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London, England, 1861-10-07 00:00:00

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OCTOBER, 7, 1861,

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211. R. CL,Y, 11f.P., AT II ULL.
On Thureday evening a grand banquet took place
at the •Royal Station Hotel, Hull, on the occasion
of the prizes being presented to the volunteers wire
had successfully competed at the rifle contests dur-
ing the season. About 220 volunteers sat down,
Lieut.-Colonel Pease Occupying the chair.
The chairman was supported: by Mr. JAMES CLAY,
M.P., who proposed the " Health of the Hull Rifle
Volunteers." Some people, he said, had been in the
habit of talking about what they called an invasion
panic —a term which had always appeared to him to
be singularly misapplied—for panic, used in that
sense, he understood t 3 be "fear without reasonable
ground." Now, he had never seen any fear. He
had never seen any pale faces in this country—
(laughter and cheers)—but he had seen very reason.
able ground why, in the matter of &fence, we
should seriously set our house in order, and be pre-
pared for any contingency. When he spoke of this
feeling, which did exist, but which now existed no
longer, let him not be understood to speak in any-
thing like hostility to the Emperor of the French, •
who, in his opinion had ever entertained a kindly
feeling towards this country. He had been our
brother in arms ;he had shown a disposition to draw 1

more closely the ties of friendship and commercial
enterprise, by making a commercial Otreaty. The
Emperor, however, was surrounded by an immense
army. He was sometimes their slave, and at any
moment an accidental misunderstanding—some
chance difference acting on the passions of the two
nations—both justly proud of their position among
nations, might lead to a feeling so strong that even
the will of the Emperor might not.be sufficient
to control it. It Nva3 for this reason Mr. Clay
considered England had neither been too fast nor
too zealous in putting the country into that state
of effectual defence which, in a great measure,
was cwing to the volunteers. There was one impor-
tant fact about this enormous addition to our de-
fensive force. It was comparatively inexpensive to
the nation at large—(hear, hear)--it was upheld by
the voluntary principle throughout. He was sorry
to see in London—though, happily, not in Hull or
elsewhere—persons had been found to endeavour to
discountenance this great movement, and public no-
tice had been given by some employers of labour,
that those employed by them must choose between
what they believed to be their duty to their country
and the business in which they were engaged.
(Cries of Shame.) To men such as these he could
only speak on the lowest possible grounds. He could
only use to them the meanest arguments, lxcauss
they were addressed to the meanest understandings.
(Hear, hear.) These men must know that it was
something to establish a force of 170,000 volunteers

—and he said to them, "If you succeed in rendering
the volunteer movement abortive, there will have
to be an increase of the standing army—(cheers)--
which could not be less than 2d. more income tax to

pay." (Laughter.) He toldvsuch men as these thal

they were blind self-seekers and bad citizens—(loud
cheers)—and it was a great pleasure there were none
such in Hull, and he did not think there ever would

?HE BEV. tr. LTA CNAUGHT.

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PRICE ....... -.4d.
STAMPED

THE NAVAL RESERVE.

The Naval Reserve force in connection 7,;ith Sun-
derland now numbers 800, and on Tuesday and
Wednesday last Mr. Lambton, the shipping master
at that port, paid £4OO, in sums of 30s. each, as the
quarterly pay of the men then in port. :east Tepee
Mr. Lindsay, M.P., who is on the Royal COIL1111!--
sion to Inquire -into- the Manning of the Navy,
visited the Trincemalee. training-ship, in Sunder-
land Docks; and saw the Men going through their
drill. He afterwards addressed them. He said his
'heart warmed- within him when he saw so many
-fine fellows, after a short, drill of a month work
the guns so well and systematically as he had seen
them do, that day: Oar great strength had ever
been ships-of-war, aud our great defence British
seamen. He did not know how they could more
effectually or more economically carry out any
scheme than the one he was happy to see now going
so smoothly along. It was unlike the Old scheme
by a system of bounties, and, he was sorry to say,
of -drunkenness and debauChery. Soldiers required
training through along series of years, but the Re-
serve required very' little training, for the simple
reason that no man-of-war's man could surpass
them, for the hardy men who manned our colliers
and Baltic ships Were superior to any seamen in the
world. (Cheers.) lie meant no disparagement to
their friends over the water. The last men he saw
working guns were Frenchmen, but the men of the
Reserve went about their \yolk in such a different
style that he believed- the old saying, that " Oue
British tar is as good as three Frenchmen," was,
after all, true. It struck him that day that if ever
the necessity should arise—though his prayer was
that the two nations might long continue on friendly
terms—he would back one of the lads he saw below
against any three Frenchmen in the working and
handling of a gun. (Cheers) The fact was, it was
natural to them. Englishmen in their boyhood
turned as naturally to the boat and sail as the
French to their drums and fifes. It was as great
folly for France to attempt to become a great ma-
ritime Power as it would be for us to attempt
to become a great military power. We were es-
sentially a seafaring people. We had been so from
generation to generation, and would continue so,
for our strength had ever been on the water, and
our strength must ever be on it. Let each man,
then, go and get his shipmates to join. They now
numbered nearly 800 in this port ; he should like
to see them number 2,000. They now took the
lead in the ports of the world with their ships, and
in the ports of Great Britain none stood so high as
that which he had the honour to represent in
Parliament. He would take an opportunity to
mention in Parliament that he never saw guns so
scientifically handled as he had that day, and that
while the country had such men as they there was
no fear of a foreign fee.