The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-16 00:00:00

THE SUPPRESSION OF SHEFFIELD

OUTRAGE&

The following /Men appears ili the Daily News
sat,—l beg to crave • earner la your columns to i
ply to the reworks of G. J. Holyeeke in referee., to the
Sheffield outages. Fur the inforouition of Mr. Holyoake
I beg to inform Ma that the London Trades' Council—a
body representing • majority of the leading trades of the
metropolis—have already given expression to their views on
the subject in a letter to the Builder immediately after
the outrage occurred. The Trades Council of Glasgow
have likewise denounced these diabolical acts as
much us Mr. Kingsley or Mr. lielyoake. Other bodies
of unionists have recorded their protest likewise.
I am surprised that a " reasoner" like Mr. Holynake should
assume the very point in dispute. We, the unionists of I
England, deny that such acts axe countenanced by the
principles of our societies. They are conducted too openly
for such monstrous conceptions to be given utterance to,
either in committee or in open lodge. No. if such deeds
are done by unionists, they must be men of the most reck-
less disparities, and roeh men would be careful to con-
ceal such deeds of darkness within their own bosoms.
Why, sir, we should feel as horrified to enter • lodge
where suds 'UM WWII 01111Mberi n 1 Mr. Holyneke pre-
tends to feel in reforms to the streets of Sheffield.
Let me rewind !your readers that in 1859 one
of there horrible deeds was committed, and it was
openly stated by Lord Brougham in the House of Lords,
and by the pore ie general, that it was a " union outrage."
Bet es the trial It wee proven that it was committed through
domestic *loony. Yet neither of our accusers scknow-
leased their eistakis Now, I say the present case is pre.
judged, ler the prisoners are not yet tried, and when they
are, I Teeter* to assert that nothing will occur to implicate
the nukes. Should it be proved that any one of them in
any way omntenence such inhume practices, then will we
deemnice such society er soeisties as unfit to exist in
tide Reiland of eon el whisk we sue ell so proud. I may ask
ear ealumniaters II vielewes is sesielioned by our unions,
Ihew is AVW herbs the poet two years io London, when
aii of the hereeet strestles that has ever been known in
menessetioa WWI bad/ wins his been carried on,
se see al pereeed Odense has eseerred ? B. Is Bristol, a
1 Ws* neseelW serge red we welessa. la Liverpool, and no
web leeherlew. Let me Wenn war Mesas nod foss that
wee ..to sue as reyegenat to an issilop es to theirs, and
1 we meet that *my mieeirt Amid ore every means to
=Nob aseeme he Inolice.—l um be., ea behalf of the
0111•111,
GIORGI HOWILL. Brweetezy.
IL Anninelneel. idlogles, N., Jae. IL

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on Saturday, with the mails for British North Ameriew
United States, Bahamas, and Brownish. The box for the
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Nsw STRAY SHIPPING COMPAIM—We under-
. stand that it is in contemplation to form a aew steam ship.
I ping company from Southampton to Ladle by the overland
I route. It is proposed that the service shall be continued
I fortnightly, the vessels of the proposed romp ay running
I alternately with those of the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
! pany. The capital is one million, and it is sot astern-
, plated to have any subsidy, as the promoters believe they
can do better without it, as it haves them free from any
goverment interferers, or mated. The directors, how-
-1 ever, are seeking, and gaped to obtain, the approval of Sir
' C. Weed, the Secretary of State for India. We understand
this undertakieg is net to be entered upon out of any
' spirit of opposition to the Peninsular and Oriental Corn-
v. —Haws hufeetdent.
tan ELICTRICTEtemuni. —A now line of electric
I telegraph is being laid down from the look-ant at Si. Ann's
, Head, Milford Have., to the Royal Dockyard at Pembroke.
Hitherto the information of approaching vessels sad other
=krtintelligence have her transmitted by signals,
. thick weather, were totally inadequate to the
Impartart services required.
Tbe Electric and Internstiosal Telegraph Com-
ps, have made aeaS of Si. at &dram shares, for the per.
• lriedierint• tribute to the memory of the pass et apeskieg midliebse4 bed lino is eameotion with the
Isle Mr. Brsidweed, whose melancholy' death united 401, estmerbe fable, which le to be had within a mouth from
empathy, Ire hoes seised by the members of the H divides this time lay the Landes sad Qeseedems Direct Company,
4 pike Is the imp of a memorial stone. the medial for vibe leebreeeke peevkled.

