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unfit emblem of the tortuous career of the parliamentary renegade then perorating on its banks. But there is always something sinister about the Member for Carlisle. He told his hearers that the world in arms was not to be feared " if we are united amongst ourselves, as we arc to-night." Never was the little word " if" more awkwardly used. Probably the Member for Carlisle meant to eonvey that his "if " is, after all, " as great a peacemaker" as la premiere ABERDEEN herself. War is not to be feared—" if " the Irish allies of the Coalition do not recollect that "England's diflieulty is Ireland's opportunity "—"if" the Irish janis series in the retinue of the Duke of NEweAsmi: do not raise the standard of revolt—" if" Roman Catholic democrats do not cheer to the echo declaimers of the Father CAHILT. species. as they now applaud statesmen of the Netherby sort. The word " if," as used by the First Lord, supplied an ugly doubt about Irish loyalty which was not vc ry complimentary to the country in which he was sojourning. Some notion of this sort seems to have crossed the mind of the speaker, for he then took another tour, and endeavoured to show the company that a " Cumberland yeoman " could talk" blarney " as well as if he had kissed the atone. He entreated the Corkoninns not to dread lest "j ustice to Ireland " would not be performed by the present Ministry. Let them take courage: Sir WILLIAM CARROT. and Admiral CORRY were both Irishmen. and "as my secretaries I behold an adopted Irishman. an Ossoass of Tipperary, and an O'Battx of the right sort." Surely the Corkonians can not be caught with such empty claptrans Before the Tipperary BERNALB, alias " OS BORNE.," were heard of there were several Irishmen successively Secretaries to the Admi ralty, and the CsoxEss of Cork might beast that one of their race was a man of more politi-al efficiency and personal distinction than all the BIRNALS ever recorded in " Pod." What an " 013atest of the right sort" means will receive very different interpretations in Ireland. Some will, perhans, recollect the ominous " if" suggested by the sinister Mem ber fur Carlisle, and possibly may interpret " the right sort " to be synonymous with " Young Ireland." and its banished leerier We place a different construction upon the words ourselves, and we discern in them only that artificial antithesis which Sir JAMItd GRAHAM. Who "is not always ready." eeea 'flimsily indulges in his elaborated rhetoric. The true meaning we take to be thnt. as the First Lord's private secretary is an O'Batzx of the right sort, so the public secretary is an OMANI of the wrong sort. It was an unkind remark more saw, but it was long due to the pers , n who had compared the Right Honour able Gentleman to " the serpent that slavers " its victim bet Ore swallowing it." It is plea sant to see such persons executing justice upon each other, both of them realising Ovine description of Envy, carping at others, carped at itself, its own avenging scourge. THE UNITED STATES.—MARVELLOUS GROWTH OF ITS SHIPPING. THE congregation of American ships of war in the Mediterranean, simultaneously with the exploit of the United States' commander in the Bay of Smyrna. and the consequent coil with Austria, has not escaped notice in Eu ropean journals, and is not without signifi eanco as to the future part which the President and the Senate may possibly see fit to enact in relation to the affairs and events of the Old World. The Kreut: Zeitung of Berlin, a Con servative organ, has directed attention to this increase of the American force, and the per petual corning and going of their ships to and from Alexandria. Tangier. La Spezzia, and other ports, till their commodore appears to have a regular - Mediterranean fleet" under his command. The Kreutz leitung remarks that " the democrats of the New World have " evidently something in contemplation. ns " they are not the people to send all their ships " there for nought; and the language of the " Americans themselves confirms the conjec- THE PRESS. " ture. An officer of the United States' navy " said the other day. when the conversation " turned on General WASHINGTON and the non " intervention doctrines, that he would talk " differently were he now alive—he 'd be no idle " Whig, but an active Democrat." This dictum corresponds with that of the New York Journal, which recently declared that Captain INORAHAM, had he but opened a broadside on the Austrian corvette in the waters of Smyrna the other day, would have been the next . President of the United Stales _ _ _ We have been familiarised of late with this vague threat of intervention in European po titles from more than one section of the American press ; and in the valedictory address of M. SOW:, the newly-appointed Minister to the Court of Spain, there was a still more tan gible allusion to the duty of the model republic to render itself henceforward a tutelary inter vener between democracy and despotism. The origin of this inclination has been ascribed to the increasing impatience of the citizens of the United States at seeing the continued intluen-e of England, exercising, as she does, a potential and a recognised authority in adjusting the interests and misunderstand ings of her European contemporaries. They grow weary of the never ending allusions to " Aristides the Just"—and their fretfulness is nourished by contrasting their own powers for intervention with the fact of their practical exclusion. We are not altogether unprepared for the manifestation of this feeling, marking, as we have done, the unprecedented and almost incredible pace of American development. Our readers will no doubt be startled at the fact that the mercantile navy of the United States is at present greater than that of the United King dom ; and that the tonnage of the single city of New York is within a trifle of being equal to that of London and Liverpool put together ! According to the American returns, their mercantile marine was, tit the close of last year, upwards of 4,000.000 tons, whilst that of Great Britain was but 