constitution of this country, and
which has always been recognised by every man as his first
duty to his country, but which, for a certain number of
years, has been held in suspension. I believe it to be ab-
solutely necessary that we should revert to that principle
of obligation—that is, that every man, without respect to
rank or to his position in the world, would be liable to
serve in his own person in the ranks of the militia. There
may be certain exemptions which would be ne-
cessary, having regard 'to the employment of par-
ticular persons, but the primary obligation could
rest upon every man to serve in his own person, and
no pecuniary sum of any amount should enable a man,
whatever his rank or position in the country, to save
his person by means of his purse. I have some-
times heard it said that to revert to this ancient principle
as a means of filling an army of home defence would be
an interference with the liberty of the. subject. Now I
should like the proposition to be fairly examined, and
to meet a man who would say that he declined to stand
forward in the defence of his country because it inter-
fered with his liberty. I should say that people who use
such an argument forget that when they say you ought to
rely entirely upon voluntary enlistment for the home
defence of the country—that is to say, relying on a system
which should cause men to join the militia solely on the
ground of daily pay, that that is a measure which secures
what may be called the comfortable classes at the ex-
pense of those who are not so well off. I think I may
say that fairly before this body of volunteers,
who stand as the representatives of the great
body of 170,000 volunteers now in arms, who have
shewn that all events they, though they may belong to
the comfortable classes, do not shirk the duty
which is incumbent on every Englishman, to stand for
ward when he is wanted for the defence of the country;
and that without pay and without anything but such as
may be done for them by their commanding officers, they
come forward give up valuable time, at great incon-
venience, for the purpose of national defence. Therefore,
I say, gentlemen, do not be led away by any argument
about interference with the liberty of the subject ; but call
upon every subject to stand forward in his national posi-
tion, not merely according to his individual option, but
according to his personal liability as distinguished from
personal objects; and don't say that when that is re-
quired from a man, you are interfering with his liberty as
a subject.
Lord Elcho proposed a vote of thanks to Sir William
Mansfield, which was carried by acclamation. His lord-
ship, in the course of his observations, announced that the
Henri-Martini rifle was "as good as adopted" by the
War-office authorities.

The Anglo-Scottish Publishing Company, the pro-
prietors of the London Scotsman, have given notice that
from circumstances over which they have no control the
publication of the paper is discontinued for the present.

