A QUESTION.

Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 2905, 15 January 1884, Page 3

A QUESTION.

TO THB BDITOE OF THH TIMABtf HBBALD. Sib,— Will you kindlf satisfy my cariosity by informing me through your valuable paper tiß to the correct date of the formation of Volunteers m Britain. I am, &0., VOUJHTBBK. [According to a roliable outhority tlio oldost voluntaer corps m tho Honorablo Artillery Company of tho city of London, which dates from the rolgn of Ifcmry VII. ; although still calUtd artillory, it comprises artillery, cavulry and inCnntty, and is probably the oldest armed body itt Europe "When tho oonntry was m dread of invasion by Bonaparte, almost the ' wholu available male population flow to anna 1 us volunteers, and m 1803 they ruußterod > +G3,l3't effectives. Abont this timo Goorgx ■ 111. roviewod 150,000 volunteers. Tho force srradmtfly diminished when tho immediate danger oeasod ; arid boforo tho Avar closed thoj wore replayed by a now foroo oallod tho " local militia, wb.ioh.wos supposed to bo tnorr thoroti|jhly amenable to government control. Ad oariy as 1857 two simvll voluntoer corps. ' tho lot Dovon and tho Viotorin. Rifles, had gjuruuifinto oxintonco; but m 1859 tho whole I nation Kooiucd to awake to a isenao of m r seourity, with a comparatively small army, , hulf of which was abroad, amid tho onovmous , armaments of uoighhoring statos. In a fo^ ! mouth« 150,000 mun bad oripnisod thomaolvoi into uompanioH ; and m tho foUowing ycai ' Opverninont, whioli had at first shows nc ' favor to tho movement, pavo it a helping hau< > by uombiniuff tliD coujponios into battalions, hj ■ appointing paid adjutoDts and drill iustructorn i and by tho establishment of a staff of inspec Uith under tho control of oil Instiuctor-Qouora |o£ Volunteero.— Ed. TM-]

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