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

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peoples substance and lives in childish parades
of swords and bayonets. Bee hives have nothing
to fear from the world's boost of armed men, and
there is no rest for knights in armour, or troopers

in cherry pants in the neighbourhood of an ant-
hill. Nature supplies this great moral in her
adjustment of the balance of power, and while
Great Britain fosters her industry, and continues
raising and collecting from the earth, mountains
of its richest products, we shall have nothing
to fear from Europe's envy or the world's malice.
Let trade, industry and property be wisely taxed—
avoid exhausting our present and well-ascertained
iant strength on dreams of future dan-
ger—keep the drones of our population from
devouring the honey of our bees—forbid the
heavy foot of taxation crushing the labours of our
ants, and allow us to wait another forty years for an
enemy, and then see whether there is anything
fabulous, in comparing the husbanded industry of
a nation to a bee hive, or the toil and vengeance of
a commercial people to a hill of ants.

,ources of

If it was meant that we were to have war, the
time to strike a blow for the repose of mankind
was when we had our army of 670,000 men, and a
fleet of 450 sail ready for sea. If we are to have
peace, the moment has arrived when we must ex-
ercise, with the most unmistakeable earnestness the
strength from which we draw these dreaded arma-
ments. If this cannot be done with safety, the fact
implies a condition of things on the Continent, and
threatens this country with dangers which must
force on Great Britain the adoption of a very
different foreign policy to that which she is now
pursuing, and a prompt revision of the money
market and taxation. The army and navy
estimates for this year may be set down, in round
numbers, at 58,000,0001. This sum may be found
at the close of the financial year to be more than
6,000,0001. below • the actual expenditure, as we
witnessed at the end of the last quarter of 1855.
We anticipate no reduction in these portions of
the public expenditure. On the contrary, we
believe that peace will not become a social blessing
before it has assumed some of the worst features of
a political affliction. The CHANCELLOR of the
.EXCEIEQUER. very candidly confessed on Friday,
that c.‘ it was impossible to calculate the amount of
" ways and means necessary for the service of the
" year until the estimates had been laid before the
House in a complete form, and the

"amended estimates, since the peace was
" signed, has occupied more time than

" I had anticipated." From this it will be
seen that the estimates which have been granted
by Parliament were incomplete, and cannot be
relied on for any financial purpose. We must,
therefore, wait for the " amended" and perfect
balance sheet, before we can ascertain whether the
military and naval charges on the State are to be
five millions above or below the gross total of the
sums already votedby the House of Commons !

That more can be saved, or asked for over the
58,000,000/. now placed to the credit of the
PALMERSTON Cabinet is beyond all question
And if we should be so fortunate to

5,000,0001. by peace, where is the balance to come
from? Last year the expenditure amounted to
towards which the ordinary sources
of Revenue only supplied 65,567,0001., Loans
15,993,0001., Exchequer Bills 6,977,0001., leav-
ing a deficiency of 2,208,000/. to be made
Deficiency Bills. Now, if we esti-
mate the gross expenditure of the current year
at 95,000,0001., after all possible deductions have
been made, and add 5,000,0001. for the improvement
of trade, to the total income of 1855, we shall still
have 20,000,0001. to supply, of which 5,000,000/.
only has been raised on loan. Being compelled
to draw on the money market for the balance this
year, will continue that intolerable monetary pres-
sure, which the public have been led to believe
the restoration of peace would have removed ;
and if 00,000,0001., or even 70,003,0001., is to be
the expenditure for 1856-7, where shall we find the
honey of this busy hive ? Some prodigals are
talking largely of gratuities to militia officers, who
have not, seen a shot fired, and the danger of dis-
banding our large militia force, amounting
to no less than 127,000 men, who cost the
country about 37/. lOs per head annually, for
pay alone. Add to these, 14,500 men of the Volun-
teer Corps, who cost us a like sum per head, with
a regular army of 420,000 men—a fleet of

