The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-04 00:00:00

FACILITIES FOR RECRUITING.

The military authorities have addressed the fol-
lowing circular to the staff officers of pensioners
in the several districts in the United Kingdom,
with the v:ew of affording increased facilities for
raising men for the Queen's army

" War-office, Dec. 28.
" Sir,—lt being considered advleal)le in the present
emergency to raise men for the service of the regular
army by all avai!able means, her Majestys GoVernment
have determined for this purpose to require the aid of the
pension staff; and I am accordingly to inform you that
Lord Panmure r_ Ikons with confidence on your cordial
co-operation and assistance in carrying out these views.
" Beating orders will be tent to you, empowering your
staff and quartermaster-sergeants, and such of the pen-
sioners in your district as are worthy of being selected
for this duty, not exceeding six in a first-class, or four in
a second-class district, with one at each of the out sta-
tions, where he can be eraphy ed with advantage—to raise
recruits for her Majesty's service within the limits of your
district. You will be pleased to instruct; the persons em-
p'oyed on this duty not to enlist militiamen, ex,:ept under
the terms prescribed by the circulars from this depart-
ment, and to adhere strictly to the provisions of the Mu-
tiny Act as regards enlistment.
" DUTIES.—I am to add that while employed on this
duty you will act under the immediate orders of the
General-Ctinmending-in-Chief, in the same manner as a
sub-division officer on the recruiting service of the army,
subject, by order of the Right Hon. the Secretary of
State for War, to the inspection and military control of
the hal:Hating field officers of the recruiting districts
within which your bead-quarters are situated.
"REIVARD.—You will be allowed the reward of
knotted under like circumstances to officers of the army.
" AnEA. or RECRUITMENT.—The area of recruitment
will be confined to the limits of the pension district su-
perintend° 1 by you.

" VOLUNTEERS.—The Secretary of State for
War wilt not demand the payment of the usual
18r. 6d. for a substitute from those Militia volunteers
who, upon eril stment, shall declare themselves to belong
to the Militia, provided that these men have attended
one training with their regiment, or shall have been six
months upon the r 11 of their respective regiments.
" MODS OF PROCIIEDING.—The regiments for which
the pensioners are to recruit will be intimated to you by
the inspecting field officer of the district, who will also
furnish you with full instructions as to the terms of
enlistment (age, standard, bounty, and bringing money),
and as to the transfer of recruits to the district head-
quarters, or to their re-pective regiments or depots, as
the case may be.
" CONDUCTING OF RECRUITS.—The recruits will be
conducted 1, the head-quarters of the recruiting district
by pensioners, who will be furnished with the usual
routes, and will receive the usual allowance for such duty.

" ADVANCES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES.—Tue district
paymasters will be instructed to put themselves in com-
munication with the staff officers of pensioners within
their districts, to make them the usual advances, to put
them in possession of- the usual form of accountability,
and to make monthly settlements with them.
" RESPONSIBILITIES or SAME.—As a preliminary to
cariyiog this project into execution, you will notify to
this office your consent, and that of tho selected pen-
sioners, to being employed upon this duty ; which con-
sent, it is to be distinctly understood, will ixipose upon
them the responsiblties to which all parson. employed
on the recruiting service are subjected by the second
clause of the Mutiny Act.
" His lordship deems it right to dircet that you re-
mind the pensioners that, while the rsuiuneration for
the enlistment of recruits who shall be intermediately
approved is most ample, still there is a certain risk in
recruiting operations, as the necessary principle in such
matters is that no remuneration or individual expenses
are sanctioned in the ease of recruits who do not pass
medical examinat on.

" It is contemplated to employ the sur,geone of the
disembodied militia for the necessary me iin,l exami-
nation of the recruits, and that their remuneraiion
be that sanctioned for such duty when performed by
private practitioners ; but where there are no Militia
surgeons a private medical piactitioner may be obtained
on the usual terms.

"I have, &c. B. HAWES."
With the above the annexel instructions are
forwarded :

"Sir,—l am directed to request your attention to the
following instructions, with reference to the circular of
the 28th inst., relative to recruiting by pensioners.
"1. In your selection for this object a preference is
to be given to enrulled pensioners, but others may be
taken if y4n know them to be particularly well adapted
for the duty. Non-commissioned officers and privates
with medals or honorary distinctions should also have a
preference.

