Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1862-07-01
THE WAR OF SUBJUGAT10N'
NEWS FROM NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN
PAPERS.


Srws FROM NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN
PAPERS.
wa ere indebted to friend for Is copy Oh
tina New York '.Hsrald," Of the 25th, IRON
which Be make few selections:
From the Philadelphia Inquirer june 2i'l
1s NAPOLEON PREPARING WAR FOR ENG.
LAND!
II soems somewhat probable or rather ny
no means improbable, that Louis Napoleon,
whom the journalists Of England once rldlculea
"A only the nephew Of his uncls, is now put
posing to do with her what that uncle earnest
" desred, but failed TO accomplish. We mean,
If course, her invasion, defeat humillatlon, in
revsrd of the favors shown by her to france
through many centuries, and which received
their dnnl crown On tho field of W aterloo, IN
the two occupations of her Capital, and IN tue
inprisopmcnt till death Of her great emperor
on the rock OF St Helena. No other iseilng
lies-no other feeling can lie-so deeply nurieo,
or ia nursed 40 warmly in the hearts OF BIZ
Frenchncn as .ha wish to repay to "perhoions
Albion" with interest compounded, the long
accommodating dobt Of vengeance. Compared
With this, their longing for the boundary OF
the Roine" is but passing fsncy, ano tneif
pursuit OF glory but soIunanoulism through
| goraeoua and beGllderinH dreams. Ihey are
casual, ti,rtn.. snpei hcsl passions, while tcls
is. ard must De, profound, Inherited, unoy-
| iu,. instinct. 90 both sides, indeed, ard COM
scIDusly to both, an inbred hostility OF feeling
underlios ali selfish, tenn orsry friendships, oil
skin. dsup, hypoc!itical ententfs cordiates, and
it bursts out, spontaneous and fiery, on the
slightest proVoculcu. The proof OF this re :
peaH itself ALMOST yearly. lie WHO oouoS
| the Iact thus S .ed-hc who doubts tnat lor
SUCH a war, etch Frenchnan's sword would
| leap, setf-moved, from It's Icabbaro, or that Ill
Eaglishmcn, fired with hereditary hatred ana
iil.d with long indulsnd. unreasoning Con-
temp would spring, as ono man, to meet tnsm,
knows little OF Eatioral snlrnositles anu mas
read his European histories in vsin
Taking, :ae,i thi:; priuci phl-tce principe
,!iat Frarra will humble EnglaIrd whenever
sae irelI herself able 20 70 do-ss IN axiom, or
seif-proGinP statement, the next aspect OF
the casa 10, that SITE is now more nearly Inc
mulch Of England, or, perhaps, moro ehu!e!y
her superior ttan sho IL likely ever u Dc
asa;n. Sac haa, OF !sle years, vastly increased
! the lame ,!ls. r,t,scs fear, and the prestige
| thar IL mower Ia ihs Urmean war, Where
England WAS her serviceshlo tool, sho won re1
nown, while England lost It, and her great
| triumph over Austria made her name glory
| for h-r friends aad q terror to her iocs
| Sac has also managed, lately, to secure
| moro friends, or To have lower 6nemlea, thsh
WAS hcr won!, among Tho Continental Powers;
| Duspl,r her recent wars with Russia ard
Austria, sbo ua= pretty well concilated ooth,
has been on better terms than usual win
Spain, end mate intimate alliance win Italy.
| But, aside from this, tho war, by the pro-
babe plan nf NapoleoG, would be 30 short
uharp and decisive, that tie blow would DO
struck ard virtually enoc1 before the Contl-
dental Powers could arrest IL.
Franco while vs'Giy superior, AS ususi' OH
land, is now i1icc .ss strong az England OF
the ss,. Wooden ships, }oT pufpos.s OF de-
fence. have followed Noaa's ark. and iron is
nov crowned monorch Of the waves. OF gun
boats, England has bd: fe", and Ct plated
frisstes but i've or ai5, and those partially
Injuries O. iae first, France IS mld 10 have
| fifty, OF the last sne certainly has SIX, and
some say fifteen, OF great perfection and CO
pacitJ. Franco cannot hope long to retain tola
primer, ior tho English Goserntnent is be-
| lIeyed 10 ba alarmed, and, 1t oil events, Is
making gruut eh',r,s To uvevtake and again lead
her dreaJcd rival Eagland ~ vulnerable only
by ravy tkai CAn crush or drsplse her own;
| and If France would strike her in vital point,
Ter Chance, it would cppesr, Is nop, or neeer
At this very tina, France ~ sad TO De
making preparations that mean, and can nlehn,
only -. invasion OF Ergnnd. NJ. Flourot
| late American Consul st Bordeaux, reports,
that during :hs LAST year iva transports have
been building OF tnot port, Of which three ara
finished, and all will be so by midsummer,
and that twenty moro will be ready at other
points They can csrry, no nsya, two thou
| sand ,nen .nnn With thar horses and ra.lona,
for thlrty-sI to tnr;y -uight hours, making
fifty Thousand 10 sill. Tho statement, IN It's
iull extent, is doubtful; for that number Of mon
with their ho.ses, forage, &c, would require
tranapnr.s OF unparalleled capacity. But tho
J Tale car hardly DO thought pure fiction, and
il The transports could convey even twenty riVe
ihouspnd "nold drag,o ns," drilled as'French-
;ncn ara, and aided, al they would be, by q
host OF :nts6tTy snd by iro1"cadi and gun
bua.s. pi6ughing thu Thames and furrowlns
the Mersev, they could r!ds into London as
fast ms J pan GiiFin, "ahcc upon time, rode
out oil II. TUose transports, If really prepared
Or preparing, may possibly, hut not probably,
| DC me n; for some otbar service than that Of
crossing The narrow channel 10 hunilatc ("
hated, hereditary foo, Tnoy could not 6s
meant ior distant service.
As reg ards preterta for n wsr, 10 willing
r alton they are never wanting; aud we're 1t
othelwl desertion By the English, causelsss
sid lsltLl,ss, 80 the French maintain, with
SUITS, nnt and CONSEQUENT defeat, IN the trl-
patlltc ,I,yasI;,lr u! !MsxIc0, would furnish Ma
poleun With whole reamful oi reasons.
This much is duo to theme OF chronic IN
teresl We predict nothing whatever. We
assert nothing but what is found in the hrst OF
this article, rancly, that ,hera always lives
and nuras, snothered OF Open, between lhc
French aud Engliah, al inbred, invincible, i'm
muteble, Immortal hostility, md that the
iorpIrr owe IL The latter large, long gathering
here1itsry debt, whco they are anxlous 10
repay with compound interest, and which they
viii rrp,y whenever they are able, and they
ere last uIaking themselves able noT.
FRoH RfCHHOHD.
A correspondent Of the Pniladolphis "ln
oui. ;" urder jste ii June Is, writes 50 fol