The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-03-06
Prom the New York Courier and other papers of March
FOUR DAYS LATER ERoM EUROPE.

Prom the New York Courier and other papers of March
FOUR DAYS LATER ERoM EUROPE.
The packetship Toronto, in a remarkable pas
| sage from London Of twenty-five days-haying
sailed on the 9Th ultimo-brings us some later ac-
counts. We are indebted to Captain Tinker for
late numbers Of London papers.
Sir Robert Peel, on the Sd, said that inasmuch as
the mail for America about to sail from Liver
pool, he would announce his intentions concerning
the duty on timber. He proposed 70 make a redue'
ton of the duty which should ultimately NIX IL al
| l5s.; now il is 25s. ".s.
From the 5th of April, is47, the duty on hewn
timber is TO be reduced by S., and the next year by
| the same amount. On sawn timber the duty was TO
be 6s ON the 5th Of April, l647 and Is. more m the
next year. Until April, l947, the duties would re-
main precisely as they are.
This amendment did not reach us by the last
| steamer
without opposition from the West Riding of York
shire; and as that is great agricultural county, the
| Morning Chronicle trumphs in II, as an indication
that even the landed interest is giving way on the
corn laws and assumes from this election, and other
Indications that If Sir Robert Peel had to state his
| proposals again, he would 60 for an absolute
and immediate repeal ofthe cern.lsws. The Chron-
icle still thinks he may do so.
Large orders were in England from the contl-
nent, Belgium, and Holland principally for barely
| and rye.
by the 1ofkshuc, lnicligcncc was Tecelheu Oi the
debate on Mr.. Aliens resolutions repeling the inter
ference Of European powers in the affairs ofthis con-
| tinent, well the postponement Of the Oregon
de bate in the Senate. The news was regarded as
highly pacific. -
A correspondent Of the Times after assuring them
that Indian corn will soon be regarded as second
only TO wheat article Of food, insists that il
should be raised in, and imported from, the British
| colonies.
In our summary of news by the Cambria, we
quoted passages from an article in the Times, IN
which the opinion was expressed that war with
the United States would be popular in Great Brit
ain and especially with the most intelligent and re-
fined portion Of society. The article elected a re-
ply from the American gentleman who has recently
written several articles for the Times, under the
signature Of "a States Man." in which he said he
said he did not believe the assertion and repealed
the attacks upon this country in regard to several
points contained in the same article. We copy the
following concluding portion Of his communication:
81 have reason 10 believe, and my sources Of in
formation are not bad, that the English government
just at this moment Is m the awkward predicimeDt
OF man who, having made claim in the dark upon
neighLor, in the beginning no better informed than
himself as 10 their mutual rights, that truth has
fairly dawned upon both parties, finds II rather diff
cult TO extricate himself with credit from the false
position into which his unfounded, but not dshon-
est pretensions have hurried him; and that if nego-
tiations respecting the Oregon territory were now
TO be entered upon for the first time, boundary
line could be run as fast il could be travelled over
and that too, without the intervention Of an UNI
pire to decide when the commissioners were not Of
accord.
"Will you permit me to express my regret and
establishment that person Of your far-reaching
gacity should Join in oConnell's peevish cry about
savery9-that bane which The English themselves
forced upon US years ago in spite Of our earnest
monstrance, and which they now reyile us for, with
out even suggesting amtdots for eridicating It
from our constitution. When the thirteen States
| became a nation, II was by a compromise among
conflicting interests, which, had it proved failure
would have left them a set Of disointed links and
scott and by-word for those who contend that man
is untitled for selfgoyernment. And the only means
| Of avoiding great calamity-for calamity il
| would have been 10 the human race, notwithstand-
| ing the passion Of our countrymen for 'expen-
sive metaphors'-wss to tolerate the curse which
their English ancestors had bequeathed them.
To this end a solemn compact entered into
that not the general but the State governments
should alone have power to legisate on a sub
ject hostile, | admit, to the spirit of our in
stitutiens and by this compact is the government
Of the United States still bound. Your would be
philanthropists had much better look to their own
poor laborsrs than to slaves who are better fed
and lodged than they, their decrepit parents and
helpless children better cared for and themselves
better protected against the vicssudes of old age.
Or, if they will NEEDLE in matter which they can
/
that good may come out ofit--I would fan entreat
them Il, who am from eastern State, where there
| are no slaves, and look with undiluted disgust on
| slavery whether 1t assume the shape Of physical
! bondage with US, or of moral servitude as with
you--to propose one feasible scheme for Kidding
ourselves of the pague-spot, without running the
land and its owners and entailing than death
on its black cutivators; and if do not adopt it
without delay, then may they go on with their vi
Operations, and we will forever hold our peace. No
one in his senses, presume, would counsel the
| same experiment which you made in your West
| India islands. lift had not signally failed as
no two cases less parallel to each other could be
| found.
"You twit us, too, in the article above alluded to-
with the administration among us of what is termed
lynch law; when such thing is neither justified
nor excused by any American, nor has ever had
than occasional existence in distant and in
FAINT cemmu mites, where the arm of nchoate Justice
too short to the dearest of all relations from
being violated by the lusts and passions of lawless
invaders. To charge us with being subject to such
a monster is absurd to call Englishmen assas-
sins because murder is rife in lreland-a country
| on your very threshold when compared to our west
ern borders in relation to the Atlantic States; and
| because now and then man is shot down at mid
day in the streets of London You Judge and con-
denim whole nation on the presentation of isolated
| facts, and yet you will not purchase a dwelling
/ house on the mere inspection Of individual bricks.
Fair and softly go far is wise saying, and if you
are sincere, believe you to be, in your love of
peace, you should recolIect that rough grooming,
where not the blood but the skin in thin, is apt to
render the steed restif at times, and always danger
| Gus.
"Most respectfully, your obedient servant
"a STATES MAN.
"PARrs, Jan. 90"
The Times of the same date contained an edto-
rial reply to this article in which it complains that
passages ofits former article severed from their
context and construction thus put upon them
which they were not intended to bear. 1t AYERS
that it did not intend to apologize for the preu-
dces of which il had asserted the existence And
upon this point the Times adds
"We have too clear perception Of the miserics
consequent upon any war, and too sincere a dread
Of those which might follow an American war, to
add TO the knottY difficulties of diplomacy the petty
stings and exciting annoyances of newspaper abuse
and scurrilous nicknames. But we do not think
that we are transgressiDg our public duty IN com
municatng to opponents the sentiments Of those
with whose country they are at issue. Less bsne-