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RUPTURES,

WHITE'S MOC-MAIN PATENT LEVER
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fIENTLEMEN,—In accepting your unexpected
kA invitation to come forward as a Candidate for your
borough at the coming election, I feel it due to you as well as
myself to state openly my political opinions.
In early life I was returned to Parliament as a Radical Re-
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Large Extension of the Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and, though
a member of the Established Church myself, an Abolition of
Church Rates, with a total Repeal of the infamous Game
Laws, alike a disgrace to their supporters and our Statute
Book." I advocate peace, and hope the people of England
recollect each Soldier costs them twelve shillings and sixpence
per day.
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trust the men of Walsall, Electors and non-Electors, who
think and feel niy Political Principles ought to be supported,
will urge their friends to vote for
Your humble Servant,
EDWARD SOUTHWELL RUTHVEN.

Cavendish Club,
London, April, 25th, 1859.

VOLUNTEER CORPS.

The following letters on this subject have been
addressed to a contemporary :

To you the credit is justly due of having revived the sub.,
ject of Volunteer Corps.
Recent events have given additional importance to the
subject, and have shown most forcibly the truth and accu-
racy of your predictions.
With France and Russia in the close alliance of a league
offensive and defensive, it assuredly behoves this country to
look about her. This is now conceded by men of all parties
and of every shade of opinion. The effect of that conviction
may be already traced in the efforts making in various quar-
ters to rouse to action the dormant enthusiasm of a large
portion of that class, the flower of the population of Eng-
land. This is shown by an earnest desire to form rifle regi-
ments and rifle societies in various parts of the country.
At our two Universities, especially, is this spirit observ-
able; and there can be little doubt but that if the authorities
only show ordinary alacrity in taking advantage of the zeal
and enthusiasm manifested both at Oxford and Cambridge,
their example will speedily be followed in other quarters ;
and we shall soon have—in our southern counties at least,
where they are chiefly needed—as many picked regiments of
this kind as would be needed, to co •operate with other troops
in the case of any emergency.
The value of levies such as these is apt to be much under-
rated by those who have had but little experience in actual
warfare, and whose knowledge of history is small. The re. '
cords of the past, however, sufficiently show that the valour
and enthusiasm of such men, when duly disciplined, have
often proved more than a match for the bull-dog courage
and endurance of even veteran paid forces.
In that dire struggle in the Cevennes between 1702 and
1704, during which it is computed that 50,000 troops fell
(although the insurgents never had at any one time more
than 3,000 under arms), all the skill and generalship of
four successive marshals of France could scarcely achieve a
single victory.
To a body chiefly consisting of rifle volunteers it was that
Burgoyne and an entire British army, composed of the finest
troops in the world, surrendered at Saratoga in 1777.
The indomitable prowess of volunteers again prevailed in
1781, when:Lord Cornwallis and another English army were
compelled to lay down their arms. The Tyrolese made short
work of Napoleon's choicest troops. The deeds of valour
performed by the German student-volunteers in 1813-15 are
too well known to need recital here. Again, the whole might
of Russia, with half-a-million of troops at her beck, in a long
and sanguinary war, has never accomplished a success
worth recording against the gallant volunteers of Circassia.
Can it for a moment be presumed that in this England of
ours, less chivalrous feeling really exists than has been ac-
tually evoked in other countries when the need arose ? It
must not be forgotten, however, that spirit and daring and
gallantry, however great, unless properly trained and disci-
plined, are of little worth. The present, then, is the time
for the formation of the nuclei, at least, of such corps as have
been alluded to. Let those who feel themselves qualified for
the duties come forward, and her Majesty will speedily have
at her disposal as noble a body of volunteers as the world
has ever produced.

Let it bo remembered that these corps cost the country
nothing, that they interfere with no established institutions,
and above all, that they engender and foster a spirit of
loyalty, obedience, and order, which after all is the only true
safeguard of nations.
Some nervous elderly gentlemen among our "authorities,"
have, it is said, been known to tremble at the danger of
training what they are pleased to call the " lower orders,"
even to shudder at the thought of putting arms into their
hands, forgetting that every time a militia regiment is dis-
banded several hundreds of trained troops are dispersed, who
would find no difficulty in re-assembling if mischievously
disposed, nor in quickly providing themselves with arms.
But the men who would come forward as volunteers are of
a far superior class to militia privates, and would for the
most part be by birth and education gentlemen. In proof
of this let us, for a moment, examine the constitution of one
of the two existing Rifle Volunteer Regiments, the " Vic-
toria Rifles," enrolled in 1853, and commanded by Lieut.-
Colonel the Duke of Wellington. (Tho details of the staff
may be seen on reference to the Army List.) The muster-
rollshows that a large prcportion of the rank and file of the
regiment consists of Oxford and Cambridge men, four
members of Parliament, several distinguished members of
the bar, as well as of other professions.
Tho regiment has, at Kilburn, a parade ground of 14
acres, with a range of 400 yards for target practice, and a
resident adjutant, whose decorations, gained in a rifle regi-
ment, attest his services in the line.
Recruits are admitted by the officers only, after ballot, so
that the present high character of the corps is always likely
to be maintained.

The head-quarters of the other corps are now at Exeter,
and, if report speaks truly, is similarly constituted. Why
are not these regiments at once raised to 1,000 men each—
a word of encouragement from the authorities is all that is
required ; and why, indeed, have we not eight or ten batta-
lions at least already under arms ? The very announce-
ment of such a state of things would be our surest safe-
guard.
If the prowess of volunteer corps has over and overagain
been sufficiently proved under the old system of warfare,
what may we not anticipate of them when armed with a
weapon individual proficiency in the use of which is alone
sufficient to ensure future success in the field ?

That our native superiority over the French in the use of
fire-arms remains to us in the present day the experience of
any one who has engaged in "La Chasse" across the Chan-
nel will attest, and this native superiority it should be the
object of every one who wishes thoroughly and inexpensively
to guard our coasts to endeavour to develop. When her
power to carry the bayonet was more to be relied upon than
the other properties of " brown Bess," great efficiency
could only result from constant drill. All that is necessary
to render effective a body of mon armed with the Enfield
rifle, the weapon now in use, is an . attendance (consistent
with the occupations of most men) sufficient to teach them
to move together, to know the bugle calls, and, above all,
to become good rifle shots.
What " the cloth-yard shaft and grey goose wing"
effected, when guided by an English eye and an English
hand at Cressy and at Agincourt, the rifle bullet will do in
any future contest, more especially when the opposing army
would have to advance through a country where each lane
and hedgerow would be lined with its "guerillas."
Such is the obect of the particular regiment above ad-
verted to. Their Wednesday afternoon drill and shooting
are well worth inspection by anyone who takes an interest
in the subject to which you have so well and so patriotically,
drawn attention, and the visit will offer some valuable sug-
gestions in the very desirable formation of similar bodies.—
I am, &c.,
THE AUTHOR OF " THE RIFLE AND HOW
TO USE IT."
United University Club, April 27.

Sir,---With all deference to the opinions which have been
expressed in the columns of some of your contemporaries, I
do not believe that there are many old military officers who
are opposed to the immediate formation of volunteer rifle
corps in this country.
Of course we find in all professions some well meaning
but prejudiced men who will insist that the present system
and regulations of their particular calling are the best and
true ones, and do notrequire either improvement or change.
The most strikinc, example perhaps on record of this feeling
is that of the lateblluke of Wellington, who never could be
persuaded that the musket of the British infantry required
improvement, and as he had won all his glorious victories
with " old brown Bess," in la
is opinion that was the " queen
of Weapons."
In the year 1803, we had about 300,000 volunteers in this