The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-10-07
another probe y mediation BY

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ne steam scket Cambria, WILDE receives
with surprise and indignation BY the Amer
lean people,
In debatefin the House Of Commons
onths oath Of August Il was avowed y
Lord PalmerstOn that, he On the,part Of Hel
Majesty's Government had Instructed Mr.
Pakenham 70 renev an o6er Of mediation
betpeenths United StqtSsdnd Merico s0ttcl
,oOuld require an ansusr from the later"
This development Of the policy 0f the
British government was ELECTED from LORD
Falmerston BY 1 speech of Lord George
| Bentinck remarkable fOrthe malignant spir.
itevincOd by him towardsthe United States
In directing the attention Of the House Il
the present condition ofatfairs between the
United States and Mexico, he declared thai
England had great interest in Mexico
that her annual exports to it amounted to
100000 year--that the British CAPT
talists invested in its mines amounted q
EI0,000,000-that the Mexican debt due
to that government amounted to nearly dou-
BILE that sum-and that therefore the war
between the United States and Mexico
would prove injurious to the commercial in
terests Of Great Britain. Hedeclared that
the war prosecuted against Mexico was un
justi6able-that it originated in disgrace.
ful desire for the acquisition Of territory.-
He then " entered into history Of the va.
rious aggressive measures by which the
United States had first Of all annexed Tex.
as, and by which they were now attempt.
ing to annex California and Mexico" and
that as the annexation Of Texas
was test question in the last presidential
election, SO would the annexation of Cali.
tornia and Mexico be test question in the
next contest. Under these circumstances
he declared that, unless there was an
end put to the existing war between the
United States and Mexico, BY the firm and
earnest mediation Of England, it would lead
to results most unfaYOrable to her interest, q
and be therefore desired TO know Of Lord
Palmerston what course had been taken By
he British Government relative 10 the mat
Ter.
Lord PalmerstOn repliedas above stated.
His speech was cOuched inlanguage more
resaeCtGal towards The GoYernment ii the
United States than the one delivered BY,
Lord Bentinck.
Mr. DIsraeIi replied In spsech full Of
fury against our government.
Several members then expressed great
satisfaction at the course pursued by the
British Government to arrest the war, and
cOntended that they ought to wait patiently
until the United States should return the
/" required answer"
Can anything more ettectually cap the
climax Of even British insolence and pre-.
sumption than this her last movement -
Constituting herselfumpire in a dispute in
which she Is SO +" deeply interested ''--
Setting herself up as impartial arbiter,
declaring at the same time the conduct Of
the United States mjustifable |" Pre-.
tending thatit is for the love Of peace (what
2 change has come over the spirit of a ma.
ton which has sacrificed more lives to the
god fwar, than any Other modern times y |
lnd al the same time ayowing that the |
schemes Of !" territorial grandizsment"
adopted By the United States must bethwar.
ed twill excite but one feeling through. |
lut our country that Of scorn and indig.
lation. The people win demand that The
var be waged with increased vigor--the
'hastisemenI Of insoIent PerGdi6us Mexico
. inflicted with increased ssverity-tbat
{ she still persist in her stubbornness.
M cannon shall thunder al the very gates
nd our flag wave on the heights Of, Her
nPitol With . spirit Of humanity and
'rbearancs pnknown in tie annals Of war.
ire, When the PFovocatiOn was 90 great
I'd the wrongs sopumerOus our govern. /
Isni has repeatedly extended The olive
ZACH aud offered % shsa.hs he sword
sr friendly oasrs have been regnlsed 4
" ministers ilsullsd-ber ciiize6s muir. ]