Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-02-13
THE LONDON TINES ON SECRETARY

An interesting review of the articles that have ap
pesred in the Times this subject. is furnished by
the New York Commercial Advertiser. We extract
it for our columns that our readers may what is
said of the System of full reports, by the English
journal.
The London Times (eays the Advertiser) is compli-
mentary to the United States Government, with re.
spect to the system OF supplying full reports from the
various Departments at Washington. Ii has two
editorials the report Of the Secretary OF the Navy.
one in its issue of January ~, the other in the publ
cation Of January ~ In the former it acknowledges
that the condition and progress Of the American navy
form subject repete with interest to the people OF
7. England, and remarks that the United States have
always bestowed extraordinary pains nthe construc.
ton and equipment of individual vessels. It even
attributes to our Government desire TO uiake every
chip model of it's kind for efficiency and strength;
and admits that we are "enttled 10 the credit Of
having carried ships Of every rate to the utmost lin
its Of their respective capaciiies-ef having made
gates equal to ships Of the line: and cnrvettes equal
to frgatss;" adding "at this very moment too they
are lauchng new GLASS OF steam vessels with bat
teries Of prodgous power, '!iat in their marue,
though muoh sfaaer than own, may look for
lecture or the arts OF destruction"
These are important admissions from snch source
as the London Timca. They are, ioo perfectly con-
sonant with truth, and cannot fail to have influence
with the people and Government of England and OF
other countries in the old world. For if with these
facts thus publicly recognized, 10 taken into consid
GRAFTON also the Of this republic her pract
cal freedom from nutionsl indebtedness and her
enue yearly exceeding her expenditure, it must be
apparent to all that in of the United States being
provoked into war, the number OF her naval vessels
would DO easily and rapidly increased, and their ar
mament be promptly made grea, o. the exigencies
of the case might require.
The Times notices also that the key no;e Of the
Secretary report is "extension." Ii remarks tia
.,he traditional policy of throwing the utmost skill
and pains into the construction OF single shps not
forgotten but by the side of hs principle appears
that Of expanding the whole naval force" that i'll
fact "the Americans arc advancing gradually c the
formation of larger regular marine" After com.
menting upon the Secretary's declarations that the
arguments and considerations for the steady and gra
dual enlargement Of our navy have lost OF the
force, and that our extended coast. our multiplied
the great powers Of the earth, all speak loudly in
favor Of this policy The Times Gays that the impulse
here indicated is both natural and inevitable 10 the
growth of great nation, and it proesses sincerely
to rejoice over the reflection that the power to bt
thus developed necessarily be carried 10 the sid,
Of liberty and progress. We quote its concluding
remarks,
Such are the principal features Of the report before
u.s. denotng renewed advance in the traditona
paths of the American navy. and at the same time
an extension Of the national policy in the creation
an enlarged mariue. That such movement
avoldable we are entirely rsuaded. No great ant
rising nation could possibly abticste ts fuucions Z.
a member of the mighty commonwealth of States
1t 10 of the very esssnce of civilization that States
| we'll as men should be brought into multiplied rela
tons with each other, ard these relations necessarily
presume the maintenance o: such an attitude as shall
sscure respect. Nna.intervenon in its general and
comprehensive sense, is as impossible y theory in
matters Of international would be in those Of do
nestle police Offences will come, and offenders
| must be restrained. breach Of public law or peril
m the public peace concerns member of ths com
mpnity as well as another, and imposes upon all alike
the duty of contributing TO order, and Of upholding
| in sficisncy those means by which order msy b.
| nreseryed. Within the last few years have seer
hese expedien,s unhappy fail and the long repose o
Euroo. rudely interrupted. but the strife though san
| culinary was comparatively short and it cannot bt
denied that under the present system OF internaona
relationship more than one cloud has been dispersed