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The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1865., [Electronic resource]

walks. The South never had a friend in England till this war began! Was all this philanthropy? Every child knows that England has been the greatest slave-trader in the world, and herself planted the institution here which suddenly became so abhorrent to her moral sense. Even an idiot can understand that she only used anti-slavery as a wedge to accomplish the disruption of a hated and formidable power, and hence, now that her object is accomplished, she preserves a "rigid neutrality," and takes sides with neither "belligerent." But the day of retribution will one day come. We are beginning to think that day is not far distant. Her hold upon the magnificent province of Canada is precarious, and her ancient domination of the seas may, ere long, be successfully disputed. We have no doubt she sympathizes with "the rebellion," and wishes that it would last forever; but it is only that her own prosperity may be built upon the common ruin of the United States and the Confederacy.

ything that can be put upon it, and greatly prefers provender to battle. There was a time when the sword of England would have leaped from its scabbard at the slightest of the provocations, now innumerable, which it has received from the United States. But that day has past. Its chivalry has fallen into the sere and yellow leaf. Its people are as brave and manly as ever, but the spirit of trade and money-getting has deadened the sentiment of honor, and the canker of a long peace has eats sides with neither "belligerent." But the day of retribution will one day come. We are beginning to think that day is not far distant. Her hold upon the magnificent province of Canada is precarious, and her ancient domination of the seas may, ere long, be successfully disputed. We have no doubt she sympathizes with "the rebellion," and wishes that it would last forever; but it is only that her own prosperity may be built upon the common ruin of the United States and the Confederacy.

Porter's Great torpedo. --The New York World, in an editorial on Porter's torpedo, gives the following excellent hit at the unhappy trick, so "gunpowders and pranky," which failed to blow down Fort Fisher: "Early in the Anglo-Chinese war the English were amused by the Chinese army, which met them with the sound of gongs, the braying of trumpets, and a corps of gymnasts, who performed all sorts of acrobatic feats, dressed in hideous costumes. For a time the object of these remarkablePorter's torpedo, gives the following excellent hit at the unhappy trick, so "gunpowders and pranky," which failed to blow down Fort Fisher: "Early in the Anglo-Chinese war the English were amused by the Chinese army, which met them with the sound of gongs, the braying of trumpets, and a corps of gymnasts, who performed all sorts of acrobatic feats, dressed in hideous costumes. For a time the object of these remarkable exhibitions was not apparent to the European army, and it was supposed to be a custom of the Celestial observed by them in all their battles — probably in the nature of an invocation to their deities. After the battle, however, they captured the general orders of the mandarin chief, and found that the "Children of the Sun" were ordered to sound their abominable gongs and blow their trumpets when the "barbarians"approached, and were promised that the effect would be so terrifying to the English