The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-15 00:00:00

THE ARMY ESTIMATES.

Although the excess in the Army Estimates had
been made known through the spas& of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, it was not until this morn-
ing that the details were issued.

The net increase for 1860-81, is 1,982,9781. The
land forest in numbers are 143,362, being an in-
crease of 6,466.

The total sum required for the effective services for
the year 1880-81, is 12,707,8261., being a net in-
crease of 2,639,2021. The items of increase are se
follows:—Land forces, pay and allowances, 776,18214
land forces, miscellaneous charges, 136,4231.; de-
partments of the Secretary-for• War and the General
Commandicg.in•Chisf, 10,8301. ; manufacturing es-
tablishments, &e., 14,9851.; wages, 1911,8431.; pro-
visions, &c., 164,2931.; warlike stores, 1,020,7631.;
fortifications, 189,7831.; educational and scientific
branches, 5,3401. 'foe five following items exhibit
reduction., viz.:—Embodied militia, a reduction of
280,0001. ; Volunteer Carp, 20,0001.; clothing and
necessaries, 108,0001.; civil buildings, 29,4571. ; and
barracks, 125,8261.

The only items in the tom-effective services which
show an increase are—rewards for military service,
201., and superannuation allowance*, 2,9341. In the
remaining items there are reductions amounting to
15,836/, the principal saving being 13,345/. in the
pay of reduced and retired officers.
The total amount to be voted for the effective and
son-effective services for the year will be 14,842,2761.

Two generations of Englishmen have rejoiced in
the felt and lively presence of • family who seemed
born to perpetuate the associations of a heroic age,
and to elevate the national sentiment at least to the
point reached in the best part of the military period
of our civilisation, while our mere talkers were be-
moaning the material tendencies and the sordid
temper of our people in ourown century. The noble
old type of the British knight, lofty in valour and in
patriotism, was felt to exist in its fall virtue while
we bad the Napier.y in our front, conspienone is the
eyes of an obverting world. We have every reason
to hope that the type will sot be lost, whatever may
be the destiny of Europe as to war or peace; but
the Napier@ must pass away, like other virtues and
powers; and now we have lost the lost of the
knightly brothers, and nearly the last of the family
group, by the death of Lieutenant-General fir
William Francs Patrick Napier, 8.C.8.
The family have • remarkable ancestry. From
their mother they inherited the sensibility which
is as conspicuous as force in them all. Her
mother, the wife of the second Duke of Rich-
moad, died of heartbreak within the first year
of her widowhood; and what the strength and
vivacity of Mrs. Napises feeling were we ems
by the letters of her son Charles to her
and about her, as they are givea in hi •Memoirs.°
Sae was beautiful in youth, and indeed throughout
her long life, and ble in age; and she wee as
object of public interest early and late—first se the
beloved and betrothed of George 111., and finally as
the mother of " Wellington's colonels." The early
story is well known--the rejection of the X.hig'is
addresses by a girl of seventeen, her subsequent
acceptance of them on suillantot proof of the sha-
ming at his attachment, the inevitable breaking-off
of the match for political reasons, and the loag lin-
gering of the affection on one side at boat. It
seems rather far-tetcbed to suppose that the family
of Colonel Napier were neglected and discouraged
►y the sews of George 111., on account of the attach-
mat between the respective parents; but it is
understood that the royal lover was wombed with
solleitode for years after all intercourse with Lady
Sarah Lennox was broken off. She became the
mooed wife of Colonel Napier. To young readers it
must appear as it there mast be a mistake la the