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ay the otber end
as it were, by a Person who sees what is going on, and
what can be done in the West Indies. I have no doubt
whatever that it has in it the elements of complete suc-
cess, and might be carried out with gegat pecuniary,
mercantile, and social advantages. The greaq objection
to it is that our communisations with our colotlies would
be made through a foreign state. But since I ,broached
the subject the communication between England and her
Indian Empire has increased wonderfully in im-
portance, and almost as wonderfully as rapidly. This
important communication, however, is carried on
through at least two political states, France and Egypt"
and if transmitted, as proposed, through Austria, must pass
through half-a-dozen foreign states. Whatever objec-
tections may be made—l hold there are no legitimate
ones—to transmitting our correspondence with South
America and our West India colonies through the
United States, apply at least with equal force to trans-
mitting our Indian correspondence through France or
Austria and Egypt. All these objections are, therefore-
practically answered by that transmission, and there, w
now no need of any arguments to refute the apprehen-
sions of conveying our mails and -passengers from tho
most northern to the most southern part of the
United States. The distance will not be much
greater than from Marseilles to Calais. I believe
that they would be as safely conveyed as through
France, and even more safely, less interruptedly, and
much more :expeditiously. On both England and the
United States the plan would confer great advantages.
The communication would be an additional bond of uti-
lity and peace. Whatever might have been thought a
few months ago of some braggadocios in American jour-
nals and Congress, it is now abundantly plain that the
bulk of the Americans desire peace with England as ar-
dently as we desire peace with the United States. Let
us help this brotherly mutual desire by increasing the
accommodation which we can mutually afford ; and as
Mr. M‘Geachy'a plan would do this, it would promote
hoth the pecuniary and political welfare of the United
States.
That our advantage—the advantage of our merchants,
our Government, acrd all our people—would be promoted
by this plan there cannot be a doubt. They could save,
at the very least a week, perhaps a fortnight, in reach-
ing Jamaica and most of the adjacent colonies. It
would increase their trade both with the United
States and with Europe. Having more speedy informa-
tion, they could at ail times adjust with greater accu-
racy than at present the supply to the demand. Our
Nest India proprietors complain ; let them facilitate
communication with Europe and North Africa; and half
their complaints will be removed. The trade of the
Americans, both with Europe and all the southern
world, would be much extav-led by the same means.
Independently of the steamers visiting their harbours,
and the increased traffic along these rails and coasts, the
existence of those would necessarily carry with them a
cotresponding increase of trade between North and
South America. They would be benefited probably
even more than we should, and in proportion to the be-
nefits they derive from our communications with our
colonies through their country would be their unwilling-
ness to interrupt it. Besides the pecuniary and mercan-
tile advantages of Mr. 11•Geachy's plan, or any plan, it
would have, like all successful schemes for extending
communication, the still greater advantage of promoting
civilisation, and tending to secure the peace of the
world.

Thanking you, Sir, for the readiness you have ever
shown to promote all similar improvements, and for your
expressed intention of inserting this communication,
I remain, your obedient servant,
THOMAS HODGSKIN.

ENGLAND'S LOVE OF PEACE AND

READINESS FOR WAR.
(From the Examiner.)
There is not a country in the world sd desirous of
peace as England, and that there is none better prepared
for war the brilliant campaign on the Sutlej most
strikingly shows. It is clear that our arms have not
rusted in peace, end that the service was never in a
higher state of efficiency. And this observation does
not apply merely to the forces in a part of our immense
empire. Wherever our soldiers and sailors have been
put to the trial, the same prowess has been manifested
with the same glorious and rapid success. In China, in
Syria, in Sinde, and in the retrievement of the Afghan
disasters, they have proved themselves irresistible, and
it has been one career of triumph. There have been no
protracted wars, no barren campaigns; England has
only had to stretch out her arm to strike, and the foe has
been crushed.

