The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-20 00:00:00

ENGLAND, THE TIGRESS.

(From the New York Herald.)
Another insult to the citizens of this mighty and glorious
republic, another outrage from perfidious Albion, as she is
well called by noble and gallant France, the home of free-
dom and civilisation. Our blood would boil over if it were
worth while, on perusing the despatches brought by the last
snails, but we have concluded to treat the miserable islanders
with the contempt they merit. Yet American citizens should
comprehend the depth of brutality and cowardice to which
Mngland has descended, in her hatred for this great and
ighty country, which she has
plunged into war through
her diabolical machinations, at the acaursed bidding of her
end-like aristocracy.
ENGLAND liAB REFUSED TO JOIN PRANCE IN ASKING US

TO LEAVE OFF FIGHTING.
Do you hear that, men of America? Do you hear thai
heroes of a hundred fights ? Do you hear that, you five acres
of freemen who stood to listen to the spirit-stirring elo-
quence of the Irish warrior who dwells among you. Bog..
land, appealed to by France to intercede between us and
the rebels whom we are going to crush and in 90 days anni-
hilate from off the face of the earth, refuses I And well
she may refuse, the dastardly, bloodthirsty tigress. When
the leopards in her foul shield became lions we know not,
juggled
one care by what solemn lie the fools called heralds
one beast into the other at the bidding of the knaves called
kings, but it was not the lion but the savage yet crouch-
ing tiger that should have been the type of England. Yes,
the Anglican tigress howls because France desires to spare
us any more bloodshed, she howls her cry that we be left
alone, and that the utmost amount of woe and misery may
be inflicted upon those whom she hates because they love
freedom. Had she her base will, we should go on fighting
till doomsday. She will make any sacrifice rather than
help on a pacification, and as Robert Cobden, the member
for Birmingham, recently told a vile mob at Rochford in
Essex, the aristocracy are feeding the starving operatives
with venison and turtle rather than their sufferings should
bring the war to an end. We know the tigress, and when
the time shall serve we may add a few new stripes to those
upon her all-fired back. Meantime, we have to put down
her emissaries the rebels, whom she pays with the gold
wrung from the wretched Irish and Indians.
But she was right, in another respect, for concluding not
to interfere. We wonder for our part that one of nature's
noblemen, like Louis Napoleon, the descendant of Char-
lemagne, Charles the Twelfth, and other real kings (what-
ever their faults may have been), could have contaminated
his hand by offering it to a female of the House of Gulph.
However, he can afford to condescend. But it showed a
becoming humility in the servile courtiers of St. James's,
and specially in the feeble toady and sycophant Palmer-
ston, not to pretend to share in the mission of the Em-
peror, but humbly to beg him to take his own cours3. It
was a compliment, indeed, that the greatest sovereign in
Europe should ask a miserable Government like that of
England to join with him and the godlike ruler of Russia
in any work, but Palmerston knew his place better than to
accept such a compliment. That buffoon associated with
Louis and Alexander I Fie upou't, give us a civet cat, and
take away the apothecary, as Shakespeare says. No, we
are glad that Pam had that virtue of humility, though it is
only a footman's virtue at the best.
Well it is for England that she spared -us the crowning
outrage of joining in this petition that we should not utterly
crush the rebels. Well for her Indian fleet in the Pool,
well for her proud docks at Manchester, for her steel ma-
nufactories in the Clyde, for the thousand furnaces that
nightly illuminate Salisbury Plain. We are no boasters,
and perhaps it is the fault of Americans that their exquisite
sense of humour and their quiet gentlemanly habits pre-
vent their giving due utterance to the praises doueste,ranvedd by
thenaselves, or to the menaces which should curb the pride
of other nations. But for once we will speak in
the name of America say that had the despicable old beast
and tigress, England, dared to thrust her contaminating
hand into this fray, her doom had come sooner than her