The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
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•ess it has inflicted on the constitution a

/ will not speedily bP
in• all likelihood

'cal* -and' the scar of

never be obliterated. In

probably no instance has the watchfulness of 'constitutional
jealousy been so-sensitively displayed as
tions intended to guard against foreign interference and
controul, in respect to our legislative and: judicial ad-

those. re

ministration. In am especial manner has ttii • jealousy

been directed ag

ainst' everthing which could bear

semblance of a military interposititon in our domestic

to exc

nade with the most seda-

.erference in our electoral

and judicial arrangements;. and the introduction, of a
foreign military power into these islands has beenlooked
Is an act which nothing but the most

all parties

argent necessities court palliate, or justify the attempt of

It ha been reserved for-a cabinet professing more' than,
ordinary regard for publie• liberty and popular rights,--tb

advocate and insist on the adoption of a measure by which,
our native soldiery may be-drafted off to the uttermost
ends of the earth, while their places are supplied by armed
bands of foreign hirelings, and our liberties and constitti•
tional privileges are abandoned. to the protection of mer-•
eenary bayonets. Free trade- in corn, the supremacy of
calico; and unstinted concessions to the interests and pre=
dilations of foreigners, have' been characteristically fol-
lowed. by a law for the introduction of alien cohorts, by
whose' aid individual freedom ors public liberty may be SU,
pended or trodden under foot. at the bidding of a court
avourite, or in obedience to the dictates of a supple or an
arbitrary minister. When about to, introduce a measure
of such sinister reach and such-questionable application as-
the Foreign Enlistment bill, it is•scarcely to be wondered;
that Ministers should have been desirous of avoiding
anything in the shape of premature publicity—that
with their own chattering htbits and the pragmatical
toasting of their underlings they; should have been able
to .prevent the slightest inkling: of their intention to

transpire• on such a subject, indicates- only too clearly their
consciousness of its iniquity ; and this- consciousness of its
dangerous_ importance is still farther borne out by the
style of arguments adduced by Clem in its favour. No one
of all• the ministerial band in either house, for even a
moment, attempted to grapple with the constitutional
argument against the adoption of the-project. Side state-
ments otevery form—plausibilities- of every hue—misre-
presentations varying through every degree of magnitude
and. incredibility—were put forward in justificition of
present expediency. The views and the opinions of
MARLBOROUGH and of WELLINGT.ON were adduced as
affording parallels to the present, application for foreign
mercenaries; but in every case the-fact that the foreigners
employed under those illustrious commanders were troops
raised,..trainecl, and disbanded in %reign countries, and
never- set foot within our island,' was carefully excluded
from, view. With equal disingenuousness the distrust
evinced by both those commanders for the foreign
leg,ionaries placed under their controul was carefully
segregated from the ministerial arguments ; and one who
possessed no better knowledge of the facts than that
derived from the harangues of the• " coalition orators"
would. have been led to believe that the success of the
English arms at Blenheim and Minden, on the plains of
Taikvera and Waterloo, depended exclusively on the
valour and prowess of the foreign battalions of which our
army were mainly composed, and with which our own
insignificant squadrons were fortunately brigaded ! The
had taste and erroneous deductions of the ministerial
statements and logic formed fertile themes of reprobation
for• the eloquence of the Conservative phalanx, which
defended alike the integrity of our constitution, and
upheld the honour of our national renown. Among:
the peers, the Earls of DERBY and ELLENBOROUGH4

eloquently denounced the danger of giving to anyr-
government " the power of placing any portion of
the guardianship of England: in Germans, or in the-
hands of other foreign troops, in substitution or to the•
exclusion of the troops of the country." In the House of
Commons, Sir E. 13. LYTTON, in answer to the specious.
clap-trap about the bravery of contingent troops, as that
was testified to by the Duke of WELLINGTON, said finely,
and with telling effect, while proclaiming the general
anxiety that the war should be prosecuted with vigour,
" I am unwilling to acknowledge, in the beginning of the
contest, that we have not sufficient men to fight our own
battles and to win our own laurels. The honour of Eng-
land is staked upon the- present war, and that honour is
not so intolerable a burden that we must thus early call in
foreigners to share in bearing any portion of it. If any-
thing can render the war unpopular, the sight of foreign
troops in this country, supported by the taxes, and occu-
pying those barracks-, the avowed deficiency in the accom-
modation of which has been alleged by ministers as a
reason for not embodying the militia, will tend to make it
both unpopular and. hateful. Such a spectacle will sour
the temper of the• middle classes. Those, classes now
proud of bearing: the burdens, and of making sacrifices in
support of their fellow-subjects, who repay those sacrifices,
and lighten those burdens by the achievement of deeds,
the glory of which reflects honour on theirrcommon name;

but they will, not bear such burdens, nos' submit to such
sacrifices for the support of foreigners, whose most brlliant
achievements are only to be looked on as compliments

paid to our wealth at the expense of our manliness of

character

The flimsy pretext that- our immediate re_
sources in available recruits had been exhausted, was
dexterously anatomised by Sir. E. B. LYTTON, and also
by Lord STANLEY, who, on Tuesday night, may be said to
have made his first essay in general politics. In reply to
LordPALMERsTos,Mr. Dr suA.ELT, happily ridiculed what he
felicitously denominated "the good-natured bluster" of the
noble Home Secretary ; and, by a few well-selected7efuo-

tations from the correspondence of the Duke of WEI

INGTON

gave the coup de grace to these marvellou.

kries

member for Tiverton endeavoured to cajole the Rouse.
In quoting, however, the notable fact, that to the informa-

tion, derived by the Russians from a deserter who had

Inkerman, the right honourable member for Buekinghan

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