The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-02-25

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The omission Of the United stare state ~ ord
Queens speech provokes the critic'sH or,a "A
Derby and may possibly be source y. AL
a,,,an., hi,terness IN the other aide OF the auan
tic bu, probably the United States were W.. 49,,
out for there il nothing that we sou ,han, For
them lust now that is likely. to please LIZ, ;
orr ovyr saka as we'll ~ hers. we "ouiu mos' s,"
caraiy s.h ,ha, the machine of government IN the
grast ran,hIic worked little more smoothiy' anu
wa NOT al ant to get clogged IN some places anu
stimulated TO violent and destructive action III osn
~ n;saro,res have arisen, as they Will arise
gre. ;n,aiIy hetween the best friends, between us
~ The American republic. War, always odious
.nd destructive would be against such an enemy
= Thousand times more revolving than against any
other To sweep her commerce from the seas, TO
destroy her navy, to ravage her seaboard, would
be feats neither difficult nor dangerous TO power
with such forces as Great Britain now posses, out
little would be the honor and heavy the loss OF this
suicidal triumph. We unwilling to fight, not
because we fear our enemies-for never were con-
ditions of combat more unequal than those would
be between Great Britain and the United States
at this moment-but because we cannot bring our
selves to regard them as enemies at all Nhen
Lucan spoke of a more than civil war, he must
surely have alluded to such a war as would De
waged between Great Britain and North America.
The parent devastating the fair inheritance OF the
child kindred hands employed IN roofing out that
prosperity the increase of which has over flowed
in tide of riches into this island, are subjects
too painful for contemplation, and from which
the mind of every Englisbman turns aside with
uncomfortable digust. Let us have war, It need
be- with any other nation but not with those colo
Mes the proudest historic monument we possess
the most enduring memorial of Ango-Saxon great
ness.
Yet what can we do, and how avert that which
this extraordinary nation, or those who have at
least the legal right to speak in its name, seem TO
be determi aed 10 bring upon usi Were the whole
attention of the whole public mind Of America
bent upon the question we might hope for a salts
faction and reconciliation; but what is to be done
with nation which is drifting hee6lessly into war
with people possessing a splendid army and the
finest navy in the world, while it possesses, in
truth neither the one the other A few thou
sand soldiers scattered over an immense continent,
and vessels carrying in all about 500 guns are lite
rally all the resources with which the United States
confront the enormous feet and well trained ar
mics of England, about to be set at liberty by the
impending peace with Russia. If we were the
aggressors-if, taking advantage of the enormous
disparity of our forces, we had been mean and base
enough to force quarrel ON unoffending neigh
Dor no words would have been sufficiently vigor
GUS to reprobate our conduct /; but what is to be
said when Power utterly helpless in military and
naval resources insists on fixing us with quarrel
which we have as little power to avoidas it has adj
equatey to carry out?
From shs London Chronicle Feb.2I
The attitude of Lord Clarendon towards Russia
is at once rebuke and a warning TO those Ameri-
cans who are endeavoring to involve the two ma.
tons in war. Let them remember how calm and
patient were the English people, at the onset OF
| the present struggle with Russia. Let them pom
der well the existing feeling OF the natlon-so
strong for continuance of the war, that all the
moral influence of the various chiefs of parties is
required, in order to impose moderation, and en-.
sure that the deliberations of the Conference shall
not be disturbed by unseemly demonstrations DO
the Americans suppose that we should be less de-
termined were they, like Russia, to force US into
war, by insisting on iniquitous pretensionSf IL Is
but too clear that the President of the republic,
and some of his most INSCRIPTIONS satellites, are
bent on trying our patience. They are aiming at
certain domestic triumphs Of party nature
through a resolute manifestation OF what is com
monty called "bluster.'
II Is TO be regretted, for their own sake, that
there is not yet submarine telegraph to- the
States They have not yet heard OF the pure
and simple" acceptance by Russia of the Austrian
proposals. of the conferences shortly TO be held
al Paris They imagine that Old England has too
much on her hands TO be dsposedf for even brush
with themselves. Were the prospects in Europe
less favorable than they are, our Trans -atantic
friends would soon discover their mistake. AS il
is they are playing most hazardous game By
this time the altered state of things in Europe will
have reached them, and the return packet will
doubtless bring us news OF considerable change
in the tone of those incendiaries 1t would be too
great political crime, were two nations like the
Americans and the English to go to war on such
grounds those out of which President Pierce has
concocted his irritants. Yet if the evil influence
were to prevail and we were to be inSuted be
yond the limits offorbearance, not even a resump
ton of the Russian would prevent our feet,
and that of the French, giving good account OF
their whereabouts. Notwithstanding Messrs Cob.
den and Bright and their aristocratic associates
England is not yet the dead lion
The Earl of Clarendon has taken the course
most becoming q British Minister under such cir.
cumstances. Strong in the conviction of our right
satisfied that our Minister at Washington never
even contemplated an infringement of the Ameri-
can enlistment law, and resting confidently on our
Interpretation of the Clayton Buwer treaty, he
has still proposed that there should be reference
to some friendly power of the question in dispute
The real motives of the American Government are
betrayed by their reluctance to accept this offer
They had better be prudent. John Ball has paid
some millions for feet which may not be wanted
He might think he would like to have something
for his money, and as he will receive no indemnity
from Russia, what if he were Ito take 1t out" in q
little fighting elsewhere.
From the London Post, Feb. l.
The change, therefore, which has recently come
over the drama of European politics will no doubt
have its proper weight with all rejecting men in
the United States and they will consider whether
in point Of mere international punctilio-which
has been the subject of explanation and apology
war should be rashly and wickedly provoked,
which would sweep American commerce from the
seas, and lay the whole seaboard of the Union
open to the attacks of the greatest naval power in
the world.
TORPEDO TO DESTROY ENEMY's VEssELs-Mr
Peter Cooper sends to the New York Express the
following account of invention of his by which
an enemy's vessel can be destroyed.
This torpedo "a peace maker as 1 will call it,
was small vessel with rotary steam engine dr
wing screw prODeller The steam was generated