Washington Telegraph

An Englishman's Opinion.—An Englishman in New York sends to the Courier and Enquirer, the subjoined article, stating that it was from one of the coolest heads in England—a member of the aristocracy, and of a family which for antiquity and public service has no superior in that country.

The extract reads thus:

"You of America know that we have no army and now no General; that we have a raw militia, at present useless, a great want of sailors, and a very discontented public, their brutal voice crying out for more victims, now when the Russian power in the Black Sea is paralyzed for many years to come. It must be strange to the intelligent regard of foreign countries, that we should, confessedly play second fiddle with perfect complacency, allow our marrow to be sucked out by France, in destroying the naval power of our natural friend in the Mediterranean. The eyes of other nations must be closed, not to observe with distrust the two great naval powers of the world, joined to dictate, and the possessors of Gibraltar and Malta, distrusting the holder of Sevastopol, declaring that the acquisition of the Crimea is unjust, while Algiers is a French possession! We may expect a row about Poland, but what is to be done with Hungary? We gave away Norway, and now are taking back Finland! Europe will either be under the power of a Napoleon, including England, or must become one vast Federal power.

I cannot say that the mob arguments are inconsistent with Republican, or rather Democratic propagandism; but they are inconsistent with a French or German alliance: and if such opinions may govern our foreign office, no peace can be made in which we are not silenced; for we have now demonstrated that we are scarcely a third rate power as a military nation.

"In our external policy we want a thrashing, having offended Heaven in our swagger: while at home every sign speaks but too significantly of revolution."