The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-09-06
THE EArKRN WAR.

b1sties and capture Mexico, the allies have
at last burnt gunpowder, and the Russian
fortress Of Bomersund, after hard resist
ance, has been taken. It does not appear
that this is a fortress at al remarkable for its
strength, nor has it ever been mentioned
among the strong points on The Baltic, such
As Helsingfors and Cronstadt, which would
give an enemy trouble From an article in
the London Times it would appear that the
troops will winter in the Aland isles, and not
attempt any important operation against Rus
STA till Spring. In the mean time, peace may
be obtained, or, if not, the spring season
win afford the best opportunity to strike a
blow at Russia. The unsophisticated will
aturally ask why was not the blow struck
last Spring! Why did not French army
accompany the British feet to the Baltic =
These are questions we cannot answer, e1-
cept upon the theory that the two govern
ments never intended to make war in earnest
upon Russia if they could avoid it. They
were compelled to yield in a measure to pop
ular sentiment, but have yielded in most
ungracious and reluctant manner.
Of course, whilst the Spring is the best sea-
son to strike at Russia, suspension of i'm
portant operations until that period viii give
her ample time to increase and strengthen
her means of military defence, and, what is
even more valuable, to use those weapons of
negotiation, diplomacy and intrigue, at which
she is more successful than with arms New
Fri do ho dro 70 hor oil 1la
ments of strife and discord spring up in the
inactive camps of the allied powers. We
have no faith in the heartiness and perma-
nence of the French and English fraterniza-
ton. 1t recommends itself at present to the
English, because it is their interest, and to
the French because it is a novelty. But as
soon as this theatrical representation loses
its freshness, it will cease to be attractive,
and the Frenchman will return to his true ma.
ture. All the arts of Louis Napoleon cannot
create genuine and enduring attachment to
England in Frenchmans mind, nor has
John Bull ever inwardly ceased to despise
his volatile neighbor. Jealousies and dis
cord will spring up in their camp, and the
English government will itself have cause
for distrust, when French armies, having OBJ
tanned possession of the important points on
the Baltic and Black Seas, evince disposition
to make as long a stay as they have already
made in Rome. Who is to drive Louis Ma
poleon from Constantinople, from Greece,
from the Aland Islands, if he chooses to hold
them permanently? The truth is, England
has far more to fear from her neighbor
France than from distant Russia, and she has
committed great error in strengthening the
former at the expense of the latter.
On the Black Sea the operations against
the Crimea are still retarded by the cholera.
Every hours delay enables Russia to bring
up the reinforcements which are now hurry
ing by rapid marches to the point of danger;
and to strengthen the land defences of Sebas-
topol, which are still incomplete Should
the expedition against Sebastopol be much
longer delayed, that most important point
will be rendered as impregnable by land as
by sea.
THE WAY GREAT BRITAIN WORKS
NEGROES.
If any one doubts the real character of
British sympathy with negroes, the remarka
BILE facts contained in the foil owing extract of
an article in the New Orleans Delta, will for
ever set at rest all speculation on the subject:
According to Gallatin and Humboldt, tsee also
Researches upon Vital Dynamics of Civil Gov.
ernment," by Bennett Dowler, M. d. an abstract
Of which was published in the New Orleans Medi.
cal and Surgical Journal tor May l849,) the whole
number of negro slaves imported into the United
States from first to last, did not exceed three hun
dred thousand. From that stock we have now
about four millions, presenting, SAYS Dr. Dow
Ter, Eat the same lime a greater number of long
lived heRlthiul persons, than any people of Europe
not excepting the most favored classes More
than twice the number of slaves Imported into the
United States have been imported into the British
island of Jamaica alone, yet Jamaica at the present
time has not halfthe number originally imported:
whereas in the United States the increase has been
more than ten to one. According to Humboldt.
Gallatin, and others, 1t appears that previous to
1856 the British had imported into their West India
Islands 2, l30, 900 African slaves. That the British
West Islands. India settled acentury before North
America, received more than seven times the mum.
Der Of slaves ever received in the United States yet
In 1923 under British management but 627, III re-
NAMED. More than one million and half had disap
peHred! One million and a half lees than the oripinbl
Importation The greatest of all ply siuloeical ours
es lsthe death or extinguishment of race This was
not the fauit OIL the negroes. (Dower's Vital Dyn.
amics) Speaking OF the free blacks of the United
States, the author of Vital Dynamics continues:
Emancipation suddenly arrests their vital pro.
gross, longevity, psychological energy and physical
Improvement. Their numerical increase is not
but extraneous and contingent arising
from abscouding and manumitted slaves Disease
short life and speedy death everywhere ''mark the
progress OF the free blacks Expert.
ence shows that up to the present time all mon.
archical governments have not only failed to ad.
vance the vital condition of the negro, but thew
have actually contributed to his extinction"
Can any thing be more striking than this
Can whole volume of argument
the force of the great, significant
fact, that the three hundred
thousand negroes originally imported into the
United States have become FOUR MIL.
LIONS; whilst the TWO MILLIONS ONE
HUNDRED AND THIRTY THOUSAND
originally imported into the British West In.
dies, have dwindled down to SIR hundred and
t'centy thousand, seoen hundred and sereu,u.
seren? Why is this And why were negro
Instructions in the British West Indies mat.
ters OF frequent occurrence Because the
negroes were treated like brutes by the phil
anthrophic people who are now terribly dis.
tressed about that American slavery. unao~
which negroes so thrive and unItin,v oe