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same tongue with Burke, and Peel, and Derby, we at once
compare hint with .these, forgetting the while that in a
land where nature works in gigantic mood, where plain
and prairie, and forest and river aro all immense, men
strain expression to keep pace with the world around
them, and there is a sort of rhythm between men's words
and the wonders of creation that environ them."

The writer fairly puts the disadvantages of a common
language, but ho does not touch on the other side. If
our medium of carrying evil thoughts and caricatures of
each other be the same, and facilitated the dissemination
of the evil, the medium is also the same in saying what is
honest and true, friendly and considerate. Wo could
never write France into a cordial love and alliance. All
our best things would bo lost on the Spaniards and
Italians as pearls on swine. But the case is very different
with America. The nation responds at once to a friendly
tone. Their own journals catch it up, and spread the
feeling abroad with a celerity all their own. The change
which has lately come over England is already working a
most .beneficial change in America. Late events have
.made Americans better known and understood in Europe,
and the guns which obscured with their sulphurous
canopy so many a fatal field over the Union, have blown
away the mists and ignorance which grew with years till
thus rudely dispelled. The respect in which Americans is
held has deepened. If the nation bragged loudly she has
performed nobly, and deeds have a significance which
cannot be sneered away. It is shown, too, that abuse and
sarcasm produce only abuse and sarcasm. "Have the
Americans railed us out of one antiquated absurdity ? or
have we laughed them out of one vulgar affectation ? "
Certainly not; the effect on both nations is exactly the re-
verse. It is indeed the same as it would be on individuals.
Who suppose that they can draw insolent caricatures of
friend Brown or Robinson, and that either of those parties
will at once amend his manners or reform his customs.
Much more likely that friend Brown or Robinson will
wait on us with a horsewhip, and teach us better manners
and.more charity.

"There are no two peoples in the world who want each
other as much as we do. Our needs are not mere poli-
tical needs ;.they are far finer and closer, and nearer the
heart than any such. America would be all the better
for borrowing some of that English reverence for what-
ever is old and time-honoured, for that veneration which
attaches to all that our ancestors cherished and cared for,
and would be none the worse for seeing in age something
besides decrepitude and decay ; and England might benefit
in her Colonial Government by observing how the manli-
ness of a people is promoted by self-dependence, and how
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I ask if it is not high time to say farewell to these
bickerings, which have certainly reacted unfavourably
on the characters of each ? "

