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to choose a native-born subject for their Hospodar. For
that reason the Powers had ordered their Consuls not to
recognise Prince Charles of Hohenzollern. He maintained
that the Porte had a right to interfere to prevent au in-
fraction of the treaties, but the British Government had
advised the Porto to act with the greatest moderation, and
not to run the risk of involving the Principalities in war
by au invasion. Ho had no official information that Tur-
kish troops had crossed the Danube.
Sir T. WALSH expressed a hope that our treaty en-
gagements would not involve us in anything beyond
giving advice.

The resolution agreed to yesterday in regard to the
Princess Mary's annuity was reported.
It was just past 11 o'clock when the Reform Bills were
reached, and, on the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER, the further progress of the committee was
adjourned until Monday.
The Court of Chancery (Ireland) Bill was committodpro
formic, Mr. Whiteside offering no further opposition, but
on the contrary, intimating an intention to assist in pass-
ing the bill this session.
The house went into committee on the Transubstantia-
tion, etc., Declaration Abolition. Bill, and Mr. NEWDE-
GATE moved to substitute for that proposed to be abo-
lished a declaration professing agreement in the 22d and
28th Articles, which, after a long and at times heated
debated, was rejected by 71 to 36. The bill then passed
through committee.
The other business was disposed of, and the house ad-
journed at five minutes to 1 o'clock.

agreeable pursuits than cutting each Other's throats.
It is not at present a general belief in France that
the gross, drunken, over-fed John Bull brings
the wife he wishes to discard to market, with a
rope round her neck, and disposes of her for half_a_
crown ; nor do the English believe that all
practically
in time
(4 Johnny Crapauds " wear wooden shoes, play
plying between
the fiddle, and dine on toads. Twhoeullgh the Englisft
Channelis not the Atlantic Ocean, yet the inereal-ng
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end ; and we repeat that the tell in the
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looked for when there w'll b f day may be soon
1 e ewor el
to the peace of these kindred . elements of danger
and prejudice of their respectivenations, in the ignorance
wealthier classes of populations. The
greater numbers than Americans visit England in far
and have consequently the English visit America,
try than the
same y more knowledge of this coun-
deed, before the
class here have of America. In-
profoundly late war the people of England were
society, and even ignorant of the constitution, politics,
tgeofiraphy of the United States.
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manded the attention of ic
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enforcedise
comm;
these classes the necessity of world,
themselves ac-
quainted with matters of such vital interest. Still,
an M.P. who did not know whether Minnesota was
a town or a State, or Chicago a State or a town,
would flippantly deliver an opinion on a profound
subject of American politics • and a writer who re-
garded Tennessee as an English county, would
comment on the blunders of an American general.
In Washington a Senator would denounce in un-
measured terms the vile conspiracy of the whole
British nation against the liberties and con-
stitution of his country, with no more ground
than an article in the London Times afforded him.
Happily, this prejudice is daily passing away ;
and if we cannot get a larger portion of English
travellers to go to America, we trust at least that
the American travellers now visiting these shores
may be messengers of peace and good-will.

