The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-04 00:00:00

The Washington correspondent of the Boston
Advertiser alludes to the difficulty experienced
by the British Embassy iu that city, as to who in
America has the power of making treaties, and
what is the nature of the offence committed by Eng-
land for which satisfaction is demanded. It is not
the British Embassy alOne to whom the last point is
a puzzle; but it is to be hoped Mr. Motley knows,
and will be able to explain.
The New York Evening Post says the Alabama
treaty creates little anxiety, or indeed gives rise to
thought of any kind, in the minds of the masses.
American relations with England is a subject so
little discussed that scarcely one man in ten re-
flects on the matter at all; and we can bear out the
Evening Post in this judgment from the tone of the
American press, which is full of the May meetings
in New York, of the opening of the Pacific Rail-
way, of the course of the markets, of money, and the
state of the currency, the disposal of the Treasury
surplus, and the tariff question.
The New York Tribune, while doubting the truth
of the coalition report it had received from its cor-
respondeot in London, remarks—.

"We are at peace, and unless assailed will remain so. It
will hardly do to fall upon us without a pretext, and this
we shall take care not to afford. Sending in your bill fur
damages endued or Fervices rendered does na justify a
violent assau:t and battery. To kick Cue bearer out, and
order him u-ver to thaw Lis face again is the utmost show
of resentment that consists with decorum.

The coalition slows animus, and the desire of the
potentates to throw back the power and pres-
tige of the Republic, if they had a fair and safe op-
portunity. The best American policy is that taught
by Washington, to avoid the entanglements aLd
complications of European politics.
"Europe snitti us little bide robust, industrious emi-
grants that we might not bAter do without--little that
we are not imp.;verislied b) taking. Let us, then, with-
draw ourselves more and more from any connection with
her interests and her aspirations. if we build more steam-
ships, let us run them to American ports, and so build up
our mechanical industry at home and draw larger and
larger supplies of raw staples from our less skillful neigh-
bours in the West ladies and on the Spanish Main."

The Herald reporter has been again at work; this
time with Secretary Fish. " England (he says) had
her hands full already, and her peculiar territorial re-
lations ia America would make her hesitate before
entering upon hostilities with the United States,
France, Mr. Fish thinks, will be slow to enter into
any such alliance while Bismarck lives, asd Prus-
sia stands among the first, if not the first, Powers
in Europe. As for Spain, she can do nothing.
Such a proceeding, in the opinion of Mr. Fish,
would give rise to a general war in Europe, and end
in a reconstruction of the map' thereof. Prussia
would take care of France, Russia would walk down
to Constantinople and settle the Eastern question
in her own way. Spain would lose Cuba in about
72 hours. The State Department has no advice,-
from Minister Reverdy Johnson on the subject."