Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-06-11
FOREIGN NEWS.
Thirteen Days Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT IVES
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: r. r. Matthews, arrived at New York, on
Sunday, at noon, making The passage
from Liverpool in little less than 10 days.
1t will be seen that there has been a
foil OF Id on Cotton.
- Business was good in the Manufacturing
Districts, and Great Britain generally
PROSPEROUS. Iron had fallen of from the
high prices Of April, and the market was
dul! and dubious.
War is all the talk, and from the tone
OF their press it appears the English peo-
pie are about as fearful that we are 10
declare war, as the Americans that John
Bull is to do US that favor. The English
press appears little disconnected that
Brother Jonathan is not more alarmed at
Sir Robert Peel's great speech.
The Texan Ex-Secre,ary Of State,
Ashbel Smith, has arrived out, as resident
Minister in France and England:
One hundred lives were lost by the fall
ing Of the chain bridge al Yarmouth,
England on the 4th ult:
Nothing of any interest has been
broached in the British Parliament since
last advices.
There was nothing new in Ireland.
The money market in London was very
easy.
II the public securities are to be taken
as test, the probability of The Oregon
question being settled otherwise than
friendly seems very remote. Notwllh-
standing this confidence, the subject Is al
luded 10, in private circles, as one that IS
very iicklish, and that trifling matter
may fan into fame.
WAR WITH AMERICA.
The probability Of war with The Uni
led States occupies the public mind on this
side of the Atlantic, to the exclusion of
every other topic. The arrivals from the
western world are looked 10 with absorb
ing interest, and The instant packet
arrives, the news is conveyed with all the
potency aud speed which steam can COM
mand 10 the metropolitan journals. In
this way we forwarded by special express,
and at great outlay, the news which
came to hand on the night Of Tuesday by
the Caledonia The previous arrival,
the Great Western, caused some stir, as
il was known that she would bring tidinss
of the effects which had been produced in
America by the speeches Of Sir Robert
Peel and the Earl of Aberdeen, in Par
lament, on the Oregon question. But as
only day or TWO had inlervened between
the receipt Of those speeches and the
return Of the steamer, which haG not per,
miued the public opinion to develope
itself, the succeeding arrival produced, II
possible, sill greater interest. The pros
and cons Of the question, il is needless to
say are daily discussed; ahd this is cer-
tainIy not the frs, instance OF late, that
the spirit of American institutions has
been analysed by British pens The
theory of the Federal Constitution has
formed Of recent years, standing dish
with the politicians Of England. The
national character and its pecuiiarites-
the public men and their waywardness-
the democracy and, lis eements-are all
weighed with critical skill, sometimes
with q friendly, often with an adverse
hand. But whatever diversity of opinion
NAV exist among Englishmen as 10 Ihe
abstract merits Of Republicauism, war
with America bare contemplation Of
such a possibility-is abhorrenl TO the
national mind. A war party, properly so
called, as regards the United States, does
not exist.
There is nothing to mark its influence.
The mooted points, the Oregon; is not
generally believed TO be worth fighting
for. 1t is no, point which appeals 10
national pride, or prejudice, or power
Every one feels that this little island has
territory enough, and colonIes' and sub:
iects, which. own its sway in every part Of
the habitabIe globe, that plume themselves
on their identification with the British
name, without measuring lances with a
kindred people about few thousand miles
of barren and, pro6lless waste. No.
The sentiment which has taken deep root
in the public mind Of this country; which
pervades all classes, and sects, aud shades
of opinion, and unites them as one man,
reEers no, 10 the ualue Of The territory IN
question, bu, 10 what they conceive 10 be
the arrogant. overbearing, bullying style
withwhch The opposite claim is advanced.
Ii is with a aspirited people as with aspr-.
tied animal-if you drive, they resist, if
you lead, they may concede. Mr.. Polk
mus, be a crude judge Of human nature,
or he would not have put forth, in his
inaugural address about the Oregon, senli-
mems which were not merely indlscreet-
no, merely uncalled for and out of place,
but which sneered at, and may be said to
have hurled defiance at The British claim.
We say nothing now as to the justice of
the claim; all tha, we aim at is, 10 account
for the extraordinary upanimity which ex'
lists on this questiou-an unanImily so
surprising, ,ha, if we do go to war about
Il every hand will be held up, every purse
will be opened. every arm will be stretch.
ed, to sustain il, and bring it TO a speedy
and triumphant issue. There are men
who would tamely submit to wrong that
would Instantly resent an insult.
The country feels itself insulted by the
new President. Is he not bungling fac
,ician that thus gives his opponent such an
advontooe.. that places: himself in the