The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-05-21
ENGTAND AND FRANCE.

MONDAY
ENGLAND AND FRANCE.
We confess that, AS Anglo, Americans, we
cannot look upon the Illuminating attitude
which England now occupies in relation TO
France, without deep modification. thou
s.ud wars could not have brought her to the
feet of her old enemy as effectusiIy as TINS
French alliance. We knew the faults OF
England the wrongs and grievances both In
war and peace, which our country has
r;xbt to complain of at her hands-out 1t Is
no pleasant sight to see CREST people, even
;f that people be an enemy, humbled by the
frivolous, tickle and vain glorious race, of
which Napoleon III. is the present master.
ENGLAND, the land of law and liberty, the
bulwark of Christianity, the race of kindred
blood and tongue, cannot be degraded with.
out some feeling of shame and humiliation,
finding its way to American hearts.
True, England IL the ancient foe and com
mercial rival of the United States. But If
she has deserved our enmity. We would in
dict it with our own hands. We would re-
serve her for our En whipping. 1t is no dis
paragement to England to be beaten by
Americans, or Americans by Englishmen. for
they are the same breed and family. But the
thought of either playing second fiddle to
France is monstrous.
Whilst we devoutly hope that the allies
viii be defeated in the Eastern war, we have
no desire to see the star of England pale be-
fore that of France. We have no wish to see
the influence which that little island has ex-
erted upon the laws, the letters, the liberties
the morals, the religion, the civilization OF
the world, shorn of one particle Of its Nigh
ty and benefcent power. We cannot be-
heve that the wisdom, the virtue and the nap
piness of the human race would be Increased
were France. instead of England, to become
the first power of the world. 1t would be IKE
an eclipse of the sun, with its calm and steady
light, and the substitution of glaring me-
teor.
Could the Emperor of Russia drive the
Anglo. French army at Sebastopol, into the
sea. and break up the present unnatural Wes'
tern alliance, he would do England service
which might save her from destruction. one
was never in such danger when the first Ma
poleon was exhausting the resources OF his
empire for her humiliation, as at this mo-
msnt, when that ugly toad, the nephew, sits
in horrid nightmare upon her gallant
breast. Fr-
"HuNa THE HEAVENS IN BLACK"
This should be the motto of the New ORR
t., daynfinu TO SAbI6S
deserves such motto. Whatever the pre-
vailing topic of the day in other circles, sla'
very is the only one recognized by the In
bune. Others may Haunt garments OF gay
hues, but the Tribune refuses to know any
other color but black. 1t goes about from
day to day in mourning weeds, an inconso
liable widow The thousand topics which agi-
tate Congress, the country and the world, all
are with it subordinate to Africa. From day to
day, from year to year, it eroaketh like a
melancholy raven over the imagined sorrows
of its Ethiopians. Armies may decide be-
fore Sebastcpol the fate Of empires in the old
world, but what are such puerile contests to
the wars of abolition Know Nothings and
Anti Know Nothings may shake the solid
earth with their mighty warfare, but the
Tribune fromits lofty eminence, looks down
with sublime contempt, and pronounces their
principles but platitudes and gasin compari
son with Sambo. Under the influence of
this monomania, the Tribune, notwithstand-
ing its talent, becomes hOpelessly monotonous,
a vast desert Of Sahara, its dreary uniformity
only occasionally relieved by fierce 81
moon of passion, or an angry howl for
blood
1t is not for us to advise the Tribune but
we may be permitted to say that if it be the
object of its incessant assaults to injure
Southern institutions, its labors, as we'll as
those of abolitiOnists generally, have been
signally fruitless. Never was the property
it would depreciatesas valuable as at pres
emit. Perhaps if it would occasionally pre-
termit its warfare, and take up other SUBJ
iects, its assaults would have more effect or
at all events, more interest. It is said by
a correspondent of the Philadelphis North
American, that in the b0mbsrdment of thir.
teen days at s,bastopcl, the guns of the al
lies have already performed as great ser.
vic cas- it is considered safe by competent
authorities in iron ordinance We sug-
gest that the batteries of the Tribune, af
ter fifteen years continual firing, are in pretty
much the same condition, and that it ought
to be convinced by this time that a breach in
Southern institutions is not practicable.
CIRCULATED INvAsIONs OF THEU STATES
THE GULF SQUADRON
The Havana correspondent of the Charles.
ton Standard says, it is frequent and not an
idle assertion, made by the distinguished Off
cials of all arms of the public service in
Cuba, that in case of hostilities with the
United States, the army of Cuba, will be
INDUCED in a little offensive strategy on
the Atlantic border. New Orleans, Mobile
and Charleston are the points named, whilst
Key West and its Notifications are to be the
work Of morning before breakfast, by one
dash. Don Qui1ots de la Mancha seems to
hsvo oamus nd inf Cuha at this TINA