Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1842-12-29

ua'ei Me world, the exclamation is still
"Great and Mighty Englandp'
ner power seems omnipresent, her shin
circle the pole, and @2ut girdle round ,h
earth, tier cannon look into every harbo
ana ner commerce flows into every nation
S"e mas her word to say in every part of tn,
'ao''aoie world. Scarcely nation projects
an outward scheme without first looking up t.
oehoiu the aspect which England will assume
Toward IT, Nineteen hundred years ago the
non'aii standard first 6oated on the shores o.
D'ra''' ihen race of barbarians, clothed
IN The skins Of wild beasts. roamed over the
uncusiisa!e.. island. The tread of the Iepions
was then heard on the plains of Africa and
Asia, and the name of Rome was written ON
The front of the world. Nearly two thousand
years have rolled by and Julius C;rser and all
the Cnsars, The Senate, the people, and the
Empire of Rome, have pissed away like n
dream. Her population now only little ex-
| ceeds that of New York State,-whi,e that ;s.
land oil barbarians has emulated Rome in her
conquests' and not only planted and unfurled
ner standard IN the thrce-quarlers of the globe
'hat owned the Roman sway, but laid her all
grasPing hand on new continent. Possess
ing the energy and valor of Saxon and Norman
ancestors, she has remained unconquere. un-
broken, amld the changes that have ended the
history OF other nations. Like her own island
'lat SITS hrm and tranquil in the ocean tina,
soiiS round 1t, she has stood amid the ages of
man and the overthrow of empires.
a nation thus steadily advancing over every
obstacle that checks the progress or breaks
The strengths of other Governments: mak,nu
every world-tumult wheel in to swell its Fri.
umphal march, must possess moi only great
resources, but grea, skill to manage them.--
Looking out from her sea home she has made
her fleets and her arms her voice. STRENGTH
and energy of character, skill. daring, and an
indoml'able valor exerted through these en-
Sines OF power, have raised her TO her present
proud elevation
Her Navy embraces sic Hundred ressels.-t
besides these she has fleets and steamships and
packets SO constructed as tn be easily convert |
ed INTO war ships. Iu the short space of two
months she could send $50 more steam fri |
gates well equipped TO sea, making in all $50 |
war vessels; so that she could stretch line |
OF Da'iie ships from Liverpool to New York, |
e ca separated only four miles from the other
iweniy-seven millions of people in the three
Kingdoms sit down in The shade of her throne. |
IN The East l5O,00O,000 more come under her
sway. hesido the number Of civilized and
nncA'''zet, that inhubit her provinces in every
quarter OF the globe. The Liverpool Times.
III announcing the birth of the Prince of w ales.
mus sums up the vast extent of The empire e.
"Salules In honor of his birth will be fred in
America-on the shores of Hudson Bay-a-
long The whole line Of the Canadian Lakes. in
New Brunswick. Nova Scotia, Newtound-
iahu, III the Bermudas, at Il hundred points i'm
me west Indies, in the forests of Guiana, and
III the distant Falkland Islands, near Cape
aorn-ln Europe, in The British Islands, from
the Rock Of Gibraltar, from the impregnable
iori:hcalions of Malta, and in the ionian Is
lands In Africa, on the Guinea Codst and ST.
helena, and Ascension, from the Cape to Or
ange River, and at the Maurtius.-In Asia.
from The fortress of Eden in Arabia; at Kar-
ack, in the Persian Gulf by the British arms
IN Alighanlsian. along the Himalaya Noun
'ains, the banks of the Indus and the Ganges.
to the Southern point of India; in the Island
OF Ceylon, beyond the Gauges in Assam and
Arracan: at Prince of Wales Island. and Sim
gaPore, on the shores of China, at Hong Kong
and Chusan, and in the Australia, a. the SET
Elements formed on every side Of The Austria
Ian continent and Islands, and in the Strait
winch separates these Islands of the New
Lealanders. No Prince has ever been born
III this or any other country, in ancient or
modern times, whose birth would be hailed
'' 'J"i''"S' az 80 many Otuefent ana DIS
tant points IN every quarter of the world.
Alter glancing DER this catalogue of coun-
tries he might well inquire, where is there a
spot where English cannon do not speak En-
glish power' OF her rejoicing at home we
nave nothing TO say. Let her hail the birth of
a monarch who may be, with acclaims, bell
ringing, and the firing of cannon, till 1.-The fast
anchored isle" rock to the jubilate-the world
'nay listen or not. rs it pleases. But the echo
OF. her guns north Of Boston and New York
beyond the Rocky Mouniains-south of
fiorida-and east of Charleston, has some
thing startling and ominons in it, Along the
d. Lawrence, Lake Ontario, Erie and Mch-
gan' one long booming shot rolls down over
.hcsc Tree States, saving; England is here and
her cannon too" The wandering tribes of the
western prairics and Guianian forests hear it
anu cover back to their Businesses, for England
Is mere 1t sends terror through millions of
hearts as II thiinders from the harbors and for
tresseS OF the East Indies The vessels enter
ing Inc Mediterranean turn an anxious eve to
'he rocks OF Gibraltar, as the smoke SLOWLY
curis up their sides and the report Of thou
sahu cannon say in the most significant Ian
guage, that England is there. TO the reflect
ing man there is meaning in that shot which
goes round the earth. England sends her
messengers abroad TO every nation, and the
insignia oil her power are scattered among all
'ne 'rlocs OF the great family of man; while
She Sis amid the sea, as il her power was the
centre OF tdes, whose pulsations are felt oil
every shore, and up every continent piercing
river.