It is indeed high time to try what a little consideration,
a little reserve, a little deference, even a little of what
courtesy each of us are accustomed to award to foreigners,
might accomplish ; to endeavour to teach that instead of
being natural enemies we are natural allies. No more
false notion, no more injurious idea could have got abroad
than that England was the hereditary enemy of America.
She is no more tho hereditary enemy, than two brothers
falling out, kicking and cuffing each other, and ending by
abuse, are born enemies. All our interests are in'common,
there is not ono adverse, not one- which ought to cause an
angry word. The whole aspirations of the two peoples
should be absolutely the same. They are of ono race, of
one language, laws and liberty entertained in common,
and spreading over the globe the Anglo Saxon-race. Other
nations regard with dismay their overwhelming and
growing influence. Mexico was conquered by Franco to
secure a counterpoise for the Latin na.ions. For this end
France occupied New Caledonia, and endeavoured to es-
tablish herself in Madagascar. With this view she made
efforts to resuscitate Spain. They see with dismay the
world conquered and subdued by the tide of emigration
which for some centuries has been flowing from England,
and the two leading peoples of the earth of the
same kin. The interests of these two nations are
positively the same, and the work before thorn is so grand
that it is impossible for human beings to conceive any-
thing more magnificent. It is to spread over the earth
Christianity, freedom, and material well-being. The idea,
then, of these leaders having the same mission and inte-
rests, 'absolutely identical, being hostile, instead of working
in brotherly love, is positively absurd. It looks as if the
supreme folly of mankind enabled the Devil to thwart the
most beneficent work of the Creator in the welfare of the
human race, though against the direct interests of both
sections of the Anglo-Saxon people, and against common
sense and reason. Were these two sections of what we
cannot but consider a chosen people, two crabbed old
*omen, the means employed by the fiend could not have
been more contemptible. The result is due to the
writings of such a woman as Mrs.KTrollopo, and such a
bring Fit-Ck'.'-'fit-eTilra?ts rankle in the mind of a keenly
sensitive people, the more so that the arrows were winged
by feathers from their own eagle. They respected and
venerated those who thus wounded them, and hoped and
wished to raise in their elder kindred the admiration they
felt they were entitled to for the conduct of their affairs,
since they had severed the political connection.
" I wish I were in a position to give power to my
counsels, and I would say, now is the time not to be out-
done in generosity. Let there be no higgling, no bargain-
ing ; grasp manfully and warmly the hand that is out-
stretched to you, and let the feeling between the two
nations be—not the conventional amity of Cabinets, but
the hearty tone and affection of two kindred peoples.
"We have fishery rights to discuss, and there are some
unsettled claims about the Alabama which we refuse to
admit. Now is the time to settle both in a spirit that will
show America we are not insensible to the value of her
friendship, or the force of her example. If it should be
said, whence comes this new ardour of Cornelius O'Dowd
for our American cousins ?—how has this new light
broken in upon him ? Has the condition of Europe, the
threatening attitude of France, the character of the man
who rules her, nothing to say to this sudden and strange
conversion ? And my answer is, it is precisely out of
these causes that I see the necessity of England having one
ally who is above being subsidised, but not above being
esteemed. It is because out of the present convulsions
may come a war in which France, strengthening herself by
the most powerful of the late combatants, may think fit to
begin that work of the revisal of the Treaties of 'l5,
which she has so significantly hinted at, and whose for-
mation she well knows was in the main the work of
England. It is because I see this 2 and I see besides we
have neither true friend nor well-wisher on the Continent
of Europe, I would draw closer to those who, once our
narrow squabbles are forgotten, could not but regard the
I old country with affection, and would never stand coldly
by to see her assailed by overwhelming odds, or crushed
beneath the united forces of despotism. . . . In the love
that every educated American bears to England, in the
pride of her great history, her grand traditions, and ter
noble literature there is a tie that, if the day of adversity
for us arise, will be seen to bind America to our side and
our fortunes, even against the world. . . . My dread is,
the fear of English power once departed, the wealth of
England will be a temptation not to be resisted ; and if the
day of such evil should come, there is but one people in
the world who would not rejoice over our downfall, and
that people is American. They are the only ones who
would remember all the past glories of England—all that
she has done for liberty—all she has achieved for
civilisation. They are the only ones who .will look
with forgiveness on our faults and failings, and bear
fully. in mind whatever of good or noble there
was in us. America, well knows whence she derives
the great stamina of her nation. She knows it was not the
Dutchman, nor the Rhinelander, nor the Celt, that gave
her the mingled persistence and daring, the dogged re-
solve not to be conquered, and the patient endurance in
time of adversity, for which we have no better adjective
than Anglo-Saxon. And she will not suffer the land which
stands to her in the sacred relation of a father to be in-
sulted or degraded.
" I have a wide acquaintance with Americans, and I write
these lines with the full conviction of this truth—l believe
that we have no other country upon whose friendship we
can count so surely in our day of need, and I am certain
that with America our ally we may defy the world."

