The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-11-11

AMERICAN POLICY IN EURoPE-SPEECH OF MIR.
CRosKEY-The English journals, and especially
the London Chronicle, are ridculing what Mr.
Croskey said in his recent Speech at the reception
of Kossuth, in regard to the intervention of the
American republic in the policy and affairs OF the
Old World They may ridicue and laugh as much
as they please but there is more in what Mr..
Croskey remarked on that occasion, than the Eng
lish press is willing to admit The time. has come
when the people of this country feel that they have
the ability, and that it is their duty, to make them
selves felt in Europe, and when they can no longer
see alliances of despots formed to crush republi
canism without having something to say in the
matter. They feel that their policy towards Eu-
rope must henceforth be Of positive, and not ST
negative character, as it has heretofore been. We
are now strong and powerful, young and vigorous
nation, of twenty. five millions of people, with mex
haustble resources powerful in peace and dreadful
in war. New York, the metropolis of the republic,
and soon to be the metropolis Of the whole
world, is as near London and Psris-the centres
of European civilization-as st. Petersburg,
or Moscow, or Constantinople is. The Collins
line Of steamships has annihilated the cid dis
lance between the two continents, and swept
from existence all the old notions about Ameri-
can non-intervention, in proper way, in Eu-
ropean affairs, by the people or by the government
Of their choice. And such Intervention would be
hailed with gratitude and pleasure by large popu-
lation on the other side of the Atlantic The people
in various parts of Europe-and particularly in Ire
land and Great Britain-appear to be in advance Of
the London journals on this subject. The Ameri.
can Minister cannot make his appearan in any part
Of Great Britain-especialy in Ireland without
receiving attentions Of a most extraordinary kind,
almost outstripping those rendered to Her Majesty.
Could Queen Victoria make such triumphant
journey through Ireland as the American Minister
recently did And what country Ireland is for the
stuff to make soldiers Of Yes, we will intervene
we will have something to do with European affairs
we will make ourselves felt on the continent. We
have astonished even preudiced Eng land in variety
Of ways recently; but we have stores within u.s. not
dreamt Of in the philosophy of English Journalists
They are destined to be still more as.onished at
what they may be inclined to term American as
sumption, before long. Mark that.
AFFAIRS OF HONOR AND AFFAIRS OF FUN.-We
see it stated in some Of the journals that Kossuth
the great Hungarian, has challenged Captain
Long, of the steamer Mississippi, to mortal COM
bat, in consequence of some disagreement that 90
CURED between them on board Of that vessel, while
coming down the Mediter ranean, and that this
affair Of honor is to come of some time next month,
on this side of the Atlantic, when the Hungarian
patriot arrives on these shores in of Collins
steamships. We don't know about the truth Of
this report; but we see another rumor in the
journals about another duel 1t seems that three
Hungarians, calling themselves officers in the Hun.
garan army, and friends of the Magyar hero, called
upon MIR. Bennett the editor Of this paper, and de-
hberately challenged him to mortal combat, in
some pea-patch somewhere around the country, be-
cause there was published in the columns Of the
HERALD, a few days ago, a letter from a cor
respondent in Marseilles, in which Q full 40
count was given Of the alleged difficulties that had
occurred between Captain Long and M. kossuth.
We presume that these fighting affairs, forming a
sort Of appendix to the terrible revolutions in Eu-
rope, will come eff one Of these days-on the same
day, and seiatin', in some conspicuous and proper
place, where the public can have chance of Wit
Messing the fun, the evolutions of the combatants
and the result Of the combat Surgeons, with their
instruments, had better, therefore, be ready, and
in attendance.
LORD PALMERsToS AND THE SfcrLfAN GOVERN
ItNr-The Ietter of Lord Palmerstou To the Nea-