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British sympathy with Pierce.

! British sympathy with Pierce.
| The pending Presidential contest excites
more than ordinary interest on the other side
Of the Atlantic, not because our transatlantic
contemporaries pay particular attention to the
affairs OF the United States, or manifest even a
decent acquaintance with them, but because
the triumph Of Wing or Democratic policy will
| largely and directly affect the commerce and
domestic industry of Britain. No attempt is
made to conceal the motive of this interest, or
to disguise the grounds on which British sym
pathy is SO strongly expressed in behalf of Mr..
| PIERCE. 1t is seen that the election involves,
amongst other things, the question of encour-
agement to American or British labor; and, in
asmuch as General Scorr represents the prin
| ciple of protection to American skill, enter
prise, and labor, as against the mammoth CAPT.
| tai and pauper labor of Britain, it is not sur
prising that anxiety should be displayed to
witness, and as far as possible to secure, his
defeat. Mr.. PIERCE is open to no such objec-
tion His party have exerted themselves to the
utmost to depress American industry, and to the
same extent to foster the industry of Britain.
They have fought the battle of the moneyed lords
of London and the cotton lords of Manchester On
American ground; and, having rendered to both
substantial service, are reasonably entitled to
all the help that the purses or intrigues of
either or both can render to their nominee. Mr..
PIERCE is, in fact, the British candidate for
| the Presidency. He is infinitely more so than
Gen. CAss, Mr.. BUCHANAN, or Judge DoUe-
LAS could have been; and hence the favor and
consideration that are being showered upon
him by the British journals.
The cordial approval bestowed upon Mr..
PIERCE by the London 1imes-perhaps the
most thoroughly anti-American paper in ex-
istence-was shown in these columns fort
night ago. The last steamer brings further
comments of the Times, written on receipt of
intelligence of the Wing nomination, and
proving as clearly as words can provesthAt Mr..
PIERCE, and not General ScoTT, is the man in
whose success Britain must feel the deepest
concern The following. from the Times of
the 9th instant, admits Of but one interpreta-
ton:
$50 far as the general interests of the Union and
its relations riM ourselves concerned, Gen. Pierce
has our best ,c,shes for his success.
" Inc PRIMARY question Iof the Oniteu 0tate5 Ia
this election is the national sanction and inuolabe
establishment Of the principles Of free trade. For,
though no country 10 more interested in the'adop.
ton and extension Of those principles than the
American Union, the fight has hitherto been carried
on against tho avowed opinions of the Executive
Government. Mr.. Fillmore's messages and Mr..
Corwin's reports have continued to avow protec-
ZIONIST doctrines worthy to rank with Lord Granby's
political economy, and Mr.. G. F. Young's stats.
tics; and the country has only escaped the imposi-
ton of restrictive duties by the fact that the
present American Government has never possessed
a majority these questions in the House of Re-
presentatives The triumph of the candidate of the
Democratic party, brought forward by the men Of
the South will secure, probably forever the ascen-
dency of liberal commercial principles; and If
Lord Derby should next year be disposed to take
the American tariff for his model, we have little
doubt that it will serve to remove the last illusions
of the protective system from his mind. In this
respect, and on this point, take General Pierce
to be a fair representative of the opinions of MIR.
Calhoun, and, such, oanabie practical ally to
| the commercial policy Of this country"
| The sentiment is echoed by the Manchester
Eraminer, the organ Of the leading spirits of
the defunct Anti Corn-Law League, which
says:
"The election OF General Pierce will at any rate
| prove that the Democratic majority, whatever
may be their other differences, are unanimous in
their testimony on behalf of liberal commercial
] policy. and any Government he may form will be
one on which this country may rely for efsctmal
| cooperation in reducing, wherever practicable,
existing impediments to international inter-
| course"
| These explicit avowals will not be without
inca in THO huf ahap tbs,
American temper if their effect be not exactly
the opposite Of that designed. We do not be-
lieve that our people will clothe with power
a candidate who comes specially endorsed
by British journalists as most favorable to
British interests. We want an American Pre-
sdent to protect American interests-not one
who is known beforehand as the friend and
ally of foreign capitalists and manufacturers.
The praises bestowed on Mr.. PIERCE by the
London Leader spring from another source, aud
reveal another trait Of Democratic policy. The
Leader is the mouthpiece Of the universal in
terventionists now located in the English me-
tropols, and their zeal for PIERCE arises from
a conviction that his election would throw the
controlling power of the American Government
into the hands of the DoUGLAs--or KossUTH-
section of the Democracy. The Leader sig
nalized itself several months since by proposing
an aggressive alliance of tho peoples of Eng
land and the United States against the less lib
eral governments of the world; and the advent
of PIERCE dynasty is prayed for that this
wild goose scheme may have chance which
cannot be had while the government of the
Republic is in the hands Of the Wings. In
this instance, again, our citizens will know
how to appreciate The PIERCE putis.