The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-15 00:00:00

MARCH 15, 1870.

Whether it does or not, on all hands expressions are
heard of a determination to persevere again and again,
until Cambridge rowing shall have attained its former
excellence. The great race, an event for Londoners
second only in importance to the perby, will, it is
almost certain, take place on Wednesday, the 6th of
April, when the tide will allow of its coming ofr
about-five o'clock in the afternoon.'

GEN. BEDEAU ON ANGLO-AMERICAN

RELATIONS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

The article it was known Gen. AD.tss BADEAU was
writing has appeared in Harper's Nag bzine for
Nlarch, as well as in Macmillan's Magazine, and
will attract all the more interest, as it is known to
have been scrutinized and approved by the PRE-
SIDENT when iu manuscript, if not also by his Excel-
lency, the American Minister in London. General
BADEAU was singularly well placed to produce such
a paper ; for, in the first place, he is the intimate
friend and associate of the PRESIDENT, on whose
staff he has all along served. He was detached
from the PRESIDENT'S household to accompany
Mr. MOTLEY on his mission to England, and he re-
mained in London with the Legation as the Assis-
tant-Secretary for several months after its arrival.
At that moment international affairs did not pre-
sent the most friendly aspect. But a short time
before, Senator SUMNER, who had strongly advo-
cated the appointment of Mr. MOTLEY, had de-
livered his celebrated speech, which ended in the
almost unanimous rejection of the CLARENDON-
JOHNSON Treaty. That speech was much misre-
presented by English commentators, who turned
what Mr. SUMNER intended to be conciliatory into
what was merely preposterous in the magnitude of
the demands, and the exaggeration of the injury in-_
Meted by England on America during the war. It
was natural for the British to associate Mr. MOT.
LET'S opinions with those of the Chairman of the
Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, and as a pro-
found sensation had been produced in England by
a speech which, as represented to them, pointed to
no other arbiter than war, it was imagined that Mr.
MOTLEY'S reception in Loudon would not be cordial.
Those who thought so in America were agreeably
disappointed in the result, which is thus related by
General BADEAU. " Compliments of every sort
poured in on his arrival in London. The QUEEN
herself signified her gratification at his appointment,
and deviated from Court etiquette to pay a civility
to the new Minister and his family. Every cir-
cumstance showed that, despite the rejection of the
Treaty, there was a disposition to be in every way
cordial to the new representative of the United
States." The season had commenced, and General
BADEAU, then paying his first visit to Europe, found
himself launched into a sea of festivities, and had
the best opportunity of conversing with the leaders of
society as well as of English public opinion. In his
paper he shows how truthfully he has interpreted
what be Saw and heard, but we desire to point out
a circumstance which ought never to be overlooked
by Americans when they endeavour to get at the
truth on English opinion regarding the United
States. In mixing in the crowd of such a city as
London, for instance, in visiting theatres and music-
halls, and other public places, as well as • private
houses, and sitting at the dinner tables of ac-
quaintances, they may be all along in a vein
which while appearing to them to embrace the
whole sentiment of the country, may in reality be
but that only of a narrow section. Now this is
a difficulty which Englishmen themselves cannot
get over, and foreigners, even when they are Ame-
ricans, cannot hope to surmount. The dweller in
Liverpool lived in a hotbed of secession ; the dwel-
ler in the county to which Liverpool belongs, lived
for the most part among a people strongly Northern
in sentiment. Yet the one knew lit!le or nothing
of the other, and might well have imagined that his
was the prevailing opinion of the country. A
Kentish man has very little in common with a
North countryman ; and neither can Comprehend a
IriShman. To have spoken with a mechanic
or well-to-do agriculturist iu Kent about the Civil
War in America when it was raging, was to talk on
a subject about which he neither knew nor cared. It-
had nothing to do with hops ; and beer was the all-
absorbing question with him. Five out of every six
of the North countrymen went heartily with the
Uuion, and sometimes even passionately when they
understood the question; and that feeling was carried
through a number of classes, but running unevenly
over the country, though with this as a guide—
that in the large seaport towns secession was the
prevailing feeling, while in the small towns and
country-places, among sturdy mechanics and yeo-
men, the sentiment was strongly Northern. We
desire also to remark that that was the honest
opinion, uninfluenced by other considerations than
the merits of the quarrel; while, on the contrary, the
Southerners were backed by a community directly
affected, the great shipping interests, and those
whose trade was likely to be benefited by the war,
but mainly by the upper ten, thousand, who hate
Republicanism, and instinctively see in the Union
the most formidable foe of class privileges. We
are the more particular in making these remarks,
as they in some degree explain the discrepancy
between the opinions General BADEAU heard Eng-
lishmen express on all sides, and the denial given to
those statements by loyal Americans who were in
England timing the war. The former, without
exception, maintained that there was no unanimity
of hostility towards the Union in Great Britain,
many of them confining it wholly to the upper
classes ; while the latter declared that the friends
of the Union, even among the Liberals, or in the
working classes, were ns two grains of wheat in two
bushels of chaff, but both we believe to be wrong.
It would be impossible for any man to state abso-
lutely what was the sentiment of the majority,
though any foreign gentleman who understood
the language must have unhesitatingly declared that
England was bitterly hostile to the North. It was
the fashion to be a Secessionist, because the upper ten
thousand were Secessionists, and a certain section
of society always go with the fashion, and wholly
without reference to the merits of the question ;
but, excepting those whose interests were involved
the honest, reasoning, and commonly educated mass
without the pale of fashion threw themselves into
the Northern scale. Fashion succeeded in giving
the plain palpable stamp, which America and the
world generally accepted, as the genuine British sen-
timent ; yet it was untrue of the people in the mass,
as well even as of thousands who drift apparently
with fashion, white in private forming their own
opinion, and no English Goverment would have
dared to go beyond mere talk. It is this fashion
which thrusting itself everywhere before the eyes
of foreigners, who seldom see more than the large
towns where it 'finds expression, that deceived not
only the citizens in the States, but their country-
men who happened to be residing in England. Gen.
BADEAU thus remarks on the impression in Ame-