The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-05-27 00:00:00

LITERARY NOTICES.

Tee Teeth Fames: An Historical Episode, by
Rh hard Cobden, Esq., M.P.—London : Ward and Co.
Whatever Mr. Cobden writes must always be read
with pleamire, and very seldom without instruction,
He posgesses great hterary merit, and his diction ie
plain and forcible. He !weer writes save on a subject
en winch be bee abundant knowledge and peculiar
views. On one point all readers of Mr. Goblin,,
painphlee will be agreed. _All hateispendiag money, all
ham aggression, all hit. taxation. - Englishmen par
their taxes without mecciit grumbling, bemuse it is
the present expenditule essenti to our defend,—
our national honour an safety. r. Cobden believes
this notion to he spurs d4uxion, and he socamniates •
great deal of history to justify his opinion. He mays
that there was one penis ia 1846. when Pelee. de
JOinville wrote his pamphlet, and when the Duke ef
Wellington's letter was first published; there was
another panic in 1852. at tie begekting of the Eilaptre.
The military panic of 1846, lie tells em, was eetineefebed
by the commercial pima) of 1847, and be the revolution
of 1848; and the panic of 1852 was extinguished by the
Russian war, in which we were allied to the reenett
Emperor, of whom we were in such painful detract
The panic of 1861, be suggests, will conclude with the
following passage of Sir G. C. Lewis's speech on in.
17th February, 1862:—" Theft was one article required
for Canada that was not used by any of our regimes*
and which was not in dere in this country, the article
of long boots. The French Government having been
informed of our difficulty, undertook the supply of
1,505 pairs of boots, which catne over in 48 hours hula
Paris, and at a cost for which they could scarcely have
been obtained from our contractors. I am happy to
mention this as a proof of the friendly action of the
French Government. (Hear, hear.") "And thus,"
says Mr. Cobden, "ends the third panic." Mr. Cobden
shows at great length, and with much ability, that the
accounts given in 1846, in 1852, and in 1861, of the
proceedings in the French dockyard., sere certain),
inconsistent with one another' and were often it ern
tainly erroneous. He shows that the modes m:
pennon adopted by cartons speakers were radically
variance with one *nether, were often
win often adapted rather to tale iinmedhite
tive wants of the speaker, than to any higher P
He is especially watchful of certaie "block ships,"
which seem to appear whenever the admiralty is
attacked for not haring ships enough, and which seer
to disappear whenever it asks Parliament to vote thing
for more ships. He shows that a Marinas passage in
Lord Lyndhunt's celebrated oration bed th
if any, foundation. Ile se-ministate, instiothes In Odell
the French naval force has not only been
but grossly maggerated. We cannot at iNMete
arrive to the same conclusion as Mr, Cobden dem. It
is true we are year after year voting that stabil withal 4
knowing thet there will be necessity for these arra.
tneate, but Mr. Cobden's objections are equally umatim
Factory, for he does not prove that there lii. dangle.
Many of his observations are, however, well worth Con-
sidering. There is no doubt mush truth Is tio
following remarks : "The application of bee
plates to ship-building, which has jeer ma-
dered the reconstruction of the navies necessary,
must be regarded as the commencement of an indefinite
number of changes; and, looking at the great variety
of experiments now making, both in ships and artallery,
and to new projects which Inventors are almost iterly
, forcing upon the attention of the Governments, ft r
not improbable that, a few years hence. when Eaglaad
and France shall bare renewed their naval armaments
they will again be rendered obsolete by new ementille
discoveries. In the meantime neither country adds to
it. relittive strergth by this waste of national wealth;
for as both Governments aim at only • proportioaste
increase, it is not contemplated that either skald
derive exclusive advantage from the augmentation."
But then we havefinother difficulty to contend spied.
Can all the world be brought to agree to remain is then
present position I It is evident that we must have a
defensive force equal to the force that can be brought
against us at any one point. In consequence of oar
numerons colonies, our fleet must be distributed, while
that of France, if we should ever spin come to
bostilitise, may be coweentrated. And France ins, toe
be alone. We ought therefore to provide against the
worst event, which we can fairly anticipate to ho
brought against a.. Failure to an enemy is an ordinary
defeat—is a momentary check in an ardsoss enter-
prise • but failure in a Channel entrapment to as
woad be an irreparable calamity. The laneing el •
hostile army on one shores, while our fleet is este
quished such disabled, would be an approximation is
ruin which we ought never to risk—which we mon
certainly ward off.
'FM HOLY CATHOLIC FAITH: By Newman Hall, L L.D :
Jemes Nisbet and Co., London. The It.. Dr. Hall is
well known as one of our leeding Evangelical Dements];
and his name is therefore a gnarantee of the orthodoxy
of the small pocket pamphlet before us. The eishieet is
the Nioene Creed. which is divided into thirty-live
chapters :—Concerning God—The Holy Trinity—Mae'.
Ruin by Sir—The Saviour—The Sacrifice fur Sin—
Christ as our Ring. our Example, our Intercessor—The
New Birth—gtepentance—Faith—Hofiness—Love to
GodiDantism—The Holy Communion—The Church
—Communion of Saints—Christians After Death—rb.
Advent of Our Lord—The Resurrection and Final
Judgment,.—and, The Life Eviiirlaxtinr, Scarlet° Mei.
are given on every subject. It will be tetrad to be •
valuable little maenad tot refereithilly Chreaseets