Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-04-21

criticism on his dispatch by telegraph, writes
to the Post as follows:-
The statement made in several Journals, |
that the president has interfered with Gen. |
McClelan's plans, thus risking disaster to suit |
the political prejudices of a class of men, am |
authorized, by high authority, TO pronounce |
entirely false. The president has granted ev- |
cry reasonable request of his departmental |
commanders. No plans of Gen. McCean's |
have been broken up by interference of the |
president, and Gen. Mcclellan will be the first |
man to deny these charges if they present |
themselves in an authoritative shape"
All reports from Great Britain concur in |
stating that the English people are not entirely
selfpossessed, at the present time, on the
subject of naval warfare. The battle between
the Monitor and Merrimac has given them a
suspicion that their whole navy is pretty much
obsolete, and their dream of permanent su.
premacy on the ocean nothing but dream
They have few iron clad ships, built in
imitation of French naval improvements, but
they are oil failures, or at least, far from being
successes. Besides these they have vast num-
Der OF wooden ships which would be almost
wholly useless in any service where they
would be met in battle by a small feet OF
Monitors, or well made iron gunboats of any
pattern.
While the Trent affair was under discus
sion, war with Great Britain, added to the
southern bellion, seemed to us calamity
That should be averted by any sacrifice con-
sisent with honor. And it would have been
avery great calamity. Yet, if Great Britain
had made that war, as her insolent ogarchs
intended, her wooden navy would have suffer
ed' She would have sent a large portion of
1t to blockade our ports and lombard our
forts; and we should have contrived iron
EunOoats, and other machines new in
naval warfare, by means of which her block
aiding fleets would have been annihilated.
Ehe Monitor alone would open any port which
Awooden fleet might attempt to blockade, and
compel the wooden ships to flee in terror from
Certain destruction. They could do nothing
against her and could not withstand her at.
tack. England having now discovered this
giving way to hysterical excitement. A
recent letter from England says
The London Times and England Just now
Tlsh America to understand that they are
II.
trail, but that, if they have failed in that re-
respect, it has been in favor of the stron0est
party, with whom they wish TO be friends.
The fact Is, England is in panic The bat.
tie between the Virginia and the Monitor has
lnnlcted upon her harder blow than has been
struck since the loss her American colo
mes. Her great and powerful navy is gone
AIS prestSe Is broken, and ii may as well be
split up for ovenwoUd. England and Ameri.
he Rrit,
er rules the waves. She begins anew the
struggle Tor supremacy, and cannot iatter
nersell WIN having the least advantage The
huge hali-cased Warriors, after all their enor.
nous COST are half-suspected failures. She
would scarcely dare to lay one of them along
side OF the little Monitor
30 there is furry in parliament and
hurry Ill the papers. The government is
urged to stop all its furtfcatious, throw
away all Its llne-of battle ships and frigaies,
ana go TO building small iron .cased and Gu.
Poa vessels. But the government is slow
ahu unwleldy machine. Itrequires \ genera.
tioh 10 DO anything, and il has terrible an
Hpatuy TO anything new. But something
must be done. England is at the mercy
OF any power that can build iron gunboats.
London, Portsmouth,, Liverpool every city
ON the coasts and rivers could be laid in
nshes, and all her dock-yards aud arsenals
destroyed. l tell you the feeling is not at
Nothing is said about the bockake-notb.
ing about recognition. There is a nervous
feeling about Canada and the lakes, but moth
ing will be done which can offend the United
States government until the ice has left the
st. Lawrence. The only anxiety about the
south Is to know whether it is still determined
10 resist. France, we are again assured, is
really to acknowledge her independence 1t
al depends upon England, and in England it
will, within ninety days, if the south hold her
ground with resolution not to be CONQUERED
De question whether the southern contedera.
ey Is necessary balance TO the great and
growing military and naval power of the
north. England will consult in this matter
her interests, and her interests alone.
There is no Disgusting the fact that one
confederate victory would produce more re-
joicing here than all the successes of the
northern arms. Mr.. Russell participates in
and truly represents English feeling. He has
not thought it prudent to write all he has
wished TO write, and the conductors of the
Times have not thought proper to publish all
he has written but, from his first letter 10 his
last, he has not disguised his thoroughly Eng
lish feelings. He was more at home in South
Carolina than lie has ever been in Washing
ton lie is compelled to admit that the army
Of the Potomac has fine material, and that it
gives some evidences of discipline, but he finds
1t to be totally destitute of officers fit TO COM
mand it, and of the highest soldierly qualities
That would ht it for Important military move.
ments."