Mr. Cardwell proposes, in addition to his general scheme, to
establish a training and tactical station in the North of England where all arms may be exercised, and another near London as an exercise-ground for all the numerous Metropolitan corps, to compel half the Volunteers to exercise yearly with the local brigades under penalty of losing the capitation grant, and to relieve the counties of the expense of the storehouses for the Reserve forces. He is going to do away with billeting, and to occupy old district bar- racks and build twenty-six new ones, with a certain reference also to strategical purposes, at a cost of £3,500,000, which is to be borrowed on terminable annuities. These barracks will be useful also for reserve store supply, and tend towards needful decentrali- zation. The promise about these barracks sweetened the tempers of the squires amazingly, and altogether the speech is the first which for some time put has greatly strengthened the position of the Government.