The following is a more extended report than that which
we published yesterday :—On Saturday the police were in-
formed of a very remarkable robbery that had taken place
in the West-end of the city. The details as given to the
police are strange indeed, though there may be some
question as to their precise accuracy. On Thursday last
about four o'clock in the afternoon, a well-dressed
man alighted from• a Hansom cab at the shop of
Messrs. London and Ryder, jewellers and goldsmiths,
in Bond-street, and, walking in, asked to look at some
diamond necklaces and rings, remarking that he had
lately come into the possession of some property, and was
about to expend £6,000 in jewelry. He carefully examined
the necklaces and other articles, and then left the shop,
giving the name of Mark Tyrrell, and requesting them to
be sent to his house, No. 4, Upper Berkeley-street,
Portman-square, at half-past five o'clock that eve-
ning, in order that they might be shown to a
lady. The diamonds he had seen, with others he
had not seen, and of the value together of between
£5,000 and £6,000, were carefully packed in a bag, and
entrusted to an assistant to be taken to the address stated.
Arriving there at the appointed time, the door, to
his surprise, was opened, not by a servant, but by Mr.
Tyrrell himself, who asked him to walk in, explaining
that his servant was absent for the moment upon an
errand. The shopman was conducted to the drawing-
room, where he found a well dressed young woman,
apparently prepared for his visit. She and Mr. Tyrrell
took seats at a table, with the shopman on the opposite
side, who then produced the necklaces and rings he had
been asked to bring, of the value together of about .£2MO,
leaving the rest in his bag, which he had placed
at his feet on the floor. The lady examined
them minutely, and appeared to admire them much. At
length Mr. Tyrrell suggested that she had better bring
her sister in to look at them before she decided, and she
left the room apparently for that purpose. Returning in
a few minutes alone, and going Unawares behind the shop-
man, she stealthily placed a pockethandkerchief, partly
saturated, as he believes, with chloroform, over his mouth,
bolding it tightly by the ends. The diamonds still lay
on the table, and the rest of them were in the bag
below. A great struggle immediately ensued, and
the shopman was at length completely overpowered. As
be lay helplessly exhausted on the floor, partly from the
effects of the drug applied to his mouth and nostrils,
the man and woman proceeded to pinion his arms
by the elbows behind - so, at least, the story goes—and
to tie his legs together by the knees and ankles. Bound
`thus hand and foot, they placed him upon a sofa in the
room, the man telling him as they did so that if he dared
to stir or speak he would murder him. This would pro-
bably be about six o'clock, and he was then left alone in
the room in that helpless plight. How long he remained
there is not exactly known ; but, from what after-
wards became known, the interval was probable little
short of two hours. Gradually recovering ,;onscious-
ness, he managed by slow degrees to release himself,
and taking up a poker he violently smashed a window
of the drawing-room with it in order to raise
alarm. The costly diamonds he had displayed
on the table had by that time disappeared, but
those he had left in his bag on the floor, and which
were almost • twice the value of the rest, remained,
as good luck would have it—the thieves probably over-
looking them in their haste to escape. Making his way
downstairs to the street door, the shopman gave an
alarm. which brought a policeman, and they went over
the whole house together, but only to find it completely
deserted, and no traces of either the man or woman
who had committed the outrage. It was then about eight
o'clock in the evening. While the police and he were so
engaged they heard a knock at the front door, and, going
there, admitted a women, who said she was a servant in
the house, and who appeared greatly surprised to find
it in the hands of strangers. She explained, in effect,
that, at about two o'clock that day, her master,
into whose service she had entered only on the
previous day, had sent her with a letter addressed to a
lady at Tulse-hill ; that she went there accordingly and
spent several hours in trying to find the address or the
lady, but altogether in vain ; and that she had brought
back the letter, which she now shewed to the shop-
man and to the constable. The inference from this
circumstei.,. is that the man Tyrrell, her master,
having deliberately planned the robbery, had sent
her en foot to that distant suburb upon a fool's
errand in order to get her out of the way.
Curiously enough, earlier the same afternoon, the same
man called at the shop of Messrs. Emanuel, jewellers, in
Bond-street, which adjoins that of Messrs. London and
Ryder, and ordered some diamond necklaces and rings
which he had seen there to be sent to him at the mine
address, 4, Upper Berkeley-street, for inspection. In
this case, however, the precaution was taken to send with
the jewels, not one, but two assistants, one of whom was a
man of great height and physique. The door was opened
to them by Mr. Tyrrell himself, but they were not ad-
mitted, he explaining that the lady for whom the diamonds
were intended was not then in the house, and they left. It
is presumed that, on seeing two assistants with the dia-
monds, and one of them of such formidable appearance,
he suddenly altered his mind, and that Messrs. London
and Ryder, instead of Messrs. Emanuel, became the
victims from that circumstance. Subsequent inquiries
have elicited the fact that the house in question in Upper
Berkeley-street, which is a furnished one, was taken only
on the preceding day by the man Tyrrell, and that at his
request the landlord engaged him a female servant—the
same who was afterwards absent on the needless errand to
'Tulle-hill, while the robbery and outrage were being com-
mitted. For the time the thieves have escaped. The man
Tyrrell is described as being about 35 years of age, and as
having dark hair and complexion, with dark whiskers and
moustache.

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other commander. Now that the bulk of the army,
perhaps the whole, is transferred to Vinoy we may
expect more heavy fighting.
THE QUARTERLIES AND TIM WAR.
It is a remarkable event when the leading
Quarterly Reviews are agreed upon any point. Such
an event does not often happen. Yet they are
agreed upon the war. The Quarterly Review makes
an uncompromising declaration in favour of France :
"The prolonged resistance of France is amply
justified by her resources, and by the spirit of her
children ; and (it adds) in the sacred struggle in
which she is now engaged we here, in the name
of all that is generous, manly, and honour-
able, wish her from our heart God speed."
The Edinburgh Review is not behindhand. It is
rejoiced to find that, in spite of the past,"France has
still the moral energy to carry on this great contest
for national independence. Victory is the prize of
those who can make war longest, and if aught of her
ancient spirit remains, she will not treat as long as a
stranger treadsher soil." The Edinburgh Review is the
organ of the upper middle-class, which has through-
out furnished the largest body of German sym-
pathisers.