Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-01


Unless England's wits have gone wool
gathering" and she has forgotten what good
breeding is, she will surely keep her rams at
home. 1t is stated, in dispatches from Liver
pool, that one OF the rams now being built ON
the Mersey was about to make "trial trip"
We trust it will not be a trip to England's
friendly relations with the United States, for
that would result in "A fall that would slide her
too surely into 1.-THE winter Of her discomfort"
Should this vivacious ram slip through the
governments fingers, and forget to return to
his pasture, as the Japan did on her trial trip,
the English ministry might well look sheep
ish, and England, allowing the iron clad to
escape from dock, might find our amity and
friendship locked instead. The prestige of
England is fading, and the day of her dcta-
ton in Europe is over. She has appealed i'll
vain to Russia, in concert with France and
Austria, in the celebrated ''notes" on Polish
affairs; and Earl Russell tries scolding, with
as little result in his late dispatch to Lord
Napier, English ambassador at St. Peters
burg. Prince Gortschakotf ''regrets," with
serene smile, advances upon the meddling
sovereigns with polite wave of his hand to-
ward the door, obligingly fears that further
discussion may fatigue their august majesties,
begs to assure them that Russia assumes the
full responsibility of her acts and graciously
and courteously lifts his chapeau, and bows
out the disconnected and philanthropic note
writer's.
1t is really funny to read Russelrs re-
proaches to Russia. Take this for instance:
1.-THE Empress Catherine, in l772, promised
to the Poles the maintenance of their reIig-
ion,-this promise has not been fulfilled"
"Satan roproving sin" isn't a circumstance to
this We have heard that his Internal majesty
Subscribed to society for suppressing the growth
of vice,
And the devil showed his piety by giving donations
twice"
But the devil himself is no match for Eng
land, in. piety. With Ireland ruined, beg
CARED, starved at her feet, through her abomi-
nable misgovernment and religious intoler-
ance, she dares fling the reproach OF broken
promises in regard to maintaining the religion
OF Poland, in the teeth OF Russia; and re-
membering, perhaps, how her own criminal
disregard of the religious scruples of the Hin
docs brought on the terrible rebellion in In
dia, her own experience finds words, and she
says, 'The violation of these solemn engage
ments on the part of the Russian z yernment
was itAe imwet4iiiatec cause Of the present in
surrection.'
A Russian fleet floating in our waters will
bring France and England to the condition Of
the old woman's owl. Though they may sag
nothing, they will undoubtedly keep up "a
ID OF thinking" The friendship of Rus
STA, union of the two great northern powers
of the two continents, would not be good for
European monarchies would not help to real
-i~eo Es1r1i1f UdnIeueracy; would not assist Ma
poleon to prop his own throne with block
from the house of Hapsburg, planted in Mex
leo to buttress St. German. If the Polish
question brings on a war, the Russian fleet
will be free, and not blocked up in her differ
ent sea-ports as in the Crimean war, or ice
bound in the Baltic, but ready for immediate
action. If the report is true that the English
fleet in japanese waters has been attacked
and disabled by the forces of Prince Satsuma,
making imminent a war between England and
Japan, the former power will take still more
heed Of her friendly relations with the United
States. For Japan, with forty millions of peo-
pie, with skllful soldiers and sailors, with help
to be obtained from foreign powers, under the
new Interpretation of the duties of neutrality,
as taught by England herself, and entirely
impregnable as she is to blockade, counting
rather than stunning it, would be no mean an
tagoniSt.
Our Ship of State has been tried by rough
weather, but the sky to the windward is clear
ing, and across the clouds to leeward is bent
the bow Of promise and peace, and the good
old ship is already in condition to bear up in
the very eye of the gale, and give damag-
ing broadside to any foreign flag that crosses
her track with hostile intentions.