The Press.
London, England, 1856-07-05 00:00:00

trickery, of the United
correct: that, never-
for no reproof, and

lain a sullen attitude,
_Jfiauce, too rude. for concilia•
tion. What does such a decisin! rin, bgt,
that we have not courage to be ' ptiht
ciple to be just; Oat we hale not spirif
to demand an apology, nor coOtesyl to make
one ? Holding the news it doe of the Con-
duct of the United Stdtes Goveranent, 110%!iv
can our Administration justify the course it
has taken? Its submission is not forbearance
but pusillanimity. We must disavow the
Premier's language, or never more dare
io assert the principle, Fiat justitia ruat
°alum.
After Lord PALMERSTON'S speech, let no one
think it possible that negotiations can be en-
tered into fur sending a new Minister to
Washington, or that there is the least chance
of a satisfactory settlement of other points
is dispute. Mr. DALLAS will remain
here only to transmit to his Government
exact reports of the opinion our Premier
entertains of its faithlessness.

POLITICAL PRUDERY.
£ZOZPTION has been taken by the youngest,

though not least influential,member of the cheap
4 ►ily press to a sentence in our remarks last
s•
ix..tek on the occurrence at the Queen's Levee.
We are charged with " unparallelvd rude-

mess," with " gross outrage," with " abominable

nonsense," and a good deal more to the like
Iffeet. And for what? For supposing it
possible that, if some Court regulations were

not observed, citizens of the United States

might take it into their heads that as they
were permitted to enter the presence of our
Queen in their ordinary attire, they might at
the same time indulge in their ordinary
habit—or art, for in the United States it is.
brought to great perfection—of expectoration-
What says our censor ?
No people in the world have a more refined and accom
plished deportment towards the female sex than the
Americans. . . . To suppose the Americans capable
Of each deeds of pollution in the presence of the highest
lady of this land is only an evidence of the polluted mind
of an English journalist. . . .
The writer takes the Americans to task for their
manners, and justifies the peacock attire of the Court
[this smells of drub and broadbrim], upon the plea that
the Americans would otherwise chew tobacco in the
presence of a Queen and defile the flounces of a royal
dews with filthy saliva. Shame to the Tory talent! Shame
to the Tory scribe who--

Ole, jam sails! Let the reader supply, ad
libitum, such virtuous indignation as fools and
hypocrites have commonly at their fingers'
ends to express horror of plain speaking, and
he will not need to consult the columns of
our contemporary for the rest of his censure.
The whole question is one of fact. Did we
really sin so far against probability and good
manners in the suggestion we made? Is it a
libel on American good breeding to say that.
not even ladies' presence can restrain the
rapid fire of expectoration? To hear our con-
temporary one would suppose that the t rac-
tice existed only in the imagination of Tory
scribes Is he so ignorant as he pretends to
be? Can we believe that a journalist has not
only never visited the United States , but has
never read one of the books of American travel
constantly issuing from the press? Amiable
simpleton ! We will take compassion on his
innocence, and enlighten him a little. Our
extracts are all taken from recent works, and
from writers whose general veracity is unim-
peachable. Be it observed, that we never said
the flounces of the royal dress would be de-
filed—not, at all events, while the dress re-
mained in repose; we only said that a circle
might be described round it, for we know the
dexterity of the Americans to be so perfect
that. like Scott's Locksley, or Tell when his
It
Wes life was at stake, or like Cooper's
herstocking with his ride, they will lodge
, • charge within a hair's breadth of the
;f4yont designet Did our censor ever hear of
Sir. 13/M/ in the Uni ed States is
hoarsely / Let us see what he has to

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but the falsehood and tric
States' Government, is c
theless, such conduct calls
that we are now to mainta
—too tame for defiance, to

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