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the market," by persuading every one el
withdraw deposits, and if he is not 'nor ru usS
than the worst of his neighbours he will not stick at
falsehood to promote that end. We rejoice to see
that a representation has been addressed to the
Committee of the Stock Exchange on this subject,
for not even the stability of well-established firma
can be proof against such operations, if conducted
on a scale of such magnitude. It is for those who
are familiar with stock-jobbing transactions to dis-
cuss the expediency of making any contract for the
sale of shares void at law where their numbers have
not been specified in writing, It is our duty to point
out that, unless some remedy be adopted, the Lon-
don Stock-Exchange will soon acquire a shameful
notoriety in Europe.
POST.--If a nation does not sometimes attempt to
explain its conduct, and the circumstances guiding
to it, there is risk that it will be misjudged by pos-
terity, while it undoubtedly 'permits a baseless
irritation against it to become permanent with some
colour of justification. The bearing of this country
during the American civil war is open to be mis-
interpreted in numerous ways. Our Ministers spoke
their minds out freely on the subject—perhaps too
freely. The press and the country were equally
unrestrained in their expressions; one portion sym-
pathised with the North, another with the South ;
but an all but general feeling existed that the
Union had received a mortal blow, and not only
was that the opinion in England, but the wisest
heads of the Continent of Europe held the same
view. We can justly say of ourselves that this
opinion was formed from no spirit of opposition to
the Americans or their institutions. On the con-
trary, we looked upon the strife, and forecast what
we supposed to be its certain issue, with grief. To
us the war was a personal calamity. It appeared
to be one of those tremendous convulsions which
come once in an age to herald a new order of
things. For years the cause of disunion had been
distinctly traced. We beheld the South rising as
one man, inspired not only with patriotism, but
with the utmost vindictiveness, towards their former -
brethren. Such a vindictive hatred appeared in
itself to be a frontier line of division between the
opponentS. That we did not estimate correctly
either the resources or the tenacity of the great
Western people and their noble representative,
Abraham Lincoln—the representative of their
energy, their• simple firmness, their downright
courage—.is now very plain to us all. We were
mistaken. We have learnt what the Americans
knew before, but of which we were previously igno-
rant—that we were both unacquainted with the cha-
racter of the American institutions and the Americans
themselves. That is our offence plainly stated. It
is one of which the rest of the civilised world is as
guilty as ourselves. As regards the Union, we pre-
fer to see it intact. Akin though we are
to the Americans in blood an.l in language,
it is natural that we should not entertain
any of that profound sentiment for the Union
which animated them worthily during their
tremendous struggle. Historical precedent
led us to presuppose that it must fall to pieces ;
and probably the shrewdest divination was
ywhtohoinsevesGteedrmtahneisr osafvisnmgasllinmAeamnesriacanud
on doubtingly ; for these Germans trusted to their
securitiesleax ecsfedaithabt a time when " oTeenbacks" were looked
iunpsotni n catt, and
that instinct
period. wasT h the only
very
y fact thingthat
to
reasonrel
y
was then so poor a counsellor should • teach the
Americans to be charitable in their judgment of
the feelings and intentions of those who misap-
prehended the issue of their difficulties. We
appeal to Mr. Bancroft to reconsider his charge
against us. He may discover a confirmation
of it in the utterances of Ministers and humbler
men in England, and it will not the more be true.
We demand to be judged by the spirit of our acts.
Mr. Bancroft pleads his case too much in the
manner of a lawyer ; he supports himself on the
letter of his text; he does not take into con-
sideration the astounding and unexampled nature
of the convulsion, with its varying results, which
f
we were called upon to witness during a space of
years. For four years the Confederates were
not only active belligerents, but ordinarily suc-
cessful.armies. Nothing better than the words of Tacitus
-They had famous generals and great
can describe that war. There had never been any-
thing like it upon the earth before :—" Diversa
omnium, qua unquam accidere, civilium armo-
rum facies. Non prmlio, non adversis castris, sed
iisdem e cubilibus, quos simul vescentes dies, simul
quietos nox habuerat, discedunt in partes, ingerunt
tela ; clamor, vulnera, sanguis palam." Such a
picture, on a vastly multiplied scale, was pre-
sented by this mighty war, and we can only
not say, in addition, what was applicable to the
disordered camp of Germanicus—causa in occulto.
The cause was evident. North Americans,
however, who tell us now that they fought
for slavery, and received evey discouragement
from us in their struggle, must not forget that
Union was the foremost word on their banner.
Slavery was the origin of the war ; but when we
ask whether it was -for slavery or Union that the
war was so doggedly prosecuted, we fancy that an
honest answer would not accord to it that purely
ideal dignity of character and benevolence of de-
sign in which Americans are beginning to regard it.
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too
feel their strength, their sentiments grew clearer.
As soon as they felt certain of the Union they de-
termined to eradicate slavery ; but in the period of
doubt, during the heat of the conflict, they did not
produce the impression on any foreign nation that
the eradication of slavery was their principal object.
It is to this fact that we wish to draw their attention,
that they may be just. The hereditary animosity
towards the mother country which Americans
supposed to exist among themselves has really no
existence. The idea of it sprang from a conscious-
ness of strength and a spirit of rivalry, and perhaps
some recollection of old wrongs. But that recol-
lection at any rate should be put aside now that they
have had experience of the trials of government;
nor can the rivalry endure after the display of their
strength, which created admiration and amazement as
a thing unexampled in the world's history.
TILE " ANGLO-AMERICAN TDIES."—We no-
ticed last week in our editorial columns the ex-
traordinary number of Americans whose arrival
we recorded at the various English ports. The
names of these travellers took up a consider-
able part of our space, while the registers of the
different hotels showed how large the number was
already in this country. We rejoice to welcome
'Americans to the shores of England, for nothing
tends more to the removal of prejudice than
travel, and to cement friendship than personal in-
tercourse. If as many English travellers landed
in America, we would not despair of soon seeing the
day when these two great nations would more justly
could
ldanntdoot
appreciate each other, when misconceptions and
en hteitehgseom:-o ojealousies- would cease to have so pernicious an in-
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facilities
therespectea B
easily
obpel which
people o dis-
turbed.fthis kingdom by railroads
andsteamboats of visit-
ing continental Europe have materially affected
the English character. Probably there was no
more bigoted person in creation than a John Bull
of the last generation. Then the grand tour was
only within the means of the wealthy—now it can
be accomplished by those comparatively poor. Even
the workmen of Paris and London exchange visits,
and the effect of this frequent intercourse isstrikingly
apparent. France and England formerly hated
each other with a deadly animosity--now
b theyle find
and
interests in common, and more p