This did not satisfy the Times. This did not
answer the purpose of the Secessionists. It was
........m,.surer,) for the interest of the Slave Government that the
Benner, Dee. 30. English people should be made to believe that
The correspondence between Mr. Seward and Mr. Seward was boiling with hatred towards them.
Lord Lyons in relation to the anon of gums. Fortunately for both nations each has at its head
Slidell and Mason probably went out in the last men. who are not to be misled by rumours and
steamer, and has already been published in Engf gossip, but can act as statesmen who have in charge
laud. If so, the British public are in possession of the interests of the people they govern, and the
the facts, and a knowledge of the position and
opinions of the American government. From welfare of humanity and civilisation. By their
these it will be seen what injustice has been done wise moderation the world has been saved from
beholding the sad spectacle of a war between two of
to the United States by the greater portion of the the moat powerful maritime nations.
English press. As a State paper, the letter of Mr. This diplomatic correspondence ought to enure
Sewardcannot fail to meet with the commendation Englishmen of the real desire of the better portion
of every fair and candid mind, and the kindly tone of the people of the United States to live in amicable
ani 'magnanimous spirit which pervade this paper relations with them. That there is a feeling of
arc an unanswerable argument against the erroneous irritation towards England is true ; but this grows
opinions which have prevailed in Europe in respect out of a conviction that the mother couutry is in-
to the feelings and intentions of Mr. clued to overlook the great principles involved in
Seward towards Great Britain. To those the struggle ; and, to advance the interests of
in this coontry who know the Am.- trade, is ready to favour the establishment of the
Enlister, Mr. Adams, it has seemed very Southern Confederacy. So, too, there is a very
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that so little value should have bees general conviction that a portion of the English
attached to his declaration of the earnest desire of People would like to see two governments in America
government to mnintain the most friendly rein- for the purpose of weakening the power of the
Orme with that of ger Majesty. Mr. Adams is a United States. What foundation there is for this
iiiik of too high integrity to be guilty of uttering you, who are in England, have better means of
a dehlierate falsehood, and in the clearest sad soma knowing than I have. Could the Americans once be
positive manner he assured the people of Great assured of the error of their opinions on this point
Britain of the pacific policy of the government be then irritation would cease. Upon a review of the
represented. Yet this declaration seemed soon to affair of the Trent the American government has a
be forgotten, and by the persistent, not to say door mom Mr. Seward's declaration, made before
wilful misrepresentations of a certain portion the demand of Earl Russell reached Washington, " I
01 the London press, it became a prevalent opinion am sure this government has carefully avoided
that the Secretary of State was nursing in his heart giving any just cause of offence or irritation to
the deepest hatred towards the mother country. Great Britain "—this declaration made so early,
The opinion never had the least reliable foundation, when judged by subsequent events, is evidence
and as the difficulties of the Trent are settled, both of the sincerity and truth of the Secretary's
there would be no need of adverting to the feet, professions. On the other hand, the conduct of
but for the purpose of showing how much injustice her Majesty's advisers has also been such as to give
has been done to the United States by unscrupulous warrant., at least so .far as this transaction is con-
misrepresentation Let any Englishman who loves owned, for the Secretary's " trust that the British
truth and justice read Mr. Seward's letters to Mr. government will consider the subject in a friendly
Adams and Lord Lyons, and then compare them tom Per."
with these words, and he can judge how reliable The prompt action of the American government
the London Times is in its opinions on American will also 'test the real feeling of the English people.
affairs :—"lt is very seldom, in the present polite The sudden exasperation of the public mind on the
and decorous age, that we are able to accumulate reception of the intelligence of the Trent affair has
so much evidence of &deliberate and long-cherished led to a very general belief here that an excuse was
1 intention to do us an injurytas we are able to bring eagerly sought to break the blockade and interfere
against Mr. Seward, the present Prime Minister of to the extentof forcing the parties to make a peace
the Northern States of America." Then giving a and separate. Ido not believe this. As yet there
few statements which are forted into its service, it is no reliable evidence that the British authorities
says these are " quite mingh to Ind to a general wish to deviate from the position of strict neutrality
persuasion that upon his ability to involve the which they have assumed. That a nation which
United States in a war with England Mr. Seward holds its flag so sacred should be roused to indigna-
has staked his official, and most probably his tin at an apparent insult is very natural. Mr.
political existence, and that whatever may be the Cobden evidenced his usual foresight and wisdom
advantage to America of a war with this osountry, in his letter, in which, reasoning on the previous
to him it has become an article of the vary first character and established position of the American'
necessity." This, and much more in the same interpretation of the rights of neutrals, be antici-
strain, reached the United States at the same time nand a favourable decision of this controversy. But
the Secretary's letter was published, and the two this calm wisdom did not chanunerise the people.
appear aide by side in the column of the Boston They were ready to chive the Uffited States with
papers. Is it strange, then, that Americana oem- the intention of deliberate outrage. If this feeling
;plain of being ruinrepreeented by leading lbglie anise simply from a misapprehension of this case,
journals I Were this a solitary case it would be of then seeing upon how wrung a basis it was founded,
little consequence, but the Times throughout this they will not hesitate to acknowledge their mistake.
whole struggle has diffused inaccurate and false If, after this, the mane old cry of Awoken anima-
opinions. 1 could adduce repeated instances, sity is repeated and continued, *it will be because
and many of them as flagrant as this one there Is a disposition to seek a entreL Certainly
with respect to Mr. Seward. But time allows there is no rational bade of suspicion when a
