Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-07-30

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cat the present moment any furth-
er explanation of my views would be
Unauthorized and imperfect.
81 have the honor to be your most
obedieat and faithful servant,
"July 8, 1916. J. Russell"
The London Times of the 9th inst,
in an article on affairs in Mexico,
says:
"For the protection of the British
interest in the Gulf of Mexico, the Ed
ymion frigate and the Alarm have been
ordered down from Burmuda. Com
modore Pring will probably be able
to increase the squadron from Jamaica,
where he hoists his broad pennart on
the lmaum; and the Albion has been
sent ont, we believe, from this country.
In the Pacific the British and Ameri-
can squadrons We're both at Mazat-
Ian, but no news has yet arrived
of any operations ON the western
coast.
owe trust, however, that without
any farther effusion of blood, and
without a PRONUNCIATION of those risks
which are separa BILE from active hos
tilltes, we may look forward to the
termination ofthis deplorabe strife
1t cannot be doubted that the extreme
|repugnance of the Mexican govern
ment to come to terms with the United
States upon the subject Of the bounda-
Try of Texas, and the pertinacity with
which these delicate questions have
been kept open until they have led to
positive hostilities, are attributable, in
great part, to vague expectation that
the differences between England and
the United States would eventually Sc
cure to Mexico a powerful diversion,
if not powerful ally. The inteli-
gence of the settlement Of the Oregon
question, and the happy removal of
the last of those subjects of discussion
which have for many years endanger-
ed the amicable relations of the Ameri
can and British governments, will,
therefore, probably produce as much
effect upon the present heads of the
Mexican republic as the news of anoth-
er victory gained by the Yankee rifles
on the banks of the Rio Grande. We
sincerely trust that theinhuence of the
pacific termination of our own contro-
versy will be felt in the speedy resto-
ration of peace between Mexico and
the United States; and at this time the
mediation of British agents has been
offered with peculiar propriety to com
plete between other States the triumph
of that policy which has been so sue
cessfully maintained by our own gov
eminent"
After speaking Of the ill-tImed and
ridiculous scruples of the Mexican
government, which have invariably led
to a condition of things step worse
than that which has proceeded it
their insane refusal to recognise the in
dependence of Texas until annexation
had transferred the quarrel from revol-
ted province to an ambitious and
powerful rival, &C., the Times contn-
ues:
eff, therefore, it be possible that the
mediation of England should be exer-
ted with any effect, not only to restore
peace at this time between the U. States
and Mexico, but to remove the causes
of future discord and the pretext Of flu
ture aggression, it can only be by en-
deavoring to encourage the Mexican
government to undertake, with rather
more vigor and intelligence than it has
yet displayed, the task of governing
the country. British interests, ari-
sing out of the Mexican loans secured
upou the soil of some of the provinces,
are directly involved in these ques-
tons; and that security is perfectly
illusory if we are not prepared to as
sert the claims which will at no dis
tant period accrue under it,"