The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-30 00:00:00

POLAND._

REPORTED DESTRUCTION OF WARSAW.
News is said to have reached town from Berlin, as
follows :
" Warsaw is in open revolution. The inhabitouts
rare en moose, and murdered several hundreds of the
Russians. The troops fled to the fort, and from thence
bombarded the town. Warsaw is in ashes.
" To-morrow the Prussian-Polish legion departs from
here, at the king's expense, in a special train.'

NORTHAMPTON RACES.—THIs DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAM
ALTHORP PARK STAKES.
Sister to Arkwright
F by Cotherstone, out of Kalma
Nina
Won by a head.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE CUP STAKES.
Bellenden

Fergus
Dacia
Won in a canter

INDIA MAIL.—Our agent has forwarded us the
following, by electric telegraph, from Southampton this flay
The Ripoa has arrived, with the Southampton portion of the
last India Mail.

THE ROYAL ARTILLERY.—Sir,—Those who cla-
mour for an increase of our forces, on the ground that our
combs and seaports are in a defenceless and unprotected
state, would do well to take into consid, ration the actual
existing state of our army, with the view of discovering
whether it is not possible, by a more equitable distribution,
to prevent an addition being made to oar already enwasoat
synam of taxation. The great rallying point of the war
party is the Royal Artillery ; and this, it is contended, must
be augmented, even should the infantry and cavalry remain
as they are at the present moment. /how, it will be well to
put such persons in possessien of the actual distribution of
the Royal Artillery at the present moment; and it will be
seen that, admitting the necessity for increasing the number
of gunners at our great naval stations, there is no necessity
whatever to augnu nt the artillery. The Royal Artillery
consists at the present moment of 10 hattaliono (exclusive
of the Horse Artillery, which is merely maintained for show
on field days and reviews), and each battalion consists of
eight companies, making 80 companies in all. One of the
battalions is of recent establishment, having been formed in
April, 1846, and of its eight companies four are at the present
time in Woolwich and Chatham, under various stages of
drill, sod will soon Le efficient troops. Of these 80 compa-
nies, 39 companies are on home service, 6 are on the passage
out and home, to and from Ceylon and Biabadoes, and 35
are on foreign stations. Of the 39 companies on home ser-
vice only 11 companies are allotted to guard our seaports,
being distributed between Portsmouth, Devonport, Dover,
Glasgow, Leith Fort, Pembroke, &c. But while only 11
companies can be spared for our seisporta, 14 companies
are idling away their time at head-quarters (Woolwich
and Chadian), whilst 9 companies are maintained
in Ireland, not for defending our coasts against
foreign aggression, but to keep down internal warfare in
that first flower of the sea." Now, admitting that it is
necessary to keep six companies constantly at Woolwich, as
• reserve for foreign reliefs, at least eight companies might
thus be spared to augment the companies stationed at our
seaports. This would almost double the existing force, and
would answer every purpose which the most sanguine
friends of increased coast defences could desire. The fact,
however, is, that there is no room at Woolwich to accom-
modate more troops; and on the 10th battalion being formed
it was found necessary to send three of the companies to
Chatham, as no room could be found for them at Woolwich.
Of the fourteen companies at Woolwich and Chatham, it is
found that not less than four companies are employed as ser•
yenta to the officers and non-commissioned officers, connoting
of grooms, coachmen, butlers, gardeners, cow-keepers,
and " bat-men," many of these men being ac-
tually employed as " chambermaids " and cooks.
This fact any appear incredible, but it is true;
many of the gunners being actually at the pre-
sent time employed in washing clothes, scrubbing bed
rooms, and other work supposed to be done only by members
of the setter sex. In fact, it has been found that many men
ore discharged from the corps as pensioners after twenty.one
)ears' servitude who do not know how to handle • musket, '
and in proof of this it has been found necessary, during the
formation of the corps of enrolled pensioners, to teach many
of the men the very first action of a recruit. These are feet,
which may furnish a peg for the select committee to
hang a few questions on. It will be found, if the
proposed augmentation of the Royal Artillery takes
place, that the new companies will be turned off':
to Malta, Corfu, Gibraltar, and other colonies, which
are already bristling with bayonets and fenced round with
artillerymen. Why, Liter thirty-three years' European
peace, it should be ',mod necessary so furnish to Gibraltar,
Corfu, and Molten larger force of artillery than they boasted
of during the hottest period of the great continental wars,
when all the powers of Europe were leagued against us, is
a question which some of the war party may be puzzled to
answer satisfactorily. It is too bad to call upon the people
of this country, already taxed to the limit of endurance, to
pay for increased forces for which no earthly necessity what-
ever exist.-1 send my name, but you may sign this, ONE
WHO HAS 131124 THE INTERIOR OP TUB BAHILACIIB.