of the mention of only one more. Thus in speak- nation can decide against its own wishes ; and its pro-
iug of a party of returned emigrants, it says : fissions are entitled to confidence when it declares,
" One cause of their return is stated to have been "It would tell little for our claims to the character
the annoyancetheßritish readmits were subjected to of a just and magnanimous people if we would so
by the lower clam of the population sines the affair far consent to be guided by a spirit of retaliation
of the Trent." There is not a word of truth in this. as to lift up buried injuries from their graves to
And, again, its Special Correspondent either cannot oppose them against what national consistency and
or will not see things as they are, but must use his the national conscience compel us to regard as a
graphic pen and spirited descriptive power in paint- claim intrinsically right."
ing unreal pictures. Thus he says, "As I write The Treut affair, after a very brief career, is
there is a rumour that Keens. Slidell and Mason settled. The administration at Washington, guided
are to be surrendered. If it be true, this govern- by the inspiration of justice, has at once removed
meat is broken up. There is so much violence of all difficulties, and now will give itself to the work
spirit among the lower orders of the people, and of maintaining its national existence and the
they are so ignorant of everything except their own principles of free government. The result
politics and pinions, so saturated with pride and of this breeze will be to awaken new
vanity, that any honourable concessions, even in energy in the Federal COMM. But the
this hour of extremity, would prove fatal to their same tactics which havebeen pursued to misrepre-
authors. It would render them so unpopular that nut the United States in Europe will be used in
it would damage them in the conduct of the civil reference toanother question. It has been the
war." fondly-cherished hope of the South that the North
The writer who penned these sentences has would split on the slavery question. This hope
grossly misrepresented the American people, and now takes the form of prophecy, and the friends of
has yet to learn the features of American society. the slave power in England are picturing a divided
lie either says what he knows is not true, and in North. Taking up the expreasions of ardent en-
that case is guilty of deliberate falsehood, or he thusisats used in the heat of debate, or placing
speaks in ignorance, and is therefore untrustworthy. reliance upon partisan editorials and political goe.
Anyone who is acquainted with American opinion sip, they already see, sod would fain persuade
would not have been misled, and it would seem others, that upon this rook the Federal barque will
that the previous blunders of the "special cone- be surely wrecked. The same hasty generalise-
seendeut " ought to have taught him something of tions from a few facts, the same shallow judg-
the character of the people whom he thus slanders. manta of American society, the same unscrupulous
What are the facts in the case 1 Put these by the misrepresentations, will be employed to make
aide of hie opinions. The government has given up the people of England think that there
these men cheerfully and without hesitation. The will soon break out an open feud be-
Secretary of State ham written a letter which, for tween the different sections of the republican
clearness and force of argument, candour, and party. Now, it is true that there is a difference of
justice in the treatment of the case, will opinion. It is moreover true that political parties
meet with universal approval by the Awe- will be formed on this difference. Nay more, it is
"icon people. Mr. Seward to-day is more also true that this difference of opinion affects men's
strongly entrenched in the respect and affection of judgmeuts of what should be the war policy. But
his countrymen for this valuable state paper, and underlying all this is the broad sentiment of
his impartial justice. No mob will clamour at his nationality, which describes an orbit whose poles
windows. There may be here and there a solitary. are represented by Caleb Cushing, the president ci
outburst of passion, but the masses, those who are the Democratic Convention, and Wendell Phillips,
now engaged in the work of defending and sustain- the eloquent abolitionist. Men will freely criti-
fag free institutions and a great nation, will give ciao the acts of the government ; members of Cou-
to their State officials their heartiest approval. geese will give unrestrained vent to their various
This surrender by the cabinet will not in the least opinions ; bust when it conies to the one question
"damage them in the couduct of the civil war." of putting down the rebellion, there is a wide-
Nor are the people's passions so "saturated with spread unanimity of sentiment, and the great ma-
pride and vanity that any honourable concessions, jority of the people will sustain the President
even in this hour of extremity, would prove fatal in the course he has chosen with all the
to their authors." Instead of this, the great body of energy which a common danger demands, and
the American people will feel a just pride that with all the fervour awakened by the universal send-
those who have charge of the government have meat of patriotism. If, then, the English public
the ability to judge with impartiality, and the would learn wisdom from experience, let them
magnanimity to decide even against their own judge of events by the evidence, and not by mis-
cherished wishes, when the clear rights of inter- representation ; and if the mistakes which have
national law demand it. already been made in relation to the opinion and
These constant misrepresentations of American feeling of Mr. Seward and the intention of the
feeling and opinion would not be worth notice if it American government shall lead to the attainment
were not for the influence they have had. It was of more correct knowledge of American affairs, it
a series of just such misrepresentations which pre- will do not • little towards the return of peace.
pared a large portion of the English people to , The South has counted from the first on the inter-
believe that the cabinet at Washington desired to femme of European powers. The Secession leaders
insult England, or at lean was unfriendly. Of , believe that England's need of cotton will force her
what avail that Mr. Adana, the American minister, ! sootier or later to open the Southern porn Were
acting under the advice and with the approval ci it known by them that there was no ground of hope
his government, should say to the Lord Mayor of for this, one of the great props which sustain the
London that the United Senn of all things was whole movement weal dish ; and if the backbone
solicitous to maintain the most amicable relations 1 of the Southern Confederacy should not be broken