The Volunteers.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 95, 27 January 1885, Page 3

The Volunteers.

jTbe Londbii * Tinres; -lludiniE* to the Voliinteers, Btija-':--" The volunteer 'strmy ' : 'h__ j snmfed'i the crrcumstahces^' of 'its birth, a„d ; has gr.w_ Wfth' thfe'growth of the nation. That Englilimen should take -to soldiering as a recreation, . and should recover and_ retain that iovp for millitary which they, seemed almost to have set; aside 'once for! all, has surprised themselves hardly less/, perhaps,- than it ■hasj surprised other nations. When little ; . companies M 6f .yolunteers, , hardly .knowings what they -.were doing or >: why they were doing it, were forming themielvfes all over the 'country,-, he re .a company and th'ei-A-U--div.son; > b'it nowhere, excep^in, large .towns,, a. battalion or . a -brigade,- who .cou. d . ha»e foreseen that ,more: than twenty years afterwards, > long the -occa'sibni which called' them 1 forth .iiai „ passed, away, they would furnish iprihia'n. -army to.be reviewed by tyeQueeW. larg*r-by far thau any army. eveie r . re\\ e w ed- 'if- a ; 'British ; ; ve reign ; before? '" "The. Vplunte_r 'arms' "Is no' j . .-•;:.- 's.i '± > ■it i ,-;■ ■'.:,. ■ i ..: zfiggressive force, nor., is . it . ; a, ■ perfect instrument of warfare,such as (Continental nation's deem riecssary;-to' their security, butj it is ..the cheap , and" ' efficient defence whtch BU-ices for a free nation, and wh.it is more, it is the spontaneous creation, of the .nation itself.' ! - ■' '■' '