The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-02 00:00:00

THE ENGLISH PRESS.

(From the Anglo-American Times)
The attitude of the Anglo-Saxon race, as repre-
sented by the English and American press, is worthy
the attention of foreign nations. If two nationalities,
speaking the same language, nearly related, and in
intimate connection, cannot understand each other,
how can communities widely differing in language,
institutions, tastes, and habits? The London Times
argues plausibly, with seeming impartiality, but, in
truth, as an advocate skilfully disguising his true
character of a hired pleader. The papers favouring
Northern sentiment, among the most able in Eng-
land, arc angry with their American friends for
putting forward such extravagant demands, based
ou reasons they consider unfair and even untruth-
ful. Thus the Star and the News among the dailies,
and the Spectator leading the weeklies, assume one
attitude of wronged friendship, with another which
ought not to be overlooked. These papers are equal
in literary ability to any of their opr orients. With
consistency, through good and evil report, often
against the feeling of the majority of their readers,
they adhered to their principles, and not the less
resolutely when threatened with and even suffering
severe pecuniary loss. But it is not to such organs
of opinion that the Americans turn► ; for they with
avidity seize on the journals of the party they call
the oligarchy, attaching an importance to what
they say which amazes their allies in England. The
Daily News, in disgust, asks, are tuft-hunting pro-
clivities most developed in Republicans ? Indeed
the question is pertinent, for, setting aside the ably
expressed opinions of organs representing the Eng-
lish people, they snatch at thoSe uttered by the
papers of the Upper Ten Thousand, and justify an
ill-feeling against the English people, not for what
is said or done by the English people, but by the
class they affect to denounce and despise. In the
American papers of the 12th inst. will be found a
summary of an article in the Standard of the pre-
ceding day on the Alabama qae.itioa. Now the
idea of sending out at so much per word an article
of the Standard as an expression of English feeling
is almost laughable, and the best of the joke is
that its own correspondent, writing on the 12th,
alludes to that article as setting forth as by official
authority the ultimatum of Great Britain on the
Alabama imbroglio! So that even Granny's own
correspondent forgets, that she is in opposition to
the Government, expressing the very reverse of
official opinion. In astonishment, Englishmen see
such importance attached to what this respectable
old lady says, and find the Pall Mall Gazette most
quoted, not because of its undoubted ability, but be-
cause America recognizes, in it most directly the
organ of the oligarchy. On the 10th the most bel-
licose of the Gazette's leaders was published in the
New York Tribune with a long commentary from
its London correspondent, and it furnished the text
for the letter writers of other papers, as well as of
leading articles. The newspapers most quoted in
the United States are those most hostile to Ame-
rica, and which most directly and avowedly repre-
sent the class Americans persist in considering the
rulers of Great Britain--the Pall Mall Gazette, the
Standard, and the Saturday Review. In this we
recognize some of that. feeling described in the
parable of the lost sheep, which induced the shep-
herd to leave his ninety and nine, and run
after the one that. was lost. The Standard last
Monday thus accounted for the importance at-
tached to its opinions : The educated classes are,
in truth, the nation ; it is the organ of the educated
classes, therefore it represents the nation ; and it
might be supposed that Americans arrived at the
same conclusion from the same reasoning. The
tone of this portion of the English press reflects the
Upper Ten Thousand only, on the Alabama ques-
tion, but it is therefore entitled to a considerable,

