Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1855 — From the London Telegraph, Oct 29. The Bombardment of N. Y.—Invasion of Canada. [ARTICLE]

From the London Telegraph, Oct 29. The Bombardment of N. Y. —Invasion of Canada.

The United States |mmh eases a nu- 1 cleus of a navy, numbering seventy-! four ships of war and some 3003 and ' odd guns. This is not a very large j navy, as compared with Great Brit-1 ain and France. But let it not be; forgotten that the maratime shipping of the United State.* rivals our own in tonnage. The United Stated are in a position to fit out a superb fleet from the merchant navy, composed of sailing vessels and steamers. The ocean would literally swarm with their armed clippers, and the commerce of England, within six months after the declaration of hostilities, would be almost annihilated. Not a ship that left our ports for East j or west Indias, Australia, tho Cape, J or Canada, would ever reach her; destination. This would be a cqp- ; smmation we should not at al! reliisb/ In point of fact, while we could a*-! semble great naval squadrons, the j United States would, at the same time, sting us every where with a' cloud of hornets from which our com ; merce could not escape. As to our being able to effect any I militaiy operations in ft war with the ■ United States, that is all a farce.— | We have now some fifty thousand) men in the Crimea,-which constitutes 1 the larger portion of the rank and! file of the British army. The Americans, on the contrary, possess the finest organzed militia in the world.; Their riflemen are faultless. It is not too much to say that, within one inohtb the Americans could, and would, muster an army of five hundred thousand men on the British frontiers. And, although hastly summoned to arms, they would not be raw recruits, as ours, but well-train-ed soldier*, for each one, in his adventurings in the back-woods, has handled the rifle with unerring aim; bivouacked, winter and summer, ini the forest and the prairie; pioneers j 1 of the wilderness; men innured to j danger and hardship—trained with the long rifle in hand from earliest boyhood; their own commissiarats and engineers; at home and in every position —whether trailing the wild Indian or engaged in the bear or ! moose hunt—on foot or on horseback, lon the ‘long cob” or in the canoe; ' Wild, determined, fearless, wiry, up ■to every work; each and every one lof whom con■‘iders himself fit to be i President or Commander-in-chief — such would form the rank and file of an army of 500,000 down-Easters on : our frontiers; and work well too.

! The Americans are peculiarly i ! military nation. They possess the I I qualifications for generalship, in| which we are greviously deficient.— There are hundreds amongst them ! who could command' an army of irF -vasmiT'witlrttrC'lTOstbriLli&nt-gentos-They are fully up to their work, as soldiers; and, as tacticians, they have notone whit degenerated from their fathers vviro drove us from the Union in 1770, and combatted with us in 1814. As to. military enthusiasm, there is no bound to it. We are cold ■ and phlegmatic, the American firy and ambitious. The future of that people is to be a great military na- ■ tion, which will sweep the American! continents from Hudson’s Bay, on fthe north, to Cape I lorn, on the south, and no nation can stay their destiny. ; An American army would advance from Alaine into New Brunswick, and St. John and Frederickton would fall 1 without a blow. Another army would simultaneously cross the St. Lawrance, and invest Montreal and Quebec. From New York State x Kingston and Toronto would be summoned to surrender. The lakes ! would swarm with American armed steamers. Bombard New York, and the cities of the Canadas would be I razed to the ground. The knowliedge of this fact forms the strongest, I fortifications necessary to protect the j Atlantic cities. No power we have iin the Canadas, with all their loyal inhabitants, could preserve them to us. The/ would be invaded at fifty points at once, and in one gfeat comi bined movement the Provinces would; be wrested forever from the mother ; country. So much for the com- ’ mencement of the war; what would j be the prospect of its termination?— The West India Islands and the Bet-, mudas, one by one, would fall to the Americans. Thus our transatlantic possession would be lost. During this time Australia would inprove upon our diffioultiea-. and it is not too

much to add, that, Tiwmnnia rotdd hoist die lone star of independence. Our oolonies lost to tie in the Atlantic an 1 the Pacific, England, would, in truth, have achieved a grand success to remunerate her f»r going to war about Cuba. We would impress this fact upon our readers. The declaration of hostilities with the United States would sound the first knell of England’s supremacy as a nation. Not only should wc be worrited abroad, bat aS .home—in the general commotion of 1 affairs which would follow—dynasties might change, constitutions be overturned; that which is now below will rise uppermost, and, in the Loth* ing cauldron of our “bell broth,** things stranger might occur in the world's history than the child assuming the power and position once maintained by the parent. Those who would urge a war be* tween England and the United States are no friends of their country; and the Ministry who would listen tor such evil advice, would deserve at the hands of an infuriated people a punishment which could only be ex* plated by their lives. We have interfered between the Turk and the Russian —that is well and good-—but emboldened by that successful experiment, let us not interfere between Spain and the United States. An ardent love of our country bids us exert our power, while there is yet time, to avert a calamity which no true patriot can reflect upon without i a shudder. A-’*Retc£i.feA!r” Ti.o following, whose author is J, R. Giddings, an ’ Ohio Republican,” wo commend to the attention of those I conservative men who have been inveigled in to this Republican movement: — Sentinel“1 look forward to the day when there shall be a servile insurrection in the South; when the black man, armed with Brittish bayonets, and led on by Brittish officers, shall as- • sort his freedom, and wage a war of extermination against his master.— When the torch of the incendiary j shall light up the towns and cities of ' the south, and blot out the last vestige of slavery. And though 1 may not'mock at their calamity, nor laugh when their fear cometb, yet I will hail it as the dawn of a political mil- ; lenium.”

Abolition Wildness—The Vermont Freeman, a very prominent ‘ Republican” paper gives utterance to the following specimen of insane ranting: “Wherever slavery is found we claim the right to assail it, and whoever and whatever comes between us and slavery to defend it, whether President Pierce with his Constitution, or President Lord with his Bible, linds no quarter. Our melonhumanity and its rights above ail books and Constitutions.” Fidelity.—Never forsake a friend when calumnies gather thick around him—when sickness falls heavily upon him—when the world is dark and because this is the time to try thy friendship. They who turn from the scene of distress; or offer reasons why they should be excused, from extending their sympathy and aid betray their hypocracy and prove that selfish motives only prompt and wove them. Tfyou have a friend •who loves you-who has studied your interest and happiness, defended you when persecuted and troubled be sure to sustain him in adversity. Let him feel that his interest is appreciated, and that his friendship was nqt bestowed upon you in vain.

Tuesday morning, a young man at Wakefield, New Hampshire, apparently died of a malignant fever and the occupants of the house were very anxious to have the body interred the same day, for fear of contagion. They applied, accordingly, to the sexton of a church in the suburbs, but he declined, considering the proceeding too hasty. During the night, the seeming corps gave signs of life, and at the hour appointed for burial, the young man was in the en* joyment of a cup of coffee, which he had asked for, and is said to be in a fair way for recovery. "DC7*During the year 1854 one hundred and sixty-four men were hung in the United States for murder. Of this large number only seven could reed, write and cipher. •