The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-25 00:00:00

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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1880.

"NO ADMITTANCE EXCEPT ON BUSINESS "—this
was the unpretending but seasonable notice prepared
on Saturday for all the coasts of Old England. It is
a notice frequent enough on doors, behind which are
carried on those peaceful operations which cannot
afford to be interrupted by inquisitors or by idlers,
and for which our Gallic neighbours are wont to
laugh at us as a nation of shopkeepers. Never
mind. We are not an inhospitable people, but we
are a practical people, and we do not want to be
interrupted and put out of our way. All who have
fair business with us, even the business of running
away from despotism, or from the fury of an out-
raged people, all are welcome ; but for those who
would interfere with us we have the one warning—
"No admittance except on business."
M. THIERi, M. JOINVILLE, M. BONAPARTE,
and MEssiEußs, the fire-eating Colonels, all see this
notice now. They had perhaps before overlooked
it ; or, we may confess, that our intense devotion to
business may, like a vigorous undergrowth of
brushwood, have concealed the notice-board from
eyes that did not search for it ; it will be over-
looked or hidden no more. The review of Satur-
day was very much like some authority saying to a
stranger whose looks or movements indicated inten-
tion to trespass—" You see that notice, sir." Of
course the stranger saw it—he meant no offence—
why should he ? "All right, then, move on, ant
attend to your own business," or "keep on the
footpath."

We, who called attention to Rifle Corps among
the very first, if not the first, of their now numerous
advocates, may well rejoice over the illustration
afforded on Saturday of the practicability of our
views. We confess, indeed, that it far exceeded
what we bad ventured to hope, when two or three
years before it attracted public attention, we
earnestly suggested Volunteer Rifle Corps Is one
of our most natural and efficient national defences.
We did not ourselves expect that our young
men in such numbers would learn their drill
so quickly and efficiently ; we felt confident
That with a little encouragement the youth
of our country might be made excellent, and fairly
disciplined rifle shots, by tens and hundreds of
thousands, but we had hardly hoped that in a short
twelve Months from the project being taken up
by the public 122,000 men could be collected,
20,000 of whom could go through military exer-
cises in a style to excite the wonder and admiration
df certainly not favourable. critics. The result
seems indeed to have convinced every competent
observer that. in a very moderate time the men who
did so well on Saturday would be able to do any-
thing that any commander could ask of them in
face of any marauders who dare venture to show
their faces on the shores of our fatherland.
We should think it likely that the spectacle
of Saturday will tell more
on foreigners'
than even the grand naval display at Spithead, and
indeed than any reviews of our fleet. Our naval
superiority is a tradition of long standing, our par-
tiality for marine amukoments even, aswell as the
vastness of our commercial navy Making us
more
than any other country of Europe, a nautical
people—are a part of the popular belief of Europe.
But from the Ural Mountains to the western
caasts of France, and from the shores of the
thltic-to those against which we hope GARIBALDI
will soon be operating, it was supposed that Eng-
lishmen were not soldiers. True, from the battle
of Maida till that of Waterloo, it was seen that if
we could get men into the field they did their