90,020,000/

up by

300 sail in commission, and what, we ask, is to
become of the industry of 27,000,000 people ?
The Cabinet have recently shown their
Parliamentary strength on their war policy;
but the House of Commons must look closely
to their votes on financial subjects, as the
public expect to hear of sweeping and immediate
retrenchments in every department of the State
service, and for a Ministerial Budget which will
bring home to all classes something more than the
empty name of peace. The time selected by the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, for the opening of
his Budget, will be a day of trial for the Cabinet.
On its issue depends the duration of the present
House, and the popularity of our representatives
with the commercial classes, at the next general
electiop. The people cannot pay 90,000,0001. of
taxation, nor go on borrowing money at usury, on
the fair name of posterity—which, to our mind,
means the property and institutions of the present
generation, which they hope to see handed down,
intact, to their children, and their children for

THE 513ATHEEll Tiik.M.—LiviuspottLl MONDAY, MAY 6, MA.

silencing the newspaper -Press. Yet England is
not ready to submit to Snell dictation or privations.
France may attack the modern literary power of
other countries—may take up arms against slavery
—may engage in war with Orleanist, Bourbonist,
and German dynasties and Editors, but our course
is not to the East or West in such exploits. Let
the French intermeddle if they will with the
domestic rights and institutions—let them assail
the Flee Press of other countries, and destroy the
bulwarks of modern civilisation ; but Great Britain
must take no part in a crusade, which must lead
to bloody and revolting tragedies. With the Pope
as a guest, and orthodox Russia as an ally,
Protestant and Constitutional Europe would be
left at the mercy of a combination of despots
and the true BUONAPARTIST sons of France. If
the United States are the doomed of slaveholders,
there is a fascination about their " Star-spangled
Banner," which rational mortals would rather not
see put to the test even in a war against the Negro's
bondage. All France cannot be trusted in the
Channel with the Republican flag of the West.
Her BIIONAPARTISTS may be led, but surely they
will never suffer themselves to be dragged into
their own destruction, as a party pledged to im-
perishable principles which bear their author's
revered name?

Proud France will neither play the part of a
bigot nor a tyrant. She has nothing, as a nation,
to fear from the world's criticism, and cannot,
with safety to her independence, be shut out from
the free discussion of European questions.
Alarmists cannot guide the destinies of great States,
whose irresistible power can be traced to their supe-
rior intelligence and love of Constitutional free-
dom. How can the immortal name of NAPOLEON
suffer from the scribbling of Belgian Editors, or
the lustre of France be tarnished by paltry sar-
casms? Such ideas are positively contemptible.
Belgium may be the seat of revolutionary intrigue ;
but who ever heard of a dynasty being founded
and consolidated, without encountering both slan-
der and conspiracies ? In the common walks of
every-day life men meet with such things, and no
Prince who holds the reins of power, need hope
to escape them. And, as great men have never
been known to fail by passing by trifles, it is
to be hoped that the Imperial rulers of Europe
will not furnish us with an ill-timed precedent.
Moderation and wise government gave France a
seventeen years' peace, and following the same
course now, will make a NAPOLEON the idol of her
people and the admiration of the world; depart
from them, and who will pretend to foresee
the result? Our notions of revolutionary wars
would be speedily eclipsed by events which would
disgrace our common manhood.

Whether the real object of Count WALEWSKI'S
speech, at the breaking up of the Congress on the
Bth ultimo, was to fill the public mind of Great
Britain with such subjects of consternation, a very
short time must prove. We have been unusually
slow in noticing it, thinking it might be destined
to share the fate of the Russian Emperor's oration,
which has been declared a "base fabrication." If
such a construction could be put on the words
ascribed to the French Minister, the people of this
country would have more cause to be satisfied ;
but we fear the whole episode is but too true. The
Parisian Government betrays great weakness in
coupling its own existence with the maintenance
of law and order in the Papal States and other
countries, which are described as being in an
"abnormal condition." The guardianship of Italy
and King BOMBA may be safely left to France and
Austria, by the rest of Europe. According to
Count WALEWSKT, it has already become " most
" desirable, in the interest of the equilibrium of
" Europe, that the French forces should be enabled
" safely to evacuate the Roman States." And at
the end of another year or two, that which is now
most desirable" will have become quite indispen-
sable. But whether in the meantime it will be
possible to induce the rulers of the Italian Penin-
sula to adopt well-considered acts of clemency to
conciliate their subjects, instead of pursuing that
merciless system of persecution " which, instead
" of restraining the enemies of order, has for its
" effect to weaken the governments that have acted
" upon it, and to augment the number of the parti-
sans of democracy;" or whether the Government
of the two Sicilies will be convinced within any
reasonable period of " the wrong course it is pur-
" suing," aro all speculations of which time alone
can decide the value.

