The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-02 00:00:00

THE MILITLI.

The following minute has been forwarded to us
for publication :

" 'War-office, June 14.

" Sir,—l have had under my consideration the
conditions on which men belonging to the disem-
bodied militia have hitherto been permitted to trans-
fer their services to her Majesty's regular forces. It
is most important to the effi3iency of the militia, as
a reserve force upon which dependence can be
placed in case of national danger, that it should be
raised from among men of settled habits and fixed
residence within the county to which.the regiment
belongs.
" A. militia regiment, however short of its quota,
which can annually muster as effectives for training
the men who have been enrolled, is far more efficient,
and contributes more to the security of the State
than one which having a large force upon paper
can neither produce nor account for them subse-
quently; militia officers, therefore, should not seek
to attract temporarily to their ranks men who would
otherwise enlist into her Majesty's regular forces,
of whose services the army is thus deprived, and
who, by leaving the militia for the line after receiv-
ing the militia bounty, disorganise the militia, while
they enter the army at an increased and unneces-
sary expense to the public.
The regulations at present in force for carrying
on volunteering from the militia to the line will
therefore be modified in the following manner :
" Stringent orders have been issued prohibiting
any line or other recruiting parties, from attempt-
ing in future in any way to induce militiamen to
leave their respective regiments, in order to enlist
in her Majesty's regular forces or marines; militiamen
having no more right to do so than men of one
line regiment have to enlist in another without the
consent of their commanding officer. Such a pro-
ceeding on their 'part amounts to desertion and will
expose them to the penalties attached to that offence
—a liability which every opportunity should be
taken to make known. Volunteers, therefore, who
may be anxious to enlist in the regular army should
apply for permission to their commanding officers,
who will exercise their discretion as to granting
their request, bearing in mind the policy of grant-
ing conditional releases to men who are bent on en-
listing, and over whose movements, except during
the one month's training, they have little or no
practical control. In such cases I shall be prepared,
on your recommendation, to give you a covering
authority for the release of any such men to whom
you think it right to grant the indulgence. But it
is to be clearly understood that in all such cases the
men will be required to refund 18s. 6d. to cover the
bounty and other expenses incurred on their enrol-
ment ; also any balance of bounty they may have
received in advance on account of their first en-
gagement, if re-attested for a second. The act under
which the temporary embodiment of the militia has
been sanctioned will expire en the 25th of March
next, and the entire force will then revert to its
normal and constitutional estate, as a reserve force
to be annually trained, but not to be embodied ex-
cept in time of national danger; but there is every
reason to hope that by a careful observance on the
part of the Government of the principles on which
the militia force is founded, the disorganisation of
the regiments of which it is composed will be pre-
vented, and commanding officers will be enabled to
repeat the fruits of their unremitting exertions to
maintain the efficiency of their corps.—l have the
honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,

" SIDNEY HERBERT,
"The Officer Commanding Regiment
of Militia."

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JUNE 3a
TIIE POPE'S IRISH RECRUITS.

A letter from the King's County, published in
Saunders's Newsletter of this day, states that the
cautionary notice of the Government has been com-
pletely set at defiance in that quarter, and that the
Papal emissaries are still actively engaged in pick-
ing up recruits for the Pope's service. The writer
adds :

" The agricultural classes are holding aloof from
the movement, but every possible influence, lay and
clerical, is used to induce the members of ' I.'he
Young Men's Catholic Associations,' which du, mg
the last few years have considerably increased
throughout the kingdom, to enroll themselves as
soldiers for the Pope. It was at first supposed that,
these societies were only to comprise the mercantile
' and Rieehanieal classes ; but since Garibaldi's expe-
dition the humblest end poorest members of the
I community are soeght after and enrolled, and the
death of each member, no matter how humble the
indivirluil may be, is duly recorded in complimen-
tary terms in the minute-book of the society to
which he belonged, and the expenses of ' a fine
wake and a good funeral' are defrayed out of the
hinds, and the body is conveyed by the members,
who march in military order to the graveyard. It is
now understood and a well established fact, that
each of these associatims has to contribute, accord-
ing
to its numbers, a cGrtain contingent to the Pope's
army. It is stated that Banagher, in this county,
is to send forward 20 recruits ; and that, at an
early hour on Monday morning next, about 17 will
start and proceed to Ballinasloe, where they will
catch a train. These recruits are all principally
members of the Young Men's Catholic Association
in that town. It is also stated that Parsonstown is
to send at least 30 recruits to the Papal army; but,
up. to the present, the military ardour of ' the man
milliners,' ' grocers' boys,' &c., seems not to be in
the ascendant, although ' the spiritual director's'
best exertions arc zealously employed to arouse
their energies fur martial‘ glory. The class of men
who are resigning from the police force throtilt-
out the country, forthe purposeofjoining the Papal
brigade, and whose retirement is so much lamented,
should be immediately accepted, as it is the opinion
of all well disposed persons they are only' leaving
the country for their country's good,' before the
opportunity, should it ever arise, of doing much
mischief."

Meanwhile, as the position of the Papacy is becom-
ing more and more critical, another hurricane of
pastorals is being blown by the Romish hierarchy,
the first gust proceeding from the see of Kildare
and Leighlin. The faithful who pay spiritual
obedience to the Right Rev. Bishop Walsh, are in-
formed that,

" In common with all Europe and the world, we
arc the debtors of the Popes for the vast services
rendered by them to learning, to civilisation, to
liberty, and to religion."
Then follows the cheering assurance, with regard
to•the spiritual authority of the Pope, that ,
" The gates of Hell will never prevail against the
Church of God, of which the Pope is the visible
head and chief pastor upon earth. Talie wickedness
of man or Satan cannot prescribe against the pro-
111.1S'eS of God. Bet though the spiritual power of
the' Pope cannot be weakened by the assaults; Of the
Devil or his agents, the exercise of that power, in
the•preseut condition of the world and.highly arti
fbi depriving
state of society, could be very much obstructed
y
him of the temporal possessions which
he bad so for
donee not °lily facilitates
uy, considerably over a thou-
aLiu, Years, p.r-sessed. His., temporal indepen—
e exercise of his