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LO.NDb.Y, TUESDAY, SEPT. 17.

TO OUR READERS.
BtHMING INTELLIGENCE.

A !ate edifies of thu Espr ..1.4 ii published every
evenisg dur:n4 thu racing assusou, ooutinuing the
results of the &is 's races.

IT is probable that all parties are pretty well
tired by this time of the topic of American resent-
ment against the Eugbah fin their imputed want
of sympathy with the people of the North ; and
the demonstration may be supposed to be nearly
over--superseded by the anxieties which have
arisen to occupy all the thoughts of every good
citizeu. The sunder in England has been, front
the outset, that any American could trouble him-
self about what people in Europe were saying and
thinking about his country. The analogy met lip
between an individual engaged in a moral enter-
prise and a nation rising up in defence of its
liberties, certainly seems mach overstrained. The
trial of tie individual confessor or reformer is his
solitude of heart, and the repression of
his affections. It is nut praise that he
weds, hut co: 1111 l unity of feeling and thought.
In the national case this need is sup-
plied by the very situation. The milli ms of t
iti-
aens cheer one another, and strengthen ono an-
other's mind as to the purpose, and one another's
heart as to the issue of the conflict. When we
read the reproaches of hurt correspondents about
our coldness, we are as much pundesi as wo should
be at learning that Horn, heading his baud of
patriots in the Tyrol passes, had been depressed
because the prix garland for heroic sentiment.
had not been awarded to him at some Italian or
t:emian festival in honour of virtue. The move-
ment snouts to us so beneath the occasion that we
do not know what to make of it. We can wait
till the occinion arises for showing bow England
can sympathise; with a people who Lave a purpose
to abolish slavery. Meantime, we are receiving
more and mare evidence that sensible men in the
Northern States see the matter very much as we
do.

On our side, we freely admit that the tone of
some of our speakers and writers is very irritating,
sod that they say things quite as unreasonable as
anything that has issued from New England.
It is unjust to attribute all foolish utterances
to the Abolitionists. It is as absurd
as it is cruel to assume that anti-slavery
action would deluge the country in blood. The
truth is precisely the other way ; the Abulitioitists
have thus far put an end to negro insurrections,
and precluded a servile war: and the way
to do the came kind of good now is to
pursue the LIIIDU course, up to the accom-
plishment of emancipation. Again, it is being
very h.eity and ineonsule rate to complain of the Pas •
14111 WIT and the Government for not immediately
proclanniiii! liberty to the blacks. If the Execu-
tive is ever so much resolved on that issue, it
cannot inaku proclamation of the fact till it hss
matured its plan of procedure, and ascertained
what should bu done with the utmost number of
negroes who may conic in. Again, it must he
irritating to the Americans to bear their war de-
nounced as " savage and senseless," when, as a
correspondent of ours well showed on Saturday,
the necessity is substantial, distinct, and inevit-
able. It is irritating to be lectured about brawl-
ing at home, and admonished to surrender their
quarrel, when the one side is all made up of right
and consequent necessity, and the other of wrong
and reeklessnees. There is a good deal to be irri-
tated by in what superficial English preachers and
prophets say, if the Americans think it worth
being vexed at. The wonder is that they find
any leisure to care about it.

The longer the struggle goes on the more ardent
becomes the desire that something could he done
to obtain more truthfulness all round, if even
to mitigate only the most outrageous of the lying.
It is hard to see how matters can ever come right
while there is no getting the truth told, nor the
most audacioua fabrications stopped. It is suffi-
ciently mischievous that closet philanthropists
should present pictures of affairs drawn from their
own imaginations ; but the downrieht lies cause a
sort of despair. It is bad cuough that a popular
orator should assume, without a word of doubt,
that England would secretly sustain, establish, and
aggranduie the Slave States, out of spite to re-
publican institutions ; but it is far worse that the
Neer Y,.rk Tribuste should announce that Mr.
ADAIIII has written to his Government that Eng-
land will soon recognise the Confederacy, as a
matter of military and political necessity. Those
who know Mr. ADAM* refused to believe this
assertion, positive as it was ; but others at once
cowhide,' that Mr. ADAYM must be unfit for his
function. To have so misunderstood the English
Government and people, he must have some fatal
fault of credulity, prejudice, or ignorance.
When there lad been time enough for the
thing to work, the contradiction appeared.
It is non• announced on authority at Washington
that Mr. ADAMS has written nothing of the sort to
his Government, but has, on the contrary, re-
ported the anxiety of the European Governments
to preserve the most unquestionable neutrality.
Again, it is announced in a most respectable
French periodical, in the form of a despatch from
the seat of war in Virginia, that the Confederate
officer charged with burying the dead after the
beide of Bull's Run had interred 7,300 Kaleral
soldiers, sod had not come to the end ! The
nensense is a fair specimen of the stuff that is
written about the antagonist forces everywhere ;
and Beery lie rats further off the prospee; of •
final mut. rstan,ling. If the truth could be told
all round (111 Vac ordinary sense of stating facts)
for one st,:gle day, the right ending would be