" 2. None are to be selected but men of good character
and trustworthy, a.lid you will warn them that in the
event of their being found guilty of any fraudulent prac-
tice connected with these datiea they will be liable to
buepension of pension, in addition to any other penalty
that may be awarded.

3. You will furnish the inspecting field officer of the
district with a list of the men whom you recommend for
this duty, and who agree to undertake it : and in the
event of their not being successful, or proving otherwise
ineligible, you will sugge,t such changes among them
from time-to time as you may think expedient.
4. The clothing of the enrollel men may be issued
to them for this duty, and those who are not enrolled
may be provided temporarily wi h any spare suits in
store, on which there are no claims ; when the experi-
ment has been found successful sew clothing will be
issued.

"5. Tisis clothing should always be worn when these
men enlist a recruit or bring him up for medicalinspec-
tion
or to ise attested.
"6. You must be careful that any advance made to
these pension,: r 4 for the purpose of recruiting does not
exceed a month's pension, in addition to any approval
money you consider likely to be due to them.
"7. The pay and marching allowance to a pensioner
who brings ao enlisted recruit for intermediate or final
approval will be the same as in the case of Militia staff
similarly employed.
" S. To prevent unnecessary medical inspections each
of the pe n•ioners employed should be directed to sanely
himself by personal inspection before enlis.ing a recruit
that there are no visible impediments to his being pa,a,d
into the service.

" 9 These pensioners sbou!d each be provided with a
measuring tape, on which the nunianuin height is marked,
and to avoid the chance of rejection care should be taken
that ad recruits brought from a distance are at least a
quarter of an inch above that standard. Capacity of
attest natistal o be attended to, that recruits may not be
rejected for being too slight.
" 10. As many of the pension di.tricts are too far
from the head-quarters of the inspecting field oflicir for
recruits to be brought there without comiderable expense
to the public, you will be informed by that offiztr whe-
ther there are any regiments or depots nearer to you
which are in want of wen, and where recruits should be
tsken in preference.

"11. You will as much as possible relieve your staff.
sergeant, and also the quartermaster.-ergeant, if you
have one, from their other duties, in order to facilitate
their obtaining recruits, but you wi:i make them aware
that tho time thus placed at their disposal mutt be. z.m-
lou.ly devoted to that duty.

" 12. To the other men-who are selected you will ex-
plain that, as no daily pay is assigned for recruiting, they
will only be expected, by accepting that employment to
exert themselves during their spare hours, when it may
prove a source of profit to them, but that any want of
success on their part will lead to their services being dis-
continued, and others selected for the duty.
" You will transmit a list of the men selected to this
department, and also cause a copy thereof to 178 hang up
in, your office, and you will inform the pensi-mers gene-
rally, on the first occasion of payment, that, though the
privilege of enlisting recruits must be conligod to these,

the whole of the force may prove useful as bringerS, and
that for every recruit brought to any of the enlisters, and
intermecitately or finally approved, you will be respon.
Bible that tEey should receive the bringing money esta-
blished by regulation.—l have, &c.

"B. HA:WES."

MR. LANGSTON AND MR .
. CARDWELL AT
OXFORD

The annual Druid? gathering took place in the
Town-hall, Oxford, on Friday evening under the
presidency of Mr. Johri Bacon. Mr. Langston and
Mr. Cardwell, the city members, were pres ant, and
Mr. C. Neate, late M.P. and Professor of Political
Economy in the University of Oxford, the: Mayor,
and many of the leading inhabitants of the city.
The health of the city members having been
drunk.

