The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-06-10

peaes q home for . thousand yesrs, wss not anti
S1Patec. as soon - the news and the Ne0 York
asrsc LONDON It to have excited
sent on note instsnter for the Duke Of Velneton
the ninsters rendered their OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
STANLEY tried to form new cabinet in vain and the
Dent h the - 50 grave, 80 seoond
aid not even dare to venture general election
TO form new and reliable governm ant EnsIsns
.remDies from top to toe, and even the Queen Who
,.o.o.r.bls nerve, was 50 much frigh.er.s.
that Prince Albert regretted that an |..nercan
newspaper, containing such ALARMING mrOestions
should have reached the shores o. happy Albion.
approximations Of this chs... oter soon begat worse
fears, and with the sped Which an emergency only
can create, THY thousand brilliant bayonets
brist.ed in the neighborhood Of Hyde Park be-
Sdes we know not how many parks Of artillery were
ready at q moments call. In the meantime, to
fill up the space between the hour Of alarm and the
petre, the English press brought its batteries to
bear on the Neio York Herald, abusing It in the
most magnificent language. The Times, the thun-
derer among the small artillery, treated the mena-
and devoted its serried columns, day after day, to
explanations, affecting to laugh, and appearing
very much like traveller, in some great dark
forest whistlng to keep his courage up, while look
ing backward and forward to see some frightful
spectre ut every turn.
These things are very amusing, in one point OF
view-but tribes, in such cases, have a more i'm
portant significance than great action or great
events There is something weak and feeble in
the government of England, or never could such
alarm be raised by few paragraphs in an Ameri-
can newspaper There must be something rotten,
or some good ground for apprehension, when slight
missile, mt from playful hand, can so shake and
terrify whole people, and cause thirty thousand
full armed soldiers to be hurried up to London
from Chatham and other rural barracks-when in
the cabinet ans horse guards, in the palace and
Printing House square, such awful CONSERVATION
can make the whole of London vibrate as old ST.
Paul's did, when the ruins Of the edfce were blown
up with the guDpowder Of Sir Christopher Wren,
to obtain foundation for the present structure
by carrying the comparison further. We can as
sure our contemporaries across the water, that,
though we gave them the information that has
acted like yeast in setting the population and 60
yernment into ferment and though We threw out
the suggestion that the red republicans and white
livered republicans going from here might be
troublesome, we ourself had no real fears on the
subject. We know very well that they will never
be caught in anything where it would be possible
to question their courage-for we cannot call in
question that which does not exist-and these de-
Chalmers about liberty are perfectly harmless.
However, if the London police, under the sagacous
direction OF Colonel Wayne, will only catch some
of them brush their white hats and dust their coats
not forgetting to apply Ii tile water to their faces,
we shall be much obliged for the favor, for we are
very anxious always to make specimens of human
lly from tHls sue OF tnc water as Respectable In
appearance as possible
Modern America; or the United States OF
This Day.
From the British Army Despatch May %
During the early years Of this century the United
States were rioting in the first delicious ntoxca.
ton of national vanity and revelling in extrava-
CANT speculations Of future greatness. The late
war of lsl2-l4, lasted just long enough to give
her an appetite for the pomps aud vanites of mill
tary glory, and not long enough to make her feel
ha ln1 t.t
this appetite should grow into confirmed taste.
Since this period, her aggressive policy has been
carried out to an extent that makes US wonder how
Europe could have remained passive witness of
her tyranny and Texas, and more latterly Mexico,
are hourly eTpe reneng the injustice Of her aggres
sive spirit. The creation of "a navy has been, and
is still, the darling objest of her care and the
spirit which displays itself on the launch Of every
ship, gives sufficient indication of the confidence
with which she looks forward to the realization of
her ambitious day dreams. Time and the hour
may, perhaps, sober this calenture of the national
brain; and when she shall have bought wisdom at
the ordinary career OF hope and disappointment
she will perhaps subside into state OF mind more
propitous to the growth of good taste, and the ad
yancement of civilization.
For ourselves wish well, and have ALWAYS
wished well, to America, though we have never
to fatter her national vanities We
sincerely hope she may become wiser as she grows
older but, as first step towards improvement, it
self of that oyerweening self conceit, which, in the
words Of the song, makes her believe that
" The French and English may be done,
But not a Yankee Doodle"
and which has filed her with such exaggerated
IDEAS Of her Importance in the scale of nations
by seducing her into the belief that She is the rival
81 England What may happen many centuries
hence, Is not for to divine. The page of history
may teach us that nations, like individuals, are
subject to disease and decay; but we leave the
az in la - l..
age, and England in the days of her decrcpitude if
such day-which Heaven ayert--must ever come
TO the arbitration Of posterity, while we content
ourselves with asserting the present superiority Of
our country, and rejoice, not only in its undimi-
nshed vgor, but in its growing strength and great
ness.
The goodwill which we bear towards Americans
: ieit, ana must ever continue TO be felt, by Eng
and, unless the feelings Of nature are stihed and
ie stroyed. In the case Of nations the relationship
'f parent and child may be called metaphorical
only yet there is spice Of nature in the sensa-
ION, when makes u more than nominal or fgura-
ave. We believe that England liz still inclined to
oury In oblivion all rancor proceeding from events
hat have occasionally happened TO disturb the har.
nony which ought to subsist between America and
lerset, and has eyer been ready to cultivate and
improve those kindly feelings which would rebound
qually to the credit and advantages Of both
Countries II was surely not too much to suppose
hat reciprocal feeling would naturally be enter
ained by Vie descendent state but whatever be
rom her earlier connection with France, when ssthe
'eaned chill put its hand in the eockatrice's den,"
r from the natural forwardness belonging to her
elationship-so that America has constantly
WINGED in her conduct towards England a spiteful
nd insulting spirit Whatever she does do in
VARY 10 England, is not done in generous spiri.
emulation There is an ill-natured disposition
nimating all her efforts to equal us, which seems
seek uccess less for the sake Of the object than
Or the qualification TO be derived from the boast
! surprising England. IL is in this temper that
be Americans are for ever obtmding upon us the
retended excellence Of their constitution The
punt OF liberty, which is the soul and substance Of
(, they derived from us; the form, which is less
nportant, rs their own. IL republican form of
overnment suit the character and habits Of their
oun,ry, let them enjoy 1t peaceaby and quietly;
VI they render themselves ridiculous when they
npertinently decline to award TO other nations the
'me amount of intelligence that dictates their
1oiee oil constitution, as they arrogate TO them
But liberty Is word Of universal import, which is
ade to mean anything and everything, according
the different tastes OF it's different commentator
here Is no doctrine in which unless tho zeaI az ia