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London, England, 1858-08-02 00:00:00

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market to a distant one. The tesulta have.beip ae
costly as might have•leen 'expectid.
Tile figures I am about to give are taken from a
Parlianientarj _ paper, moved for by Mr. Coning-
ham, of which an abstract appeared in our impres-
sion of the 30th 'of July.
The first item in the cost of levying this Canadian
regiment is—
The usual bounty and incidental expenses £4BCO
One Majority, given to a Canadian civilian who
brought in 200 men, regulation value 3,'200
Six Captaincies, given to Canadian civilians who
brought in 80 men each, regulation 7alue
1,8001 lO,BOO
Eight Lieutenancies, given to Canadian civilians
who brought in 40 men each, regulation value
700/ 5,800
Two Ensigocies, given gratis to Canadian gentle
men, 4501
Passage money of officers to England ...
Ditto of 1,000 men, at 01. Bs. each
Ditto of women and children, say

-900
WO
6,400
-600

R 32,550
It thus appears that we have been ping for 3,
Canadian recruits landed at Liverpool 321. 10s. s
man, at a time when we were paying Tor British
recruits at the same place but 41.-10 s. a man I
We shall be told, perhaps, that this costly expe-
riment was a deep political move ; that it was
judicious to interweave more strongly the interests
of Canada with those of the mother country at the
present crisis. Why 1 Is Canada a loyal colony t
If so, she surely does not want her loyalty to be
corroborated by surreptitiously putting a few thou-
sand pounds into the pockets of some 30 Canadian
gentlemen, under the
pretence of patriotism re-
warded, and by abstracting men from her labour-
market who have been very recently imported
thither at a considerable public outlay. If she is is
disloyal colony, is it supposed that we can conciliate
her respect by allowing her to outwit us in an ab-
surdly bad bargain ? Moreover, it appears from
other figures in Mr. Coningham's return that the
so-called " Canadian" Regiment is composed of 70
per cent. of British-born subjects, and but 30 per
cent, of native Canadians.

Th© highest prize we have ever offered to our
most deserving Militia officers in reward for good
service at home and abroad has been the gift of an
Ensigricy in the Line for 100 trained men. Why
should wegive a Captaincy in the Line—theregirla-
tion value of which is exactly four times that of an
Ensigncy—for but 80 untrained men to a Canadian
civilian who has never done the State any service
at all, and that in a colony so distant that it will
cost us double—nay, treble the price we are paying
for men in England, for their mere transport from
Upper Canada to the locality in Great Britain in
which they are to be converted into soldiers 1'
It is futile to say that the commissions this.; given
may not be sold, and therefore cost the country no-
thing. A commission either repre,sen's a sum of
money, or a life annuity calculated on that sum.
If A may not sell his commission, he receives his
annuity as long as he lives ; if he may sell it, he
sells it to B, and B receives it as long as he lives.
The result to the public is precisely the same,
whether the commission be saleable or not ; the
public has either to pay for eacli commission given
away an annuity for ono life, or to redeem that
annuity at the regulation price.
I am informed that Lower Canada is very de-
sirous of making just such another bargain with
the mother country as Upper Canada has bad the
good luck to complete ; that Australia is eager to
contribute her quota of men to the national army
at a cost of about 701. per head (which is very
moderate, considering the price of labour at the
diggings and the distance from home) ; and that
the Maoris of New Zealand have tendred their
loyal services at a cost of little more than ten times
that at which the services of English, Irish, and
Scotch labourers may be obtained.

But before we close with any of these tempting
offers I conceive that the House of Commons will
do well to look a little more closely than it has done
into the manner in which our recruiting expendi-
ture is conducted. The only way tospend our money
to advantage is to go mqnfully into the market and
pay the market price for the article required, taking
care to get money's worth for money expended. All
circuitous expedients to get more for half-a-crown
than two-and-sixpence invariably recoil upon the
schemer who resorts to them ; in the various in-
stances I have quoted Ivo have invariably failed in
our endeavours to get more and better recruits, and
have only succeeded iu squandering public money
on parties who had no cla‘im whatever to benefit
by it.