though not to an undue, attention. Its design ap-
pears to be to cloak England's sin, while bringing
into the strongest light America's extravagance,
with the abject of inducing the nation to occupy
this position—nothing we can do, will induce Ame-
ricans to be oar friends ; they hate England with a
deadly animosity, root and branch, lord and pea-
sant; we must resist and prepare for the inevitable
conflict, and as America is a rapidly growing coun-
try, but now weakened by the strain of a terrible
war, the sooner that conflict comes the better for
us. It is on this text that their leading articles are
written, and whatsoannoy3 and distresses the English
friends of the Republic led by such men as BRIGHT
and Fortsmn, is, that Americans play into the hands
of this section. Nothing can save privilege but a
war between England and America ; nothing is so
hateful to Americans as privilege—legal and social
distinctions born with the individual.—yet they do
their best to place the nation behind that class, to
maintain for another age the institution against
which they have warred from their Declaration of
Independence. Take the Standard's article of Mon-
day, and see bow this tone pervades it, as well as
that on Tuesday and others. In the first, such men
as Mr. FORSTER are denounced as the un-English
worshippers of the Republic, who reverse the Ma-
hommedan rule, and pray with their faces to the
West. It is not our object to show the Standard's
ridiculous mistake in this; but we may observe, en
passant, that Mecca is to the West of the vast
mass of Mahotnmedans who pray, therefore, look-
ing to the West, as do the Republic's adorers. The
assertion is, that America is insolent in direct
proportion to the meekness and adoration of her
British worshippers who have brought about the
present complications by generating the false notion
that England would meekly endure insult and
humbly submit to chastisement at her hands. It
appears then that the nations owe the difficulty to
BRIGHT, Foltsue, and their followers, and not
tOLAIRD,WHARNCLIFFE, ROEBUCK, and their's. It
maintains that the sympathy of the nation was with
the Confederates, and this it will never have the
meanness as well as the folly to deny, and it tells
Mr. FORSTER to get out of the way, and not attempt
to screen the upper classei from American anger
behind the manufacturing mobs assembled to cheer
Northern zmlot,. In its Tuesday's article it goes
further, taking up much the same ground as the
Pall Mall Gazette. A cool reception is to be ac-
corded to Mr. MOTLEY, and the charges preferred
by Mr. SUMNER are to be brought to his notice at
once for settlement. It may or may not suit
America to delay, but it will not suit England. The
former may have ulterior objects to serve as a
burglar who pays a visit to a family with his eye on
the plate, and Granny wants to tackle the burglar
at once. Were it not that Americans attach such
importance to the organs of the oligarchy we would
not devote this space to the Standard, and the
sooner they can learn to treat these opinions with
the indifference or the amusement they create
among the masses in England the better. On the
other side Americans so allow sentiment to inter-
mingle with their wrong that it is difficult to get at
it, diluted as it has become. A journal that heads
its article " Canada or War," and fires off in that
line, " Your money or your life," does all it can to
damage the ease. Nor is it wise in men who ap-
peal to the equity and common sense of mankind, at
the same time that they make claims for an infrac-
tion of international law, to announce their intention
hereafter of setting aside the whole international
code, and to do that, to a far greater extent, which
they condemn in others as against themselves. The
precedent created by the Alabama is the real matter
to deal with ; shall it or shall it not henceforth be
a rule of the sea that a belligerent can build, equip,
man, and commission a ship-of-war in the port of
a neutral; is that ship to be regarded as a vessel of
the navy of a Power at war, which has never been
in a port beloaging to that Power ? If se, so be it ;
America's claim against England falls to the ground,
and as sure as her MAJESTY sits on the throne of Eng-
land has England established that law which will drag
her from her eminence. From such insignificant
per-
sons as the Messrs. LAIRD, and such a place as their
shipbuilding yard, will date the decline of what was
once the greatest emiire on earth. The premature
concession of belligerent rights, the deadly hostility
of a large and earnest section of English society are
in truth little more than matters of sentiment, but
the other is a hard, dry, horrible fact, looking uglier
and uglier from every aspect. In vain does the
Tines attempt to qualify it by the action of a few
fillibusters ou the Canadian frontier, or by the tone
of feeling during the Crimean war and the Indian
mutiny, for neither by act. nor through feeling was
anythingdm by Ammo that can approximato to

the injuries and insults arising from the action of
a certain section of the English throughouka war that
rent the Republic asunder, that was no struggle la
a far-off land, but the enemy in your house, at your
throat. No, no; let the Times and these journals
honestly admit the measure of the wrong, and Nr°
will not have leading orators and journalists in the
United States balancing such arguments with as
plausible exaggerations in the other direction,
whereby both nations are led further and further
astray—further and further from the real matter 10
dispute, and further and further into the region °f
mystification and sentiment.

IMPERIAL PAR 14 I A ],l EN r

HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack
:a five o'clock.

In reply to the flirt of LONGFORD,
E GRANVILLE sail there was no desire to pass by
any military officer :11 tIW eppoiutmtnt of the permanent
Under Scerelar.) ship for Irc!nnd, the only reason wifY
military man il:►d nut been appointed was because it wag.
difficult to find the necessary civil qu►lifications in mai-
tary 11100.

TdE IRISH CHURCH BILL.
This bill was brought in by Earl GRANVILLE, read
a first time, and the second reading was fixed for the 1.4.1,
in.qaut.
Their lordships shortly afterwards adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EvENTNo.
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PARK-LANE IMPROVEMENT BILL.

On this bill being further considered,
The Marquis of HAMILTON moved the insertion °I
the following cause, "That the Park-lane Improverne°
Bill be recommitted to the former committee, in order that
a clause might be inserted declaring that the lessees and
occupiers of property in Hamilton-place were within tb°
provisions of the 68th section of the Lands Claws
Consolidation Act, 1845, with respect to land injurieuiti
affected."

