SELECTED ARTICLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 172, 8 November 1876, Page 2

SELECTED ARTICLES.

CAN WE GO TO WAR? Writing on the possible consequences of Russia's interference in the struggle in the East, the "Whitehall Review" says :—j "It may be startling to many, but thei military authorities in England are quite - aware of the fact that within ten daya o| the mobilisation of the two army oorp|] this month, we could, if called upon, sen<|| 60,000 men to the seat of war —if was? there were—in the East; and that beforep July came to an end, with a little extra™ bonus offered to., the militia, that numb& might be .doubled. In other words, wet could, before the middle %f August, Bend|, to where they might be wanted 100,OQy , men, to which might be added at legist, tenth more of Sikh troops, if volunteer* 1 / from India were called for. Could there be any better answer to the question ( which men now ask. each other so mournfully, ' Can we go to war j' What has -j been done once can be done again. England has never entered into a struggle j with any other power except with numbers greatly inferior to her antagonist ' How she has come out of each contest the , history of the world is the best record. We have often—and we may no doubt 4<> so again—commenced a, campaign with. every possible disadvantage, but the end is invariably favorable to us. It is, mdrje- . over, the simple truth to state that never has the condition of our forces been better than at present. r';- ♦

■Jgj-* \yv == a[io ms*r-wy yotrag and pretty. Mrs. Stanton* likewise, was an exceedingly handfl"®® woman ; but Miss Anthony and jjj,,. Livermore are both plain. Maria ,H(t Jane Porter were women, of hiu'h 1,r0W9 and irregular features, as wan als<» jga# Sedgwick. Anna Dickinson has a itront?, masculine face. Kate Field has a -owl-looking but by no means pt-;S> y t'.v.o. Stowe is thought positively homely, jfc*, Burleigh, on the contrary, is thought ror y fin-i-too Icing, f Alice and Ph«)be Carey nets very plain in features, though their ji»eetnesa of disposition added greatly to their personal, appearance. Margaret fuller had a splendid head ; but her features were irregular, and ahe was anything Ijut handsome— though sometimes, in the 2 lovr of conversation, she appeared almost reliant. Charlotte Bronte had w«nJrottsly beautiful dark brown eyes, and a porfuctly-shaped head. She was small to Sifflinutivenesa, and was as simple in her manners as a child. Julia Ward Howe is jline-looking woman—wearing an aspect uf grace and refinement, and of force of uhrjacter in her face and carriage, Olive is anything but handsome in period,. though gay and attractive in conversion .• Laura flolloway resembles Charlotte Bronte both in personal appearance jail in the sad experience of her youthful jjfo. Neither Mary Booth nor Marian Harland can lay claim to handsome faces, iliough they are splendid specimens of cuEiuruil women ; while Mary Clemner Ames |) just as pleasing in features as her writings are graceful, and popular. • j- " BOW STREET RUNNERS." In London recently there appeared a iiraple record of the death, at the adrancud age of B*l, of William Ballard, one )[ tha most famous of the old officers, ralgarly denominated " the- Bow-street Runners. ,r Ballard received his first pronotion in 1823, at the Marlborough-street 'uffiue," having earned his appointment >y. repeated acts of daring and skill, by illicit some of the moat notorious liundera of the day were brought _ to ustiuo. Sir Fredrick Roe, who had just Itucuttded Sir R. Birnie as Chief MagisBite,, subsequently drew the attention of tin Home Secretary to the high ffnaliikaona of Ballard, and thus caused h's irthor promotion to Bow-street, where ft-became one of the principal officers, fii was the last representative bat one of hut may be regarded as the old school of fufcropolitan Police. The only surviving lombor of the staff now is Mr. ilar-y uildard, who entered the service in 1824, id was for many years employed in tue of delicate and important, utters, in many instances at the tnstigaon of the Government of the day. tie w also intrusted with momentous politiii inquiries on behalf of fireign potento, and sp cid'y empto/ed by Loa;s litlipp'j. Pur sjvoral years it Uecauw hid wince to heep a waf-c ;lut eye on the oveomts of a certain foreign duke, and fupoct tie result of his observations ratghS-rF. R>! to- Km,' Wduaui IV. ol(Wit 1 ileus to tell how, o i one eventll occasion, he was honoured WitU an inoiluctioii to Majesty by Sir Herbert iiyloiV and niat& special verbal report to In King. Tha duties of Uoddard took ini to nearly every quarter of _ the globe. ;uh;is traced and captured fugitives in io north of America and beyond the udty Mountains, oua of his best "hauls' (ill!,'the capture of a " £arty who had id from Paris to .New It ork with about ilf a million of money belonging to the humiii de Ferd da Nord Company. On lotlier occasion he chased a delinquent Ca.ro, and thence to- George's Sound, i Ouclong, Batlarat, finally alighting )na his prey at Scott's Hotel, in MulDurne. Uoddard is still in the service o£ lo Crown, and almost as hale and hearty lever.

ENGLAND'S FUTURE KING, ire xtia Qtratnt dobs sot the t'lttNuns op waxks* to wrspsoa rASTtf:. The Prince of Wales recently visited the not>n at Osborne, where he took up his sidonce in the cottage which establishes! stem has consecrated to hta use. Hta ajeaty's subjects may, perhaps, feel dbuutl to ask themselves whether thv time a not yet arrived when the heir apparent uutd he lodged beneath a Royal roof lea he happens to be temporarily jouming at a Uss disfcanca from the pita! than the fslo of Wight ; why, in nt, r when he is in the immediate netghTiiood of Windsor daring the Ascot nk, Windsor Castle should not receive 1, instead of the house which, as itters are, it is his custom to engage tlun convenient distance of the course, it) Queen has her reasons declining place the Castle at the Prince's dissal;; and it is not difficult to conjecture H those reasons are. In three months mi to-day the Prince of Wales will have tared upon his thirty-sixth year, and til the Sole exceptions that he has Wed something more about the tnyai<!9 of court etiquette, that he er.» Sad his notions of hb persona! irre'tlsibility, and that he has become ster of a manner which cannot fail to Wiu all who are brought into contact Hi him, he is precisely the same man it he was before he attained hia majority to tile same influences, regulated the same motives, ready to go through urinous sacrifices of time anil comfort please the public, but unwilling to J'sa or to act upon the truth that cer--11 petty and irksome responsibilities are ® inseparable penalty which he mast 1 for tiis position, and must therefore »«v his diligent submission. It is tm»ibto to blame the Queen if she takes a 'pur and more serious view of the re"isibiUties of His Royal Highness than 8 Royal Highness does himself. To r> at any rate, Windsor Castle is not I; the home of the English monarchy,

it is the home of a multitude of angtist and sacred memories. To the Prince of Waks, unaccompanied by the compliant friends of his heart, Windsor would be intolerable, even daring t;;» Ascot week. Excitement and society hrvc b« c«.>me necessities of his nature, v-sivh he can submit to an extraordinary amount of fatigue, without which his whole nattire seems instcirit'y to collapse. When the Prince of Wales shall have become Albert Edward, of England, if years have not even brought the philosophic mind, no one will he able to gainsay him the compact >nshtp •>: his choice. The responsibility will rt.v-.i absolutely upon himself. At present the humors and amenities which would certainly characterise a week at Windsor spent by a young man who is n it King of England, and who has merely the beat chance of becoming King of England, with h'ta customary satellites, could not he a matter that would concern the Prince of Wales atone. The Queen therefore is, from h„>r point of view, entirely justified in the -course which she has taken.