New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-06
xv.ps AND RUmORs OF WARS.

columns of foreign news this morning, will do 30
with despair. Those Millennal days when men
sball beat their swords into powshares, and
their spears into pruning hooks, and learn war no
more, do not seem to be imminent. A King In
Sicily-God be praised flies before the people
who have taken up arms to recover their rights and
ayepge their wrongs; the great Western Powers
are about to send ships and men on new crusade
TO the East, to defend those whose sign is the
Cross from the old enemies of their faith, and whose
rage has broken forth anew, and consumed them
with great slaus liter; and the Ministry Of England
calls upon the Commons to provide sum of from
fifty to sixty millions of dollars, to put her in
proper state of possible defense against that power
with which she is at this moment in such cordial
alliance as to be about to carry on with it two
wars, one in Western and one in Eastern Asia.
The undisputed reign of the Prince of Peace is
evidently not yet, notwithstanding Worlds Con-
yentons Commercial Alliances, and Free Trade.
Though it may be sometimes true that those who
take the sword shall perish by the sword, it is not
less true that bold bad man in place of power
is terror to the nations and to be met with the
strong right hand
The proposition of Lord PamerstOn to provide
for four years the annual sum of f2,OO 900 for
additional Notifications to the dOckyards and
arsenals for the defense Of England against
France, was pronounced by Mr.. b. Osborne
panic, and was treated as such by Mr.. Bright.
The public, however, do not seem to have shared
their apprehensions, as the stock market showed
no alarm. 1t is curious to note, however, sensi-
BILE effect upon the Paris Bourse, as if in &C
acknowledgement of the lively apprehensions of
France that she had an unsafe head which might,
at any moment, be tempted into the most desper-
ate enterprises But Lord PalmerstOns PROPOSE
tion seems to be received in England as CON-
mon. sense measure of safety intended to guard
against any possible exigency of danger. He re-
peated in his speech the sayngOf Sir Robert Peel,
that steam had bridged the Channel" and that it
would be an easy matter for Louis Napoleon,
should some future political event render it desira-
BILE, to land an army upon the shores Of England.
And he reminded the House that that potentate
kept under arms 400 900 men, and 200, 600 more on
furlougb, who could be brought into the field at a
fortpight's notice. The defense of England is in her
naval superiority and that can never be counted
upon while il is possible for an enemy to take
possession of or destroy her dockyards and arse
mails. Whatever force might be landed in England,
however great the mischief it might do, it would
be compelled, sooner or later, to surrender as
prisoners of war, provided 3 sufficient naval
force existed to cut off its supplies, and in
tercept it's retreat. But, said Lord Palmerston,
" if once you lose the command of the sea, what
becomes of the country" The question seems
pertinent, and one which it is well that England
should take into serious consideration, when it is
remembered that France, which is now friend,
may at any time become an enemy, and that she
can in fortnight concentrate at Cherbourg,
within nights steaming of England, and where
che has expended fs, OO0, COO in forti6cations an
invading army of six hundred thousand men.
There is certainly no reason to apprehend any
such event at this moment But it is impossible to
tell what may be brought forth in the future of
European politics. "In time Of peace, prepare
I" for war;" is still safer, though less attractive
doctrine than that of Mr.. Bright and the Peace
Society.