29 NOVEMBER 1845, Page 2

A sound like the jangle of arms preparing in our

arsenals goes on : the ear is still kept alive with rumours of warlike tendency— marshalling of the Militia, measuring of merchant-steamers by naval officers, and the like. The French Opposition papers are gloating over the difficulties of England—over her corn question, railway panic, financial embarrassments presumed to be in pro- ect, Oregon disputes and so forth. There can scarcely be a doubt that it has now become more prudent to place this country in a state of preparation for defence, and that the general feeling at the report of official activity in that behalf is one of satisfaction.