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LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14.

To those who follow the wares of American slain
with any degree of interest, the news by each no-
motive mail becomes more negative, and is use to '
be more important. Thane who have not hithertu
cared about American stairs must perforce tie ea
itterest in them now, as they immediately involve
'our own. The latest tidings are so abeetknt that
the brisket sketch of rasa events ems someely eon-
'ay an ides of the, extent they war; end the on-
nexioa of than events with **diplomatic quarrel
between Washingeon and Lowden forme a distinct
chapter, to be aniderod separately when the present
condition of affairs at Washington, in New England,
and i lianas is wade clear.

At Weehingeon, the greet sufferers are the Pam.
DENY and hie Cabinet. The PRESID&ST ie so altered
within a few months, and especially within a few
weeks, that him old acquaintances scarcely know hiss.
Bioptic, woes countenance, his emaciation, and hie
low and ruffled spirits, show how he feels his present
petition, and the dead-lock to which his party-policy
ham brought the action of Congress. filonte such strife
mast have occurred sooner or later; bat there can be
little doubt that if the PRESIMINT bad adopted the
usual course of constitutional rulers—of taking a
position above the struggles of parties—the crisis
would have been deferred. Instead of this, President
Plaice has thought fit to throw himself headlong
into the coarse of Southern policy, in order to obtain
a refreketico. The South is ashamed of him, and does
not attempt to conceal it ; his party is not at present
uppermost; be has lost the dignity of irdpartiality,
and his not as yet gained party smear ; the disrep.
lion of the Union is imminent, as he himself says;
and most certainly he will be held responsible, by the
present and all Suture generations, if the conatitm
tiona. changes which must happen are brought en by
a course of Pei sidential action for which there is no
precedent. He must be aware by this time that there
is no chance of his re-election ; end that if he were
sure of another four years at the White House, be
has paid very dear for his object.

As for Congress—one of the candidates for the
Speekership, RICHARDSON, the nominee of the De.
mastic party, her retired, only to be succeeded
by another candidate on the ease nomination. Mr.
Ittcauneon declared that his feelings on retiring
were those of " the deepest gloom." as he did not
believe that hie retirement would facilitate the choice
of a Speaker. la this opiniu he proves to be right.
Ica the gloms he oppeare to be wrong—se wreog as
Zurepee• newspapers are when they treat "the
dead-leek in Coopers" se a failure in the working
of Americas institution.. The best pupae all over
ibe States are declaring that nothing so sheering has
bee. witaessed for many a year as the awe than
goad-hewer--the sympathy, sad is some eases the
joy—with whisk the people tritons a struggle for a
chid pinsipie in theme Congramioual Chambers where
the het of territorial auraadiesment hes been
se brag pandered to, and the slave-bolding policy has
bid its heavy yoke over the seas of whole States
new rossived to bear it no longer. From the time of
tbe first ballot this winter, Mr. Banns' suppoeters
have desiond that it was net the man, bet the
principle of true Northern representation, that they
were struggling for ; bet as time pause on, it ap-
pears that the representative sad his supporters im•
prove spa acquaistanor, and the prospects of the
struggle improve is proportion. Mr. BANKS was
before knows to be a very sccomplished pelisses-
lazy officer, and thereby fitted for the Speaker's
chair. His eondoct during the struggle has bees
timely and coosistent ; and the North sees that it
would have no occasion to be &abused of its repro-
oestative. The public, meantime, is so far from
growing impatient, that it declares it will not burr
this uncommonly harmless Cooper to a premature
arrangement. There is some expetation that the
Senate will maks mine arrangement for originating
the Appropriation Bills, that they may be reedy
for the ether House to sanction at the (*thou possi-
ble moment, end public Alters not kept waiting for
their salaries loops than cannot be helped. This
waiting is their contributiou towards the collective
surifloas rendered necessary by a moral and political
crisis of the deepest significance. What the signifi-
cance of that crisis is may be partly jsdgsd of by snob
• feet u this. It is just twenty years sines the
Southern party mot mdse. to Northern citisens to
lynch the Abolitionists in their own streets; and it
was does--is Bootee, New York, Philadelphia, sad
many slur places ; houses sad public halls being
burnt, meetings mobbed, sad iedivideals Wired, or
compelled to fly for their lives—far no other offence
than publicly declaring their apiaries of chattel-
slavery. Now, after twenty years of steady and
peaceable assertion of the principles of their republic,'
the Abolitionists have so far won the day as that the
North nominates an Abolitionist for Speaker, and
that sowings beads the poll, after nearly two months
of a balloting which is net over yet. The Northern easi-
didate declares that slavery is so intolerable, sod so
ruinous to his country, that the dissolution of the
Unica (in time for re-coostitutioo) le a lees evil than
Its pepusatirm, by its extension to DOW territory,
The man who says this, and who takes his stud
um the 'eying, heads the poll; and no power
or party has as yet proved stroller Gough to
overthrow him. A great change this in twenty
years!

