Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-05-15
FOREIGN NEWS.

The English papers by the America are filed
with accounts of the late grand naval reyieSE.-
We mako few extracts The hrst, from the
London Globe Is exceedingly enthusiastic:
The magnificent spectacle ofyesteEday VIII not
have been in vain. No race Of menin modern,
nor, as far as we know IN ancient, times eversaw
tie like of it-ever saw anything approaching
to it-and perhaps in our day and generation we
may never look upon its like again. That we
were far indeed froni having fired our last gun
the late war has demonstrated; that we are still
further from the inability to fire future guns IN
a Just or generous cause, the display ofycsterday
makes distinctly clear. Themight OF England on
her own element was never so conspicuouslS
proved: and the review of the British feet by
Queen Victoria on ST. Georges day, 1906, Is the
finest practical eulogy on that government which
has closed . bloody wal, with an honorable peace
aud instead of shattered armamentsby land and
sea, has closed It with mighty army at one end
of Europe and q vast feet at the other The re-
view of thefieet within sight of towers of Osborne
is Queen Victories ratification of the treaty of
Paris.
Another paragraph in the same exulting strain
gives the probable feelings Of Queen Victoria ON
this brilliant occasion:
The Queen of England must never have more
truly felt that she is the Queen Of the Ocean than
Yesterday. As she slowly steamed up the line
of the ships, as she passed the triple batteries OF
the leaders of the great screw squndrons, and
the smaller but still huge two-deekers; as she
witnessed the perfect evOlutions of the gun-boat
lotiila as they steamed in beautiful order in the
wake of her Yacht, even her Majesty, familiar
as she is with the sight of great ornaments,
must have been impressed with new feeling Of
the magnitude of her power. Every other re-
view, from that which nstouished the allied SOY
ereigns in 1914 70 that which made 50 deep an
impression in 1854, loses infinitely By com
parison with the review of1856
That is one picture, seen from the bright side.
Another, taken from the Times, scarcely so fiat
tering, although we doubt not tits more truth
full, reads thus:
The spectacle of yesterday, fiiIe as it was in
its mere maternal elements, did not, however,
excite the same interest or dept offeelng us the
review of 1854. There was much curiosity in
the thousands of spectators afiOat and ashore
but there was no enthusiasm. Tho decorations
of the scene were splendid, but all poetry and
passion had been eliminated from the drama,
and it fell fat "Is it war or pcacey" asks Ten
similar doubt Yesterday upon all minds. What
did men 90 out to see? 1t was not triumph
for victory achieved; the part of the navy in our
past. success has been subordinate and seconds
rs. 1t was not hope, the cxuling confidence
in success to come; for the cannon are sienced,
and diplomacy is drawing its web across their
muzzles. Was it merely the country taking
stock" ofits means of offence, laid in regardless
of cost, and suddenly, by change Of circumstan-
ces, Obliged to be laid by in store unused? We
believe this is nearly the truth, and, unconsci-
ously felt by the public yesterday, it deprived
the review of that deep and terrible Interest
with which the departure of the feet was wit
messed two summers ago.