3,300,000 tons. Seven years ago the tonnage of New York was considerably less than that of London. At the end of 1852 it exceeded 1,000,000 tons, whilst that of London was 682,000 tons. and that of Liverpool 684.000 tons. These are marvellous facts ; and, coupling with the unconcealed ambition of the Republic to assume a " mission" amongst the nations of the earth the knowledge of her prodigious energy and strength, it ►s neither premature nor presumptuous to infer that in the coming crisis of Europe the statesmen and the fleets of the United States are not likely to rest contented with playing the part of mere observers. LORD PALMERSTON'S LATE SPEECHES. LORD PALMERSTON has proved himself more than a match for the Lord Provosts, and Bailies, and M.Ps., and Deans of the Guild of the fair city of Perth and the good town of Glasgow. Cunningly they lay in wait to watch him as he flitted past from Balmoral towards the south; more cunningly still they baited the trap with exactly the article likely to be most tempting to a statesmen sup posed to be .uttering, under unmerited in jury. Provost This told him of the glories of his foreign policy : and the Honour able The Other. with more breadth and bluntness than delicacy, blurted out that the country" wished to see him cure more Foreign Secretary, even should the present holder of the seals make way for hill. But all in vain. Not even the self-evident truth and the gratifying appositeness of these well buttered compliments could extract from Lord PALMERSTON one word more than he himself chose to say, or than was exactly fitted to the occasion. All they could get in reply was an elegant tissue of generalities. and an ironical dissertation on the actual solid value that might be extracted from a bushel of chaff." Its a delicate and dangerous thing to joke with civic functionaries, more especially with Scot tish Provosts and Deans of Guild ; and to the other diplomatic merits of Lord PALMIRS TON must now be added the dexterity with SATURDAY, which he enjoyed his quiz at the expense of his disappointed but unconscious auditors. Lord PALMERSTON, however. has taken a load off the mind of the Coalition Cabinet. If we are to judge by the delight of their organs at the fact of the Noble Viscount having said nothing to indicate the existence of a "split," we must infer that the difference of opinion is serious indeed which could render such a breach of official duty and etiquette possible on the part of so highminded a statesman and so thorough a tactician as Lord PALMERSTON. Because the Noble Viscount, being most im properly and indelicately " pumped" by the worthy Provosts and their satellites, did not at once betray Cabinet secrets, and virtually proclaim a weakened Government at the crisis when strength is most demanded, they jump to the conclusion that all the " rumours" of a difference as to the principle of our foreign policy have been wholly unfounded. They are welcome to an inference which is contra. dicted, not merely by the past lives and professions of Lords PALMERSTON and ABER DEER, but also by the actual events of the last few months. Yet, all that Lord PALMERSTON Could say in self-vindication, without self-compromise, he did say. Jesuitism is so completely the order of the day, that even this plain-speaking Briton finds himself compelled to resort to a kind of double-dealing. In the same spirit that dictated his two-edged compliment to the Emperor NICHOLAS on the last day of the session, he told his astonished auditors of the foresight and firmness of Lord CLARENDON, and the certainty that all would be rightly managed by him, if he was supported by the country. This, we presume, was part of the " sample" whereof they were to judge of the contents of the " bushel ; " but the good Provosts, Deans of Guild, M.Ps., end honour able satellites, will have to winnow a long time ere they get anything good out of such talk as that. Again, although Lord PALMERsTos could not. as a Minister of the Crown, say in plain terms, " I disapprove altogether of the policy which tends to the exaltation of abso lutism, and the substitution of mere force for opinion,"—although he could not at that moment, as he had done a hundred times amidst the enthusiastic cheers of the House of Commons, thus denounce the proceedings of Lord ABERDEEN and his supporters,—yet, by a skilful juxtaposition of the glories of the constitutional system, and the efforts he him self through his long career had made in its support, the Noble Viscount dextrously re minded his hearers and the country at large that though silent on a question of immediate controversy, there still remained between him and " the Minister of Austria " an irrecon cilable and ineradicable difference of prin ciple. After a very careful" winnowing," this is nearly the sum total of our gatherings from Lord PAtmensrox's well-filled bushel. If the good people of the North have arrived at a similar conclusion, they will have attained all that they could have desired, and a little more than they had any right to expect from a MU in Lord PALMERSTON'S peculiarly delicate situation. THE OUTRAGE IN TUSCANY. THE ease of Miss CUNNINGHAVE has attracted universal attention, and has aroused the indignation natural under such circumstances in a Christian community :—for we will not limit its action to this or that denomination of Protestantism. The lady is incarcerated in a Tuscan prison, for the crime of having given to some peasants an Italian version of the Bible, and a translation in the same language of The Pilgrim's Progress. - Mr. SCARLETT, the British Chargé d'Affaires, has remon strated, as far as the forms of diplomacy allow, with the Grand Duke, and even the Grand Duchess has been appealed to : but the result is that the law is left to take its course, the only hope for the lady being in some possible exercise of the grand ducal clemency, after this new victim of Romish intolerance shall have been subjected to sentence of imprisonment in the house of correction for some term of years. It is certainly honourable to the English press that, with, we believe, one sole map-