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TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1856

WE are to have no war with America! The
high morality of the United States, and the popu-
lar purity of Great Britain, have defeated the
designs of those who have advocated a resort to
arms. This is the happy result we have so long
anticipated, and we feel no small pride at the
triumph we were amongst the first to
predict, and are not the last to publish to
the world. We stood almost alone when
we ventured to deprecate Mr. CRAMPTON'S conduct
on the recruiting question, and were loudly re•
proached, simply for contending that, as our
Minis ter had rendered himselfpersonally obnoxious
to the Government of the States, he ought to have
been recalled before the difficulties which were
solely attributable to his presence at the American
capital assumed the character of a rupture between
the two Powers. The Washington Cabinet have
behaved with the utmost courtesy towards the
British Government throughout the whole of the
painful discussion which followed the discovery of
Mr. CRAMPTON'S proceedings, and the dismissal of
our Minister was couched in the most polite and
friendly language.

There is nothing novel or marvellous in the
course pursued by the States' Ministry on this
occasion. In every instance where misunder.
standings have arisen, they have met Great
Britain in an amicable spirit, and they have never
left us any thing to ask which would add to
our national dignity or the most refined sense of
international decorum. If there be anything
at all wonderful in the history of the late misunder-
standing, it is confined wholly to the change which
has taken place in the tone, temper, and style of
the leading articles of the London Times. From
Greek and balderdash, swagger and Latin, French
and impertinence, war to the knife, and high flown
imitations of diplomatic incomprehensibility, our
cotemporary has turned round to reason,has become
a peacemaker, and positively gives expression to
the common sense of the public, but 'let without
giving contention a parting kiss, with these
words :—" The last indignity which one State can'

" pass on another, is inflicted on Great Britain.'
Now, " indignity" is a matter which costs nations
but very little. Not so, a glaring breach of
_faith,
which makes a neutral State a disguised belligerent
in a distant war. England called on the States,
through Mr. CRAMPTON, to remain neutral, in the
very war in which Mr. CRAMPTON is charged with
having attempted to induce the citizens of the

States to engage

Weigh an " indignity" against the dangers of
compromising a people in a war in which they
were solemnly pledged to take no part, and we
think that as the States have looked over the
critical position in which they were placed by the
acts of the British Government, we may pocket the
" indignity" complained of without a murmur.
The Washington Cabinet have forgotten and
forgiven the perils to which they were
exposed by our "levity, " and the London Times
is forced to admit that, "on purely personal
" grounds," Mr. CRAMPTON was dismissed. Mr.
MARCY and his colleagues make no secret of their
dislike to the late British Ambassador, and lose
no opportunity of declaring their friendship for
the country he represented. And the " leading
" journal," re-echoing the very words we
used some weeks since, says, "It is absurd
" for us to insist on the presence of a man
"at Washington who may be known to have,

" with reason, made himself distasteful to
" those to whom he is accredited." This
rational strain must jar on the public ear, after
all the bluster our London journals have given us
within the last month, and our readers will be
puzzled to know where the sense and moderation
came from which dictated these few lines :—" If,
" then, we dismiss Mr. DALLAS, we commit our-
" selves to an approval of a Minister whose conduct
" it is impossible wholly to defend, and reject the
" friendly professions of the United States,
" vouched for as they are by offers of concessions,
"as regards the central American difficulty."
After all this, we have nothing more to apprehend
in this quarter, and we will turn to what Lord PAL-
MERSTON said, in the House of Commons last night,
in answer to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, namely :—Her
Majesty's Government would not consider it
necessary to suspend diplomatic relations with
the United States in consequence of Mr. CRAMP-
TON'S dismissal by the American Cabinet. A
similar assurance was given in the House of Lords
by Lord CLARENDDN, and thus, we may say, end
the rumours of War with the West.

WE publish in another part of our columns the
letters of the MAYOR, and the Rector, Mr. CAMP-
BELL, Chairman of the Reformatory Association,
appealing to the public for subscriptions to carry
out the important objects which that Society have
in view. The intentions of the committee are so
fully stated in the Chairman's letter, that we need
not recapitulate them. Lieutenant VEITCII, of the
Royal Navy, the present superintendent of the
Akbar school frigate, had the charge of about two
hundred boys on board the guard-ship at Ply-
mouth, and there, as well as in other difficult

positions, displayed that rare combination of kind-
ness, decision, and tact, by means of which
the affections of the governed may be con
ciliated, at the same time that the strictest
order and discipline is maintained. The

composition of the committee is also satisfactory,
for it not only comprises some of our, oldest and
most philanthropic townsmen, but also such men
as Mr. JOHN ATKIN, Mr. PALMER, Mr. GRAVES, and
Mr. S. G. RATHBONE, young and active shipowners,
whose presence there ought to be a guarantee that
the enterprise will be conducted in a practical
spirit, and the boys not only reformed, but fitted in