The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-19 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1869.

A peaceful solution has been most happily found
for the difficulty threatening, until a very early hour
this morning, the smooth working of the grand and
complex machinery of our Constitution. The majo-
rity attained by her MAJESTY'S Ministers in the
House of Lords, we will confess at once, was beyond
cur hopes and expectations. According to the cal-
culation made, by way forecast, prior to the actual
division taking place, a clear majority of twelve was
looked for. Instead of that, it has proved to be
only three short of exactly three times that
number. Against 146 votes mustered by the
section of the Opposition supporting Lord
limutowsa-'s Amendment, the Government brought
to bear as many as 179 in favour of the Second
Reading of the Irish Church Bill. The clear,
or net majority by which the Cabinet carried their
great measure through that additional stage of its
progress towards its now certain and rapid develop-
ment from a Bill into an Act of Parliament was,
therefore, thirty-three in a House of 323. The vic-
tory was won at three o'clock this morning. It was
welcomed with hearty cheering among the supporters
of her MAJESTY'S Government. It WAS a triumph
fairly won in open fight, and not without an extra-
ordinary display of skill and courage, of determina-
tion and perseverance on the part of the more resolute

chiefs of the Opposition. It was achieved in ye y
despite of the ill- consilered and ill- twoutered
insult directed, in the very thick c f the conflict,
against the House of Lords, in its high and responsi-
ble capacity as one of the great Estates of the Realm,
by one of the last enroPed among the raw recruits of
the Privy Council, a ra li and inexperienced admini-
strator, who, ever tine° his induction into the Cabi-
net, has been, every now and then, allowing the Mini-
ster of the Crown to disappear in the Agitator,
Statesman in the Demagogue. As Lord Russym. last
evening good humouredly reminded the Lords, they
miOtt well despise " the irreguLtr shot of some

THE doubt and anxiety caused in this country by
the action of the United States' Senate with respect
to the Alabama Treaty may now be definitely set
aside. The American nation, not less decisively than
the English, has pronounced in favour of peace.
The rejection of the CLARENDON-JOHNSON Treaty
and the bellicose manifestations which accompanied
that step, naturally gave rise on both sides of the
Atlantic to apprehensions of war ; and when those
fears calmed down the mission of Mr. MOTLEY was
made the subject of doubts scarcely less disastrous
to the interests of the two countries. It was reported
in some quarters that the bill of several hundred
millions sterling drawn up by Mr. SUMNER would
be presented in full for the signature of the British
Government. By others it was confidently predicted
that Mr. MOTLEY would refuse all negotiation, and
that the Americans would await the contingency of
war between England and some other State in order
to purposely inflict upon our commerce tenfold the
injury which we accidentally inflicted upon theirs.
All such conjectures, however, have proved equally
wide of the mark. It is with much pleasure that we
announce the full confirmation of the epitome of
Mr. MOTLEY'S instruction which we received
by cable two or three days ago. The
new American Ambassador will be more
will
Cla,iulltionuosttphran Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON, but he will
empoweredfe
prefer
o aancyt not less
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reopening negotiations; but this course has been
adopted, not that America may at some time
be able to cripple Brit'sla commerce by fitting out
privateers in case we are involved in war, but in
order that by the lapse of a little time the hostile
feeling lately aroused may have full opportunity to
dissipate. The American Government doubtless
feels that the rejection of the CLARENDON-JOHNSON
Treaty is yet too recent to warrant fresh overtures.
Should, however, the question be again brought up
Mr. MOTLEY will not negotiate on the basis laid
down by Mr. SUMNER. The recognition of the South's
belligerency was the great offence for which the war-
like senator claimed recompense ; but the demands
based on that action have been found wholly unten-
able, and the American Government accordingly aban-
dons them. It seems that Mr. MOTLEY, though