The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-06 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.-aux OFFICZ, JULY 6,

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THEEMOXETER, IN THE SHADE.
77—highest since noon yesterday.
66—lowest this morning and during the night.
7g—this day at noon.
BAB,oNETEB-30.38.
South Westerly; light, with very fine, but hot
weather.

THE SUN.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1859.

Happily there is no real difference of opinion
in this country as to the necessity of increasing

the national defences, and as far as possible per•

fecting their organization. The masterly and im-
pressive statement made last night in the House of
Peers by Lord LYNDHURST is but the utterance
in burning words of the sentiment cherished in the
hearts' core of every trueborn Englishman. We
are all agreed. There is nowhere a dissentient

voice audible. Even Mr. COBDEN immediately
upon his arrival at Liverpool—believer though he
is in the efficacy of pacific arbitration—acknow-

ledged with a manly and patriotic frankness that
at all cost the independence of the nation must
be cared for, and that nothing possibly could

be too much to pay for the priceless boon
of immunity from subjugation. Differing though the

nine interlocutors did last evening as to the pro-

priety of these open discussions in regard to the
probabilities of a rupture with France, followed by
a French invasion—the three dukes, the three earls,
the solitary viscount, and the two ex-chancellors
were but of one opinion as to the advisability (to
say the very least of it) of maintaining the mili-
tary, and still more, if possible, the maritime forces
of the country at their highest point of efficiency—

ready at all times for any and every emergency
Semper paratus—that should be our latest em-

blazonmentupon the national escutcheon. " Ready,
aye, Ready" —being at the same moment I
the motto not alone of the heroic race of the
NAPIERB, but of all the sympathetic millions
of their countrymen, without distinction of place or
party, of class or profession. Hence, indeed, the
instantaneous response to the late poetic reveillez
of the Laureate—as signalised .by the rising far
and wide in all directions of the free corps of
the volunteers and the riflemen. There may be al-
ways something ludicrous to the professional soldier
in the notion of mere civilians enrolling themselves
in a sort of impromptu National Guard—but the
calamity of an invasion, be sure of that, would at
once elevate even the " awkward squad" of a
militia into something more than simple respecta-
bility. Danger would lend dignity to the un-
drilled. And the exchange of the yard measure
for the Minie rifle, or the hoe for the revolver,
would not necessarily be subject for ridicule—were
the consequence of that exchange for once by ne-
cessity the actual fighting for Fatherland.
There is that good old axiom, si vis pacem

pars bellum, which cannot possibly be too
often repeated. Even at the hazard of being
stigmatized as an alarmist, the venerable ex-Chan-
cellor, Lord LYNDHURST, insisted yesterday upon
the necessity of securing peace most effectually by
the energy of our warlike preparations. Excepting
only the new Lord President of the Connell (the
Earl GRANVILLE) and the new Lord Privy Seal
Ns °race the Duke of ARGYLL), and the new
First Lord of the Admiralty (his Grace the Duke
of SOMERSET) each of the five other Noble Lords
who spoke last
evening heartily endorsed the opi-
nions, expressed with so much patriotic fervour by
Lord LYNDHURST, when •
inaugurating this most
timely discussion. What, for example, were the
solemn closing words, what was the thrilling
tion of the speech delivered immedis. perora-
tion after Lord
LYNDHURST had resumed his seat by
Lord STRAT-
FORD DE REDCLIFFE ? " 11," exclaimed the noble
viscount, with extraordinary emphasis, •e
lx the
warning was in time accepted, if we looked
the
danger fairly in the face, and employed all the
means at our disposal, so far from there being any
reason to apprehend danger, I do, so help me God!
believe that if that hour of danger ever does arrive,
it would be the brightest and most glorious day
that ever shone on the destinies of this coun-
try !" It is the universal belief of all English-
men—lF ! Upon that one condition with
that single proviso—lF ! Let but that be
seen to, betimes, and there will not remain within
the compass of these shores one solitary alarmist.
It is the necessity of our seeing well to that, before
it is too late, that has given rise to all these fre-
quent movements in favour of a national armament
—not in the way of aggression, but of defence !
Lord HARDWICKE, in a kindred spirit, pronounced
the address delivered by the noble and learned
ex-Chancellor to be "as patriotic and useful
as it was important." Lord BROUGHAM, while
he insisted that we have no cause whatever
to be mistrustful as to the course likely to be
pursued by the French people, while he avowed,
moreover, his own confidence in the Emperor of
the. FRENCH, adds as powerfully as sententiously
—" BUT, whether we trust him (NAPOLEON III.)
or mistrust him, we certainly ought to trust to our-
selves, and without expecting war or dreading war,
we ought to be prepared for it." Those wise and
admirable words of Lord BROUGHAM'S express

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