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HE SPLEEN OF. THE ENGLISH PRESS.
 In our leading article of yesterday, we made short quotation from a recent num- Der of the stLondon Fimes.n This powerful journal has won for itself singular and strongly marked reuowu. Standing cou- fessedIy at the head of he journalism of Eu- rope, it makes it's voice heard and felt all over the world. A bold, interruptions, and formidable adYeuturer on the scenes of poli- tics-with little consistency, and less con- science, but always armed Ut all points ill the glittering panopIy of dialeetics-it fights, with it's whole prodigious power, first the battle of one party. and then of another, without Wearlness, or fear, or mercy-un- shackled by any sense of justice, incapable ol shame, and, we are bound to add, Hamnd- iul of truth. On one poiut, however, the s2fimes" has always baes stefHly consistent. lnlis rancor against America, il has always been itseli,: Towards the rising growth and the expanding destiny of this country, il has always shown, in its fixed look, the malig- haht grin of derisiou, or the gloomy scowl of hate.
 Of late, the "Time5e' (aad he remark is true of most of the journalism of EHslaad) rages against us more GereeiF than etef.- The deao8e@enl of the Texan drama IS quite too much for its philosophy. This is not 10 be wondered at In no other recent hu- sineas has John Bull attempted to interfere so wholly without any plausible warrant In no other has his greedy and raPacious spirit fed itself on such false and swelling hopes; and in no other case, as III thls of Texas, have these same hopes been so dashed and scattered by sad and remediless blunder
 Texas, with all her noble cotton lands, has fairly escaped the grasp of English cu- pidity. Recognised independence, settled peace. powerful protection, large peeaa!ary aid-all were offered to the yoang and stIug- gling republic, and all were offered in vain. She was not to he tempted or invcgled into the meshes of the great British net She was motto he bioueht overinto liritishsSmra- thics or British alliance or British interests She felt that her hope and her destiny were here with us-and now she i5 OUTS. t i5 a sad mishap 10 England. Given to England the commercial monopoly of Texas, and in few years the Fighting Nabob-the SlF Giles OveHeaeh ef the natioHa--might have stood rfhindependeat, unchecked, and lord ly among his neehbars. Now, on the con trary, he is s'eabiaea, crib4ed, confined a- The very thaurht of rupture with us. makes him shnddee in every nerve. Not Ina. he drea5s the earuaee of the battlefield, or the sulphurv smoke of the batile-deck. He quails before the Embargo that wal would bring
 Stop to-day the cotton of America at inc Atlantic seaboard on its way to England, and tomorrow mighty ut1,itada of laboriuq men in ERgland, brought at one fell swooT to the deadly verge of imminent and sure starvation, cry ont and guash their teeth fol daily bread B,fofe this dread vision, the iron ealrage of the stubborn than in the never more sedate aud Rulers of England crisis of hard-lo0gbt and murderous war is panic-stuck and cowcd. Even whig t. midity, in view of these things, may be o good cheer England may well hesitate tc go 10 war with us, even for 0legon. Such a war, in the present unprecedented and DOT tentous condition ol the industrial and soeia system of England, would be to that grea power yawning gulf of ruin. The British aristocracy-ihe s'Eenilian Coastitutlon,2 a. D'israeIi calls it-has no heart to enter up on a conflict, in winch the supernatural sWort of Famine-lho grim skeleton warrior tha knows no pity-would flame balelulIy ia tiC front ranks of it's foes!
 IL is this dependence of England on thC great staple product of the United States which so rouses the British resentment against the measure of annexation She seems destined to be foiIed il most of her recent calculations. Gouon=-the great sta pie the agriculture of the wofid-the main regulator of the exchanges of commerce- the capital material of those vast manatacto- ries with which the whole air of Eaglant rings-this great product, which even now spread all over the earth ia is various iab- rics, forms the clothing of all the yaneile; of the human race-this wonderful gift ol { gracious Providence 10 maa--so vitaliy ne cessary to all manufacturing countries, bu grown mainly in mighty monopoly by onl own favored land-the source ol our wealth in peace and of our strength in war--thls great staple has now become 10 Great Bril- ain, above all other nations, aa object, not ol the highest interest only, bat of the mos imperative necessity. She wishes to become independent of the United States for it's pre- duction. She has looked, therefore, to the East for her supplies She has looked tc those extensive fields in lIindostan, whosc wretched people she has conquered and en- siaved She has looked to her East Indi; Company for a scccesslul experiment to tes the virtues of her eastern soil and climate But she has looked in vain. She has em ployed our cultvators to test the eXperimen for her, with our choicest cotton-seed; ans after five years of unaYailing toil and uHwea ried attention, she Gnds herself defeated il her wises Nature rejects her solicitations She refuses to raise a fibre in the East whicl can compete with the productions of ou southern sayannahs. No wonder, then, tha with the knowledge of the probable result of which she was no doubt duly advised du ring the progress of the experiment, Gfea Britain has turned her attention to the feld' of Texas. There, she has attempted to ob tain possessession or control of cotton re zion, which might vie in fertility with GU own. She has tried that experiment alst too late. She is disappointed and deleate' also in Texas.
 But her resentment against annexation 1 whetted to yet sharper edge by the grea