Show tur THE VOLUNTEER MILITARY IN bigland Ei GLAND en england land is 13 encouraging 9 ing the formation of volunteer ill aber rifle compart companies 1 es as aa a means 0 of defence the government sees the best defender oi of her soil is militia who mho voluntarily submit to voluntary training perfect themselves in discipline practice with the rifle till they become good marksmen and who tho also individually ii bear the expenses of or this training with this volunteer spirit properly stimulated in so BO brave a nation england will soon have a force which sue ehe can always rely upon in an emergency either for defence or in invasion and have no necessity of oe employing foreign auxillia auxiliaries rles to fight her battles the times recommends that the attention of the new companies shall be turned chiefly to rifle practice so as to become sure marksmen as tho the chief value of a soldier is in ilia his sure aim the field amov movements cements aud alid ev evolutions can be learned with very little training afterwards it says hitherto the greatest characteristic of all military force at least since estuce the use ot of firearms lias has been waste of powder in old times we know that english archers would shoot so gula wholly olly together that no body of men could ur or did stand before their but with the antl musket sk et it I 1 t nv was as computed ou oil reasonable grounds that shot out of might as wel well I 1 never bai have e been fired when it is ia recollected further ft I 1 r t her that troops rarely crossed bayonets and that such eze execution cution as was done was done mostly by musket balls it will soon be seen how bow many soldiers stood uselessly in rank to swell the mortality of or the hospital it is hardly possible to calculate the lie effect of a af force n which pos t ich every musket would tell and tell it should it if our volunteers do their duty nothing ought to live athin within jt hin range of their pieces it is beyond all doubt or question that flat rifles can be made which with proper handling will deal certain death file fie hundred yards or more it is equally beyond question fiu estion that we as a people are naturally apt in such exercises and that we are better qualified to attain attai n something like universal pro proficiency ficle in th them eta it atan an almost any other nation I 1 herr incy er then are first rate vie weapons apons arid and first rate hands we hope the next few months will ill see the ti two 0 put together and then we 1 I a may snap our fingers at invasion the leavenia Leave nii orth times gh es the following summary of the election of delegates to the constitutional convention of kansas terii teni tory which the editor vouches for as substantially correct SUMMARY aily republican 23 29 democrat 20 doubtful 3 tile the Resi result tilt in iiii liari HL ansas the leavenworth daily oi of june gaies gi es the following as the result of the election for delegates dem 20 26 hep 23 doubtful 2 |