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London, England, 1861-11-30 00:00:00

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(Emit the, Horning Post.) •
That we must -demand an apology from the
American Government, and the restoration of, the*
passengers seized on board the West Indian Mail-:
steamer, is so obvious, that the court Circular need.
only inform us,' as it does, that a Cabinet 'Ciittncii
was held yesterday, to mike us certain of the deter=.
mination it ninst have arrived at.
We have therefore no hesitation in asserting:that
despatches will be at ante forwarded to LorAlgyons,
instructing hire.to claiin the persons of. the gentle-
men taken.from under the protection of the English
flag,Aogether With an adequate apology lfor the
outrage committed by the Captain of the an
JaeiiitO. If Ili* demands are not at -Once coma
pliaWith, Lord Lyons will break off dipleniatio
relations with the. Cabinet of Washington:mid'
re-
turn to this country; .

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. -
~ The time has now- passed away for legal argulnn,
tation, which has been exhausted by. the subtlety
oftliV press, and which for practical purposes has_
been brought to a close by the unanimous opinion
of the law officers of the Crown. That' We -hall
I*nifertatloa gross national affront, in the manner var.
wiich the,. act or Captain Wilke was perpetrate,,
-, ,-
was.patent even before the piratical nature of the act
had been legally ',established ; and it would, apart
from its illegality, save been incompatible with the
maintenance of the friendly relations which before
existed With:the teaeral Government of America.
We are rake :441y! constrained therefore to see,
in this matter, an act es unfriendly in spirit as
it is
,piratical in law. We should not : be, too
glad to think that there is any prospect of—such.
v4it
conduct meeting :h a disavowal at the hands of
the eilbinet at hington. But every considera-
tion' leads us to apprehend that the' captain of the"
San Jacinto acted-under the direct authority of his
Go'vernment. •Itseems quite impossible to conceive
that, in so highlMiseiplined and directly subordi-
nated a service as„ the navy of the Unite& States,
any pfficer would.yenture, of his own wition, to
talq a part invotiing issues of peace and war.
Me's'srs: Slidell and Mason were in a special manner
objects o,the vengeance Of the Federal Government:
The Stilt Jadittios although arriving from Africa,
had been lurking in the waters of the West Indies
for some six weeks; no doubt in pursuance of orders
from the Gove:::=Lnt ,of :Washington, and there
Ippce,43.-b to be no difficulty in assuming that the San'
Jacinto received these orders from Havana, where
she had touched, and whence she promptly steamed
off to intercept the Trent in the Bahama Ohannel.
It might have been thought that the Government
of Washington had its hands too full already to be
willing to encounter fresh dangers. A Government
obviously unable to cope successfully with its pre-
sent antagonists would be in an incomparably worse
position with a maritime foe ready to blockade its
ports, and thereby to destroy one of its chief means
of attack against the Southern Confederacy. It is
true that Governments, either in transporfs of
passion, or in a vehement tide of warfare, may grow
reckless of fresh antagonism ; and the language of
Mr. Seward has no doubt been haughty enough for
the proudest days of American unity. Whatever may
have been the temper in which his scheme was
enunciated before he took office on the 4th of March
last, for the
eyc,ow.wmothpausleehdnisnagtiteonn of the North oat of our
Canadian dominions, on account of its contingent
losses in the South, or whatever the purposes for
which he more lately appealed to the Governors of
the bordering states to fortify their frontiers against
overt acts of hostility from Great Britain, it seems
impossible to divest such proceedings of the cha-
r ratter of a menace. We should, however, be reluc-
tant to attach undue significance to the astute de-
sign, which it is not unreasonable to ascribe to the
Cabinet of Washington, of relinquishing a contest
which they may already perceive to be hopeless,
under the prospect of engaging in another which
by land at least might offer them for the moment,
with their present immense military organisation,
fairer prospects of success. It is unnecessary to
carry this question at present beyond its immediate
considerations. We have to call upon the Federal
Government for the immediate restitution of Messrs.
Slidell and Mason, with ample satisfaction for the
gross affront which has been offered to our flag.
Whether it is in the temper or policy of that Go-
vernment to concede what must no doubt humble
them equally in the eyes of both North and South,
and whether the violence of public feeling among
their own subjects, both against the South and
against this country, is a thing they are not as
much afraid of as the hostilities that must
spring from their refusal, are matters on which
speculation must be uncertain. We can well
imagine with what trihmph this insult to
our flag will be received by a large party in the
Northern States, and the arrest of the Confederate
Commissioners be welcomed by all the supporters
of the Union. The British Government, however,
has a plain duty to discharge, and to that duty it
has addressed itself with a firm and manly spirit.
No doubt the Commissioners of the Confederate
States to France and England, who were also the
ex-Ministers of the late President, are regarded as
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mperniztel;o
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Lord
ord their
Lyons power
willto
army whom it has taken prisoners, and to whom it
has extended the rights of war. We trust, above all
light from those
ie°brfflseeilCitchet hsa eti nCihoaenfLe differentdi uerca°itne
things, that the Federal Government will not have
mcsoc
contingency,
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eti
gentlemenecnt dhhe
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Cabinet
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they will hold the isswuel
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brief, and
hands.

(From the Times.)

The Cabinet met yesterday to deliberate on
the steps which should be taken to obtain satis-
faction for the recent outrage on the British
flag. On so momentous an occasion we cannot
doubt that every point was discussed with the
utmost care, and that the decision was not arrived
at without a full consideration of the possible
consequences. Among the members of the pre-
sent Government are men of the greatest expe-
rience and the most profound learning. Lord
Palmerston has been engaged in political life
for half a century, and has conducted the foreign
affairs of this country
.daring an age pregnant
with revolutions and dynastic changes. Lord Rol