Vermont Watchman And State Journal

England.—In another place will be found a statement of the number and force of the British navy. The following extract from a writer in Blackwood's Magazine (London) for February, and the query of the Boston Atlas is in good time:

"But, while their strength is thus spent in Asia, can England, without utter and irretrievable ruin—both at home and to her territories—add to the weight of her present pressing and critical state of affairs, by a war with any power, and most of all with the United States? Listen for an answer to the words of Blackwood, written with no reference to the present question. "We could not, to save London from destruction, or the British empire from conquest, fit out three ships of the line to protect the mouth of the Thames, or assemble ten thousand men to save Woolwich or Portsmouth from conflagration." Again: "We have neither a naval or a military force to protect ourselves from destruction. All that Sir Charles Adams, one of the lords of the Admiralty, could say was, that we had THREE SHIPS OF THE LINE AND THREE GUARD SHIPS TO PROTECT THE SHORES OF ENGLAND!"

With so much to occupy her troops and navies in the East—with so little to defend her own shores from invaders, would it not be the most perfect insanity on the part of England to provoke a war with this country?