Mr. LA.NGSTON returned thanks, remarktug that
when he had the pleasure of addressing tha in on, a
former occasion he assured them that he should
feel it his duty, as their representative in Parlia-
ment, to do all that lay in his power to carry out a
system of economy and retrenchment in the army
and navy. At that time there was no apprebeitsion
whatever of a European war • no one—he believed
not even the ,Ministers of the Crown—bad any
idea of what was likely to happen in India. it
might appear to them a most extraordinary thing
that the authorities in this country should h ave
been so perfestly unprepared that an army con-
sisting of 100,000 men should break out into open
mutiny without the Government having any
knowledge of it. That such a state of
things should exist was most extraordinary, The
country had yet to learn what course the Govern-
ment pursued, and whether or not they had really
done their duty ; but without further adverting
to that subject the question to be decided was, on
what principle was our Indian empire hereafter to
be governed ? It was well known that her Ma-
jesty's Ministers bad announced their intention to
propose a great alteration in the present system of
administration iu that country, and he sincerely
hoped that they would so well consider the question
as to be able to propose a plan which would place
the future Government of India on a firm and solid
foundation. That subject would, no doubt, occupy
so much of the time and attention of Parliament
in the forthcoming session that he was greatly
afraid the measure which Ministers had promised
for a reform of the represent :Hon of the country,
and which so many of his constituents were anxious
to see effected would be necessarilypostponed. They
had been assured by the Government that they would
be prepared to introduce a measure having in view
such an alteration in the national representation as,
in their opinion, was desirable for the country at
large. He sincerely hoped that such a measure
would be brought forward, and although there was
no chance of it being carried so far as to become the
law of the land, no doubt the subject would be fully
discussed and the Bill be laid upon the table of the
house so that it might receive a careful consideration.
(Hear, k'ar.) One other event had occurred during
the past year which would, no doubt, be long re-
membered, besides the mutiny which bad taken place
in India. That event was one of a very serious
nature to the whole nation, because it had inflicted
great losses upon persons connected with the trade
of the country,—lie alluded to the difficulties and
disasters: which had fallen upon the monetary and
commercial classes. They were aware that that
subject had been referred to a committee of the
House of Commons, and as it was one in which
his right hon. colleague (Mr. Cardwell) had taken
a leading part no doubt he would be placed
upon that committee. lie hoped their united
labours would result in producing such a measure
that hereafter the banking and commercial interests
of the community would be placed upon a firmer
and safer foundation. (Loud cheers.)
The Right Hon. E. CARDWELL on risinc, met

with a most enthusiastic reception, the chose.; fi otn
all parts of the hall being again and again repeated.
He said he returned them from the bottom or his
heart his sincere thanks for the honour they had
been kind enough to pay the members who repre-
sented them in Parliament,—to the chairman for
the manner in which he had propcsed the toast,
and to the company for the manner in which they
had been kind enough to receive his name. It was,
indeed, as the Chairman had truly told them, one
of the principal characteristics of this noble people
and this free Government that men exhibited all
the properties which belonged to civil conflict on
the occasions of conflict, but on occasions of
peaceful intercourse they could all meet in a
spit it of common friendship and individual
feeling to discuss and consider those subjects
which were the common property of Englishmen
and the common interest of every subject of the
Queen. (Cheer,..) The year which had passed had
left upon the miud and heart of England deeper
traces of sorrow than any year that we had ever ex-
perienced or had ever read of. He could not bear
to dwell on those occurrences, and if he was able he
would erase them from his memory, for.events had
occurred which had not only afflicted but disgraced
humanity. Let them rather turn to other things
and other subjects which arose from the same
transactions, and let them contemplate the
magnanimous courage of their soldiers and the un-
paralleled fortitude displayed by English men and
English women, which had been unexampled in all
the nations of the world. (Loud cheers.) In former
years there were no pages of our history on which
we dwelt with more enthusiasm than those which
recorded the victories of Clive and Wellesley—the
days of Plessey and Assaye. That reminded him
of some old lines he had learnt in his younger days
which ran thus :
" Shout, Britons, shout,
" For the battle of Assaye !
" For that was a day,
" When we stood on our way,
" Like a lion turned at bay,
" And the battle cry
" Was Conquer or die.' "
(Cheers.) But, had they not seen those painful,
yea, harrowing events which had taken place in the
year that had just closed. They should remember
that a few men, scattered over a large district, had
firmly held their own against the sudden mutiny of
a united army, trained by ourselves iu the us ) of
the weapons of Europe en warfare, and who had
used them, above all and more than all, with a
cruelty which unfortunately seemed to be the dis-
tinguishing character of Asiatic warfare. They
should remember. also, that the city of Delhi was
for several months besieged by an army scarcely
so numerous as a garrison, while it was defended
by a garrison far more powerful in point of num-
bers than the besieging army. Then, again, they
had witnessed the advances of Havelock—(loud
cheers)—when every day there was a conflict, and
every conflict a victory. (Renewed sheers.) The
names of those who bad accomplished those achieve-
ments had become household words on the hearths
of every Englishman, and it was almost impossible
to particularise in one speech the names of those
who were now invested, in all time and history,
with the panoply and reputation of heroes. But
it was not martial courage alone which constituted
the most striking achievment of this eventful year.
Great as had been the victories of our soldiers in
battle there was one other virtue that seemed to he
the attribute of our race, which he thought had
been exhibited in a still more remarkable degree.
He meant the patient suffering, the Lan and steady
endurance of those who, having no weapons in their
hands—men, women, and children, who, when
there was nothing for them but to endure the ex-
tremity of suff.,r:ng, still exhibited a power and
dignity of character unexampled in the history of
our country, and which was so eloquently ex-
preaed by the poet in the lines—

" How sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong."

