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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1856,

Mr. COBDEN was never more in the right than
when he made European disarmament the basis of
very large army and navy reduction. From the
Atlantic to the Ural Mountains, from St. Peters-
burg to Naples, the Continent is covered with
soldiers. They are numbered by hundreds of
thousands, and are in constant practice for field
service ; and to preserve their equipments in the
moat efficient state is a great study of the States.
Allowing for every reduction from the offensive
power of these force,,, it would be madness not to
have such a garrison behind our wooden walls as
could give a proper reception to any foe wh,

might by good luck break through them. Wh.

night and steam-power exist over-confidence is ,
simply folly. Some two or three millions of men
who are in service, or have seen it, with the irre-
sistible conscription as a further reserve, and all
these in the hands of despots, every one of whom
cordially hates our political institutions and free-
dom, are a danger no statesman dare overlook.
We are not advocates for an over large army,
even in the face of all this, but we do think it
essential that we should have a thoroughly good
one. That officers of science as well as courage
should supplant the men of courage only, that
promotion should be thoroughly opened to all
class s, that men should not enlist f)r a shilling a
day only, but for the certainty of merit and
ability being rigidly noticed and rewarded. Au
(ffective army should be, like the army of ancient
Rome, one in which there is the fairest field for
the full development of military genius. Abolish
the martinet domination of a Field-Marshal who
has never seen active service, send the DUGAN'S,
and CARDIGANS, and AIREYS to their conntiy
seats, give full play to the WILLIAMSES
and WINDH OIS, and the numerous
men
of ability who literally wither under 111: " co'd
shade" of the young promoted DOWBIGGLNS,
and we believe the native genius of England con 'd
furnish such a host of generals and officers, as
well as men, as would lead and equip a compara-
tively small army in A style never yet wituesa-.1.
Even the great captain was no C/ESAR in one se
spect. He was a thorough aristocrat, a "cold"
one. He knew nothing of C-ESAR'S arrangements,
by which every man downwards to the ranks was
sure that his ability, as well as his courage, would
not fail of its reward.
But we were led to advert to continental armi.

by the circumstance which necessitates them. I highly as the fortunate owner of a godly sum in
Mr. COBDEN has to show US the way t) get ti-!,-, the Three per Cent. Consoi,, or of 1, •
sve i.-circuol-
(lateral reduction and flisarmainent li. I rop, cli. -•1 chief rents, alt)ouczli the .-
3:11.>. —Arndt( pa y.neits m.y
o
It needs no skill in mathematics to underAarfitexhausi. (--:,very shilling that the former possess,:-,
that a proportionate reduction from the' presanf while it would be but a trifling deduction from -4.'.e
standards would leave all parties where they aro rel.iised property of the ltter.
for foreign objects ; and that, were all the Statcs, Contrast the p47)sitioms of a hard-working liar-
for instance, this year, boldly to reduce their • rimer, or medical man, or country clergyman in
armies ene half, they would be all relatively in ; receipt of 3001. per annum, with that of the ownzr
the same position as they now are. But here iof 10,0001. Government 3 per Cents. The former is
comes the difficulty. Foreign objects are to the .-1 tied to a particular, and, generally speaking; an ez"