The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-05-08
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Dnvastsn Panics IA England.
II 10 not without good reason that dfea'
Britain. with sleepless vigilance. keeps her
naval force always ahead OF that OF France.
The heavy expenditures which she makes upon
her navy are the price she pays for nauonai
,pdependence Her 'oaken walls" are the only
walls which save hex from destruction. The
., ono regulars in Great Britain are not moro
than sunicient to keep Ireland in order. The
res, OF her population is. with few exceptions,
unaccu.tomed to the use OF arms, and their
very numbers, in the event of an invasion.
would render military operations awkward,
nnwieldy and inefficient There are no drawer
people than the English in the world, but they
are not more likely TO become nation OF SOL
diers than are the French to become u nation
OF sailors. Louis NAPOLEON may build nue.
ships, he may adopt all the improvements %
modern naval science, but hs cannot create
sailor any more than he can make "s"' hat
amrhibious animal the English or AMERICAN
lack tar a creature who Is really more AZ noAhe
on water than on land, ana VINO, ike " Long
Tom CorrIN," sees no necessity OF lahd AT All
except now and then patch OF m"d TO drop
an anchor in, is entirely beyond the coplpre-
hension of Frenchman.
1t will be iuCktcSS Jay loT tue Ltst-aH-
chored isle when she permits single link to
be broken in the chain Of floating tortresses
which protects her against France. Once leta
French army Of hundred thousand men
land on the island, and it is wiped from the
map Of Europe in ten days. That this ca
,astrophe has not occurredloug ago, is owing
to the:benefcent Providence which has repeat
edly interposed in its behalf, and to the eff
hot SrIa
our own, has rarely encountered its equal
upon the deep. A Spanish squadron of inya-
sion, and a French squadron Of invasion, were
once defeated by the winds and waves, but
Great Britain cannot always rely on such
good fortune. Twice, during the last sixty
five years, French squadrons have eluded the
wauchfulness Of British cruisers, and reached
the coast of Ireland, and, Oh one of those &C.
casions, the French actually landed small
force of eleven hundred men, which marched
an hundred and fifty miles into the country,
and in four or five engagements fought and
put to flight not less than six thousand well
drilled English regulars, who expected an IN
xasion and were prepared to meet it. The
CornhiH Magazine, in a late number, which
gives an account of the invasion panics and
actual invasions OF England in times past has
some interesting details of this memorable
invasion. The French landed from three frlg'
ates. on the 22d Of August, 17!s. in Mayo
court, KilIala Bay, Ireland. They put Tho
garrison of the place at once to flight TIT
second day they advanced towards Ballins
and put another English garrison to flight
leaving 400 men to garrison BAHAMA and hi
lala. the remaining 700 Frenchmen, with tw'
tour-pounders and forty horse, advanced Il
Castlebor where they attacked an Enghsi
army fortified in q strong position, CONSISTING
of 1850 infantry and 100 cavalry, with tel
pieces of cannon and a howltzer Not"lth
standing the heavy odds in their favor, tn'
English, after a trfiing loss, retreated, and dix
not stop running till they had put sevent,
miles between them and the invaders. TW'
more battles occurred after this, in each o
which the French were triumphant. And l
was not until Gen CoRNwALLIs, with 25oG
men had surrounded the 700 Frenchmen, ant
the puenacious French had made very hare
fight. even against such odds, that the invader
were finally crushed. The CornhW Mosa- M
is of opinion that if 100 French invaders re
uuired 5000 English regulars to defeat them
an invading army of GOO Frenchmen woui
give the English of this day some trouble l
is not necessary, however, to press into IN
support Of that conclus such an excepuona
and for tuitous concurrence OF French audaclt
and English timidity as the invasion OF l7s
But concedng to England the steady valor 10
which she is proverbial, she has no mlli'ar
force capable of coping for twenty-four hour
with one-fifth Of the regular army OF France
if it could once be landed upon her shores
Politics and Morality.
A momentous question has been lately DIS
cussed by the New York Herald and the NeN