THE HOME MARKET.

By the late mail from Hong Kong, we are informed, in the midst of the commercial intelligence, as follows:-

“American Drills.- Nothing doing and very large stocks on hand.”

It is quite different with the British Drills in our Volunteer Market, we rather quess. Here the Drills could not be firmer nor steadier, and if the stocks of the guns are rather heavy on hand, still they will be found to go off very briskly whenever a demand shall arise for them. They will not hang fire then, you may be sure of it. We are glad to state that the utmost confidence prevails in the English Drill Market, and that not a single step has been taken in that direction but what has been of a forward and most cheering nature. Numerous as the British Drills now are, and they have spread so quickly and so universally all over the country that there is scarcely an Englishman’s leg that by this time has not gone through some sort of drill, it gives us great and unmixed satisfaction to remark, that there is scarcely a bit of bad stuff amongst the whole lot of them. It is also a new feature in these British Drills, that there is not the least shrinking about them. The more they are tried, the stouter they stand.

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