The people are, as we have said, thus far patisat—
and sot s few of this pleased. Not so the Paso.
DINT. We need say nothing of the Mossy be
breed epos the Representatives—addressing them as
Members while there was DO HOW. Having done
this, he still cannot nit. Hs has seat a seeped Her
ease, on the plea that the state of Keane is nth
that something nest be done to save the country fres
Asoutiweek of civil war. The Representatives made
a ft-eat outcry about this imposition of a mooed
Yewy'e, meaiiik-e, and net a few of them suet have
felt that tZey were the heelers el Haase. as
you by 'ease is waiting for Rims as Speaker
as by man aim, adios. Bat the PUSIDIIIT got
kis wimp panalizted, and this yeses' of his els-
oda. Ifs menet ad ;Sawn saansged as a tent.

tory—that is, under federal rule, with freedom to
gowns itself is muokipal strain; and the PIUIDINT
desires to make it prematurely a State—that is, to
shirk the business, and make Kansas govern itself
altogether.

How this proposition may be veseiyed by the House
when it is at length constituted, there is no saying.
The probability seems to be that before that happens,
different measures may be required for Kaoras—a
putting down of civil war. This is evidently the
PRESIDENT'S IipprERVASIOO ; and hence his impatience
in knocking a seconii time at the doors of the House,
before it is ready to hear him. The first sad most
obvious oossiderrAion in regard to his scheme for
Senses is, that },afore Kansas can be permitted to be-
come prematurely a State, she mast show that she
desires it—ai id that before she can be required to
become a Stale at all, she mast be under the ordinary
eonditioes of liberty to arrange her own affairs,
°wording to her own views, and without moles-
label- How far such is the present condition
of Sat' is., a very brief exhibition of her ease
will slaw.

Vrarra the Missouri Osenpromine was repealed, the
Son ch was assured (out of Commas) that the North
mi ght be irresistible in its claim and purpose to
.ople Nebraska, but that Kansas should be peopled
rocs the South. There was a rune, as was foreseen,
between the slave drivers of the South, with their
human cattle, and the immigrants from the North ;
and it appears that free labour won the day. Slave
property was, however, perfectly safe in the new set-
tlement—safer than it will ever be again. The
free settlers (those called Abolitionism in the
second Message) chose their governor, as it was
a matter of course for the majority to do. Governor
REEDER, thus choose, was of course disliked by the
slaveholders, with whom President Praaci has
openly sided throughout. He removed Menial,
picking a quarrel with him on grounds which are
universally understood to have no validity, and ap-
pointing Governer SHANNON, who is obeyed as the
officer appointed by the federal power, while de-
spised by all parties for his weakness, and his vacil-
lation among contending forces. In order to prevent
the establishment of free labour in Kansas, a little
army, whose newspaper name is Border-Ruffians,
entered the territory from the neighbouring State of
Missouri, formed a camp not very far from the town
of Lawrence, determined, as they declared," to clean
all oat"—to clear the territory of the free settlers who
constitute its proper populatioo. This band of in-
vaders was led and commanded by ATCHISON, who
had been the Speaker of the Senate and Vice-
President of the United States. This is one
remarkable feature of the ease. Another is
that, when these invaders are remonstrated
with for overriding the rights of the inhabitants,
and this endangering the Union, they seem always
to have the same reply ready : D—n the Union !'
So often has this reply been made that the PRESIDENT
is exposed to the taunt that if he fears " Disunion,"
b• must first send home these invaders : and the'
representation seems to have procured at last some
discountenance of the Border• Ruffians. Bat it wee
very long incoming.

