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London, England, 1861-12-30 00:00:00

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the Government and people here very soon that
their conceit about their great military power is all
moonshine.

to Mrs. W. J. Taylor, of High-street, Windsor,

the members of the band of the Windsor Rifles, as
a testimonial of their esteem and respect, and also
as a return and acknowledgment for the assistance
she has given them in their practice, conducted at
her residence.

TVIIAT IS A " GENTLEMAN?"

Two great errors, colouring or rather discolour-
ing, severally, the minds of the higher and lower
classes, have sown wide dissension and wider mis-
fortune through the society of modern days. These
errors arc in our modes of interpreting the word
" gentleman." Its primal, literal, and perpetual
meaning is a man of pure race, well bred, in the
sense that a horse or dog is well bred. The so called
higher classes, being generally of purer race than
the lower, have retained the true idea, and the con-
victions associated witti it, but are afraid to speak
it out, and equivocate about it in public ; this equi-
vocw ion mainly proceeding from their desire to con-
nect another meaning with it, and a false one—that
of a man living in idleness on other people's labour
—with which idea the term has nothing whatever
to do. The lower classes, denying vigorously, and
with reason, the notion that a gentleman means an
idler, and rightly feeling that the more any one
works the more of a gentleman he becomes, and is
likely to become—have nevertheless got little of the
good they otherwise might, from the truth, because
with it they wanted to hold a falsehood, viz., that
race was of no consequence. It being precisely
of as
much consequence in man as in any other animal.
The nation cannot truly prosper till both these
errors are finally got quit of. Gentlemen have to
learn that it is no part of their duty or privilege to
live on other people's toil. They have to learn that
there is no degradation in the hardest manual, or
the humblest servile labour when it is honest. But
that there is degradation, and that deep, in extra-
vagance, in bribery, in indolence, in pride, in tak-
ing places they are not fit for, or in coining places
for which there is no need. It does not disgrace a
gentleman to become an errand boy, or a day la-
bower, but it disgraces him to become a knave or
a thief, and knavery is not the less knavery because
it involves large interests, nor theft the less theft
because it is countenanced by usage, or accompanied
by failure in undertaken duty. It is an incompara-
bly less guilty form of robbery to cut a purse out cf
a man's pocket, than to take it out of his hand on
the understanding you are to steer his ship up the
Channel when you do not know the soundings.
On the other hand, the lower orders, and all orders,
have to learn that every vicious habit and chronic
disease communicates itself by descent, and that by
purity of birth the entire system of the human body
and soul may bo gradually elevated, or, by reckless-
ness of birth, degraded, until there shall be as much
difference between the well-bred and the ill-bred
human creature (whatever -be taken With
their education) as between a wolf-hound and the
vilest mongrel cur. And the knowledge of this
great fact ought to regulate the education of our
youth and the entire conduct of the nation.—
Ruskin.

A prize cup, presented to the Hadleigh corps by
Ensign Freeman,
and won by Private Gray, has
been publicly presented to the successful competitor.
Lieutenant Robinson, who recently proceeded from
Hadleigh to the Hythe School of Musketry, has
returned, and is now communicating to his com-
rades the experience he has acquired. On Thurs-
day a butt was commenced for the Halesworth
corps, the range having been approved by the Go-
vernment inspector.
On Thursday the effective men of the Wisbech
corps commenced shooting for a handsome silver
challenge cup, presented by the ladies of neighbour-
hood ; but, in consequence of a thick fog prevailing,
the contest could not be proceeded with.
In Lincolnshire, Colour-Sergeant Brown, of the
South Lincoln Militia, has been attached to the
Spalding corps as drill sergeant and musketry in-
structor. Most of the Lincolnshire corps made
suitable demonstrations on the melancholy occasion
of Prince Albert's funeral.

On Thursday the members of the Yarmouth Rifle
Corps (which must not be confounded with the fine
artillery corps also formed in the town) assembled
to the number of 120, and marched to Hopton
House, the residence of their commandant, 1111,jor
Orde, by whom they were hospitably entertained.
The Thetford corps will shortly compete for several
prizes.

The Harwich Artillery Volunteers marched from
that town on Thursday to Stour-hall, Ramsey,
where they were hospitably entertained by Mr.
James Barker. Some animated speeches were de-
livered on the occasion, and the proceedings passed
off in a very gratifying manner. About 60 gentle-
men have entered the revived Brentwood corps.
The Hon. and Rev. H. W. Bertie has addressed a
letter to Lieutenant-Colonel Davis, resigning the
chaplaincies of the 3d Essex battalion and of the 2d
Essex corps. He states that in the present state of
public affairs he feels it his duty to identity himself
altogether with the 2d, or Ilford Company, of which
he is a member, and to share with its members
every vicissitude which may befal them.
About a fortnight ago some 48 members of the
Bilston Volunteers tendered their services to Go-
vernment for active employment in any manner or
place. The offer was forwarded through the Cap-
tain (Mr. J. N. Baghall) to the Lord Lieutenant of
Staffordshire (Lord Hatherton), and by his Lord-
ship transmitted to the Secretary for War, who, in
a communication to Lord Hatherton, has replied as
follows:—" I have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your Lordship's letter of the 12th inst.,
enclosing an offer of active service from the 12th
Staffordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, and I have to
request that you will communicate to the com-
manding officer my appreciation of the zeal and
patriotic spirit which has prompted the members
of the corps to make such an offer. I have, how-
ever, to request that s our Lordship will point out
to him that I could only avail myself of the services
of the corps, even if the country were at war, under
the provisions of the Act, 44th of George 111., cap.
54. I have, &c., G. C. LEWIS." The Volunteers of
Bilston have had this reply read to them on parade
by their captain.