Glasgow Courier. — 1854-12-23 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

INTO  -SIR WILLIAM NAPIER ON THE PORAIION ENLISTMENT BILL.  Ti, the A:'lgor of the Times. Sir—The Duke of Newesustle, with a strange preumption, told his brother Lord. that, except Lord Harding*, no officer of capacity and experience remained in England with whom he could consult to avoid the errors 11. had committed as a War Minister—ell were in the eel- i meal te must now be taught that there are officers i still le nglisnd, with magerity enough to see through his incapacity, and with indignation enough to rebuke t the grovelling spirit which has dictated the degndaticm of the country and the army by the introduction of foreign soldiers to fight our battles at the very moment when the steam of heroic blood from Inkermen make. ' England inert and start like a warhorse in the moist of carnage. I will not say that the German I.egion in the lest war were not good and trusty withers—their cavalry was excellent ; but, despite of l'he Duke of Richmond's generom eulogium, I will, with Lord Ellenlwrough, say. that neither they, nor any foreign troops, were able to equal the fighting of the British soldier. That legion was well composed; it wu, indeed, a national force, with high moral motley.% and with the gentlemen of their own country as Alum; they were thus presented in the best possible form that foreigner. could assume in another nation's service; and gallant things they could and did do; hut emulate the terrible fighting oPthe British se' they could not. And shall a mere mercenary band, np for gold, without national feeling, miserable hirt selling their limbs and lives, ay I their very souls for —reedy, without • cause, if paid, to murder, to at. be slain, end, of course, reedy to change sides for hl pay if good ocuelon offer—shell such varlets star line beside our noble soldiers who fight ehouting land! England rind dying murmur, 'We base use duty P When did G.•rman or Saltier, Prussian or At. stand before the gallant French in equal battle? those brilliant, fierce, impetuous Preach, could even snstsin the in ig h t and terror of Br— It battle, thong' rions soldiers that they are and ever have hue, t turned to the combat as unceasingly as wavet against rocks? Stich as they are indeed fit and stand abreast with the unconquerable 'red line that yields,' and, together, they will trample in the del troops in the world that presume to oppose them. let them not be shamed by finding a hired third-r• lection from inferior sources between themselves their British comrades. Let them not be told to v. on the dressed-op foreigners poor frauds, lik camels of Semiramis, accoutred as elephants, and to leave dark silent 'gaps where loudest shoots fiercut fires should stream forth In the hour of t Shall the stern infantry of Inkervnan, stridin blood • shall the proud cavalry of &Oaten's noble 'horsemen who accepted not an order, but • d tul sign only, to go bounding on as it were to the jaws of death; shall they have as comrades the 1 hirelings of Germany and Switserland? God for Yon, Sir, say that the ministers will go out if the try refuses to accept their degrading measure. So be. Let them slink away, while the universal shoot of' God and our right.' I am, Sir, Tour obedient servant. W. fiArtsa, Lieuteue• "'  ,older  picked  bend, pie. I. hirelings,  lucre  ,31. higher gand in  ' Knit ustrian,  they  besting  worth;  ;never  it;ird-rate  depe!)<l  the Imre and need.  striding . - those  doubt , open refuse  forbid