A Russian fleet has made its appearance in the harbour
of New York, and its officers have been received by the population with an enthusiasm which, considering the scenes now being enacted in Poland, grates harshly on those who believe that Republicans ought to be the enemies of oppression. The Board of Aldermen have entertained them, and a Mr. Eades gave them a dinner, at which General Walbridge, a person unfavonrably known to the Stock Exchange, uttered some silly speeches about the alliance between Russia and the Union to sweep the fleets of Great Britain from the sea. All this is silly talk, important only because it proves some of the Northerners, in their eagerness for their objects, are forgetting their principles. if war should break out, the Russian fleet off Saghalien will be three times as dangerous and as important as any squadron in New York.
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