The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-10

they would have sustained General Jackson. I,
1882 and 1888.
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well 'ee fact that they ere engaged In no str :
Gle with any Chicago platform, or with a,
issues which were before The people N ls.e a,
the time when h. 'ey we're elected 10 Congress
The preeen, emerge. ICY was then foresee, by
some. but Il was far on and formed no par. Of
the canvass. Iii. new an Of ssupsndoas into
rest to this and ell future Generations. The
cole question to be decided is;--sSs'r he Usi,sd
States remain grea. and powerful nsSen, or
be divided into two score military despolxms,
with anarchy In the background No tras
democrat can give sn equivocsl answer, nor
fail to endorse the course that Mr.. Lsncoin hs
adopted to secure the welfare Of the ,epublic.
And by doing 80. and Ignoring he mean carp
logs Of bisotsd and narrowminded partisan
press, they will secure such an ovcrwhelm'rs
victory for democratic principles st ensuing
elections. ~ has been auknown for years.
Eng,and's Preparations rsr Nsvas war.
Tue Immense works which are now hsips
carried on In the dockyards ~ England with
tia view Of improving the condition ana aug
mentpx thu effective force of hsr Dsvy
taksn in connection with the r~oea, despatch
OF powerful reinforcement 10 ths Chanaet
feet and the extreme vigilance and great labor
which, are observed towards add expended on
The 90 ast defepces az every point from the Jer-
icy and Guernsey islands 10 the extreme north
Of Ireland. Indicate very Clearly. either that
the government Of Great Britain does nos realty
stand on such friendly terms With its European
neighbours Is 1t would have US imsgioe. or that
John Bull is about 10 engsgs IN war with some
padon equivalent In strength to his owu
By late arrivals we learn that the advance
which Eogtand Ia making in the construction
OF iron plated aud tron clad vesseis OF war IL
r'aliy wonderful, and that she bids fair 10
I'vai Napoleon in his struggle tor the
II sugdrasion by France OF the age OF steel on
tie ocean AZ we'll ~ Oh land. Orders
have been received at Chatham for the
building Of oioe line battle ships and
etesmers Immediately Ihess vessels are TO De
named and armed a. tollovs:-Tbe Pitt, to
carry ninsty-cus guns; tho Bosjicsa, DIZZY QUE;
tho Pomona, dny-One; the Gauymsds twenty
eight; tbs Falmouth, twenty-swo; the Tees,
piceseen; the Diligence, seventeen, tbs Alba
tross. four, and the Salamis four guus. Az the
srsizaos in Chatham will 5000 complete the
irou var steamer Achilles, forty guns, and the
i,oa plated frigate Royal Oak. fifty guns, we
shall soon hear Of the issus from that yard
clone Of eleven nav British vessels Of war.
cscryiDs three hundred and thirty seven add
t,ana! guns,
The Admiralty havo also detected that
lie Ocean, already laid down at DevonF0rt
A. en ordinary screw steamer shouid be
converted With all possible despssch irto an
iron clad ship with ninety Ooe glns. This
.,stera ION Will involve the Gsa OF one Thousand
tons weight Of hammered iron plates. and it Il
proposed to meet this addition 70 her weight
by extending her tsngth sixty fest As che
frame Of the Ocean now measures s@o hundred
sud eeventy avs feet it follows that she will.
Ia her quit of Iron. have length Of three hum
bred sod th!rty-1ye ksst 1t 10 also ordered
that she shall be reduced one deck from her
origin Al doslsn, 10 order to facilitate the work
ttg aud afford = wider rauge to her gnDs; tbcir
;ordships having evidently borrowed, in this
Instance, the American idss--so msgai6csntly
,rksd out In the building Of 'hs Niagara and
her oonsort friga,es--of an ample. low and
easily ranged platform for the armament
From Portsmouth. wa are told that engineers
srs kept a. work from early ofnlng until very
ate hour Of the nisns in fttiog her eDgipes 10
tas new screw steamer Bombay. Tais ship
will carry eighty QUE guns. and her suginss will
have tbs power Of four hundred horses; each OF
her boilers weighing upwards Of twenty tons.
In addition to this, large reserve steam
feet ia Ia process Of organization at Ports
mouth, aud csrgoes of Armstrong guns and ma.
val etores for It's USE are being conveyed In
transports round the coast ia much greater
abundance than they were in the Black Sea
during the existence of the late war in the Crl-
mea. The transport Balaklava arrived late
ly a. Portsmouth, ladea with Armstrong
guns and their appendsges. The guns des-
'iaed for each shlp Of the steam reserve
n set, with their furniture and stores, were i'm
media,ely landed and placed in store, labelled
with The name OF the chip. 80 that the whole
may DE In course Of shipmsa. wisaiu Que hour,
when required.
interesting experiments are betog con
Quoted at Shoeburyness, in order to test
the Efficacy OF heavy sbo. on iron batteries
which had been already found TO be inpsr
vous to the poundicg Of tighter projectites
tent from a emooh bore sixty eight pound.
er. solid wall of iron. ten inches thick aud
dovetailed, was backed up vito heavy timber
braced with bar iron in thu strongest
manner. The engineers directed at this a
hundred and twenty-sx pound bail from q one
hundred aud twenty pouader Armstrong Stunt
gun. and such was its force. after travelling six
hundred yards, that IL cleared out one of the
iron plates completely, besides Carrying away
some of the back fasseuings A second shot
m ade clsau breach Though the entire struc-
ture, and few more would have insured its
com etp demolitioo