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It is quite clear that an addition must be made

to the Army ; and the St. James's Gazelle affirms that the War Office will ask for eight new battalions and seventy-two more field- guns, which latter are urgently required. We hope that the Cabinet will accept this demand, will also add two thousand men to the marines, will make the whole body of the Militia more effective, and will announce definitely that unless these votes are passed it will refuse to be responsible for the safety of the Empire. It is madness to go on as we are doing with the whole continent in a fever fit of Socialism as regards British property. The Empire cannot be guarded by boasts, or Rudyard Kipling's songs, or unarmed patriotism. The 'work takes shells.

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