The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-19 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY. AUGUST 19, 1852.

"Absolute Reciprocity" appears to have been at
length recognised as the principle of conciliation—
perhaps
we should say, as the means of reconcilia-
tion—between the American and English Govern-
ments. It is tolerably well understood by this time,
on both sides of the Atlantic, that the Fisheries
question is now in a fair way of being brought to a
permanent and satisfactory settlement. After a great
show of angry feeling in the chambers of Congress,
and a somewhat indecorous display of blustering and
braggadocio on the part of a no less distinguished orator
and statesman than DANIELW EusTEE, the whole matter
o o about
good
fri
e l
n`
friends
sound
the
,
appears to have beieihap lyabsrtoilui toorgmhte xc
unexpectedly
rapid and, if possible,
fortunate conclusion.
nothing" -1w
n
of w
u the
and fury signifying
legislators at Washington r How about that exceed-
ingly warlike oration spoken—marvel to relate, not by
a stump orator with a bowie-knife in bis gi-dle, and
a plug of tobacco in his chrek, and a
patent revolver in his cost pocket, but—by
the Lord of Marshfield, the BURKE of Congress,
the most important and the most gifted among all
the candidates for the Presidency ? How about that
spech of y ours, Mr. WERsTEß—that speech dictated
less by tne ardour of patriotism, it would seem, than
by a passion for claptrap and a tenderness for the
adulation of a mob ? How about those vapourings of
the Commitee on Foreign Relations—resembling
very marvellously the bubbles mentioned in the fan-
tastic but melodious verse of SPENSER—
" The bubbles blower, up with wind,
Which being prickt do vanish into noughts."
Unlike the " little wanton boys that swim on blad-
ders" for ever end ever in the flowing rhythm of
SHAKSPERE—the loud-si caking advocates of wet in
Washington are submerged very surnmarily;by the
unlooked-for reconciliation effected by her MAJESTY'S
Government. The self-sufficiency that
_buoyed them
up has been punctured very adroitly by the keen
diplomacy of the Foreign Department in Downing-
street. How do they feel ?—these Bobadils in
speech and Parolles in action—how do they
look ? What do they say ? We should like to
encounter one or two of them some fine day saunter-
ing down the shady side of Broadway.
S .rionsly—there is much cause for exultation in

the happy issue of these negotiations about the North
American Fisheries. The result proves clearly
enough that the charges of precipiteion, and yet at
the same time of lack of promptitude, directed against

the DEBBY Administration, are alike unfounded.
The precipitation, it was said, had reference
to the seizure of fishing vessels in the Bay
of Fundy, and the lack of promptitude to the
delay in bringing the matter to an amiable settle-
ment. It was insisted that some warning ought to
have been addressed to the authorities at Washington
before the fishing smack was seized in the bay, upOn
the waters of which it had encroached. Why—
common sense tells us at once, plainly enough, that
the treaty of 1818 was warning enough in all con-
science. What more could possibly have been ex-
pected. You don't usually warn a thief to take his
hand out of your pocket, if absence of mind has
so far confused his notions of meum and
team. Here: had the United States' fishermen been
industriously dragging their nets within a distance
from the British North American coasts against which
they had been expressly prohibited by stipulations—
" signed, sealed, and delivered." Well, that was
admitted—on all hands it wee admitted. But—then
it wes coolly objected that the violation of the
treaty had extended over so long a period that it was
really too bed for the British Govern-
ment to interfere, without Brat of ell, in a
gentlemanly way, announcing its intention
to adventure upon that interference. This was well
enough in itself, rs a child might at a glance have
perceived. Take the conduct t be pursued towards
the pickpocket again by way of illustration. Be-
cause some gentleman has been coolly helping
himself whenever his humour listed to your
snuff-box, and your pocket-book, and your
handkerchief, and the rest of the little
knick-knackeries of your personal paraphernalia--
you must by no means prevent the
continuance of these nefarious proceedings
until you have first of all warned him of your inten-
tion. Had you objected to these pleasant kind of
eccentricities in the first instance—well and gond—
ari ted
month
that would have been altogether different. Bat to
allow fish to be caught over and over
after month, and year after year, in p goahiinb
lo-
calities, without evincing any disposition to t. pick a
quarrel" with the fishermen for their encroachments
—and then suddenly, without a syllable by way of
preparation, to swoop down uponi them and bodily
carry off a smack out of the quiet waters of the
Bay of Fundy—it was really nothing more or less
than absolutely monstrous and unendurable. That
was the reasoning of Mr. WEBSTER ? It was
the logic of the Committee on Foreign Relations at
Washington. It was the argument used with all the
coolness in life by the more warlike section of the
American community. Hence the charge of precipi-
tation directed against the British Government. The
precipitation being proved—by the fact of a long,
long tedious series of delays, extending back almost to
the treaty of 1818. Certainly this was clearly one
of those transparent proofs known under the
generic title of self-evident propositions. Then, as
to the lack of promptitude—Here is the whole ques-
tion about our North American Fisheries already
close upon
upon a thorough and amicable settlement !y
Obviously,
therefore, in reference to this much-
talked-ot discussion, the DEBBY Cabinet has acted
all vigorously, and patriotically. It has first of
vindicated the rights of
.England. It has
then honestly and satisfactorily entered upon
nmeewnt.arrangeneeonntsl waiuth the American Govern-
gave ll tt
elr arrangements indicate the cor-
rectnessance
a the
tenraLy__.tr:lravhich y
Absolute
MAJESTT's Ministeyrs the that her
e
the Free-Trade system under
in a fair way of developing
Runde! the kindred term of
Reciprocity !
principleiproeit is now, in fact,
guiding
And that principle of Reci-
procity
accepted as the
—with prom
in the conduct of
the present negotiation.
and Without
is out by
being
more re p carried
a td
theme moreover—h 3
promptitude onee
Ration.

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at the close.of a
mAeunGcUeslnTeune't in
.tyrannic usurpation,. that "he had
sheacvoensdp spoken
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found Rome brick and lets it marble." So, also,
mighthe fou found
dh the Fn
do uraa:deen
th.
neglected it. The plan s
f S. Paul's, would have
Loountrs
PHER WREN, the architect like opportunity, after the
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dboycfi t
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given wide thoroughfares to
but the owners and occupiers of land opposed any
alteration which would have made wide instead
narrow streets, and the Monarch Was
not
5 uffi cie t ofy
arbitrary to compel his good subjects to do what
albeittheir
it
rightsof
might appear,
property,f would
for t moment,he
eventually to
havetrench on
s
in-
creased their value, and also have made the City
as
distinguished for its wide and open streets as it
now is for its narrow thoroughfares and lanes
confessedly inadequate for the Traffic which
M en-
leraivpotui
orns taonfianhdewill
its way through them. Let any one,
about four in the afternoon, try and pass from the
Mansion-house to the Strand in a vehicle of any de-
painfully find that his rores can be made on foot with more facility and in fag lesss
time. The main streets are overcrowded. The
traffic is too much for them. It is painful to
'witness
the hourly
confusion which is the result.
Qf late years some attempts have been made by
the Corporation to remedy this evil. The opening of I