The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-28

THE DAILY DISPATCH.
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THE TRUE GREATNESS OF ENGLAND.
To decide wherein lies the true greatness
of England, We must 60. not to the Crimea'
where her armies form the tall OF Louis Ma
poleor,s kite, but to the ocean waves, which
IN every sea reflect the frowning batteries OF
her men of war. and kiss submissivsly the
provs of her merchant ships; to the teeming
agriculture which yields greater return to
the labor of the husbandman than land on
any other portion of the earth; and, above
oil. to the mighty workshops of Birmingham,
Sheffield. Leeds and Manchester. Would We
see England in her glory, we must repair to
the Crystal Palace, not to Sebastopol would
we know what she can do, we must look not
to the fleets which sweep the sea OF Azof,
but to that immense leviathian of twenty
i've thousand tons, which, in the peaceful
pursuits of commerce, is to unite her and her
distant colony of Australia with links Of
iron. The most magnificent military feats of
sesostris and Alexander; of Timour. Genghis
Khan. Charlemagne, and Napoleon, failed to
build up such dominion ~ England. little
asls OF the seas not - large Is our State OF
Virginia, has obtained by the skiiful comb
nation and energetic pursuit of manufactures,
commerce and agriculture. Its commercial
marine contains nearly thirty thousand YES.
sells In the mother country, besides eight
thousand in the colonies. In single year,
exports more than fes, 0oo.o 900 cotton
goods. Ito soil. by no means the best In the
world. 10 made. by judicious cultivation, to
yield to the husbandman revenue Of above
fl5o,ooo,ooo sterling, an amount which Is
doubled by agricultural productions OF
is colonies. 1t has ninety canals and eighty
lines Of railroad. Its general revenue from
agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and
mines, amounts to FIVE hundred millions OF
pounds sterling Its colonies are found on
every continent and in every sea, and hun
dred and fifty millions of people. of every
CLINE aud every race, acknowledge allegi-
anoe to its crown.
Such is Great Britain at a glance-the first
industrial and manufacturing, the first COM
mercial, the most successful agricultural peo-
pie in the world. In thus diversifying her
industry, she sets an example which every
nation and every state must follow, if it
would achieve prosperity and power. Let
those who look slightingly upon manufactur
ing industry, ask, what would England be
without her manufactures? What is it which
has built up and holds together an empire
greater than any the Roman eagles ever sub.
dued! 1t is the Titans of her workshops,
who amid the smoke and fame, the din and
clang of their eternal labor, have helped her,
if not to reach the heavens, to scale the
highest battlements of earth, and bring its
proudest nations, in dependence, to her
feet.
The tide Of battle in the Crimea may ebb
and flow; may rise and rage, or become tame
and placid, but the real battles of Great Bri
tain. those which decide her destiny and her
place among the empires, are fought in her
dock yards, her forge and iron works, her
manufacturing cities, and her insxhaustibls
mines. These are the citadels of her strength,
these the thrones to which the whole world
yields allegiance.
Let the South fix its eyes up IN the princi
pie of national division of labor, which has
developed the industry of Great Britain on
scale Of such immeasurable grandeur
Possessing the raw material Of cotton in
abundance, having, in fact, a virtual mono
poly of its growth, and every advantage of
climate, water power and labor, is it not the
interest of the South to bring the manufac
tory close to the plantation, thus avoiding
the enormous tribute which is now paid to
the North and Great Britain, in land carriage
freightage, and the other informed agen.
cies, which now annihilats Southern profts7
Is it not the interest of the agriculturist that
he should have q steady market at his own
doorl Virginia ought to be great manu-.
featuring, as well as great agricultural
State; and Richmond, with her enormous
water power, oughtto be the Manchester and
Sheffield combined. of the Ameri can cont.
nent. 1t was upon her inexhaustible stock
Oh minerals, her almost unlimited supplv of
coal aud iron. that England built her claim
10 become the workshop of the world. What
destiny is before Virginia, if she will learn
. lesson from the mother country; and Judi
ciously use her own vast amount and e,d,ass
variety Of mineral wealth.
THE MAMET np rD,,,r,x>
iha1 this tower, which is said to have been
recently captured by the allies, is far from
being indispensable to the defence of Seba..
topol, is evident from the stateusn. of a.