The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-09-15

/ crying out against IT,
But must do justice to Lake Windermere'
Il is very beautiful sheet of water, with isets
grouped most picturesquely, winding shores
suggestive of manifold hidden charms, and hne
mountains enough all around it to make any
body feel poetical
By the way, as some of my readers may ind
; themselves abroad one of these days, little
practical information may be of service 70
them In travelling through England they will
meet with better fare, and far more moderate
charges at the country hotels, than at those OF
London Hotel living, too, in Edinburgh and
Glasgow, we found much more reasonable
than in the metropolis; and we have been sur
prised at the charges at some of the places OF
summer resort Here ct Windermere we have
excellent fare, at a cost not more than we
should pay at Saratoga.
like railway travelling in Eagland better
! than in America The roads are generally
better built and more attention is paid to the
, safety and convenience Of passengers. There
are porters and employees at every station, to
take charge of the baggage to carry 1t from
, the omnibus or cab to the cars and from the
cars to the omnibus or cab, and they are for
hidden to receive any compensation from pas
sengers, on pain of dismissal. Such compen-
sation is, in fact forbidden for any service rem
dered by these employees; but they are cunning
fellows They are exceedingly attentive, take
your baggage with great care, well knowing
that you do not like to receive special attention
without acknowledgment. So, just drop six
pence by accident in the porter's car, and it
will be we'll taken care Of When you have
nothing but carpet-sack, you will find your
self relieved of it very kindly and your con-
ductor takes you to an agreeable seat, and
places your sack under it; and, of course, you
can do nothing less than give him trifie. One
time we had passed safely without help into
the car, and seated ourselves comfortably, and
were laughing at having escaped the usual tax,
when one of the conductors put his head inside,
and with q winning smile told US that if we
| preferred, he would so contrive as there were
| few passengers, that we should have the whole
apartment to ourselves OF course we preferred
it; but the smiling face fingered inside till the
material acknowledgment was forthcoming
OF course, the passengers will not be 80 cruel
as to betray these kind attentions.
new arrival from America is GOd-send
to the cabmen and the beggars. They pre-
sumo on the ignorance Of the passenger and
he may congratulate himself if he effect lodg-
ment in his hotel with the loss Of merely all
| l. L. he
ton from the cabman, by making no bargain
with him, but leaving to his landlord the set
Element of the hire AS to the beggars, let him
turn a deaf ear to their opportunities till he
has been long enough ashore to become ac-
| quainted with them. There is no merit in
being bled by impostors.
Liverpool dug l6--The Emperor of France
has just been reviewing one hundred thousand
of his troops, and the Paris papers speak in
raptures of the glorious spectacle. Although
the leading Governments Of Europe--except-
ing, perhaps, Russia-dread war, they are in.
tent on keeping up military spirit among the
people. The camp at ChObham, where grand
reviews and mock battles are continually going
| on, has been the standing theme of the English |
press for months past and now the fleet Of
England on the home station is exhibiting its |
might and man1uvres before the admiring eyes
of royalty and loyalty. The Times grows
grandiloquent in praise Of its wonderful power
and evolutions. To the naval force of England,
as much as to diplomacy, it attributes the So
luton of the Turkish question without war. 1t
fatters, from day to day the national pride,
feeds the popular appetite for war, and coolly
assumes for England absolute, invincible, per-
petual supremacy on the ocean. True, it incl
dentally alludes to the flag of the United States,
says that England will be proud to recognise
the Americans as their first competitors on tho
seas but it seems to think that their naval
power must always be inferior because the
Government appropriates SO little for the sup
port of navy, and the country does not turn
out 80 large seafaripg population as Eng
land The Times forgets our immense inland
commerce-that at this very moment inclu.
ding the vessels employed on our inland seas
and vast rivers we have greater tonnage
than that of Great Britain and a larger sea-
faring population. The military strength of
the United States is not TO be measured by its |
standing army, but by the wealth, the popula-
ton, the energy the spirit, the intelligence the
familiarity with arms, and the quick capacity
for organization, of the country and their ma
val power must be judged in similar way.
Immense fleets, with nothing to do but indulge
in mock fights, abstracting so many men from
the producers of the country and burdening its
productive power with enormous taxes. would
rather lessen than augment our naval strength.
Our real strength on the seas consists in our
vast tonnage, and our skillful, daring sea
faring population" steadily augmentng and
which, from the nature, extent, and position of
our country, Us well as from the character and
resources of our people, must increase far be.
yond those of England, or any other nation.
Most fervently let us pray that no occasion
may arise for demonstrating this fact under
the forms of war but should such an occasion
arise the world would see, in the progress of
prolonged conflict such fleets put afloat by this
country as it has never yet seen for q naval |
war could not be to us 30 disastrous as it would |
be to England. Commerce might be arrested
our merchantmen might give place to vessels |
of war; but our industry could not be crushed. |
Checked in one way, it would be only quicken
cd in another We own continent; we pos
sess within our borders the raw material for
all manufactures, and the food for the opera
tives; 80 that while our squadrons were en-
gagged On the ocean, thousands Of new manu-
features would spring up at home, feeding and