We have seen gigantic Russia opposed for two years
by feeble Turkey, we have seen her defied and repulsed
by the petty robber chief of Khiva, and bending her
power for years against the Circassians, who have held
her at arm's length, often defeating her, and in her small
successes leaving her little to boast.
France in Algeria presents another example. Whole
armies have been absorbed there. A deluge of blood
has been wasted, like water spilt in the desert. It is
the vain labour of the Danaides, with this difference,
that the sieves arc to be filled with blood. The work is
for ever to begin again; victory and disaster taking
their turns without end; Abd-el-Kader crushed for ever
one day, and making head again the next.
Yet in Algeria France has a terrible military school.
It has been described as the soldier-mill, into which
three men are put and ground into one doughty warrior.
It might be supposed that there was nothing that such
an army could not effect, but yet they effect nothing—
nothing decisive. True, they have an elusive enemy to
deal with, and when they beat the Arabs it is like
threshing water. We do not deny the pecu-
liar difficulties, though we have a notion that
if England had chosen to encounter them, she
could have found better methods of coping
with them ; but let the causes of the failure
of the French be what they may, there stands the
example of her long losses and miscarriages in compari-
son with England's instant successes, wherever the power
of her arms has been put forth. Let it be that England
makes better choice of her objects ; that she does not
involve herself in schemes of conquest beyond her
strength ; such explanation is praise enough which as-
signs to her the armed wisdom of which Pallas was the
type. Whatever the occasions are, there are always
the conduct and courage to meet them ; and the sword
i.; not long out of the scabbard, nor ingloriously re-
turned to it. Proportionate, indeed, to the reluctance
with which it is drawn, is the dazzling rapidity with
which it performs its task.
And most satisfactory it is to note that no love of war,
nor lust for conquest, grows upon these successes.
The nation, proud as it is of its triumphs, prizes them
most as securities for future peace, not as encourage-
ments to war. The public is never more pacific in its
dispositions and aspirations than at the successful ter-
mination of hostilities.
It is not for vain-glorious boast that we have made
the comparison between the rapid achievements of Eng-
land and the protracted wars and imperfect successes of
other powers. The lesson we would note is this : that
the country whose interests and whose dispositions are
most strongly pacific, is, nevertheless, the best prepared
for war, and the promptest and most successful in vindi-
cating her cause by arms whenever she is compelled to
it. As England has no love for war, so, when she is in
it, she is happily able to make short work of it. Other
people are as brave, but somehow or other they have not
the same knack of giving effect to their bravery, at least
so it appears in the comparisons that have happened to
be presented within the last 20 years.
We often join in the grumblings at the management
of the navy, but maintaining still that there are occa-
sions and opportunities of improvement, it is our
thorough conviction that the two services were never
in a higher state of efficiency ; and that never were
there in them so many able and zealous men
devoted to their professions, and thoroughly skilled
in them. The last example of what they can do w e
rate of inestimable value, not only as regards the
safety
and peace of the Indian empire, but as it must tend
to
di,courage the propensity to war in other parts of the
world. England has her share of faults ; sheis over-
bearing and proud, and vouch too proud for vulgar
inferences
from ; but peopla who have drawn false
from her disdaining to play the braggart, will have learnt
to correct their mistake on seeing how she acquits her-
self when reluctantly forced into quarrel—the might she
exerts with such wondrous ease—the mettle that works
miracles, like that of the heroes who marched up to the
Seikh ate du pont, vomitting the fire of two tiers of admi-
rably seFved cannon, as if in parade order, halting to
close up their ranks when rent by the storm of round
shot and grape, and toiling through nearly a mile of
heavy sand, as if they had nothing to do with but the
disadvantages of the ground, and the shot and shell were
nothing to them except as they deranged the correctness
of the line. Rich as are our annals of war in all circum-
stances of conduct and bravery, we question whether
they present any equal to that gallant exploit, in which
the native troops so largely and gloriously shared.

LORD LINCOLN AND THE SOUTH NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
ELECTION.—The Noble Lord, although defeated at the last
election for the Southern Division, has not forgotten to thank
in a special manlier such of the electors as, on that trying
occasion, recorded their votes in his favour. A letter, of
which the following is a copy, has been sent by post to every
elector who voted for the Noble Lord:—" Whitehall-place,,
March 10, 1846.—Dear Sir,-1 request you to accept my
warmest thanks for the support which you gave me by your
vote in the late contest for the representation of South Not-
tingham. Although defeated in that contest, I shall ever
look back with pleasure upon the many marks of personal
kindness and regard which I experienced, and shall remem-
ber with gratitude the exertions which 1,049 friends made in,
my behalf.—l am, dear sir, yours very faithfully, Liticowf.'
7Vottingham Review.
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our last report consist of 300 !Aids. of West India, at f").ru.rr
prices. Scarcely any business is doing in 13engstif and the
transactions in-Mauritius are limited to 1,500 Fats' I. (e'
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