The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-01-12

Mr.. BRIGHT ON THE UNITED STATEs-At q
public meeting of the Marden Mechanics Institu-
tion at Manchester, England, ON the 18th Decem-
ber Mr.. Bright, NJ. p, in the course of speech,
deprecating the war, said
"Many of you have relatives or friends in Amer
lea. That young nation has a population about
equal to ours in these islands, 1t has great inter
nal and external commerce. 1t has more tonnage
in shipping than we have. 1t has more railroads
than we have 1t has more newspapers than we
have. 1t has institutions more free than we have
that horrd slavery of the South excepted-and
which is no fruit of its institutions, but unhap
py legacy of the past. 1t has also a great manu-
featuring interest in different branches That is the
young giant whose shadow ever grows, and there
is the true rival of this country How do we stand
or start in the races The United States Govern
ment including all the Governments of all the So
vereign States, raises in taxes probably from 912
600 600 to els, 900 sterling in the year. Eng
land this year will raise in taxes and loans, and
will expend, nearly al000000O0. This population
must raise and will spend, probably, 9s0,000,0O0
within the year, more than that population viii
raise and spend, and in America there is far less
poverty and paupersm than in England. Can we
run this these terms and against these odds2
Can we hope to be as well Oft as America, if the
products of our industry are thus swept away by
the tax-gatherer and in the vain scheme of saving
Europe from imaginary dangers Can poverty be
lessened amoung us, can education spread can the
brutality of so many of our population be uprooted
can all or anything that good men look for come
to us-while the fruits of industry, the founda
ton of all social and moral good are squandered in
this mannera Pursue the phantom of military
glory for ten years, and eXpend in that time sum
equal to all the visible property of Lancashire and
Yorkshire, and then compare yourselves with the
United States of Amerca, and where will you be 7
Pauperism crime and political anarchy, are the
legacies we are preparing for our children and there
is no escape for US unless we change our course,
and resolve to dsconnect ourselves from the policy
which tends necessarily to embrol us with the ma
tions of the continent of Europe"
A MAIL BAG WASHED ASHoRE.-A small can
yass mailbag was washed ashore from the wreck
ed schooner Excelsior, on Barnegat Beach. It
contained couple of dozen letters much injured
by the water. 1t appears to have been mailbag
from the U. s. sloop-ofwar Saratoga, sent home by
the Excelsior, which was ON her way from Port au
Prince to New York, when she was wrecked
E PORTABLE GAS-There is o gentleman in AL.
lentown, Pa, who makes his own gas: and from
small beginning, in letting one neighbor after an
other have gas from his tank, he is now laying
pipes all about town. He also makes regular de-
lyeries TO families out of town of gas, which he
supplies to their little reservoirs from gas wagon,
which is driven around.
ROGERS, the Poet, and author of Pleasures of
Memory" is dead, in England. He lived far De-
yond the years allotted to ordinary LIE, and was
probably the richest poet in modern times. lie
was born In If6O, ana was a young HAL at the Pc-
riod of the American Revolution. he was famous
for his hospitality and his wealth. /.
FINANCES OF MAssACHUsETTs,-TheG Governors 8
message of Massachusetts, does not give very IA
vorable view of the finances of the commonw ealth.
For number of years the annual deficit has been
growing larger, and the excess of expenditure nm
provided for increasing, until now the sum OF $65,
0Oo Is necessary, beyond the probable receipts 70
enable the State to cancel its floating indebtedness
Al the close of the present year.
MaRRrAeg OF FANNY FERN.r-OR Saturday
last. Mrs Payson Eldridge was married TO Mr..
James Parton, Of New York. Mrs. Eldridge Is bet.
Ter known 10 the public at large as 'Fanny Fern =
The bridegroom Is the biographer Of Horace Gree
ley, and contributor 10 the periodicals Of the day
BAILooNIsa EXTRAORDINARY. Mr.. Harvey
Moore, of Lawrence county, Ohio, claims to have
discovered q principle for which direction can be
given TO an air.car and Its speed acceiierated on
retarded at the will of the engineer or pilot who
may take charge OF II, and without the use OF pai'
last or waste gas in the ascent or descent fsa
| Mrs chas. Howard Is engaged ai the baltimore
Museum, f 8 :