The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-17


ment, noticed in yesterdays paper, in sugars was
continued. About 400 hhds were sold and 1000
boxes. Refined sugars advanced from &C. lc per
| ID, and 1000 bbs. crushed were sold at prices
ranging from sc. to 92c. Freights were frmer, with
more doing both for Liverpool and Londen while to
the Continent they were steady at unchanged rates.
| The War with EngIantI--fI0w the Bubble
| was InHated-A Mass OF Evidencc-JoIla
! Bull Frightened Mt His Own scarecrow.
| We surrender large portion Of our availa.
BILE space this morning to a very interesting
compilation of documentary evidence, histori-
cal and circumstantial, touching the present
warlike imhroglio between England and the
United States. From this mass Of chronology
cal papers and newspaper commentaries, the
reader will readily detect the sources from
which the raw materials were collected for
the building Of this terrible Chinese dragon,
intended to frighten Brother Jonathan and his
outside barbarians" into reasonable humili.
ty; but which nobody except John Bull him.
self believes to be anything more than mon
ster made Of rags and stuffed with husks and
straw veritable scare crow.
From the articles which we have published
from the British press, in connection with our
present batch of papers, it is clearly manifest
that the real provocation of this hue and cry
of war from England, is the detection and sus-
pension of Mr.. Champions criminal recruit
ing operations in this country and that the
object of all this fuss, aummery and parade of
British Indignation and British fleets, is simply
to divert public attention from these dis
credtable acts of Mr.. Champion and his
superiors and subordinates against our
neutrality laws, and our honor and dig
nifty as a neutral and independent power.
In all this agitation we have something
of apology, much Of explanation and various
protestations and excuses of ignorance and in
,1ocenoe; but the offender, like rogue with a
b ale of goods under his arm, spells his case, by
Sc ting off at full speed round the corner, cry
ing" Stop thief as he runs. The alleged
fifth ug out Of Russian privateers in this port
the culpable .winking and blinking of our GO
vernI 1ent at the organization of formidable
Irish nd Know Nothing conspiracy among us,
for son We midnight descent npnn tho defence
less Goa ,ts ofpoor old Ireland--and the alleged
suspcio, affiliations between our Kitcheu
Cabinet abd The Cuban flibusteros, are all
humbug. nd such humbug as Barnum would
lespise in ,etting up Feejee mermaid This
irresistible West India British squadron was no
more intend, q SO intercept the Irish American
evolutionary expedition, or the Cuban filbus-
ers, or that ia Mginary Russian privateer, than
[ was detailed 60. the chastisement Of the p
ates of Loo Oh DC, or the search for Sir John
franklin. The whole plot and purpose Of all
his bcllicerent y10wling and show of teeth
md all this pawi, "a and scratching Of the ridi-
uous and wheezy eldBritish lion, was to raise
. false alarm and oloudof dust, behind which
ar. Champion. and Lords Palmerston and Cla-
endon might escape from the public odium of
heir lawless and desI scable recruiting lodges
q this country.
Here too the fact, in this business come
n to vindicate the New YORK HERALD against
Lhe charge of some of on contemporaries, that
we of this journal, origina tod this exisng paper
war with England. It i, ! not SO. Upon this
head it appears that Mr.. buchanan, our regu
lar Minister, and the Chew hssr General James
Watson Webb, our irregular volunteer amateur
minister at London, are MAJ My responsible
the first in his strong assure uees OF American
for England again 81 Russia in the
outset Of the war, and the sec, old In his decla-
ration that twenty thousand rii lemen could rea-
Oily be raised ia the United State ssor the Allied
cause Ii Is confessed that upon niese inviting
assurances and upon the presum paon that the
government Of, Mr.. Pierce was {" weak one,'
like that Of the Clayton Cabinet Of Gen. Tay-
Tor, the Champion enlisting busine @ was boldly
undertaken among us, and withou the slight
est apprehension OF the consequence es shat have
ensued. Too late have the Lond Va journals
discovered that it is dangerous to Ia uper even
with q weak administration at W Arlington
upon the eve of Presidential electio a Lord
Palmerston should have known this bel orc, and
Mr.. Champion, from his long reside nee ct
Washington, ought certainly TO have Town,
before entering into the unlawful expo
riment here Of recruiting for the CIR inca,
that he would be watched and caught in che
act that if Marcy spared him, Cusb lag
wouldn't and that every British recruit M
agent caught and convicted would be punish, q
TO law.
Admit that from Mr.. Pierce down to Mr.
Gushing, every member of our administration is
sadly in need of little active democratic
capital for the succession, and the folly of
Palmerston, Clarendon and CHAMPION is only
the more apparent in these recruiting trans
actions Mr.. Champion may console himself
with the reflection that his cool impudencc has
been equal to his folly and credulity; but my
Lord Palmerston has made his position infinite
~ more ridiculous and contemplate by attempt
ing to play the cutte-ish. He has excited a
general war panic in England, very much, no
doubt. to his establishment and disgust; aud
a broad grin on every face, this side the At
lantic, which will probably relieve him of any
further anxiety for the present concerning an
lrish-American flibustcring expedition to
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