TnWSPAPER

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youngest of European kingdoms, and her fieleYtiawase
actually beaten by the fleet of a nation scarcely
ranked as a maritime Power. Numerically, instead
of being as strong as all the world together, we are
not even in the first place, and alliances might easily
and even naturally be formed by which all our
effective fleet could be out-numbered to-morrow.
The position we have always vindicated for our-
selves has been occupied by the Americans.
They really have, or believe they _ have, a Navy
superior to all the navies of Europe, and their
presumptions are not without plausible grounds.
True, they have not maintained this position without
commensurate expenditure,--but for this they have,
at any rate, an eqUivalent return. Their iron-clad
fleet alone numbers 75 vessels of various rates, and
they have -upwards of 500 fighting ships besides.
The Miantonomalt, which her commander was ready
to match against our whole Channel Fleet, represents
only a single ship of four guns and 1,500 tons in an
array of three score such vessels. We are quite
willing to lgelieve that in an hour of actual
trial our ironclads would prove more formidable
than is supposed, and that the national apti-
tudes of our seamen would still count for much
in any naval contest. We can imagine, too, that
a few of our best wooden ships might be found
still serviceable, for an old three-decker did
good work against ironclads at Lissa, and the
Americans are by no means neglecting their
unarmoured marine. But all the assurance we
can derive from these reflections falls very far
short of satisfaction. It is not enough to say that
we may be somewhat stronger than we seem, when
we ought, beyond all question, toile so very much
stronger than we are. What we are now consider-
ing is not our strength itself, but our strength as
proportioned to our expenditure. France and Italy
together do not spend so much on their navy as we
do. Austria, which has just won a considerable naval
battle, spent scarcely a tenth as much. In fact, as
regards our outlay, we have actually assumed very
much such an obligation as that which Mr. Samuda
would saddle us—the obligation of being superior to
all other nations together. It is only when we look
at the results obtained that our pretensions appear
so moderate. No country, except America, ap-
proaches us in expenditure, and the expenditure
of the Americans is not so much in excess of ours
as it seems. It was enormous for a time, but for
a very short time only. Taking the last six
years together, the Americans have only spent
about £80,000,000 on their navy. We, during the
same period, have spent between £60,000,000 and
£70,000,000, and have nothing like so much to show
for it. In urging, therefore, upon the Government
and the country the necessity of vigorous reform,
we by no means imply the necessity of additional
expenditure ; we ask only that the same money
should be better spent. If the sums placed annually -
at the disposal of our Admiralty were but as pro-
ductively invested as similar appropriations in
other countries, we should find ourselves in our
proper position, for we do pay a great deal more
than they do for naval power.
ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES. The Directors of
the Bank of England having completed one
quarter at the 10 per cent. muunium have now
entered on another, still retaining that rate of
discount. Ten per cent. is a satisfactory price
to get for the loan of money on the best se-
curity; but as 4.2, 15, or even 20 per cent. might
be charged, the country must be thankful. Indeed
the Times has declared it ought to be grateful!
and did it not prefer a quick and sharp ruin to the
torture of a protracted agony, ending in ruin, the
country being very good, no doubt would feel as
the Times directs it.. The Bank of England is Queen
Eleanor, and English commerce is the Fair Rosa-
mond. The Bank presents the cup of poison and
the dagger, and Rosamond must be grateful for
the consideration shown by her enemy. The Bank
has decided on the ruin ; and as the country, and
a combination of circumstances, have placed the
power in its hands, we must be content to accept
the result. It ig, however, for the interest of the
nation that theresult should come quickly—that the
debris should be cleared away—that the bankrupts
should disappear—and that the people, emerging
from their frightful sacrifices, should be left
unshackled to work out their future regeneration.
Bound, as they now are, hand and foot, they have
no chance of maintaining their place in the race of
competition. Paris is rapidly becoming the great
money-centre of the world ; and if France be con-
tent to steer clear of foreign wars and internal com-
motion, England must submit to see its rival not
only maintain the great start she has taken, but to
see the distance increased, working as she does on
a freer principle, and unencumbered with the re-
strictions of antiquated absurdities. The blow
given to English credit has excited the attention of
the civilised world, and in no country has it been
more commented upon than in America. It is
highly probable that American merchants will now
move in their own interest to secure a more stable
system of exchange—a system which will render
them less dependent on the violent and disastrous
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into gambling, its right to adhere to it cannot be
disputed; but other people should, as far as in them
lies, free themselves from the contamination. Mer-
chants here may enter upon transactions, taking their
chance when their commitments come to maturity of
the rate of discount being 10 per cent. or 2 per cent.,
but it is unfair that foreign merchants, who have
less means of forming an opinion on the subject,
should be compelled to run such tremendous risks.
As London is, however, the great centre for the
settlement of balances in the foreign trade of
other countries, it is very hard they should be sub-
jected to so great a risk. The wines of France, the
teas of China, the products of India, imported into
the United States, are paid for in London, and an
idea may be formed how injuriously American com-
merce is affected by variations in the rates of dis-
count over which that commerce has no control.