Washington telegraph., 1855-12-26
From, the London Ielegraph.l
HoIzabardEnennt Of New York.


and some two thousand and odd guns This
! is not very large navy. as compared with
: Great Britain and France But let it not
be forgotten that the maritime shipping CT
the United States rivals ours in Tonnage
/ The United States are in position to 6t
out superior feet from the merchant navy
composed of sailing vessels and steamers
The ocean would literally swarm with their
armed clippers. and the commerce of
England within six months after the de-
/ claration of hostilities, would be almost an
initiated. Not ship that left our Englis:
ports for the East or West Indies, Australia,
the Cape or Canada, would ever reach her
destination. This would be consumma-
tion we should not at all relish. In point
of fact, while we could assemble great naval
squadrons, the United States would at the
same time sting VS. everywhere by cloud
Of clipper hornets from which our commerce
could cot escape.
AS to our being able to effect any militia
~ operations in a war with the United
States, that is a farce We have now some
fifty thousand men in the Crimea, which
constitutes the large portion of the rank and
file Of the British army The Americans,
y,
/ militia in the world Their rihemen are
faultless. 1t is not too much to say. that
within one month of declaration O! hostil
tiles, they could and would muster an army
of some FIVE hundred thousand men en- the
British frontiers And, although chastity
summoned to arms, they would not be raw
recruits, as ours, but well trained soldiers,
for each one in his adventuriDgs in the
backwoods, has handled the rife with un-
erring aim /; bivouaced, winter and sum
mer, in the forest and prairie pioneers of
/ the Wilderness, men Injured to danger and
hardship, trained with the long rife in band
from earliest boyhood tEcir own commisa-
riat and engineers; at home in every posi-
tion-whe;her trailing. the Wild Indian, or
I engaged in the bear or moose hunt-on foot
/ or on horseback-on the ''long cob or in
the canoe wild, determined. fearless. wiry,
up TO every work each and every one of
whom considers himself fit to be President
I or Consmander-in-C -Cbief-such would form
the rank and file of an army of 100000
1 Down casters on our frontiers; and work
\ well too. The Americans are peculiarly
military nation. They possess the qualifi-
cations for generalShp, in which We are
! grievously deficient. There arc hundreds
! among them who could command an army
of invasion with the most brilliant genius
! They are fully up to their work as soldiers
and as tacticians, they have not one whit
degenerated from their fathers who drove
us from the Union in 1916, and combaited
/ with US in 1871 AS 10 martial enthusiasm.
/ there is no bound to it. We are cold and
/ plegmatic the Americans fiery and ambi-
/ tious. The future of that people is TO be
great military nation. which Will sweep
4 the American continents from Hudson s
Bay On the North to Cape Horn. on the
! South, ard no nation can stay their destiny
An American army would advance from
/ Maine into New Brunswick, and ST. John
and Frederickton would fall with blow
Another army would simultaneously 'cross
; the St Lawrence and invest Montreal and
Quebec. From New York State, Kingston
/ and Toronto would be summoned to surren-
DER The lakes would swarm with Ameri-
/ can armed steamers. Bombard New York,
and the cities of Canada would be razed to
/ the ground The knowledge Of this fac;
/ forms the strongest Notifications necessary
/ to protect the Atlantic cities. No power
we have in the Canadas, with all their 10y
al inhabitants, could preserve them to US
They would be invaded at fifty points, at once,
and in one great combined movement the
/ Provinces would be wrested for ever from
the mother country. So much for the COM
mencement of the war what would be the
prospect at It's termination The West In
d;a Islands and the Bermudas one by one
would fall to the Americans. Thus our
transatlantic possessions would be lost. Du-
ring this time Australia would improve up
/ on our difficulties, and it is not too much to
/ add, that Tasmania would hoist the loDc
star Of independence. Our colonies loss to
Us in the Atlantic and the Pacific, Eng
land would, In truth, have achieved grand
success to remunerate her for going to var
i about Cuba We would impress this fact
upon orr readers. This declaration of hos
tiIities with the United States would sound
the first knell to England's supremacy as a
nation, Not only should we be worsted
abroad but at home-in the general COM
motion of affairs which would follow-dy-
nasties might change, constitutions be over
turned that which is now below would rise
uppermost, and, in the frothing cauldron Of
our "hell BROTH things stranger might oc
eur in the worlds history than the child as
suming the power and position once main-
ia ned by the parent.
Those.xho would wage = war between Eng
land and the United States are no friends
Of theif country ;;<and the Ministry who
would listen to such advice, would deserve at
the hands Of an infuriated people punish
ment which could only be expiated BY their
lives. We have interfered between the