New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-23
ENGLAND.
The Supremacy of the Seas.

From the LONDON Times December ).
Everything now conspires TO render speed as
indispensable to success on sea as on ia,iu' ny
the aid of steam we have intelligence within two
1nontba from every considerable port IN the world,
excepting only our own Australian colonies. In
+ba third week of October we had California news
napers of Sept !. Notwithstanding the immense
cost of our postal communications with the " est
Indies, Central America, and the Pacific the
Americans are able to anticipate them so tar, that
the news brought by the West India packets 10
generally some days out OF date.
By the electric telegraph intelligence IS con-
viewed almost simultaneously between boston
and New Orleans, beating time by nall an
hour The completion OF the continental railroads
will soon shorten the journey between London
and Alexandria and there is at length some hope
that the Journey between Bombay and the two
other Presidencies will be measured by hours
But the quicker the conveyance OF Intelligence
and Of travellers, the quicker too must be the con
yeyance of goods. At all events, the more GER
tain is the swfter conveyance to take away all
profit from the slower. Just at this time, Wheh
Atlantic steamers multiplying every year. rail-
roads increasing by thousand miles per annum
in the new and the Old World, and the electric
telegraph seems toquicken the paceiand the pulse
of the world, the discovery OF California drives
the competition up to fever heat, and tor time
threatens to put the United States at the head OF
the universal competition. There is no doubt that
/ eAIs'iSNt'
opening much of that enterprise which has lately
been rewarded with wonderful results nearer
home.
We have several times had to direct attention
to the fresh and fresh lines of steamers on the
American rivers and lakes to vast additional
lengths of canal and the endless ramiiications OF
the railway system; as also to the new manu-
features wherever an opening offered. The rapid
increase of population III the States, augmented
bv an annual immigration OF near 100000 from
these isles, is feet that forces itself on the no
tice and the interest of the most unobservant and
injurious. All these promise to develop the re-
sources Of the States to such an extent as to
compel us to competition as difficult as it is un-
avodable We must run race with our glgan.
tic and unshackled rival. We must set our
long practiced skill, our steady industry, and
our logged determination against his youth,
8ingenuity and ardor 1t is the father who
runs a race with his SON A fell necessity
constrains us, and we must not be beat. Let our
shipbuiders and their employers take warklng IN
time. There will always be abundant supply OF
vessels good enough and fast enough for short
voyages. The coal trade can take care OF Itself,
for it will ever be refuge for the destitute. But
we want fast vessels for the long voyages, which
otherwise will fall into American hands 1t is
fortunate that the Navigation Laws have been
repealed in time to destroy those false and unreal
gonabe expectations, which might have ued the
ardor Of British competition. We now all start
together, with fair field and no favor, The
American Captain can call at London, and the
York Who can complain? Not we We trust
that our countrymen will not be beaten; but if
they should be, we shall know that they deserve