The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-24 00:00:00

family shall ba a factory operative in ono genera.
tion, a millowner in a second, and a Primo ldinister
in the third. La carrie.re outwit aua tba

" tools to him who can handle theta"--esch is the
rule of civil life in Engl►nd. In the £ray all h.
reversed: the poorer among the middle claw, the
more enterprising awing the lower class, have no
place there. To possess some money is the
indispensable requisite for procuring a commission—
to possess more money is the indispensable re-
quisite for procuring promotion. Admitting
for the moment the position, which we are not now
concerned to deny, that every national army should
be an expression of the national institutions, we at
the same time declare it to be a foal libel on the
institutions of England to say of them that they arc
adequately represented by the Purchase System of
the British Army.
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" But your institutions are aristocratic." No
doubt they are, in a certain sense. We have an he-
reditary legislature and entailed estates ; we love a
lord, and we reverence a millionaire ; but, admitting
ail this, we are still a vast distance from any rational
argument for the perpetuation of Purchase in the
Army. With all our fondness for rank and wealth,
we know nothing of promotion by purchase in any
other calling except the military. Judgeships are
not sold, nor bishoprics; it is • misdemeanour to at-
tempt the purchase of any, the smallest, clerkship in

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the Civil Service. No midshipman in the navy can
buy his lieutenancy, no I;eutenant a commandership,
no commander his ship ; and yet the navy we English
have been somewhat apt to consider as a profession
that on the whole tolerably well " expressed our
" national institutions."
But let us look abroad. It may be urged that

France, though imperial in form, is democratic in
fact, and has naturally, therefore, constituted her
Army on somewhat democratic principles. At any
rate there is Austria, which is perfectly free from
any objection of the kind. Austria, politically a
despotism, is socially an aristocracy. If army
promotion by purchase were a necessary incident
of the military system of an exclusive aristocracy,
you would inevitably find it prevailing in the Army
of Austria. But in that Army no trace of it is to be
found. The British Army alone in Europe—alone
in the world—retains the bad distinction of estimating
the skill, v►lour, discipline, and conduct of the officer
by the same standard which is employed for ascer-
taining the market price of hie sword or the ex-
changeable value of his epaulettes.

Int Court.

WINDSOR, OCT. 23.

ma Duke of Cambridge, attended by Lord
Bmitbers►, arrived yeetetilay afteraooa, as • visit to bey
Y•jsety. The Earl sad Coaster of Clareadoa sad lady
Cosel•sre Villiers do arrived at the Castle.

The Deans at Lot (atiesded by Lady Ao,..bda Draw),
sad the Allen deg* Is Ow Castle, died with bar
1116).07 is the oversisit.
Tba band et the Royal Rana Gear& played daring
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Har Kripatja private brad diens* performed rm fad-
brim emperiiiras :

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thealser(o7. IS). Allegro, Adagio, tiro
vkalas, 4alla, sad vaeloaasalo, Kamera
Damayl, Day, Vega% mad Belerodar .. Beethoven.

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TM Pena, aceompasial by the Prince of Warm and
Priam Mimi. rode out cm bombs& ibis morning. attended
by the Boa. Horatio Stoptind, Major•Oeseral B”urerie, and

The Prince Cottaott, with the Deko of Cambridtro, treat
eat *hooting.

The Right lion. Sir Clarks Wood left Windsor in the
toresson.

etc William Outwit,' was presented to her Id...troy, M an
Sittilleol4 by the Earl of Clarendon, previous to hia departure
en a special saimion to Central America.

The Lord Omar*llor will receive the Jed's, and Queue.
Counsel oa Monday, the 2nd day of Norernber, at hie lords
reridenee In Upper Brook•rtreet, at 12 o'clock.