New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-20
the country at large approves the internal and a,
ternal pOlicy Of the government


Under 20 aspect whatever, then, can Ene,..s
be considered menacing or dangerous mia,,
power by any OF her continental rivals. Even .,...
she is not ali. DO werful, she vas half centur,
ago. The extension OF her commerce over a.
world presents many vulnerable points. Hsr
maritime possessions, even her cOuquests in Indi.,
would, in a naval war; be so many dead. weight. a,
her machinery. To defend them, Engl.nd would
be obliged TO leave her own chores exposed An
this, however, does not prove the decay Of Enslsad
from fer hight, but simply that the other power.
have grown. especially 10 their military RESOURCES
Engand's greatness does not consist in her Arsenal.
and armies, but in her manufactures and world.
betting commerce. As such, England is the leading
power of the European world. Not BY wars and
couquests, not even by those made ia India, Ia,
England accomplished that colossal and nexhausS-
bic capital which enables her to maintain coai
tions and cause others to fight her wars. In the
last century, even she could no more Eight single
handed than now. But for coalitions. with all her
maritime power, she would have been speedily
defeated in the contest with the French Revolutio.
and with Napoleon.
highlands military prepOnderance was never
real. Her occasional partial superiority WA
the result Of combination Of events not likely 10
be reproduced. The Eastern war has not dragged
her Gown as military power, but has simply
made plain what already existed. But willis
this demonstration has imprinted on England
burning mark of infeIiority, it is not the worst
stigma which the last three years have left
upon her name Not Russia, but England,
stands humbled before the world, which has
witnessed Louis Bonaparte condescendngly pat
ting her on the back as she bows before him.
Epplsnd receives from the French NoaitssY q
certificate of good behavior England despoad-
ipely but willingly draws the vail over the pest
olores of Spain and Waterloo to concilate, not q
nation, but an individual adventurer who, by wles
and crimes, has got nation in his power England
delivers her Queen to be shown of by Louis
Bonaparte to all Europe and the Paris gamins.
making peIitent pilgrimage to the tomb Of her
realms once deadly antagonist She atsnes for
the past, not before the French people, but 70
blot out from the memory Of the nephew the troa-
son of the Beeropton and that terrible legacy left
BY Napoleons death to the royal house of England.
az he himself declared in his Will All this is
not the lowest degradation of England Royalty,
nation, and press have abjured their once parsdsd
liberal principles Napoleon scornfilly extn-
puisLes every spark of liberty, and England has
not word of condemnation. Her silence is On
assent to the acts of her ally. Bonaparte coz
tinues his neutrality-suspicious. proscribes, and
exiles-and England has not word of sympathy
for the victims. And still this is not the worst.
Her government, her journals menace the pro-
scribed and eIiled with new alien bill-with
Australia and the Barbados as fit places to re-
echo their groans. Such is tho position in which
England stands to day-a second-rate power.
obeyiug with servle prompttude the commands Of
the usurper at the Tuileries.