The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-16

and Japan treaty questions, written by exPresident
John Tyler.
The News from EurOpe-Thc War Feeling I'm
England.
There is little or no European news of i'm
portance by the Pacific The hostile armies are
in statu quo. The money market is quieter.
Indeed if we except the rumored appointment
Of Sir w. Codrington to the command of the
British army in the Crimea-of which we had
| an inkling before-the week ending simulta-
neously with the sailing of the Pacific from
Liverpool appears to have been quite barren
| ofevents
OF rumors, however, and excitement there
was abundance in London and all over Eng
land, on the subject of the projected war with
| the United States. 1t seems that after the last
| steamer sailed, people fell thinking of that
West India feet, and those articles in the Tines
and wrought themselves up to tremendous
| pitch of uneasiness about this country. Some
| few were evidently for cutting off the Ameri-
can people to q man, to punish them for their
| supposed sympathy with Russia; but the
greater portion, including the chief newspa-
per organs, viewed the spectre Of war they
had copjured up with grave alarm and dis
| comfort Tender illusions TO the relationship
| between the Americans and the British, touch
lug appeals to this country net TO allow itself
| TO be dragged into war by reckless politi-
| clans, and aiiectionate reminders of the com
| munity of interest existing between our
transatlantic neighbors and ourselves, We're
the staple ingredient of the newspaper art-
Lila 0f ,nal- 10 81.
and the day fer the sailing Of the steamer
approached, the pl thickened and the excite
ment grew more intense. A Geographic mes
sage from London made the Liverpool mer-
chants SILVER, by asserting that Lord Claren-
| don and Mr. Buchanan had had high words,
and had parted in dudgeon. Peace was rein
| stated on Change by second message assert.
! ing that the two statesmen were positively to
| dine together. But the next moment the
| merchants again collapsed at the announce
ment that an interchange Of paper bullets had
been passing all the week between the Ameri-
can embassy and the Foreign Office, and that
| war was imminent The steamer left at this
stage Of the proceedings-shall we say, the
farce land we are unfortunately unable to
| say how it ended
One thing is quite certain. The English
| have gone off at tangent on this war question,
and will soon see the necessity of retracing
their steps. They have had visions of Ameri-
can hostility, and dreams Of pro-Russian SYM
| pathy on this side the water, until their ideas
have become little muddled, and they have
scared themselves into an idea that they were
| tbn IF nh IN
one whose opinion is worth hearing has the
least notion Of anything of the kind
The real state Of our relations with Great
Britain is very different from what the London
| Times appears to suppose. On the one side, our
neutrality laws have been broken by British
officials, acting, as il seems, deliberately under
| the orders of their government. Our author-
ties have put stop to this illegal business, and
| reminded the British Minister, Consuls and
| others, that it is not the part Of friendly
Power to send agents into the country to set
the people an example OF violating the laws
with which observation our government has
| apparently dismissed the matter, deeming the
culprits in the case sufficiently punished by ex-
| posure. There is nothing very warlike in this.
Next, the British government has sent fleet
into the West Indies where, certainly, there
appeared to be no necessity for an increase of
the British squadron. Inquiry instantly springs
mp as to the purpose of the feet, and in the alb
sence OF any serious indication by the British
press, several plausible conjectures are started
in this country, imputing to the British designs
of interference easily reconciled with their
| past history. It is quite possible that no
interference is intended, and that the
| feet has been sent into the West India waters
merely in order to spend the winter there, so
as TO he in full efficiency and readiness for
work in the spring. IL this be So an expana
tion to that effect will readily allay any little
irritation that the sailing of the fleet caused
here. If, on the contrary, the British govern
ment have actually had the folly to provoke
a disturbance with this country by sending
fleet to the West Indies to colonize Honduras.
defend st. Thomas, or overlook CUBA, it is
quite evident that they have made a mistake
that will be fatal to them, but which cannot,
without great mismanagement on both sides.
disturb the friendly relations existing between
the two countries. Whatever Lord Palmerston
may aspire to, the British people will wait, at
al events until they have put an end to the
Gar, and conquered Russia, before they nm.
dertake to put down this country and az the
former events do not appear likely to occpr
between this and the close of the month mr.
even within any reasonable period of time uo
can, We think, sleep soundly, without dreams
Of war for the present.