The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-06-03

question what does not exist and these disclaimers about
liberty perfectly harmless We only hope that Col
Msyne and his police viii catch some OF them brush
their white hats and dust their coatsnot forgetting TO
apply little water to their facesand rhal be much
obliged for the favor
We do not doubt the correctness Of these second
thoughts The Herald, we dare say, is well inform
ed on the matter, but wasn't it rather too bad to
brighten us with the story, and to launch such a
playful missile at our new glass house!
We cannot tell which of the intelligent looking
strangers, who cluster about the Greek slave, may
be discharging the duties of correspondent for the
Ner York Herald, but he will be able by the next
mail to correct the somewhat confused perceptions
Of his friends across the Atlantic. The article in
question did certainly receive kind of notice at the
hands of the English public, but its appearance was
not exactly the signal for all the cony usions emu
merated. Ministers have not resigned, to the best
of our belief since the middle OF February thou yh
rather pointedly invited SO to do. The Duke Of
Wellington has not been second time called in,
neither has Lord SANKEY'S appetite for office been
perceptibly sharper since the arrival Of his Amer-
can grindstone. AS to the $50, 900 brilliant sayo-
nets it is a fact-either satisfactory or not, as
people may think, but nevertheless taet-that
there are not so many by 1000 III the whole oil
Great Britain, guards nclu led nor could we mus
ter sucn force if we called out all the general
officers on half pay and armed them with revolvers
from the American stall. The counties parks of
artillery" too an unlucky conjecture, for we
probably could not get thirty pieces together, even
If we borrowed the beautiful steel gun exhibited by
the Zollyerein. If American friends wish TO
see representation of the actual "consprators and
assassins " of May the LIST, they will find true
picture in that weeks Punch
The American journal is evidently Ill at ease Oh
this subject of the Worlds Fair, and Brother Jona-
thans attitude altogether very much resembles that
lately aseribed TO the hippopotamus ON the arrival OF
the young elephant calf He does not like the look
Of the Exhibition, it attractions, its wonders,
its profits. On the last point especially, he Is
lamentaby restless and fretful, telling up the re-
ceipts and outgolngs perpetually, and always ar
hs1a ,f
ourselves, aud consequently against our visitors.
The Head sets down sffO,oo0 as sure to he
taken at the doors, and, after dcdGcting Elea,uaO
for the cost Of the building. makes a gain Of
Gi9i 900 TO begin WITH. Then there will be half
million Of foreigners at the least, who will spend.
on average, = over loo dollars each giving an
aggregate Of 5o,00O,0o0 iolars to be distributed
in few months among the b1Hrgcolsie Of the
natured critic is no trihiug amount TO be added
to the wealth of a single city by foreigners, aud
will, Of course. was expected, make the shop
keepers of London more loyal than ever they
were" In the next place, we shall gain the de.
sired opportunity of "piratlng the inventions
''of foreign countries, though TO be sure America
has not multiplied our chances in this respect by
the display of her own productions But our grand
object is '.peace-peace with all the word:' and
yet are acting in such spirit to deserve the
smallest praise. We have mo feeling of philan-
thropy,' no expansive affections, no religion. We
want peace literally in scfdefence, because we
have means Of going 10 war. as Senator
Allen, Of Ohio, remarked in Congress, England
could not be kicked into with any State on
any question whatever" So We arc peacemaking
for the bare life, and Mr.. Cobdens association is a
yeritablc committee Of public safety-n thing
less. The American journalist does not, il true,
absolutely reject profered hand, but his greet
ing, 10 say the least is not civi-"Ihe British see
that their supremacy is goue-that the glory OF
Iehabod is Departed and the cowcd bully become.
the abiect sycophaGt England sees that her dos
tiny is under our control.
This is an unpromising kind Of peace but We
must hope fer the best, and got on with our Exhi-
bition in the meantime. On one point the New
York calculations" are characteristically true.
The thing certainly does pay. and our own alarm
lists have proved match in their Representations
for the practised spectators of the States II
is admitted that shall make money and promote
peace and as these not disagrecable results,
we can put up with poke or two.on the occasion.
But IL is always instructive to listen to the
ments Of others, we recommend visters at the
exhbitol this morning, to walk TO the eastern end
of the building, and there, taking their stand,
they viii find difficulty in doing, under the wings
of the imerican eagle 10 moralize the following
character of the scene before them -
Our opinion then of this great show H. that 1t origin
sted in selshness that II will tend TO advance peace
throughout the world intended IL should; that
is Yankee trick, to make the rest Of the world cOntr
butte to Engands wealth; that, far arts and
features concerned 1t will be failure; and that oI
the whole, it looks like gigantic humbug.