The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-27

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ol ohsFmas1; that his neighborhood 4
Englsnd made m invasion moro practi
fcable; and that having IL Europe = 81
back and possessing N smount Of mil
tary talent almost if not quite, equal I
that Of the Yankee general, threat ffou
his lips was not calculated to make Eng
lishmen laugh Nevertheless, even 81
never carried through that little entel
prise; no hostile footstep profa med th
soil Of per6dious Albion, and Napoleo,
never reached any portion Of her terri
tories except St. Helena. And doe
EShermaa think, becanse he has rul
lthroush the State Of Georgia, retreatiDl
in good order from Atlanta to Savannah
with not even Major Jones = to disput.
his progress, nor :. Simon Suggsn . q
harass his rear, that be is going to pitch
his tent in Hyde Park?
We are no great admirers Of Eng
lish policy, but English power is an
other and different matter. We may
not admire the rapacity and zaenguinary
appetites Of the King of Beasts, but, for
all that should not ebe anxious to pro.
woke him to trial Of muscle. An en-
pire which confronted Europe half !
century ago with feet Of q thousand
ships (not old merchantmen converted
into gunboats, but genuine men-of war.
manned by British hearts Of oak, ) and
nearly million of soldiers in the field
(not men Of buckram on muster-rollsl
and which has to~day the means Of equip
ping still larger fleets and armies, to say
nothing Of two millions of volunteer
yeomanry within her own limits, may be
excused for failing to tremble at the
threats Of General Sherman. Even Le>
dru Rollin, that rabid French Republi-
can, seems to entertain very different
idea Of the resources and greatness Of
England from the politicians and SOL
diers of the United States. Who can
deny" he exclaims, !" that England, in
an industrial and manufacturing point of
view, has become the first in the world p
the chief moving power, the universal
agent, the sovereign people Of credit, cir
culation and commerce
x ss Who can llanu that .R t;chsarr;c,,sz
ture, on an equal extent and quality Of
soil, gives greater return for the labors
Of the husbandman than lands the most
furrowed by the plow or favored by the
sun?
"Who can deny that the British isles
two miserable little spots when looked
1t on the map of the world-have for
taken their place among the
greatest empires, and obtained an illus
trious place in the history Of the earth ~
You might as we'll deny the existence
of the sun as deny any of these things.
To overwhelm any audacious comparison,
has only to exhibit its fleets, its
harbors, its domains, its banks, it's ma
nufactories, its iron foundries, its mar.
kets, its docks, its arscnals, its girdle Of
colonies, and fortrcsses encircling the
globe, composing on empire larger than
ever obeyed the laws Of Rome. The pen
cannot describe the animation of its har-
bors, the activity of its commercial and
cities, the extent of it's
rural industry. Figures alonc can con-.
yey an idea of its immensity. Great
Britain, which is only two hundred
leagues long, and tho soil Of which is far
from rivalling in richness the plains Of
Lombardy or Aragon, yields annually
to the labor of the husbandman q re-
venue Of about e140, ,00O, 900 sterling !;
an income, great as it is, which is
almost doubled by the value Of similar
productions in its dependencies and
colonies. It's industry, commerce and
manufactures yield : rsvenuesuperior 70
that magni6cent landed ESTATE; thanks
to is inexhaustibls mines, to its admira.
bio system Of internal oommunicatisns,
eoudnr1sd by eighty six capsls and g;