The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-02

In new French pamphlet, LIZ Guerre ella Pair,
M. Prondhon, the eccentric Socialist, paints what
is to happen when France invades England The
similarity of the French programme with that of
the Black Republican. as regards the Soutb ;s 90
striking, that are induced to make the folIovinr
extract from it:
"Let US suppose that after successful nassooa
and q first defeat of the British feet. 100 O6G
French soldiers land the English coast soon fol
lowed by 100000, and, if need be, 200 900 more
1t only fair to suppnsa that however great tha;
gailantry, the British Volunteers wouId he ot M
avail against such imposing regular forces Eng
land invaded and conquered, London, Birmingham.
Manchester and Liverpool occupied the naval
forces compelled to captulate by the invasion of
the country, acre is what France would have to do
in the interest OF her future supremacy and for the
definite suhjection of her rival The whole of tha
nation would be dsarmed; the whole of the aristo-
cracy and middle classes expatriated stripped of
all property, territorial and funded and reduced
to the condition of artiZans; the public debt all
mortgages and joint-stock" Concerns declared ey
tlnct Ihe soil, thus freed from all its encum-
brances, might be let out in small holdings of from
~ 10 20 acres, at rent about so per cent. lower
than the present average. All mines, cotton
miiiS, dockyards- word, the whole of
tie manufacturing industry of Great Brit
air-treated in the same way and oiyen nm
to associations ofworkmen, at rent of 2 per cent
on the estimated capital The whole of the war
navy stores, and so forth, taken possession of BIZ
brought into French ports, the remainder given IN
at low rate TO associations of seamen. Lastly a
war tax of EGO 000 600 in specie &c to be raised
from the upper classes, and divided amongst the
poorest seven millions in France. This once ac-
cOmplished to the intense satisfaction of the Emo
llsh plebs, emancpdted and enriched by the ruin Of
the mobiles and the bourgeois and of the French
p'eos gorged with the spos of the enemy there
would no longer be any rivalry between the north
and south shores of the Chaunel-it wouId he oil
over with English aristocracy, English taskmas
ters, and English pride-England would be freed at
one oiow ot her Government and her bishops An
army OF occupation and a well organized police
tnat Is all the conqueror would require to secure
MS conquest and maintain order France then
would reign alone-the revenue she would derive
from Britain would cover the expense of the En-
pre-, and the French people, having nothing to
pay, would become once more the most lively on
the face of the earth"
THE BRITISH NAVY AND RIFLED GUNS.
Ihe Lords OF the Admiralty have given orders
for the building of ten line-ofbattle and other
steamers to be built at Chatham in addition to the
| lroh-piated frlgates now in progress. At Devon
! port the Ocean, screw-ship, 81 guns, has been
ordered to be converted into an iron-plated shin.
! Her length is 275 feet
| 1t was stated at Woolwich on the 18th of .Iu,e
| at dinner given by the Duke of Cambridge to the
Royal Artillery mess in recognition of his appoint
| ment as Colonel of tn e regiment, that
series or interesting experiments was last week
made at Shoeburyness, with view of testing the
| had
been previously found to stand any amount ot
| pounding with the lighter proiectiIes from a 69
| pounder smooth bore. The battery was buiIt mn
as solid wall OF iron, 10 inches thick on Thorny
croft system OF dovetalling, and backed up
! In the strongest manner with heavy timber and
braced with iron bars 1t conveyed the impression
| that, after having stood the brunt of so much
nrlng, the battery might, for all practical pur.
poses, be considered indestructbe. The first shot
was hTed from an Armstrong l20pounder shunt
gun, with projectile weighing 126 lbs ; and such
! was the effect of this mass, combined with its We
Ioclty, that at distance of 600 yards it cleared
out one OF the plates 10 inches in thickness and at
the same time, carried away the back fastenings
| The second shot was fired from an ordinary 100
poundsr Armstrong, with solid prGjectile weigh
ing ITO lbs This struck the battery at another
point, but without doing equal damage with the
hrst shot, yet making breach clean through the
entire structure, and weakening it as to insure
its entire demolition by few more shots. One
more sutiiced for the purpose, and this the third,
was directed tn part afOrdng some stability tc
the superabundant mass. The missile weighing
again Ito lbs, was, as before, fired from 100
FOUNDER gun, and it brought the whole battery
above the point struck, INN mediately to the ground
at dinner given by the United Service Clut
on June oth TO Sir Hope Grant, Sir Hope remarked
that he attributed small share of Els success t.
the Armstrong guns. These weapons were h,
said, exceedingly effective. In case a gur
which caused some annoyance was disabled ant
IL men were found lying dead near it Anothe
piece belonging to the enemy was struck five time
in very short period. The Armstrong oun' h,
said, was, in fact, the finest weapon ever Invented
Though there Is some difference of opinion in IN,
Board of Admiralty, the preference for rified gun
appears to gain ground. The Army and Nary Ga
zete says:
The Warrior and the Black Prince are each +,
have, on the main deck, thirty-four 6S Founders
95 cwt smooth b0res; on the upper deck twn 1oo
Founders, bow and stern pivot guns ri1.d an,
four 40-pounders, rifed These guns will be nro
Vided with ammunition as follows The broadsid
guns, oO rounds; the pivot guns, 100 rounds Th
armament of the Achilles, now about to be built a
Chatham, is of more formidable character
namely, forty-four 100-pounders, rifed guns fou
4o-pounders ditto, and two 32-pounders smooth
oored These are entirely independent of %
pounder Armstrong guns for the pinnacas an,
launches. 1t will not surprise us to hear that tn
armaments of the Warrior and the Black Prime
nave again undergone modification, and that
larger proportion OF rifed guns introduced
m put the above is as the order stands at presen,
The Duke OF Wellington, 13l, is ordered to receiv
Moe Armstrong heavy guns, similar to those sur
piled to the Marlborough, as already noted in thi
journal.
COMMERCE VS.. WAR.-We understand that tb
behefontalne railroad has within a few weeks pas
carried East some five six thoussnd hoqsheads {
tobacco, and the Indiana Central between two an
three thousand hogsheads.
The New Albany Ledger says:
A shipment of about 800 boxes of Virginia tabacc
was made over our railroad to-day for New Yorl
The tobacco was shipped from Richmond, Virgins
> to Atlanta. Georgia, thence over the Chattanoog
and Nashville roads to Louisville, and from Loui
, vile here by dray. The owner of the tobacco ha
been nearly three months in getting it to this poin
we understand.
The Reesellville Herald says that large quantiti
, of tobacco daily passing throught that place
railroad from Clarksville to Louisville. Sometime
as many as twenty-five car loads go through a da,
This tobacco all goes East by rail- Cincinnati G.
r zette.
: The Tribune says of Gen. Fremont:
II would be well for the country if Gen. Pate
- son were wheeled into quarters, and his coluu