Mr. BOUVEHIE, as Chairman of the Committee ell
Private Bills, opposed the motion. The clause bad been
rejected by the committee on the ground that the croprie:
tors and owners of houses in Hamilton-place should 1101
be treated differently to other owners of property.
Mr. STANSFELD said it appeared to the GeVern:
meat that a distincti, n should be drawn between the
Crown as a landlord and others, but the Government 1)5"r,
come to the conclusion to leave the matter to be dealt With
by the house.
Mr. TITE said it was thought by the Metropolille,
Board that to introduce into a private bill exceptiolliu
legislation would be highly dangerous.
Mr. BALL supported the insertion of the clause.
Mr. LOCKE did not think the aristocratic residents iII
Hamilton-place. had the right to ask for exceptional legit
lation in their favour, when such a proposal by the 111011
common people would ba looked upon as a piece
of presumption. The ratepayers had already bees
burdened enough, and it was too much to ask that they
should be further pressed for the benefit of the Crel/il
a
and the fashionable residents in Hamilton-place. If h
te
clause was not withdrawn he should give his le
against it.
Mr. HENLEY thought it would be wise to withal.°
the clause ; he could not give his assent to it.
The clause was negatived without a division.
VISIT OF THE VICEROY OF EGYPT.
Mr. OT WAY, in reply to Mr. Gourley, said the uv
vernment had received intimation that it was the intel';
Lion of his Highness the Viceroy of Egypt to visit Otis
country about the 22d of this month, and arrangeme%
would be made to give his Highness a suitable recepbe
upon his arrival in this country. (Hear, hear.)
POLITICAL PENSIONS.
Mr. GLADSTONE, in reply to Mr. Fawcett, said
that a person deserving a pension from Indian or Cet,
nial revenues would not, as matters now stoodla bo'
f
prevented limn receiving a political pension ; but ill or ld
that the whole subject might be fully considered, he w°1.14
move the postponement of the consideration of the Le
which stood for to-morrow, until Monday next. ("I'

FARM. SERVANTS.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply
a
to Viscount Galway, said it would mako no differeoc"
whether a parson reside in the house or out of it, but if 11:
was purely a, farm servant he would be exempt from li
tax, but if ho was engaged partly in farm work and pot 't
in other business then he would be taxed to the en“)°°
of 15s.
Viscount GALWAY inquired whdhor he would be S°l
he was employed as under gardener. it/
The CIIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied
the affirmative.
THE ACCIDENT ON THE GOVERNMENT

RAILWAY.
re'
Mr. a DUFF, in reply to Sir S. NORTHCOTE, Said
port had been received, and that certain inquiries with 1
spect to it bad already been instituted.

ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. dst
On the motion of Mr. GLADSTONE it was agreedi,
the house at its rising would adjourn until Thursa'%°f
to-morrow bAng the day set apart for the celebration
her Majesty's birthday.

HUDSON'S BAY.
Sir A. VERNEY called attention to the result of thei
negotiation of the Government with the Hudson 's
fog
Company and the Government of Canada, and move-
au address for any papers on the union of Brit
Columbia with the dominion of Canada. rd,
After a few observations from Mr. Ayrton, Mr. 103'--

and Mr. Samuelson.
Mr. MONSELL said he could assure the hon. gold'
man who had moved for tho papers that the greatest P-n;
caution would be observed with respect to the tract sa9
and the land occupied by the aborigines in Hudson's P-a
territory. The Indians would be amply provided for, $.OO,
everything possible done for their safety and prote_Li°d,
There would be no objection to give the papers clos'-

The motion was agreed to without a division. ore'
Mr. VANCE moved for a return of the petitions h
sented on the subject of the Irish Church.
fousa
Mr. GLADSTONE opposed the motion, on the g—
ent the information was already accessible.

Upon a it reected y6O to 32. a
The otherdivision ness was
busi was rapidly disposed of, 50 tba
house adjourned.

PLYCE OF GOLD.
034
The quotation of gold at Paris is about at Par'
the the short exchange on London is 25f. 271 e. per Li steiri.
On comparing these rates with the English Miut
lis.loid. per ounce for standard gold, it appe.r6 33
gold at the above price is of higher vs,lue in Loudon 1"-
in Paris.
bills at°

The course of exchange at New York on London for bill- oto
days' sight was on the 31st ult. about 1091 per cent. At th,!ited
there is no profit on the importation of gold from the
States.

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BRTN.
EHLERS —On the 31st u1t.,1 IL
at Tulse-hill, S.W., 4.-r-g * 11°11
Ehlers, of a son.
STAPLETON—On the 31st ult., the wife of John
31. P., of a son, Starleton,

MARRIAGES. . r,,riaei4
THOMAS -MATTOMS —On tho 29th ult. at ST' v-- $l,
SC,th.ujr,ctinh,ePs,sic_scciaioiilrlye: George E. Thomas
26 Aritud , , I 1 gardens, Kensington-park. tan C°
Smut " . i-- 1, ruts -On the Ist inst., at Paddington, •—ii.oot-
Pall-mall, to Elizabeth, Mattocb.,l
Covington, eldest son of John Smith, Esq., of Kevrit'cild*
lane, Richmond, to Blanche. younger daughter of ..-1
Willis, Esl., of Clifton-gard S. solicitor, 0,f,, of

MORRIS—On the 31st ult.D
,EATHS. Post-aiptar.n W. Morris, "-- it
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aged 76.
of 40,
SOLE—On the 30th ult., Wm. Charles Sole, Esq., --
Oxford-terrace, Hyde-park, aged 58. noel,
WRIGLEY— On the 29th ult., at Edge-lane, Liverr
David Wrigley, Esq., aged 43.

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