The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-03 00:00:00

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MAILS.

The =its for Britinh North Americo, Bermuda, mid the United
Mateo, will be made op on the evening a the 3rd April.
The Sarah Smith; Ammer is appointed to sail 'rout Liverpool on the
6th April, for New Yuck ; letter* in time on the sth AprlL
The moils fur the Broads, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam-
buco, Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, wilt be made op on the
imolai MM. 34h April.
The Villa Ibr Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar,
oil be made no on the morning of the 7th April.
The overland closed mails, min Mamell4,, to the Mediterranean,
Egypt, Alen, Ceylon, India, llong Kong, be., will be made op on the
evening of the 7tlll April.
The West baba mails, excluding throe for Neater., Hondo." sad
! the tboannah, will be made up on the morning of the 17th
The overlent waits for Gibraltar, Malty Creme, the lonian !Monde,
!gyp; Aden, Ceylon, ladle, Bong-Kong, and China;rut Southunptoo,
will he made up on the morning of the NM .tpril.
The mails fur New South Wales. Von Diemen's Lomb. aid New
Zealand will be made up on the evening of the :10th

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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 3.
ONE of the most glorious characteristics in English
history is the fact, that in all the pitched battles of the
olden time, between French and English, the English
were the victors. The great glory of this superiority
does not, to us, exist in the English having had the
boldest hearts, the strongest muscles, or the happiest
fortune. The cause of the English being al ways victors,
lay in the circumstance that they did not depend
merely upon their lords and knights, and men in
armour, bat upon the humble English yeoman, the
peasant with his cloth-yard arrow and his stout axe.
It was the English yeomen who carried the day at
Cressy and Agincourt, slaying and routing the foe,
when the men-at-arms, and their steeds, stuck in the
deep mire of the battle field.
It may be asked, why the French nobles did not
employ and arm their peasants as well u the English,
arid put them in the front of action The answer is,
that the French feudal lords feared to trust their
peasantry with arms. Their tyranny was too great
and too severe. The more equitable nature of oar
Saxon laws permitted the English to trust acd arm
their yeomen. Under French law, this durst not be
done.

Lord CARDIGAN resembles, in his opinions, the
French feudal lord, who was beaten, made captive,
and ransomed at Cressy and Poicticrs, because he de-
pended on his own coat of mail, and could not trust
his serfs. Lord CARDIGAN objects to the new law os
army enlistment, because it will send forth upon the
country a number of men accustomed to the UFC of
fire-arms.

What a subject of fear ! Instruct some fifty thou-
sand of the millions of the English peasantry with
the use of the musket, and Lord CADDIGAN's order
is in danger ! Good lack ! what an opinion the gal-
lant peer must have of our constitution, and mode of
government, as well as of the respect and solidity of
the House of Peers. Education used to be opposed,
because, it was said, the educated are froward and
give trouble. This is now generally exploded for the
contrary maxim, that the well-informed are the most
peaceable. Lord CARDIGAN imagines that an old soldier,
discharged after ten years' service, must retain an in-
veterate hatred of the aristocracy, and must, in short,
have been made a very radical by hie officers'
treatment. This is, very possibly, Lord CARDIGAN'S
experience in his command of regiments, and we
dare say he would make radicals of every man of
them. But the military regime of CARDIGAN is,
we trust, drawing to a close, and future colonels of
regiments, who happen to be peers, will not shrink in
alarm from the soldiers who have retired from their
!cements, and who bring their knowledge of fire-
arms into the ranks of the population.
what most in Mr. fox Matt Le's bill, is this
very thing, at which Lord CARDIGAN shrinks in
atiLiqwh, and accustomed to,
ffri ht—.the inch7.ll throughout the country of the
a.number of those acquaints,,-ms Mr. FOX
arms. And what we find faun. in this
MAULS'S bill, is, that it does not doe
respect. With our immense colonies, with
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what it may be for many years, with ourlimited army'
estimates (may they continue limited), and our poor
100,000 men, in the midst of empires number-
ing each half a million of bayonets, our true
force must be a defensive one. Their half-million of

I bayonets do not preclude establishments of national
guard, sedentary militia, with the training of citizen
and peasant to arms. What are our 20,000 or
40,000 veterans, joined to about as many more troops
of the line—even if all could be concentrated—against

an invading army of 70,000 Frenchmen ? At present,
military men admit, that we could scarcely put
12,000 men in line against an army of invader&
Our reliance should be on a reserve or defensive
force. The French create one by raising 100,000
recruits every year, and keeping the greater port of
them not more than four years in service, by which
means no soldier lose, his trade, or hie connexion, or
his industrious habits. Our colonial possessions, no
doubt, render this more difficult with ns. But, as
Sir DE Lace EVANS clearly showed, this does not
hold with respect to India, 'allele voluntary re-en-
listment or exchange almost aiwnys takes place. The
remaining colonies arc neither au distant, nor do they
contain so large a proportion of the army.
Much has been said about the insufficiency of the
boons now held out, to entice a better class of recruits
into the army. We doubt, indeed, that the prospect
of pension, after twenty Seam, will have mint effect
upon the providence of a young recruit. Better pay
for the present, even if e portior. was retained for
future pension, and, above alt, more respectability
attached to the lower grade. of the army, by opening
access to the higher grades, and thus rendering the
army one great profession t—these would have more
effect in enticing a better class of men to enlist, than
either short terms of enlistment, or remote pensions.
These mesas are, however, not overlooked by the
!present propomers of army reform. Facilities and