The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-07-12
John Hu,l upen stills.


England. capable OF marching twenty thou
sand men into Hyde Park, and marching them
out again The Duke of Wellington had his
doubts upon the possibility OF finding man
in the whole service who could do IL. But the
Duke who was supposed to know something
about military matters I'm his day, did not
know everything. The thing, we say, has
been done. The London Times says so, an"
the London Times knows what 1t says. Nay
IL has been done in defiance of the most APP
palling difficulties. Only think OF II! ihe'e
was not an umbrella in the whole CORPS "S
we have been credibly informed Anu 'e "'
London Star assures us thar ION se'eia ~
casions companies of the VOLUNTEERS nave
been seen nobiy going through tneir oriii IN
the midst of q pouring rain" Ihls uemen-
dous feat is to be followed by tremendous con-
SEQUENCES. Already, the London Times tells
ms England has risen from the condition of "a
nation OF shopkeepers" to the rank of great
military power Lord PALMERsToN's Post
assures us that England "has once more be-
come the Arbiter of Nations" To soothe the
alarm OF those nations who might feel uneasy
at the sight of an Arbter, so suddenly raised
over their heads, the same paper, speaking
doubtless by authority, tells them that there
lie not the slightest occasion for apprehension.
If they will only behave themselves like good
children, and be obedient TO the behests of Eng
land, she will spare the rod as far as may be
consistent with her position. "She still means
TO main tain peace" on her own conditions
that is to say, it must be such peace as will
.. insure the cordial equality of nations, an
equality based on Justice and generosity."-
Certainly this language is very explicit. Ger
tainly the intentions of England are very
definitely expressed. Everybo knows what
1.-the cordial eq uality of nations means; eve
Tybody understands what is meant by an
.'equality based on justice and generosity" es-
pecially in the mouth of England. at is to
fortiiy this peace" says the POST" that
England has put on her armor, and gives
us in Hyde Park the spectacle of a
military show without precedent in
history" The Post is wrong there 1t is
plain 10 us that the writer never the
Moyoy Of GaTratt acted, and knows nothing Of
the renown ed Major STURGEON! 1t strikes
US, too, that the Times is a little unjust to MEL
SON and CALDER, and to the Russians and
Austrians, when it tells its readers that the
predecessors of these amphibious Volunteers,
who so nobly faced the storm in Hyde Park,
prevented BoSAPARTE from invading Eng
land in 1903. At least, history says that the
attack of the first upon EILLEERUvR, made
him put into CadiZ instead of going to Bou-
logne where he was expected to escort the in
yading army; that the second rendered inva-
sioE thereafter impossible, by destroying
the French Marine at Trafalgar, and that
the third led Off the French Army from
the coast into The heart of Germany. His
tory may be wrong, however, and the Times
right. We are naturally cautious when we
NEEDLE with matters that belong to history
and therefore. when the Standard piles up
the agony by calling the volunteers of Hyde
Park the Zouayes OF the army, we do not VEN
ture TO deny that it was they who followed
RAGLAN to Alma and Inkermann, and stood
by CAMPBELL and HAvELOCKE on twenty
bloody fields in India. We confess we had
previously attributed those achievements
among the mightiest and most glorious in the
annals of war--to the veteran regulars of the
British army. Sir JOHN BURGoYNE, whose
work on the fertilization of London Is st this
moment attracting more attention than any
thing else In print, except the Bible, must have
been out of his reckoning when he pronounced
the opinion that all the volunteers in Great
Britain combined could not stop the advance
of a regular force upon Lendon. He evident
Iy had not seen the firmness with which
these heroes of the Park faced the rain on the
22d of June without once murmuring, or call
ing for an umbrella.
Now there is no doubt that The English VOL
unteers when trained, will make good aud eff
fectiye defenders of their country. But all
this splitter about the parade of twenty thou
sand of Them, in city whose population
numbers nearly three millions, is simply RI
dicuIous. 1t is evidently regarded so by the
French, whom it is intended to intimidate, and
whose journals laugh to scorn the contrast
~ q
crous performance, between the throes of the
mountain in labor and the very small mouse
10 which it has given birth. The London
Times. however is of a very different way of
thinking When the mi ghty fleet Of Sir CHAs.
NAPIER was ready 10 sail for Cronstadt. il
took advantage of the effect which it supposed
the magnificent armament would produce
upon the fears of America, to tell us that
while England was "throttling the Northern
giant with one hand" she was about to do
something indescribably terrible to us with
the other. So now, gathering courage from
the presence of the half drowned heroes in
HYDE Park it takes occasion to revive the San
Juan controversy, and to threaten us with the
vengeance of England if we do not resign the
Island and remove Gen. HARVEY. Gen.
HARNEYn it tells us, sis seeking for occasion
of offence against us. and if a stop be not put
10 his mischievous career he will most proba-
bly, involve us in trouble, from which there
will be no hon orabe escape, except through
the open portals Of the Temple of Janus" THE
u. States have repeatedly done to this country
things which no other government in the world
would have ventured on with impunity.'-
1--WE have endured all that the most extreme
desire for peace could call upon us to endure.
We are now called upon TO show that We have
the courage to repe as well as the moderation
to overlook an insult. The American Govern
ment has thought fit, most uu for tunately, to
tain In his command that General whose cul-
pabIe breach of the duty which he owed TO his
country on the first occasion, and of the obedi-
ence due TO his commanding officer the Sc
cond, has left US no reason to doubt that he is
bent on q breach between the two countries"
I'VE have right TO demand that an officer
whose continuance in command has been
proved TO be inconsistent with good under
standing between the two nations. shall be re-
called, and we have, besides a right to insist
that, now America repudiates joint occupa-
ton during negotiations, and treats us as only
present by sufteyance, her forces shall be with
drawn from the island, together with our own.
and the whole matter left to a treaty or, if
this may not be, to the arbitration of a third
Power We cannot bring ourselves to believe
that terms so reasonable can be rejected. We
do not desire for a moment to insist upon the
superiority of the resources which we pos
ress." "we have not called forth our young
men from the peaceful avscations of ordinary
life and put arms in their hands, in order TO
EXHIBIT TO them In return for their heroic
efforts the spectacle of a country which has