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVRNItiII

There has been no change in the tone of the'
Cotton Market, and only a small business has '
been done, but in consequence of the more limited
supply offering prices are unchanged. The total
sales are 6,000 bales; which include 1,500 taken for
speculation and export.
The Liverpool Share Market opened rather
buoyantly this morning, and cantinued strong
throughout the day, closing firm at the quotations :
Aberdeen, 12143. Chester and Birkenhead, 1.5 i 151,
Caledonian, 29 13-16 29 15-16. Chester and Holy-
head, 151 16. Eastern Counties, 91- 10. East Lanca.
shire, 19 191. Great Northern, 231 23k; ditto .A. 9191.
Great Western, 61 611. Lancashire and Yorkshire
Stock, 884 881. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport;
16,1 17k. London and North Western Stock, 100 k
1001. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 281 287,r
Ditto Pref., 111 12. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref , 7-16
9-16 p. Midland Stock, 74 74k. North British, 82-
81.. North Staffordshire, 6 51d. South Eastern,
211 21 5-16. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 191.
l9a. York and North Midland, 274 271. Leeds
Capital Stock, 151 151. Buffalo and Lake
Huron, 2 2kp. Dutch Rhenish 11 1 5-1.6 p. Great
Western of Canada, 261 26,'-,. Ditto New Shares,
3 7-16 3 9-16 p. Ditto 2nd issue. 3 746 3 9-16 p.
Great Luxembourg, 7 1-16 6 1546 d.

The importations of the precious metals, during
the week, have been about 271,960/, comprising
72,0001. from Port Philip, by the Beemah ; 186,2751.
from the West Indies and the Pacific by the 1\14,!.
dulena ; 90,600/. from the United States, by the
Asia ; 3.415/. from the Peninsula, by the Tagus :
and 10,0001. from Africa, by the Retriever.
The exports have been 643,2021. to the East
Indies and China, by the Ara; 12,26/ to the
Peninsula, by the Sultan; and 25,072 ounces of
gold and silver coin and bars to Belgium, via the
London Custom House, value 15,3331., making a
total of 671,3581.

The continental exchanges have been firm
during the week, but remittances of gold to Paris
have been made for the purchase of silver for the
East Indies and China.
The several vessels which have sailed from Port
Phillip for England will bring altogether 146,330
ounces of gold, or a total value of 580,000/. In
addition, further supplies are expected from
America, while those from the West Indies are
steadily increasing. Now that the war has ceased,
some definite effect will be produced by these
arrivals, but the great impediment to returning
ease is the enormous efflux of specie to the Indian
Presidencies and China.

The following is the Official Return of the
Exports of the Precious Metals from London for
the week ending 25th April :—Gold coin to Ham-
burg, 1,940 ounces ;to Belgium, 65 do. Total
gold, 2,005 ounces. Silver coin to Belgium, 1,300
ounces; silver to Hamburg, 147,907 do.; silver
bars to Hamburg, 20,349 do. Total silver, 169,556
ounces.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about five per
mille premium, and the Exchange on London at
short 25'374, making gold about 0.32 per cent
dearer in London than in Paris.

The price of gold at Hamburg is 4263 per mark,
and the Exchange on London at short ].3.7, making
gold 0.64 per cent dearer in London than in Ham-
burg.

The following are the Gazette average prices of
Muscovado Sugar for the week ending April 29th,
1856, exclusive of Custom's duties payable thereon,
on the importation thereof into great Britain :
From the West Indies, 27s 3d per cwt ; Mauritius,
27s Old do. ; East Indies, 30s 3d do.; average twice
of the three foregoing descriptions, 27s lld do.

