The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-07-01
THE MAILS OF THE ANGLO SAXON


From the MOrning s tar, J,ule 16.
We repeat. it is the stale old story of lS47 and
1850 and 1852 again. 1t is almost an exact re-
production of that thrice exploded fable The
Times was then, as it is now, the chief trumpeter
of alarm. The special subje of apprehension was
then, as it is now, the alleged immense addition to
| the French navy. The particular locality which
constituted the centre of the conspiracy was then
as it is now, the port of Cherbourg. And veto
take the instance of lS52-ater all manner of
stories as to the enormous increase of ships of war;
and of tortresses at Cherbourg, had been repeated
by the leading journal for months in every variety
of form and version that could alarm the public
mind, that very paper compelled, on no less an
authority than an official report by NJ. Dufaure
one of the most eminent of French statesmen, on
the state of the French navy, to acknowledge that
all it had been saying for many months, was
nothing but fam and fiction. seeing-to use its
own penitential language-s'that the French navy
has never been reduced to lower state of eff
| ciency.'
Now, let it be remembered that this statement
was made after the tales about Cherbourp and the
prod gious naval activity of the French had been
| repeated for months and months in every newspa-
| per in the kingdom, with as much confidence nav
| indeed, with much more confidence, than the same
tales are repeated now for all that is said at pres
ent on the subject is but q whisper compared with
! the frantic of terror that then resounded
! through the whole country. For the credit of our
common sense as people, let hope that we shall
not be again frightened out of our proprety by the
cackling of the geese for though it is fabIed that
goose once saved Rome, that was only by accident,
and is by sufficient erect that most fool
ish of birds into perpetual oracle.
From Paris correspondence Of Morning Star l4hl
PARIS, Friday.-There is a feeling of uneasiness
with regard to the foreign relations of this country
continuing in Paris, which turns less round the sit
tings of the European conference, whose issue is
kept successfully secret than round the feelings of
dstrust, which persons of influence in neigbborinp
States. namely in England and Belgium, and in
Austria besides pretend to entertain on the designs
of the French Government.
People in Paris, who know full well that there is
ground for suspecting France, that the so-caled
intimacy between Russia and France amounts to a
mere exchange of compliments, on which either par
ty puts his construction, that in her ornaments
France has in no way outstePped the regular
of things here. that at Cherbourg nothing is tax
ing place, but the completion of what was begun
under the Orleanist dynasty, very naturally begin
to ask themselves if the pretended apprehension of
dangers from France, is not perhaps the contrary
a reason for France to be apprehensve on her part
of the coming peril
Thus it comes, that the fertilization of Antwerp,
old plan likewise of the Belgian government, be
gins to be looked upon in France with sinister eyes,
as that of Cherbourg is by the parties in England
alluded to- and that of Alexandria by the statesmen
and journalists of Austria In all likelihood
have only the old spectacle before us, that
suspicion begets suspicion, and that thus the
very fear of a war threatens again. as it did
five years ago to drift Europe into that war;
All the reason exists for fearless men
in every country to resist such cowardly dis
position OF public feeling, and now especially 1t Is
duty at a time when solemn conference is taking
place for the settlement of those controversies,
which, if left unsettled, may prove the spark that
ignites the latent mine.
DEATH OF GEN. PENNY.-Major General Nicholas
Penny, C. B., of the Bengal army, the news of
whose death is just confirmed by the last telegraph
from India is the individual who succeeded to
the chief command of the forces at Delhi, the re-
signation of Sir Archdale Wilson. He was in his
9th year at the time of his death. Re-entered the
Bengal army in 1906, took part in the siege of
Bhurtpore, and at one time held the command of
the Agra frontier. He was also Assistant Adiutant
General under Lord W. Bentinck and was present
at Ahwal Sobraon, and Chilanwalah, where his