The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-24
FROM the New York Tribune.

ENGLAND.
The British press is spoung FIRE and fame nenacing
heutras and peaceful allies with vengeance for
not aiding England in the present struggle least for
not sympathiing with her The British government and
the public gentle and humble only toward the French
despot However, these Meiamorean boxing attitudes do
not seem to ghten any We strongly suspect that
all the storm Of high words which for many months has
hled the columns of the London press is raised 10 shake
of the of the gloomy reality that the halo Of British
military power is forever destroyed We accord the
leaders public opinion in England sufficient sound udg
ment to believe them to be wholly sobered and dis
ncty the position held by their country only through
the Crimean campaigns but the whole Eastern war.
We shall not go all the complications of thssrugge
as they are fresh in the memory of every Their result
is briefly that military continental power England be-
longs to the States of the second order Sraning every
nerve in the midst of warke national excitement prob
ably equaling that of the Napoeonic epoch England has
not been able since the began to bring than
fifty thousand into the field According the last
accounts her force in the Crimea numbers thirty
eight thousand No will contest the stubborn
bravery Of the English sodier--the at Ahna and
Inkermann as at Crecy Agncourt Waterloo Bat all
wars are not decided by single battle Napoleons aa-
hoty is supreme in such matters and he said that victory
is always by the most battalions II is
such numerous battalions that England is wholly
able to bring out in any continental war. To make
up for deficiencies, her only means in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries has been to resort 10 alliances
subsidies enlisments, To carry out the last has
been obliged to skim the dreg of her and of for
egn populations. But foreign enlistment has be-
come difficult or rather almost impossible. The Lest
enterprise Of that kind has proved failure here as
well in Europe All governments prohibit the prac-
ce by stringent laws and highlands only is TO
violate them Now it would be difficult if not impossible
for her to bring together at army Of hundred
thousand for any purpose except to repe an invasion
OF her shores. Whatever their bravery, if all
rivals Of the Black Prince himself small numbers may
fight glorously in battle but insufficient for sate
gica movements against superior enemy. Wonders like
those in the first campaign Of Napoleon in Italy,
that of 1914 in Champagne of genius and good
fortuneseldom There is to-day the continent
of Europe than one power able to oppose England
with treble quadruple her force Singehanded she is
not only unable fight any of the irstrae powers Of
Europe but among the minor powers would be
match for her She may damage them in various ways
but cannot wage against them continental war.
In the Spanish campaigns, disastrous to the French
marshas all the odds favorable to their enemies
Weingtons left wing touched the and thus it was i'm
possible either outlank him cut off his communca-
tons. He was too in the midst Of an nsurgent nation
devoted to him. terrible in their hatred of the French and
adrot beyond in guerilla warfare 1t is beyond
human possibility for England 10 carry single
handed against Russia France, Austria To begin with
the lastnamed power Austria is in military point of
view, almost inaccessible and invunerable by England
She has only single port Trieste, worth attacking The
destruction of any other point of the Adrac would not
much damage her her prosperity does not depend
clusivey her shipping in those waters Lombardy is
the only region in the Austrian empire accessible Eng
land but this cannot be approached without pre-
vons alliance with France at least with Piedmont
Hungary cannot be reached by English troops in
cending the Danube, and thus passing the domn
ions OF Turkey, Rnssia and Serbia Prussia, too,
show her teeth to England and set her at defiance the
continent Dantzic Stettin Memel, and the Prussian
shores of the Baltic in general, with the Prussan ship
ping are, to be sure exposed to English havoc but
Prussias corps of engineersone of the best in Eu-
rope-would soon the principal ports and har-
bors with powerful works of defence. The naval
plots of the English fleets during the present have
sufficiently proved the dislike of the wooden walls to
get within the range of strong Notifications andbstte
res. No doubt the shores of Prussia would be visited in
their weaker points, those of Russia have BEEN The
exploits of Kersch might be reproducedexpois in which
English commanders and sailors far disanced Morgan and
his buccaneers in the sack and destruction of Panama But
to land and conduct campaign in the interior is wholly
of the question Thus the interior of the country is
from devastation and Pussan industry and trade
if stopped in her harbors will easily find issues by
Hamburg Lubbock Bremen the ports of Mecklenburg, and
by water and rail communication with Holland and Bel
GUM. Prussia, therefore, need not fear England. The
vtuperatons poured by the English press and Para
ment have not shaken the popularity OF the King of Prns
sa with his subccts the last general elections show that
the country at large approves the internal and external
policy of the government.
Under aspect whatever then, England be consid
cred menacing or dangerous military power by any OF
her continental rivals Even at she is not al-power
full she half century ago The extension Of her
the world presents many vulnerable points
Her maritime possessions, her conquests in India
would in a naval war; be SO many dead-weghts on her
To defend them England would be obliged TO
leave her shores exposed All this however, does not
prove the decay of England from her height but simply
that the other powers have grown especially in their milf
tary Engands greatness does not consist in
her arsenas and armies, but in her manufactures and
world -betng As such England is the leading
power of the European world. Not by and con-
quests by those made in India, has England
cumulaed that colossal and nexhausble capital which
enables her maintain coalitions and others fight
her In the last century, even she could more
fight singe-handed than But for coalitions, with all
her maritime power she would have been speedily defeated
the contest with the French revolution and with Napo
leon.
Englands military preponderance was never real Her
partial superiority the result of combine
ton of events likely be reproduced The Eastern
war has not dragged her down military power, but
has simply made plain what already existed But, while
this demonstration has imprinted on England burning
mark Of neriorty it is the stigma which the
last three years have left upon her Not Russia, but
England stands humbled before the world, which has
witnessed Louis Bonaparte condescendingy patting
her on the back she bows before him. England re-
n,