The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-02-27


he disabled and disfgured veterans who
were returned from the Crimea, added to the
load and deep thahders Of the press against
the ministry, have produced strong excite
ment among the people. Letters from Lon
don speak of this excitement as threatening
Without believing that any thing serious
will come of it, it is nevertheless among the
notable things of the day of which the jour-
nalist must Keep his readers informed.
A letter to the New York Herald. received
by the last steamer, aludes to the obstacles
in the way of the formation of ministry, and
says.
Mesntimt the country became impatient the
British lion began to growl quite audbly-so audi.
bly,, Ia facs that our ANAL hierarchy of statesmen
started at Its tone. The Times came out with lead.
ers about the time having arrived for the people to
speak, and more th IN one loyal Briton was heard
to observe, "In France they would have had rev
olution long SINCE" Curiously enough, though
only few days have elapsed since the anniversary
OF the martyrdon, of King Charles the name of eli
YER Cromwell has been upon the lips of many.
That's the sort of fellow we want now.
There 10 much truth, and matter for serious con-
stderation 10 the above. 1t is now clear that the
government of England is in the hands OF a small
set or clique of the nobility. That clique has just,
by the public voice, been declared incapable; and
yet as If going bindfoid to destruction, they have
allowed this country, at a most critical moment, to
remain ungoverned. The effect on foreign States
has been most disastrous, and should not be sur
prised If ii weakened the friendly feeling of Austria
towards us. In France it s depl0red as calamity
II 10 true, very efficient ministry has now been
formed, but it should have been done within TWEEN
tyfour hours after Aberdeen resigned
OF course at such time in England, it
xxDo,.lT ha axfr ~. &c I
ssTH, being present, should be silent. Kos
s,ah is the great lover of Revolutions, al
though he is utterly unfit to have any thing
to do with them. The skipper Garibaldi is
greatly his superior Kossuth is but dis
turber of machinery; he is unfit to control; a
creator of storms he is too impotent to d.
rect But of course Kossuth is delighted at
a little p'quant discomfort thrown into Eng
lish politics. In recent letter to his friend,
1t. Gov. Raymond, of New York, (snother
agitator of the same kidney with Kossutb,)
ne concludes with the following grateful re-
ference to the condition of matters in Eng
land, and to the prospect of general war in
Europe:
Our news you know FROM the papers Their phi.
sophy is l. small ministerial change here in
men, not in policy; Englands absolute nudity of in
herent weakness; England's aristocracy 6ecaying
fa't; the British Empire drifted towards revolu-
ton scarcely to be prevented any more 2 BonapaIte
urof Heaee possible though every body be bent on
M theatre of war soon to be transferred to the
interior ef Europe, and the contest gsnesalizsd.
The people of England are no doubt ex-
cited; but victory or two-%ould put them in
a very happy mood. War is too expensive,
too burthensome to be born without the COM
pensation of triumph. Nothing is so hard to
endure as war with defeat, or what is worse,
such war as that in the Crimea, where men
are exposed to such suffering, and where
death is making such havoc, and yet there
Is no advance, no movement ahead, while the
enemy with his sorties are every now and
then killing and disabling few hundred
The English are the last people in the world
long to bear with an unprogressive war
Progress in their present invasion of Russia
will be indeed an uphill business; but if that
progress is not made, the discomfort at home
will continue and increase.
The NEXT LEGIsLATURE-The remarks of
several newspapers, including the Examiner
and this paper, upon the Importance of send
ing able men to the next Legislature of Vir-
GINA, are attracting attention in the State.
The proposition is an important one, and we
trust in the excited party contests will not be
overlooked. There are great things to be
done or great things to be omitted by the
next Legislature. The State of Virginia now
stands at point the most delicate and criti-
cal in her history. Her affairs may be so adj
ministered as to put her on the straight road
at rapid march to the destiny to which by
position and natural advantages she is emit
tied. Whereas, if errors are now committed.
shemay forever forfeit the proud attitude that
justly belongs to her. If the men who con-
troll her enterprises, and who direct her in
terests, and are ignorant or corrupt enough
If they are sufficiently narrow and con
| tracted IN their views to victimize the State
to sectional and local considerations, every
| thing may be lost to VirginiaaNher birthrieht
| may beindeed bartered for mess ofpottage
| She has put her hand to the great work of
| redemption it cannot be Withdrawn without
run. She has embarked in the grand effort
Il
to work out her high destiny. She has ven
tured millions in projected and uncompleted
works with this object-to stop, would be to
lose all that she has expended, and to fail
utterly fail before the world and reduce her.
self to most lame and impotent conclusion
10 go on, will be to gain all that her highest
ambition could DESIRE and at an early dav To
reimburse her for all her pecuniary OUTLAY for
this purpose But, to do this, there must he
men of sound judgment and patriotic i'm.
pulses in her councils.
MIR. y. L. BALDWIN has Just concluded
courses of Lectures in Norfolk and Ports.
mouth, which seems to have impaired the
highest satisfaction to the very large aud;.
ences that heard him. The following from
the Portsmouth Transcript shows the man.
ner in which his Lectures were regarded hv
the people of that town:
At the conclusion of Mr.. Baldwin's lecture mon.
day evening last, Captain Samuel Watts assembled
the platform and paid high and well deserved
compliment 10 the Accomplished lee,pre- H....I