The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-30 00:00:00

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Ind for which destination Austria
is reported to be preparing a fleet. What such a
combination against peace, England's commerce

States,

and Lancashire's existence, will lead to, is by no

means difficult to foretell. England and France

go out to interfere with, and chastise American
filibusters, and thereby endanger the peace of the
world. Spain, who has not yet shaken off the odium

of her NERO'S, CORTES, and PIZARRO, is to demand
of Mexico, forsooth ! immediate atonement for the
wrongs and sufferings inflicted on Spanish sub-

jects. Prussia can find money and inclination
for war against Western civilisation, and sends out

her naval force to protect the subjec.s of the .Zolive_
rein! Did earth ever before bear witness to such

solemn mockeries, as those of the two last named

Powers ?

In a war with the United States, it would be

impossible to calculate England's material losses

and France's diplomatic gains. The preEent Con-
tinental policy appears to have been designed to
draw us into positions in which we shall lose that
trade which is our chief support in peace,
and only reliable succour in war. If we

have not already fallen a prey to these
designs—if blood has not already been shed

in Central America—we are drifting rapidly into
the vortex of Continental intrigue, and armed

strife ou the American waters seems to be almost
inevitable. It can only be avoided, in fact, by a

solemn expression of public opinion against an
American war. The magnitude of the European
league directed against the States will cause their

peoFle to arm to the teeth, and force them to
become belligerents in self defence. The appear-

ante of the Spanish ships in the Gulf of Mexico,
the whole of the Mexican

will once more unite
people, and the entire family of Republics in

America, as one man. And unless the
Governments of England and France are pledged
to defend the fleets of Spain, Prussia, and Austria,

South

against the nations of North and South America
their annihilation will be the sequel to their
adventurous exploits in the New World. Mexico
only needs union to render her a most formidable
military power, and bound to the States
by common ties of self-preservation, will
assume a character in a struggle for
deliverance from European domination, which
our diplomatic wiseacres have no idea of.
The watch word in such an unholy contest,
must be, America against Europe ; that is, if
Great Britain should continue her present game
of " follow the leader," and become the enemy of
the Anglo-Saxon race, and the expatriated children
of the Continent.

To escape from being plunged into such an awful
position, the public must at once bestir them-
selves. What is Manchester and the other large
manufaCturing towns of the North about ? Are
diplomatists to have it all to themselves ? And
are the merchants and trading clasSes in the
manufacturing districts to remain wholly silent,
when each American and Paris mail discloses
some fresh hostile movement on the part of Euro-
pean diplomatists, and increased apprehensions in
the States ? The London Times has devoted its
columns for several days to the publication of what
can only be looked on, as a justification of war
with the United States. Protocols, treaties, blue
books, despatches, and official conversations have
all been paraded and anatomised by our cotem-
porary, to show that the States must be attacked or
some one of the many charges laid on their backs.
And being thus forewarned, it will be no proof of
our wisdom, and desire to be on terms of friend-
ship with all nations, if we say, we devoted yester-
day to the celebration of the restoration of peace.
If we are to enjoy such blessings, we must labour
to render them real, and to preserve them. We
must not stand quietly, and see that strength
which we may require near home, wasted on the
other side of the Atlantic. We have just seen how
many friends we have in Europe; and let us not
attempt to add all America to the list of our
doubtful friends or open enemies. To prevent the
possibility of such things taking place, to preserve
our trade and commerce, and to escape the
scourges of a most unnatural and impious war, we
must protect, without delay, against Great Britain's
being made a cat's paw by those who seek to enter
on a career of bloodshed— a design which all the
tact of this advanced age cannot disguise,

all the sophistry of man can never juste
face of 'leaven or earth•

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HEALTH OF THE BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER AND BRISTOL,—
'we regret to learn from a correspondent that the

IBishop of Gloucester and Bristol is in a very weak state
of health. Prayers were offered on his behalf in the
several churches in the diocese last Sunday.