The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-19 00:00:00

lIIGR WATER Al' LONDON BRID'I4.

TiS DAY—Morn. 14 min. aft. 2 —Rvening 36 WY, aft. 2
Tg-hfonnow—Morn. 55 min. aft. 2—Evening 19 min. aft 3

THE WE .TREK—SurN OFFICE, JUNE 19.
THER3fOIIETER, Iv THE SHADE.
71 —highest since noon yesterday.
55 -lowest this morning and dnrine the night.
62—this day at noor.
BA.ROM ;tram— 29.63 —still falling.
WIND —S. to S.W.—Rather fresh, with rainy weather.
It rained heavily last night and this morning.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1856.

The " electioneering dodge" of General PIERCE
has totally failed of its intended effect. He has
been unequivocally and unanimously rejected as
candidate by the Darnocratic National Convention
at Cincinnati, who unanimously elected Mr.
BUCRANAN for President, and, at the second
ballot, Mr. JOH.N C. BREAKENRIDGE, of Kentucky,
for Vice-President. This important decision was
received wish unequivocal approbation through-
out the country. Guns were fired, and every
demonstration of satisfaction exhibited, at the
defeat of the man who had endangered the best
interests of the Republic for the promotion of
his own ambitious projects. It is another illus-
tration of the case of
" The engineer hoist with his own petard,"
of an anticipated evil being prevented by the very
means adopted to produce it.
We gladly hail this important measure as a
very decided indication of a friendly feeling
towards this country, and a repudiation of the
truculent and blustering policy which the PIERCE-
MARCY Cabinet had inaugurated. Had Mr.
PIERCE unfortunately obtained a renewed tenure
of office, the feeling of both peoples must have
been mutually inflamed. He had offered a
wanton insult to the British Government,
notwithstanding the conciliatory tone of
their communications, the unequivocal manner
in which they disclaimed any intention of giving
offence, and the candid and gentlemanly spirit in
which they apologised for any matter in which the
due limits had been inadvertently exceeded
Any reasonable person would have joyfully ac-
cepted the olive branch thus freely and honour-
ably tendered. But this did not suit the purpose
of the Candidate-President. He sought for the
votes of the unquiet spirits, the Hannibal Chollops,
who would be delighted with any insult offered to
Great Britain. For this object, and this only, he
insisted on forcing a quarrel when every possible
concession had been made; and when obliged to
acquit the British Government of any intentional
violation of the municipal laws or national privi
leges of the United States, he vented his petty
Spite by summarily and ignominiously
dis-
missing its representative% who had only
too faithfully obeyed the instructions by
which they were bound. For this he refused
arbitration on the disputed points respecting Cen-
tral America, and disgraced his Government by
the official recognition of the usurped authority
of the pirate WALKER—and now he has not only
failed in that object, but by the sinister attempt
has forfeited the confidence of the better class of
his supporters---who refused to sanction an
aggressive and arrogant policy, that sooner or
later must have involved their country in an in-
ternecine war with men speaking the same lan-
guage, professing the game religion, recognising
the same free institutions as themselves, in whose
veins the same blood circulates, and who are
actuated by the most friendly feelings towards
their Transatlantic brethren.

War between the Champions of Liberty and
Democracy would have been madness of the worst
description, but still it could scarcely have
been averted had,Mr. PIERCE been permitted
to follow for a protracted period the dangerous
and unjustifiable course on which he had deli-
bezately entered. The wanton outrage may
speedily be forgotten, now that its author will be
deprived of the exalted position, for which he
possessed few, if any, of the requisite qualifica-
tions.

We need not now speculate on the fearful conse-
quences of such a conflict to all the parties engaged
therein, or to the death-blow which it would have
inflicted on the cause of freedom all over the world.
We by no means under-value the strength of the

great Republic, and it would bo with feelings of

the most poignant anguish that We should have