Mr. W. Aven gives the following as the weekly
report of the London Stock and Share Market :

The expectation of the announcement of a new loan,
and a considerable demand for money arising from the
preparations ?to take up the commercial acceptances,
which fall due to-day to a heavy amount, have greatly
tightened the market for several days past. The pres-
sure, consequently, has been severelly felt ; the rates in
Lombard-street have advanced to the bank minimum ;
and the bank itself has had renewed applications for dis-
counts, a class of business in which for the fortnight
previous it had been doing little or nothing. On the
Stock Exchange the Railway and Foreign Settlements,
though the account was comparatively light, caused a
considerable demand for money. Rates, therefore, have
been higher; and they may be quoted at from 61 to 71
per cent. The approach of the Consol Settlement
has also led to much additional pressure. Consols
which fell last week to the extent of I per cent have
been comparatively stationary in the present. Last
Saturday they closed at 921 to having previously been
firm at 923 to I. The fall was occasioned by rumours
concerning the loan, and by anticipations of a ministerial
crisis. These circumstances also unsettled the market on
Monday, and a further decline took place to 92. But on
the loan rumours partially subsiding, and upon its being
known that Lord Palrnerst on had succeeded in re-uniting
his friends upon the Kars question, thus avoiding a
ministerial crisis, the market became stronger, though
quotations did not materially improve until the close on
Tuesday, when they recovered to 921 to There is,
however, an indisposition to contract engagements of im-
portance under present circumstances. Railway shares
were lower on Monday, and there was something like a
general depression in prices; but on Tuesday they im-
proved all round, though business was partially suspended
by the progress of the settlement. The traffics are so far,
pretty good. French lines are steady. Great Western
i
of Canada are firm and improving, owing to an increase n
the:last weekly return of traffic amounting to nearly 50001.
The market now looks healthy, although the highest quo-
tations of the week have not been maintained in all cases.
Foreign Securities have fallen in about the same propor-
tion as consols, and there is no business doing in them.
Joint stock banks and miscellaneous shares are languid.
The return of the bank of England for the week ending
the 26th April is again unfavourable. The bullion has
decreased 4152,602, and the reserve is 462,217 lower.
The position of the bank in both these respects is so much
worse ; but as a large amount of specie has been sent in
during the last seven or eight days, and as bills are now
rapidly running off, the next return will probably show
an important improvement in these essential items. The
government deposits have been increased £1,049,318 by
the payment of the final loan instalment; bet on the other
hand the private deposits have deereased £87,ti120 in
consequence of the more profitable employment which can
be found for money out of doors. The financial statement
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be made on
Monday, the 19th inst.

In the case of Belgium, however, there is no
mistaking the tone and temper of the French
Cabinet. After alluding to. the attacks made upon
France and her Government by that most dreaded
of all instruments of regal power, the Press, Count
WALEWSKI " protested that the sincere desire of the
"Emperor was to maintain the best relations with
" Belgium, and he hastened to add, that his
" Majesty's government had every reason to be
" satisfied with the Cabinet of Brussels, which had
" done its best to mitigate a state of things which
"it was not, in its power to change, because the
" laws of Belgium did not empower it to repress
" the excesses of the press, nor to take the initiative
" of a reform which had become absolutely indis
" pensable." Adding to this protest an invitation
to the representatives of the great Powers to give
an opinion on the liberty of the Press, a. 3 by law
established, in Belgium, placed Lords CLAREN-
DON and COWLEY in an awkward dilemma. The
Belgians enjoy a Constitution, and under that
Constitution the Press is tolerated, and to tell
Belgium that she will be made to " understand that
" it is imperatively necessary to modify her legisla-
" tion, which is not compatible with the fulfilment
"by her government of the first of international
" duties," is a doctrine to which England's repre-
sentatives would hardly have ventured to subscribe.
The same logic might be very speedily applied
to this country, and our government told in equally
dictatorial language, that they cannot discharge the
first of international duties unless they modify the
Constitutional legislation of Parliament. But let
us :hope that Count WALEWSKI'S speech is not a
prologue to a European tragedy or a French farce,
as the world is not in the best temper for an
attempt at either one or the other.

