The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-02 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

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DAILY

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KIM YORK, Deo. 11.
The interruption of our regular steam communion.
ties with Europe is attended with serious inoonve- 1
awe to oar merchants, and it is also felt by the
whole country. We have grown so accustomed to
ant weakly and semi-weekly European arrivals, that
we feel very much as Londoners would if the daily
sommunication between France and England were I
interrupted; bat we are congratulating ourselves,
after all, upon this interruption, for our newspapers i
and public men are everywhere asking the question,
why it is that we are dependent upon the British
steamers to bring us news from the Old World P
Why can we not put steamships enough upon the
moss to ruder us independent of foreign establish-
meets! A movement is being made in Congress
which Promises to secure this object; while one of
eer tic citizens, Cornelius Vanderbilt, a practical '
maiister, who has amassed a colossal fortune, is
known to have been making his preparations during
several years for establishing a line of ocean steamers
•~~sspr to any now ado it. Mr. Vanderbilt is called
• Loassedoes Vanderbilt," because he is recognised
as being the most accomplished master of common,
sad whatever appertains to the sea we have amongst
la Commodore Vanderbilt is able to spend five or
sin million dollars from his own private forties in
audio' this fleet of steamers to sea. He has gone
at the work deliberately, and his preparations are
already so mature that he will be able in a few
aesthete mend off the pioneer packet of the line, nor
Is soy doubt satertaised that he will be able to mar-
ally that has yet been made on the ocean.
Tka loss Arctic, impressment of the Cunard
speed
the
steamers far the Mutsu marries, the loss of two or
three other American ocean steamers during the year,
have crippled oar intercourse with Europe to such an
extent that we are now obliged to wait ten or twelve
days after the arrival of the Pacific before we can get
the news from Sebastopol. The anxiety which is
felt oo this subject cannot, of course, be u great in
New York u it is is London, but it constitutes almost
as common a subject of conversation. It is thought
here that the battle of Inkermann may be soberly
regarded as one of the most extraordinary displays of
British valour that can be found in British history ;
and it is impossible to exaggerate the admiration
which is felt and expressed for the wonderful
daring and chivalry of the British army.
It is the settled conviction of the American people
(although it is none of their business, nor mine either,
to say anything about your affairs), that the only
way for England to curb the ambitton of Nichols',
and pat an end to the dangers with whisk he
threatens the independence of the other Rumpus
governments, is to build a Chinese wall of in
dent, constitutional, liberal governments, am=
the Baltic to the Euxine. The materials all exit
there, as I remarked six weeks ago, beginning with
Sweden, and going on with Denmark, Holland, Bel-
gium, Poland,- Hungary, Lombardy, and Tuba,
and then England can shake hands with SobasyL
Austria is powerless, because she is dismembered.
Prussia, always timid, is paralysed, and besides hats
to lose her provinces in Poland. Louis Napoleon see
be allowed to complete the re-construction of the
French empire, which is the height of his ambition.
Russia is driven back to her old limits before the
day of the great Catherine; and England remains
with all she wants —the commerce of the world.