He believed,,that example had not been lost upen
the continent of Europe. Two years ago it was the
fashion, and justly so, to run us down among the
nations of Europe, but the example that had been
exhibited during the year 1857 had, he believed,
raised our country in their estimation by the quali-
ties which they had witnessed in our disorderei
empire in the East. They nowsaw the Commander-
iu-Chief intrenched in the capital of the insur. cc-
tion, having joined his gallant comrades, and he
was now awaiting the arrival of reinforcements.
He hoped that those reinforcements, now rapidly
arriving in India, would be sufficient to enable him
t) restore order and re-establish our supreuialy in
thenameof the Queen of England. (Cueers.) Those
events Would indeed imp
colleague had told
of history file impost' upon them, as his hon.
them a dutyof no ordinary mag-
It le ; but he believed if they ransacked thepiges
para.& , . Y would find it aduty
ioci 10 the history
were called
.upon to .ya„ nearly 200,000,000 of
people, alien from rn
from our itligien of the human race. They
, and
ar race, from our langurge,
Eng'and. He would not taldilh among them a fromi our laws, and to es-
:fc:t worthy of the name of
to all the difficulties that would igu,: them by referring
plishmeiat of that great uthratriBs in
were two things which he was sur'eking,b'A.ettactirie.
the approbation of all Engli:limenw°uld command
a
our policy. In the first place, that it3wa thu
bas:B
of
of all Governm,!nt, and should 1 ettlitpri
iaerctttff duty
ob-
ject, to promote the welfare and po,
country and Vie people who lived in it ; Yanod,thie
the second place, with regard to the subject of mu
ligion, that while on the one hand they igiould not
attempt -to prop %ate our pure and holy filth as
Mahomet propagated his—that was by force and
the sword—while they should scorn the bise policy
ofattempting to preach a hollow and hypocritical
profession of our opinions by unworthy influences,
so, on the other hand, he be!ieved thatjustico and
mercy and truth were the essential attributes of
every wise and just Government, and were attri-
hutwalso which were inseparably connected with

the religion which we professed. And it was in
that spirit of justice, of mercy, and of truth that
the Government of the Queen of England over
200,000,000 of an alien race must be administered.,
(Cheers.) His hon. colleagne'had alluded to ano-
ther subject which in the course of the past year:
had brought. sorrow upon this land—he meant the
collapse of the commercial community, which La i
reduced great houses from apparent prosperity to
immediate distress, and had been the means in
some parts of the country of throwing honest work-
ing men out of their accustomed occupations, de-
priving them of the wages of their labour, and
exposing them to those trials which had bean re-
current in our commercial history. But he hoped
and believed that scarcely any district had been
less affected by the calamity than the city and
neighbourhood of Oxford, and he was sure that if
the committee which had been appointed by Parlia-
ment to investigate the causes of that calamity
should have it in their power to suggest any means
by which its recurrence in the future could be pre-
vented, there were no persons who would more de-
serve encouragement than the honest tradesmen
and labourers in their efforts to dtscourage to so-
called facilities of commerce, too readily afforded—
than the citizens of Oxford whom he had then the
honour to address. Let them hope that the Govern-
ment of the country might be effectually promoted
in the yenr which was then opening, and that other
nations, emulous of our commerce, would follow in
the same course, and that their better government,
where liberty was combined with loyalty and order,
might be greatly extended over other nations of the
I world. (Cheers.) He had lately had the privilege of
-visiting a country which in the late war was our
cordial ally—he referred to Sardinia, where institu-
tions similar to our own were working with succes',
where our commercial policy had been adopted, and
where, although bounded by France on the one side
and Austria on the other,that commercial policy was
firmly maintained. (The right hon. gentleman
resumed his seat amidst loud cheers.)