To-day the demand for money on commercial
account has continued, and in most cases extreme
rates are still required ; but the acceptances falling
due to-day are, on the whole, understood to have
been well met. On the Stock Exchange there has
been no particular demand, notwithstanding the
approach of the consol settlement. A small im-
portation of gold from the west of Africa has
arrived, amounting to about 10,2001. Consols have
improved 1 per cent. notwithstanding the unfavour-
able nature of the Bank return. They opened at
921 to 4, the closing price of last night; and upon
some rather heavy purchases they advanced to 921
to 4, at which they finally left off. The aggregate
of business was small, but the market had a healthy
look. In Railway Shares the tone at the opening
was dull and weak; but it subsequently improved
'end closed firm. Foreign lines are good. Paris
and Lyons have improved ; and Belgian descrip-
tions are well supported. Canadian and Indian
are also, well maintained. The French Three per
Cents upon the Paris Bourse, at two o'clock, were
better than yesterday, the quotation for account
being 751'. 25e.
The closing prices of Railway Shares stood as
follows :—Caledonian, 501 60. Eastern Counties, 94
10. East Lancashire, 76 78. Great Northern, 954.
Do. A, 78 80. Great Western, 611 614. Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 884 881. London and North
Western, 1001 100 a. Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 284. Midland Stock, 731 74.
North British, 341 35. South Eastern and Dover,
701 711. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 773 78.
York and North Midland, 554 551

Lord Cowley, her Majesty's ambassador at the court
of the Emperor of the French, arrived in London yester-
day from Paris.

LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY, WEEK ENDING MAY 3rd,
1856.—Admitted : In-patient., 46 ; out-patients, 7 ; casuals
during the week, 19. Discharged : In-patients cured, 33 :
relieved and at own request, 14 ; made out-ratior,ts, 9 ;
irregular, 4; dead 1 ; remain in the house, 164. House
visitors : Chas. Langton and Laurence Peel, Esqrs, Physi-
cian and surgcol for ensninz week . Dr. Voae and Mr.
Hulton, House surgeon : Mr. G. B. Halford. Junior
house surgeon : Mr. Cecil Webster. Chaplain : Rev. H.
J. Garrod, B.A. Treasurer, Robert Hutchison.
STABBING.—CharIes Brown, a black man, was charged
on Saturday before the magistrates with having stabbed a
Swedish sailor, named George Brown. From the evidence
of the prosecutor, and police constable No 3, it appeared
that the complainant was passing along Sparliug-street,
when he was attracted by a noise, or row, at a dancing-
house, and on going to see what it was he was knocked
down ; he got up and ran away, hut was followed by some
one who struck him on the back of the head with some
sharp instrument, knocked him down, and cat him. The
officer came up and arrested the prisoner whom he saw
strike the blow. The wound was a jagged incised one,
three inches long, and a quarter of an inch deep, but it
was riot considered to be of a dangerous description. The
prisoner was fully committed for trial.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CoRRESONDENT.)
PARIS, FRIDAY VENTNG.
What occupies attention in the higher political
circles is the forthcoming pamphlet on the treaty
of peace, which, as I have already told you, is
" inspired," as the Froneh say, by no less a per-
sonage than the Emperor. It will, lam assured,
labour to show that the treaty is peculiarly favour-
able to France, and not by any means a triumph
for Russia, as Le or(1, of Brussels, and the
Russian organs, have been proclaiming. It will
also speak favourably of the English alliance, and
will ascribe to England the honour of having
been the first to propose that the Peace Congress
should be held in Paris. Its author will take the
title of " Tin Ancien Diplomate." It will most
likely be published on Sunday or Monday.
The liquidation on the Bourse to day has passed
of very favourably.
In consequence of the holiday yesterday, only
three of the morning papers have appeared to-
day, and they contain not a line of news.
It is alleged that the Government is about to
purchase the Exhibition Palace in the Champs
Elysees, from the private company which built, it.
The Government ! This is the great nursing
mother to which all Frenchmen look to in all
their straits, and it seems, now a days,
a generally admitted fact, that when a commercial
company makes a bad speculation, the government
must rush to its aid.
In consequence of the conclusion of peace,
Marshal Pelissier has been deprived of the privi-
lege conferred on him, as commander-in-chief of the
army in the East, and of nominating officers, and
of granting the cross of the legion of honour, and
the military medal.
The St. Petersburg letters bring the report of a
discourse, or sermon, delivered by the Patriarch of
Moscow, and which is curious, as showing the
manner in which the clergy of Russia are required
to speak of the war. It claims the victory for
Russia almost everywhere—at Kars, in the White
Sea, and in the Baltic, and says that she did not
even abandon Sebastopol, until it was a heap of
ruins. It, however, displays much bitterness
towards England, and not a little towards Austria.
The St. Petersburg letters also attach great im-
portance to the fact that, though the militia is offi-
cially dissolved, all means, open and secret, are to
be employed to keep the men in the ranks. Does
this indicate an intention on the part of Russia to
renew the contest on the first favourable opportu-
nity, or at least, as soon as sho shall be able to
separate France from England ?
A telegraphic despatch announces that, on the
26th ult , the Gulf of Riga was re-opened for navi-
gation, that a Swedish steamer had arrived with a
cargo of salt, and that eighty other vessels were in
view of the port.
The Patrie of this evening publishes details of
the defeat of Walker's forces by General llora,
of Costa Rica, communicated to it probably by the
Costa Rica Legislative in this city. As you will
have details on the subject it may be stated that,
according to the account in the Patrie, Gen. Mora,
on the 20th March, attacked Walker's forces, who
were 400 strong, at a place called Hacienda
de Santa Rosa, where they were entrenched
and after a volley of musketry followed by an
attack with the bayonet, defeated them com-
pletely. All that were not killed, it is asserted,
were so hotly pursued that they were sure to be
captured. Walker's men were commanded by
Colonel Schlesinger, and are represented to have
been the best of his forces. The action lasted a
quarter of an hour. The affair was announced to
the people of Costa Rica in pompous proclama-
tions, and they were solemnly assured therein, that
henceforth " the prestige of the North 'American
rifle is destroyed.

