BRITISH COLONIAL EMPIRE.
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The annexed passage from the opening speech of the British premier, contains n at te. or vast import. 1t exhibits the amazing encroachment of England throrgh her con- auests on the rest ol the world, and marks the steady step with which she has ad dvanced during the present generation. In the last ffv wears her "colonial dependencies" i" which numbered " tleen'y-aco," are increased to lfoyjv-fse.D If she eonsolidates the power and wealth thus accumulated-an object pur- sued win a care by her wary statesmen equ- alled onlv by the solicitude of acquisition in the course Of fifty years more she will re- ally have attained the absolute dominion to which she certainly aspires, and may say with truth. "Britaaaia rules the aedres;" and if she rules the seas of the whole globe, will she not command the shores?

 The army, navy, and ordinance of Great Britain cost the government, according to Sir Robert Feels statement, SereAiy-efgH o,j71,on scrcn kpndrcd and eighty HoasaRd dozlars annually. There are miscellaneous evnenditures of more than fifteen millions, of which. doubtless, the military and naval pow or has it's share, making the actual charge ol inc forces 10 the government at least eighty

 millions npr annum. We know not what the cost of the military aud naval establish ment of the East India Company Is, but sup pose that 1t would raise the expenditures OH the colossal military power which sustalhs thc British supremacy on the earth to hun dred millions of dollars per annum-a grea- ter sum, we imagine, than has been expended in the maintenance of any military system by any other nation in any age oi the world And vet Sir Robert Peel tells the Parliament, while retrenching in other respects, that thlS prodigy of an army-''this rery eG?eaS'ce and complicated machinc''-must not be re- duced!! "Depend aPon 4, (says he,) yoN uiH not consult true economy 7 yo@ permit" 10 De dia1ocated and deranged 6y attempts af redncfioa;'' and he says what IS true. hls vast power is supported, like all conquerIng power, at the expense ot the confuered.- Like immense capital in any other shape, It propaoates itself. Sir Robert Peel, III the close of his statement, tells the Parliament that si4ere miH De, HiS year, aa increase ID the estimates of nearly one millioaj" that Is, of pounds sterling, equivalentto fte millions dollars. This indicates the progress of Bf- tish conquest. The American people should take it to heart, and determine whether they will allow it to make advances on this con tinent. lfpermitted, they may be sure they will have to pay for il; and is itnot better that we should pay for the maintenance of our own independenence, than for the cxten- sion of British power on this continent and the ocean that surrounds it2 This consider alton should resolve our course as to Texas and Oregon-Gl06e.