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LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 90.

Tea relations of the Great Powers become daily
more complicated and perplexing. A time appears
to be drawing nigh which will " crave wary walking"
from those who guide the destinies of England. To
judge by the toes of that portico of the London Press
which is influenced by Ministers, we are on the eve
of a breach with the United States. In a good cause
we would not shrink from such a quarrel from any
doubt ci the ability of England to weather the
storm ; bet there are other considerations which
would make us regret it. We are at this moment
waging a war to assert the great principle of national
independence, in alliance with Franco. The cause is
just and honourable ; the union of the French
and English nations is most desirable; the
present Ruler of France has cooducted himself
loyally towards us. It happens unfortunately, how-
ever, that at this moment parliamentary government
is suspended in France, and the political press
gagged. That, we haws all along maintained, is the
concern of the Preach people. It is their right to
choose their own rulers and form of goverment hes
from foreign interference. It is the duty of all ether
States to recognise the de facto Offiniialiat of
Francs for the time being, its mere existents being
a proof that the French people acquiesce in it. But
we cannot conceal from ourselves that those
feelings of delicacy which prompt the English
people to abstain, in such circumstances, from too
hoe criticism of the institutions of a friendly
nation, have had the effect of making many I
Liberals among as lees forward to assert OM
great principle' of constitutional liberty gee
which the liberties, the prosperity, and the power et
England are bleed; and that advantage is takes if
this by the enemies of popular freedom se to
ammo a tone when speaking of free institalisas in
which they dared not have indulged a few ,e ago.
Suppose us hurried into a war with the dmassratic
republic of America, it is obvious that this disbar
state of affairs would be increased. The puha fret-
Wiwi against a people with whom we are at war
would be carefully turned to account by the itemise
of free institutions, to make them distasteful
to the English mind. On the other side, the
American people would, in the event of a war with
England, be exposed to similar demoralising lean-
emcee. They would enter into that war as the allies 1
of the most backward and benighted despotism is
Christendom—se the abettors of territorial lapin
and unprincipled intermeddling in the doomed" sew
corns of foreign nations. It is impossible that they
could continue to fight in such fellowship without
having their devotion to the principles of Vas peat
founders of their Republic cooled and weakened. The
faith of the only two great free nations in the world
in that liberty which has made both great would be
shaken; the two great models looked up to by the
freemen of all those nations which aspire to raise
themselves to theatres level would, by their lapse into
absolutist heresies, shake and undermine the faith ci
freemen throughout the world.
Now we feel convinced that there is nothing in
the relations of England and America, oe is the
state of public feeling here and on the oda/ sids
the Atlantic, to render a war between the. conefriss
inevitable, if the Government' of both countries IA
animated by those patriotic sinthnents and principles
which ought to regulate their modest. The main
question at issue in the angry correspondence which
has passedbetwoen the two Governments relates***
Goaded of Mr.Csratrrox in the matter of talking*

halhoelga morello. 'Thin is not the real ground of
=.dust England with the party in the United
under the blesses of which the Government
at Waite.= apron to be acting. That party's
enmity to England arises from its conviction that
England is hostile to its filibustering projects of
foreign aggression. Bat it shrinks from sppsaliog
to the American people on such a ground, and there-
fore catches hold of the Clestrrox story as more
likely to tell on the patriotic feelings of Americana.
If both the English sad Malted States Governments
Measly desired pew, the Crum rros difference Gould
be easily settled. We cannot acquit our Government of
levity and rashness in having authorised recruiting
operations in the United States, without having taken
care previously to ascertain the exact nature of the
American law on that head, and the wishes of the
Cabinet at Washington. But we have the authority
of the high-minded and patriotic editor al the Now
York Courier and Acquirer for stating that the
English Government, on ascertaining the views of
President Pince and his Ministers, frankly COD.
seated to stop its operations and expressed its regret
at having unintentionally given umbrage. The
letters of the Attorney-General of the United States,
quoted in the article in the Charier end liagoiror to
which we refer, and the concealment of the emissaries
made by the British Government, betray a die-
position on the part of President Pumas Cabinet
to drive matters to extremities. And we regret to
add that the conduct of oar own Cabinet, in giving its
sanction to or parte and irritating etatementa of the
ease in no less than three newspapers, proves that it
is equally wrong-headed. This bad blood between
the Cabinets at Washington and StJamee's does not,
we fear, date from yesterday. We have loog been
cognisant of the fact that the ommications be-
tween our Foreign-offee and the American Embassy
have been animated by anything but a cordial spirit.
Unwarrantable aristocratic superciliousness on the
one aide has been met by unwarrantable
personal susceptibility on the eller. This de-
plorable state of affairs is the may owes
that seriously endangers the salmi* relation
of two great peoples, allied in blood. snood to eadi
other by Editors of ties of social and hominess sen-
maxim's, each unable to conquer the other, but oral
able to inflict incalculable harm on the other. Will
the English and American peoples allow themselves
to be dragged into a war by the sordid self-seeking
calculations of factions, and the personal suscepti-
bilities of their respective Cabinets foe the time
being P

It is for the peoples of England and the United
States to forbid the unholy war that seems to
be impending over them. In another column we
frankly and fearlessly—as becomes freemen--repreeent
to oar American brethren the influences which are
insidiously working upon them, and the means which
t►ey peewee of counteracting these influences. In con•.
eluding the present remarks we would as emphatically
appeal to our own countrymen to exert themselves to'
arrest the headlong career of cur tieveransent. The
reckless manner in which Ministers, by their organs
in the press, are precipitating a gee:rel with demo.
otitis America, contrasts painfully with the mulish,