The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-08
FURTHER ADviCEs FROM ENGLAND.


FURTHER ADviCEs FROM ENGLAND.
We lay before our readers some extracts from the
English prints Of the 10Th ultimo, by the steamer
Hibenlia, arrived at Boston. She brings less excl
ting intelligence than the last arrival The debate
on Oregon appears not to have been revived in Par
lament but other topics have already superseded it,
or the subject had been pressed in both Houses as
far as prudence would have permitted it. The prin-
cipal bone Of contention in Parliament, or in the
country, lat the sailing of the Hibernia,) has been
the increased q I proposed by Sir Robert Peel to
the Catholic eof Maynooth, in Ireland.
We have a letter from London, Of the 18th April,
which portrays most wildly the agitation which
this question had produced in the country. 'The
table Of ST. Stephens groaned under the weight of
petitions numbered by thousands, with the sigma
lures Of hundreds Of thousands. From John o.
Groat's House to Lands End, nothing is heard of
but .Maynooih. The prevailing excitement has
scarcely ever been paralleed in the history of Brit
,jsh legislation! Ministers themselves were startled
by the agitation, if not shaken in their places.
The question Of Oregon, however, had not van
ished from the newspapers. II continues to attract
a large portion Of the public attention.
But .Msrico had become the principal foreign ques-
ton in the ascendant; and the London Times"
had continued to deal its blows at the United
States, and had contriyed to draw down adj
dtonal ridicuIe upon itself, by the glaring alb
surdity Of its novel speculations. No bus-
terng editor in the city Of Montezuma, in
deed, has made himself more ridiculous than this
celebrated mouthpiece Of the British tories. 1t
seem very anxious to embarrass us by urging on
Mexico TO a war with the United States. Will it be
believed by any statesman, that the Times, in the
fury of its passions attempting to get up the blood
and stir up the heart of the poor Mexicans by per-
suading them that, notwithstanding "he great dis
parity" in some respects, yet, in case of a war
that "there are many considerations that mill.
tate in favor of the Mexicans1" First, it pays
onr wing party the poor compliment of assert
ing that they would not join their country in
war s'for the sake Of an atrocious aggression
on the neighboring territory" of Texas Is it
necessary for us to answer this argument? The
abolitionists might be traitors in such combat
But will the wings of the North, in the spirit of an
other Hartford convention, refuse to stand by their
country Next, the Times ridicues our military
power as compared with the united Mexicans. Our
standing army is limited, il seems to sofa troops.
Not one of these be spared from the garri-
sons on the coast and of course we should not have
single soldier to send TO Mexicol Where. then,
(the Times asks,) are we to obtain the twenty or
twenty-five thousand men which would be necessa-
nv to march to Mexico? Let not the London Times
first blindly deceive itself, and then deceive the
Mexicans We should not want twenty-five, or
even twenty thousand men, but ten thousand men
would be sufficient; and such gallant and enter
prising spirits as the teemng valley of the Missis
sippi could send forth, in less than three months
would be sufficient to overrun the whole coun-
try. Volunteers would start up like Cadmus's
men from the sowing Of the dragons teeth.
Sound the bugle through the West and Southwest
let the United States raise the standard tomorrow,
and in this proclaimed crusade to the halls Of Monte
yuma and the mines of Mexico, 10000 volunteers
would appear; and with the cry of "Ho, Vest" the
speculations. of the London Times would be diss-
paed into thin air five judge Of the states
man-likc views of the British ministers by these
specula,ions Of their press never was cabinet more
deluded, never was there people destined to a
sadder disappointment. We despise such puerie
views and are utterly astonished that British minis
tiers should suffer them to be retailed They would
present another confirmation of the old Swedish
Chancellor, "With how little wisdom is this world
governed!''
If these revelations of the "London Times" are
to be received as the best specimens of English
craftsmanship, Heaven defend Old England herself
If the "Timcsn be- indeed, the best exponent of the
insane councils by which she is directed, she had
better look to her safety, instead Of forming
travagani crusades against the peace of the world.
! Her minister knows the Mexicans well, and
he knows something Of us. Yet even he is not
familiar with our western people; nor does he know
what an improved edition they constitute upon the
military and adventurous spirit Of the Anglo-Saxon
race He is yet to know how, in such an enter
prise as this will be, towards the setting sum- the
freedom of institutions in young and rising
country strs the blood and exalts the daring enter
prise Of free and vigorous people. What not
men enough Why, let the United States but sound
her clarion, and display her flag upon the banks of
the Mississppi-let her but say to this man, $50 to
the capital of Mcxco;'' and to these men, "Go with
your wives and children to the region of Santa
Fe;" and to another, "March with your neighbors
to the delicious banks of the Colorado, of Califor-
ma, anu "ey VIII hosoUy HoNc soiuitcciS chouSn
to answer to the call, but more than enough. The
difficulty will he in keeping men back, not in send
ing men forward. Does England really desire, by
thus tanning the fame into Mexican war, TO see
us take California; and not only take it, but keep ii
worse than Egyptian darkness has come over
her land, if she is ruled by snch infatuated counsels
as this oracle Of the "London Times" would preach
up to her people.
MORE OF THE CABINET.
The following extract of letter from this city
published in the New York Evening Post, sketches