The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-15
RIcHMOHD, VA:
TUESDAY MORNING. AUGUST is. 1854.

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TUESDAY MORNING. AUGUST is. 1854.
CAVING. IN. 3
The confession of the impractibility Of
taking Cronstadt with the Baltic feet was
made BY admiral Berkeley in reply to Lord
Dudley Stuart The latter had urged the
construction Of vessels drawing from three
to eight feet of water with which to attack
Cronstadt. Admiral Berkeley ridiculed the
idea of building vessels which, carrying 4
heavy gun with engines and coal, would
only draw three feet Of water. "a London
letter in the New York journal of Com
merce, avefs that the thing is practical BILE,
and suggests that some Yankee make the
offer to fuInish 100 gun boats of the charac-
ter reqsired) He then speaks as follows:
The noble lord has been pleased to say that If
twenty of these vessels were sent out to the Bal.
tic, Cronstadt would be successfully bombarded -
Now he had letter from the gallant officer who
conducted operations in the Baltic; and as he had
served with that officer, he could state positively
that no possible attempt would be omitted which
held out the promise Of getting at the enemy (hear
hear) Sir Charles Napier said that it was not In
his power to do anything with the powerful fleet
which he had-and he need not tell the house that
when the gallant admiral penned these words he
was cbafng like lion In his den (cheers)-but
that to attack cronstadt or Sveabore would be
certain destruction (hear) And what said Adni-
raj Chads, the most scientific officer in all that re-
lated to naval gunnery OF the present day. He
said that after two days inspection of the forts and
the ships, he found that the Notifications were far
too substantial to make any impression upon, and
that 1t would be useless to direct the fire of the
ships against such masses Of granite, and that a.
vNvn AZ
sible to get at them (hear, hear) He would trou
BILE the house with one more short extract from
letter OF Admiral Seymour the captain OF the fleet
and whose business it was to that no vessel was
Seymour, said that he had never been at any time
In want of anything thanks to the provident mea.
sures adopted by the Admiralty (cheers)
Was ever such scaving in of human
ambition and expectations As if to make
the disappointment more complete, Admiral
Seymour proceeded most emphatically TO
deny the assertion of Lord Stuart that the
feeta knd arsenels of Russia might have
been taken before this time had the Admi-
rails been supplied with the requisite means
and had they not been compelled by the CO.
vernment to hold their hands. He declared
in the strongest language which he could
utter-it being his duty to draw up the orders
to the Admirals-that there never had been
officers who had received more carte blanche
to undertake what they pleased; and that, so
far from their hands being tied up the 60
vernment had encouraged them in every ope-
ration which they thought fit to attempt
I Nicholas has achieved substantial victo-
ry in the Baltic which will more than com.
pensate for all his reverses on the Danube.
/ THOMAS H. BENToN.-The defeat of Thos.
II. Benton seems to give general satisfaction.
Having been thirty years a member of the
United States Senate, he has now failed OF
re- election to the lower House Of Congress.
Benton is one Of those politicians who, in
vulgar parlance, have become "toO big for
their breeches." He tried the sensible ex-
pertinent of setting his will against the will
of his party, and was, of course, smashed
into thousand pieces A bull pitching into
locomotive may succeed in upsetting a
train, but it is, nevertheless, the last of the
bull. Peace to his names!
We are greatly pleased with this crowning
disaster to the illustrious Missouri Bison
So crippled and impotent has he become, that
he cannot even obtain place in that wretch
ed menagerie of inferior wild beasts, the
House Of Representatives Whether he will
try the political race course again remains to
be seen. There are fat offices still in the
country, from the Presidency of the U. s.
to the Constabulary Of st. Louis, though we
doubt the possibility of the election of Ben
ton to one Of them, from the greatest to the
least. -f ssaa'. sra a#asjeo #sH6
FIrTYYEARs IN Born HEMIspHEREs OF
"reminiscences Of the Life Of a former liier-
chant, by VINCENT NoLTE, late Of Neae Or
leans.-This is work from which we have
already given an extract concerning JOIN
JACOB AsroR and very free and caustie
sketch was it of the old miser; and that il
not all that the millionaire was. NoLTE is 9
man of talents, man of great enterprise
and remarkable mental resources. His com
mercial schemes and plans were character
ised by. judgment, sagacity and foresight
He was great traveller, and was wen anS
familiarly known in almost every prominen
commercial port of the world. His acquaint
ance included some Of the most distinguish
ed military leaders and statesmen Of tha
day. He writes with bold and free pen
and gives some very entertaining persons
sketches of distinguished men. His Owl
career was attended with many exciting IN
cidents which ne describes very wildly. :
With regard to our own country, there arr
some foreign prejudices in his book, which
must be treated with some degree OF allow
ance in foreigner. Indeed, such Is the
boldness and freedom Of the portraits, that
thew seem to be the result Of honest opin'
| ions, and we can forgive..A little Of the pre-
iudice occasionally. for the sake Of the m
dependent truthfulness that marks the great