The inhabitants of Lawrence declared their Nadi-
lens to obey all the lawful requisitions of the Clintral
Government, and all federal oaken duly monad ;
bat they were resolved to protect their elective
righ.s, and all tiler constitutional liberties. The
?demur' band drew near to besiege Lawrence, with
the avowed intention of destroying the public build-
ings, lynching (some by the gallows and so., by the
sow-hide and tar.kettlo) the principal Mimeo, cad
of sending away the rest. The most sone:Monde
was General POMEROY, the agent of the Northers
Emigrant Aid Society. This gentleman has anspol
to the noTth, but he was within an Judi of his lit,.
The invaders planted spouts everywhere round Law-
raise, and searobod send disarmed every man who
passed. Not a few lost parse and watch, •s well is
pistols. A musts-rosposted Mises, Mr. Emus, was
murdered on the road; and this concentrated sad
roused the spirit of the free settlers. From that
boar, and not before, slave property becalm mats
is Karma. The tree settlers had been willing N leaf
ethers alone if others Ist than alms. Now Om
eiserly sew that the reel qualm wee whether Liu
sea should be • fres state, self-governed under the
constitution, or a slave state, overruled by Misses&
Twelve hundred Minns of Lawrence leagued them
salvos to immortalise Bsisaa's memory in the estab-
lishment of their liberties. Moreover, it has mime
biome known that the wives sad mothers of the
citizens also formed a Maim, pledging thiamine to
aid their husbands and brothers in war, as they had
supported the cause in peace. All refused to
leave the town when the invaders appealed.
, Sam practised rids and pistol shostiog ;
ems animated the workers at the redoubts ;
sad two relieved General ROBINSON'S approbraisos
of a scarcity et powder and perennials imps. I(oow-
ing where a moony settler had stowed away certain
kegs of powder sod a store of cartridges, these ladies
went in their smeary carriage. They loaded them-
solves with powder, in pillow-cams, so ►eavily that
they won rata into their waggon, whore oo luggage
was visible but a work basket. As they ex-
piated, they were stopped, and the carriage looked
into; bet they were not detained, as men would
have boss. When things had gone thus far, the Paz-
sumo; who bed proceeded sours way towards grant-
ing Governor finamon's request far United States
troops to set against the citizens, pew slimed.
Governor Stumm ads advances to the free
settlers, and agreed to what be called " a trosty•
with them; sad the Missouri intruders were ordered
to brook op their amp sad Wpm The weather
was too bad for camp life, and they retired. This,
are rumours of their having returned and sommitlal
new violation, sad nobody doubts their rubies le
upon the balletebozes, as before, when the Mira
elections mum take place. The hoe settlers
are preparing for self-defame. The Southern
States are sandbag troops of emigrants, with their
companies of slaves, sad the North amperages irami-
grouts to go to lamas with their free labour in their
own limbs, sad their love and purpose of freedom is
their hearts and minds. There will be the battl►
Said of the osnatitatioa, according to President
Fisica'. apprehensions. Marsh is near; he dodo
Banns lapsed his manspessat, and he propane
that lams shall be prematurely required to manage
bend?. This may be all very well, bat something
mast he dome first. The PRISIDENT and Coupon
mast protect the territory in the exercise of *leotard
rights. The inhabitants mast first be ambled to
sham their own °Moon; then it will be for them to
say whether they think they are starting fair, and
whether they desire and choose to take oars of them
selves. Till then, the PRESIDENT cannot property
shirk his chirp.
And sow, if air readers have read thou fa.-. ma ft
they will bear In mind that by M Abolitiosisin " the
Pmainzin maws the inhabitants of Hansom tire'v
know the praise upset of the American erten.