POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY MORNLNO.
The President of the United States recently expressed to a distinguished English statesman, in the most distinct and emphatic terms, the satis- faction with which he saw the Volunteer movement in England. He regarded it as a grand step towards the best security for national inde- pendence. England could never be subdued, but with a population unused to arms, she might be subject to sudden visitation and to painful trouble and calamity. But now her young men are becoming familiar with the rifle, as they are in America ; and he believed that nothing would more powerfully contribute to preserve the moral as well as material independence of England, the peace of her shores, or her in- fluence in Europe. This is the spirit in which President Buchanan speaks on the subject of our Volunteer movement ; it is the opinion of a statesman native of a country whose armies are supplied by Volunteers, and who is personally familiar with England and with Europe.
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