Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-16
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP
Troubled with Worm

Troubled with Worms.-The defeat of all
their efforts to obtain respectable number of
recruits for the Crimea, and the loss of their
heavy expenditures TO that end, is evidently
disgruntling those in this country who are
identified with the British Government No
other newspaper in the land is usually a
greater stickler for editorial decorum than the
New York AibtOR, the American organ of Vic
torias government, which, by the by, has re-
peatedly Indignantly reprobated the habit
which the American journalists have of re-
sorting at times to inuendo. We are therefore
not little amused at finding, in recent
number of that highly respectable publica-
ton, the following, viz:
land this reminds us that a portion of the
foreign legion at Halifax N s., is said to have
reEolted Nothing is more likely, seeing that
with double Infamy, which does not in the
least surprise us-Russian agents have been
employed, In the first place to trap If possible.
certain persons here into an offence against the
neutrality laws, and in the second place to
tanper with those who have voluntarily set
out for the war As for the agents, who are
known and marked. we trust that the militia
~ coInmandant at Halifax will give them a
taste of martial law if they fall within its
ilshed from the poor devil recruits at Halifax
was part of the scheme agreed upon, and paid
for at Washington
What sort of scoundrels they are who CON-
eoct such plots, it is difficult to conceive: but
their inscriptions cunning will not ALWAYS
save ,hem- For the officials who are playing
the double game of treachery to which we
have alluded, they would be wise to take care
OF themselves Be they high or hw be thew
members OF Legation at Washington or en-
llCyed under another COVE rnment there are
certain penalties to which they may become IL
aDie, IN ADDITION 70 the deserved contempt to
which they will be held up before the Ameri-
can people, in the event Of their machinat;ons
being exposed. conspiracy between two
0fhclal perSOGages, TO induce a third one tn
break the law, is not a crcditablc affair
This u delicate matter, and we NAV be
compelled to be more explicit. We certainly
shail not finch, when the proper moment ar.
riyes. -
All said above, with reference to plot, is
1" all in my eye" There is not the slightest
necessity for coaxing the agents of the British
Government in the United States to get them
selves into serapes by eSsaying violations Of
our neutrality laws-not the least They have
orders from home to do it, notwithstanding the
horror with which the British Government nro.
fesses to view attempted violations of our neu.
trality laws and the laws of nations, when
aimed against Mexico, or the authority of SDair
in Cuba. Wherever half-starved loafers o.
any nation congregate in considerable mum
bers in the United States, there the emissarie.
of Britain have essayed, unlawfully, to enlis,
recruits for the Crimea, which proves that the
violation of our laws is the settled policy o.
Flctoria's war Office. The prctence that Tho
recruits are not enlisted until they arrive il
Canada, is mere subtcrfuge; as they are spir
TIED away from the United States with tn,
view, and wholly with the view, of employing
tnem against Russia Those who have closet,
, Observed the circumstances attending the bare
laced Efforts OF the British officials In violate
our laws in this cOnnc ction, in yarious cities
Will readily understand that the AH;on,,
story about Russian plot to entice them 81 n
do, is the sheerest possible CANNON. If Inn,
from the fact that they needed no coaxino
whatever to that end. The AL5ion's trouble
on that score is not real, The true cause Of
It's mock indignation is the fact that most Of
those Illegally recruited here, on reaching the
provinces, refuse to enlist; as to get them there
was found necessary to deceive them, more
or less, as to the purpose for which they were
taken from the United States. The successful
measures of this Government, and the com.
plants Of the "poor DEVIL" are at the hot.
tom OF the ALOton's jcremiad, and not a g con.
spiraey" here or elsewhere.
Who Support lit seems as though the