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING

This being AscensiCinipv is regarded as a grand
holiday by the Parisians. The public offices and
the Bourse have been closed, and business has
been suspended.
The churching, or, as the French call it, the
Relevailles, of the Empress has taken place to-
day, in the private apartments in the Tuileries,
according to the pompous ceremonial drawn up by
the Emperor. The Empress is, however, still so
weak that she had to remain seated all the time
in an arm chair. The Bishop of Nancy, the first
chaplain of the Emperor, officiated, and his
Majesty was present.
I am assured that a pamphlet (anonimous) on
the treaty of peace, will be published to-morrow,
and that it will set forth the real opinions of the
Government on this important question.
The Bourse shows a tendency to rise at present;
and, on dit, that great efforts are being made to
influence it, so as to enable Count do Morey to
wind up his affairs with eclat.
Count de Chamborg (the King of France by
legitimate descent), has, I hear, just been cast in
an action brought by the government against him,
to recover an immense forest at Vassy, in the
department of the Hartes Marne, which he has
always regarded as his own, and of which he has
received the revenues. The consequence is that
he will not only have to restore the forest, but will
have to pay about £120,000. It is believed that
this heavy reimbursement will almost ruin him.

There have been steeple-chases to-day, at La
Marche, and a famous English horse, named
General Evans, was killed in taking a jump.

ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES

The answer of Lord Clarendon on the part of the
gieen's government to the despatch of Mr. Marcy,
dated the 28th December last, in which he announced
that Mr. Crampton had become an unacceptable repre-
sentative of her Britanic Majesty at Wa,hingtoii, and
requested his recall, was amongst the papers presented to
Parliament on Friday night. The Daily News comments
upon the subject :—" That which Mr. Crampton
did was done openly and frankly. He announced to the
Cabinet of Washington, that the Queen's Government
would be glad to receive recruits in Halifax for a foreign
legion. For months and months he explained all his
plans to Mr. Marcy, and showed him Lord Clarendon's
instructions on no account to run any risk of infringing
the law of the United States. He remained in the most
Confidential communication with Mr. Marcy on the
subject; and, as soon as it became apparent that the
United States Government were averse to the scheme, it
was abandoned, and the depot at Halifax was broken up.
To ask, under such circumstances, for the recall of Mr.
Crampton, is really to invite the English Cabinet
to disgrace itself, for the amusement and gratification of
the government of Washington ; but we trust that the
good sense of the American people will see the matter
in this light."