The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-04-21

pasfonhas been duly given, and We shall
await with more curiosity than alarm the
enterprises which may be projected for
the purpose of expelling British subjects
from district of which we happen to
command the coast and the interior, the
Indians and the forts. The world is
perfectly aware that England is not the
attacking party ,and that we are content TO
leave matters in Oregon as they now are.
III the Americans mean anything, they
mean to dispossess us of what we hold.
At the same time if this intention be a
vowed by the Cabinet of ashington, or
if it be disclosed by votes OF money and
warlike peparations (which imply a fixed
determination TO engage in this absurd and
| fiagiiioas contest, no State is bound TO
wait 10 be attacked. Mr.. Polk has in
structed the American Minister in Lon
don to ask for an explanation of the ac-
tivity in our dockyards.
His own conscience might have given
it to him;his own language has put us up
on the defensive; and although the termi-
nation of the convention of 1927 by no.
tiee is no casus delll, yet the disposition
indicated by that notice, and the means
which may be taken to carry that dispo-
sition into effect, may hereafter furnish
ample ground of suspicion, of remon-
STRANGE, and finally of hostilities. A bold
and manly course on the part OF the Brit
ish Government will probably not be
without good effect in the United States;
and it will undoubtedly command the
unanimous support of the people of En-
gland"
NAVAL PREPARATIONS.
The extraordinary activity which pre-
walls in all the dockyards, in overhauling
and bringing forward frigates of the hea-
West class is very oninous, as these are
precisely the vessels which will be re-
quired in war with America.
In addition to the IA and SO gun frig-
ates already in commission, the following
vessels of the same class are either pre-
pairing for commission or undergoing care
.ful examination, namely,-the Glouces-
ter, line Of battle ship raced 10 so gun
frigate; the Raleigh, so; the Southamp-
ton so; the Isis, Al; the Cornwall, SO; the
Conquestador, so; the Horatio A; the
Constance, so, the Portland, SO, the Saya
so; and the Alfred so.
There are already at sea the following
vessels of this class,-the Grampus, so;
the Eagle, so; the Mulampus, Al; the
Vindictive, SO; the Warspite, 60; the
Vernon, so; the Endmion, A; the Presi-
dent, so: the Winchester, so; and the A
merica so.
From the Cork Reporter March 10.
THE CRISIS IN THE AFFAIRS OF
THE WORLD.
WAR IN EUROPE AND AMERICA.
The world, we fear, grows tired of
peace-Christians and Mahometans, let
tered and unlettered nations, seem bent
on war. The din of war is heard in the
four quarters of the globe--in Asia on the
borders on the Sutle,--in Africa along the
desert-in America it has but begun, and
Northern Europe is now scene of mad
conflict, Of which the restoration of Pol
ish nationality is the object. There is
nothing in all history SO glaringly dishonii
est and uhprincipled as the eenpulsiVe
cession of the Polish territory to the i'm
perial robbers who sat in consultation at
the Congress of Vienna. They excel
led in iniquity the Roman triumvirate,
who met in the lone island TO divide the
empire. They sought power over their
own country-over states already con-
quered; but the crowned heads who met
in Ammo Domini, 1915, conspired to
pounce upon independent kingdoms,
over which theyhad none but the rob-
ber's right. They violated treaties, on
which the ink was hardly dry; thsy' ap-
propriated territory over which they had
no jurisdiction; they parceled out among
themselves feeble or defenceless king
doms-thes annexed Saxony, and tore
the Polish nation limb from limb asun-
der. As hounds make fragments Of their
prey, even so did they mangle that en-
feebled country. The French Emperor
was no more terror. There was none
to combat or resist them. Castlereagh |
was there, too, to work nations ruin,
and the fangs of Russia fixed in the body
of Poland, bore off lions share.
Every. one recollets the vain strife
the peace of solitude that subsequently
reigned in Warsaw-the cold apathy
with which France and England, though
mankind cried shame, looked on. The
polos ,rare scattpred over the whole !
earth, beggars in one place, dependents
and pensioners of fashion in another,
barely tolerated in a third-drafled into
armies, oppressed by Austria, coerced by
Prussia-scourged by Nicholas, they yet
remember their nationality, and have
flockea back into their native land either
to recover it or 10 perish, and thus to end
their exile. They have made stand at
Cracow. have diver out the garrison, are