The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-06-28
For The Star Of the North.
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENTS.
The old wofid.-John Bull Who's "ahead.n
Fl hal kindness.-TKe "miRingterry."-
TIL .Jo~ J,.s i

New YoRK, SATURDAY, Junes23, 1856.
The late news from Europe has made ev-
cry F" Hinglishman" in town unbearably in.
solent. Ifibe English papers brought GU, by
the Asia contain the truth, The Whole truth.
and nothing but the truth, concerning mat
tiers and affairs in the Crimea, the Allies have
certainly gained come advantages; but ii is
simply ridiculous 10 base any opinion on
the general result OF The war uponthe course
affairs may take for a few months. or even
for a year. l am strong in The belief that
England will come out of This contest a third
rate power. Individual living organizations
have their birth, infancy, youth, maturity,
decline, senility, and death. So have races
of animals, including races of men. Ma
lions, planets, and solar systems, must decay
and die-that is, the material part of them
The English nation has had its day. 1t has
run It's race. 1t has accomplished its desii-
ny-and a wonderful destiny il has BEEN
Turn losyeur'allas, look al the Map Of The
Wofld," or The "Map Of Eurore," and run
your finger over either of them, until it
comes 10 a little insignificant island that yori
could drown in Lake Superior, without. dis
commoding the jewellers on its shores by all
overflow and then turn TO the West Indies,
The East Indies, Africa, North America, and
Australia ponder on the superiority of the
race that has been able 10 sutjugaie or col.
onize such vast extent of territory ia every
quarter Of The gf9be, and, frankly, throwing
aside, for the time, any feeling Of luminosity
thai you justly or uniusily entertain toward
The Government and people of Great Britain,
see if il be possible for you, as all honest,
unpreiudiced man, not TO acknowledge that
that same people and Government have
vorked gloriously ard successfully for The
advancement of humanity.
think ! appreciate, 10 their fullest extent,
The erormities that have beer and are now
being prrpeiraied by the British Government.
Few men have a more clear idea than my
self of the shortcomings of that Government.
But am speaking comparatively. When our
own country gained lis independence, did
our fathers so TO France, or'Spain, or Russia,
for the basis of our laws and institutions a
Do we 20 10 any of those countries now p
No! Oar fathers paid the highest possible
complimenito the country that had just 6een
iyranizing over Them, by making its iustilu-
lions AMI laws The model of their own and
10 this day, The most violent anti British po-
litical demagogue, if a lawyer, and pleading
a cause refers the Court and Jury 10 the
practice Of The Courts in England, thus tacit-
ly paying a high compliment 10 the instiiu
tons of that country.
We can now cford to be magnanimous.-
England can never be, if she would, our op-
ponent in the field. She has loo much sa-
gacity 10 make the attempt. She could never
! oppose US for more Than one year, even on
The sea. She has passed her meridian, and
as she sinks down into old age, let us treat
her with re~spect--even humor her whims,
when il does not cost too much, as the gen.
erous boy of lwenly-one hunors those of his
irascible sire, or fussy old mother. Let us
remember that she has brought up a respec-
table family. Neither ancient Rome nor
Greece left children educated up 10 the abili-'
| ly 10 take care of themselves. Look again,
in later times, 10 Venice, Portugal, Spain and
Eolland, each Of which was ouly a few hun.
died years ago a first rate power, but is now
the football of nations. Net one of these,
when Old age overlook it, could point 10 its
| children which it had so educated that they
could mol fail, in their turn, to become one
oil tho great powers of'the earth. Where are
the colonies of those countries? Why, their
very languages arc being sw allowed up -
Look al Brazil, The clild of Portugal; and
Mexico, Cubs, and Central America, the
children Of Spain. Lock, on The other hand,
to the United States, Canada, and Australia,
the stout heal Thy children OF England, speak
ing one language. approximatins each other
every year more closely in the freedom of
The ir institutions, and see if OLE John Bull has
not, after all, so train ed his boys, that they
did fair 10 spread their institutions, and their
language, ultimately. over the eriire globe.
But l have been boring you. must change
The subject.
The Summer excursions Of our Volunteer
Military companies have commenced, and
on almost every pleasant day some one or
more OF these fine associations of The unlrieG
heroism Of New-York, may DO seen march
ing through the streets, their inspiring mu-
sic and gay uniforms presenting a sinsu lar
contrast 10 The monolonous sights and sounds
of our everlasting roll Of business. During
the delightful season OF The year upon which
we have now entered, these excursions will
be all the rage. Almost every day pc riions
Of the Union will be visited by them, al
though no company will go this year 10 any
place that il visited last year. II is not alone
the regular military companies who go upon
these expeditions for pleasure in the guise of
war. The fire companies, and various other
u%seful, ornamental, social, and even literary
associations, follow the custom, carrying
their borrowed guns, under an intensity of
% degrees Fahrenheit, with a frightfully