Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-05-12

erms she would be crushed between the upper
md neither milestone. And such would have been |
The result, but for the timely warning OF the |
North American in disclosing the obnoxious
grounds of that so-called adjustment
IL is bold and insulting piece OF effrontery to |
tritie with this Government upon any such con-
answers the end but there are other and more real
reasons below the surface, which may take the |
Liberty of investigating hereafter at length No
one Is deceived or misled by the cause which is
put forth because its truthfuness Is falsifed on
the very face of the allegation. The world knows
that Honduras dare not, IL she were inclined, re-
fuse to ratify treaty made under circumstances
such as now exist, and, therefore, Ii Is not harsh
TO suppose there Is an unavowed motive under
the rose.
There is no reason to apprehend any difficulty
between the two Governments, resulting from
this temporary interruption. Lord Palmerston
miscalcuates his strength If he supposes the
British people will go to extremties to support
or uphold any such bad faith as he has just ex-
hibifed. He was rebuked, and had to retreat in
the Champion affair, and his attempted revenge
will find no better favor in a new appeal to the
public, IL il should have to be made. We stand
now upon the downright Interpretation Of the
Clayton Bulwer treaty, and will see who can
stand there longest and best, in the Judgment OF
upright men. INDEPENDENT.
The VIRGINIA INSPECTION LAw.-Massachu
sets has voted 81, 500 to test the constitution
atty of this Virginia statute, and the Republi-
can party papers are strenuously misrepresent-
ing its true character, as though impressed
with the belief that by so doing they are
strengthening the prospect that the courts will
decide on it according to their wishes. The
Richmond Enquirer, discussing the futility of
such efforts on their part gives utterance to the
following temperate and well-timed views upon
the law in question, which, We trust, will be
extensively republished at the North because
they bid fair to do away completely with the
evil effect of the misrepresentation referred to
above, upon the minds of reasonable persons in
the non slaveholding States
1.-The state of Virginia has contributed liber-
ally to the Union she is still attached to IL tuly
and deeply. But she would be recreant to that
spirit of independence which animated and in
vigoTated her in the Revolution, to her sister
States OF the South, to her own interests and
honor, If she was willing TO submit tamey to
such outTa9es rs were continually perpetrated
upon the slave property of her citizens before the
enactment of the inspection law of March the nth,
1856. If that law is unconstitutional. ii is nsafe
| for the slaveholdng States to trade with the
| North. And to discontinue commerce between
that section and this, is at once to acknowled9 e
| that the Union exists only in name and form. not
in practice or in fact. If the Constitution of the
United States is overTuled by the local laws of
1 ~
| ginia from protection to their property, and the
laws OF Virginia are so oveTruled by the Consti-
tuition as not to allow to protect ourselves then
| the time has come when the Federal Government
| is incapable of performing its functions. and each
State is left either TO obtain its redress best
it can, or to submit quietly to aggression and in
suit. II the fugitive slave law is imperative and
the inspection law is unconstitutional the State of
| Virginia is truly to be placed in most deplora-
| bic position.
| ''lf Marshal Rynders has right to arrest and
| vessels In tSIa
stealing on the coast Of Africa. surely the Consi-
! tuition of the United States imposes no restraint
| upon the officers accredited by the Governor of
virginia for the suppression of slave-stealing in
| our own waters Should Massachusetts persist in
| her purpose to test the constitutionality of the
law, she will find that her twenty-five hundred
dollars have been expended in futile effort to II
move u restriction upon robbery
| The MARCH OF THE TIMES.-We do not know
| when we have met with more furcible illus
tration of the industrial progress Of the times,
than is embraced in simple description of the
great steamship of the world land her capacity
now being built in England. We mean when
considered in connection with the history of the
navigation Of the ocean by steam-a practice
which dates back to so recent period as that
every man of forty well remembers when the
then most deservedly distinguished scientific
man Of England-Dr. Dionysius Lardner-
gravely lectured in this country to prove the
almost utter impossibility of crossing the At
lantlc in a steamship. The description to which
we refer is as follows:
u.tue Observes the onI6 1 Tim neon 3 70 h"r"e"
coghlZe what may be called passion for Sizs
and whoever wants TO feel this natural passion in
primitive way must visit the bank of the Thames
al MIllwall. But before he goes. unless he is well
m 20 hTf.E o.
The 9th chapter and refresh his memory as TO the
dimensions of NOah'S ark and the fashion of its
making" The length of the ark Shall be 300 en-
bits, the breadth of il 50 cubts and the heiobth
OF u 90 cublts.' So reckoning the cubits al a
foot and half we have a ship 459 feet lone IS
feet broad and IS feet high While colIectin0
data as 10 ships sacred and profane he may turn
out - Marlborough in the Navy List and there
III Will see that the largest line of battle shin in
the British navy is of exactly 1000 tons burden
And now let him get on board a Greenwich steam
er and be steamed through the picturesque pool
To Millwall. Just opposite Deptford he will he
aware of something pre- Adamftic wallowinU in
the mud OF the Isle of Dogs-a stranded saurian
ship to which even Noah's ark must WELD nrece
dence. An iron hull of the burtben of 81 NNo
tons, nearly 200 feet long and 60 feet high will
meet his eye-the hull of Mr. Scott Russell's
utea ,a, hast 6 steamship The ship will accom-
modate ,OOO passengers, 500 of whom are first
class On an emergency she could carry 10 600
troops. She will contain 10 boilers and foo fnr
naces. me cylinder of every engine will be six
much as the great bell of st. Paul's The screw
propeller Will be "a feet in diameter and the di-
aHeter OF the paddle wheels will be So feet or
considerably larger than the circus at Astley's
The principal suite of saloons will be 400 feet in
Length and promenade round the deck will af-
ford walk of more than quarter of a mile
This monster ship will combine steam power in
both shapes, screw and paddle, with sailing
power She will carry II 600 tons Of coal will
be lighted with gas made on board and carry an
electric light at her mast head. She will spread
ooOO ieet OF canvas, and her speed is estimated at
Il miles an hour.
Mr.. PERRIN.-Mr. Perrin, who has been 90.
lected by Hon. Robert J. Walker Goyernor of
Kansas to be his private secretary-if the dis
patch to that end, published by US yesterday.
be cOrrect-is the brother-in-law of Hon. Fred
erlck r. Stanton, the Territorial Secretary Of
State We mention this fact, as the probable
reason for his selection notwithstanding his
politics he being nm to very recan+Ip ;f No. n.