New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-08

is suggestive Whist sharp contrast between the
respective tempers of the Enelish and the Ameri-
can people has been exhibited during this Cramp-
ton affair In England, anxiety was intense and
pe,yasive. 1t affected stocks; it darkened the
light of peace in London; and in Manchester,
BIZ mil CHAM, and Liverpool; it racked society to
the bones distemperiDg the Imagination with WIS.,
ions of pyramids of raw Setton cut of, and mills
closed. and hundreds of thousands, nay even
millions, of people without work, wages or bread
of bsggard crowds rising in the morning and
getting 10 breakfast, and not knowing where to
procure dinner and hence nece ssitated to rebel,
and rob, and produce anarchy and ruin. In the
midst Of this fver of terrible doubt comes the
Olive Branch Address Of the friends of Peace in
Manchester 10 their brethren in this country-a
memorable example of the improved sentiment OF
the Epgh ., Ople toward our own, it is true, but
nevertheless intensely significant OF the alarm of
the manufacturing and mercantile interests Of
FL gland at the bare prospect of war with the
Tn t, d States. But in this country nobody seemed
to care q fig about it, When the news
cane, the other day, that eight hundred and
fifty guns were probably on their voyage
hitler stocks showed no sign Of being affected, and
people sweated in the sun and ate their straw
berr es and ices as if the British navy and army had
no existence. The reality Of war, in word, was
not believed in. What alarmed the cotton and
iron hosts of England had no effect here. We did
net anticipate contest. We knew the British
Ministry better. We knew that although the dis
mifsa of Mr. Champion under the circumstances
was not necessary, and was calculated to wound
the susceptbties Of agreat and proud nation there
otld be no war, for the reason that the day for
making it through points Of etiquette is gone By,
and that the destnies of empires are not longer to
be under the feet of the red tapists but that labor
saving machinery at work on land and on sea has so
prodigiously augmented the wealth and intercourse
of England al the United States that the nations
have gone beyond diplomacy of the old pattern.
Indeed, SO far has the private extra diplomatic
intercourse of the two nations 80 dominated 10
the discussion Of this Champion difficulty, over
riding the fact of his dismissal outright, and being
superior to sny trouble had even Mr.. Dallas been
est home, that i. should seriously set this people
to think that the chances OF good Intercourse could
be multiplied by dispensing with the useless in
stitution of resident ministers.
If there had been no Mr.. Champion in this coun.
try there would have been no FUSS and no Mr.. Dali
las in England no danger Of his dismissal. 1t is
high time, in a word, that the Haunting pomp and
political jobbing Of our diplomatic missions were
knocked in the head. 1t is utterly false that the
American Ministers to France OF England have the
slightest value in promoting what is called good
feeling In the first place good feeling should
spriuQ from our srlfrespect, and if We have that
and such international comfy be wanting, we need
not care. And as for resident minister doing any
service in case of menaced difficulty it is all sham.
The peace Of this country with Western Europe
Is solely maintained because it is the interest OF
the parties to keep the peace, and not because
there is Legation in the Fagbourg 81. Honore or
Euston.squAie, or at Washington. When resident
diplomats were instituted there was lie,'e lh'ef'
course between nations. Some sailors at the pCrs,
and some Of the nobility and gentry on the grand
tour, formed the entire number of travellers, aud
constituents of inter social life between whatever
nations. More Americans 90 to Europe in week
now than wen. from England TO France in year a
century and q half since. In Sh,kespeares time
the intercourse between England and France was
similar to that now existing between Oregon and
Central Africa. Indeed, il does not appear that
the greatest man England ever produced ever
crossed the Channel, though wejudge from his Lear
that be had stood on Dover Cliffs.
Thus, when intercourse properly speaking had
no existence between the two nations, diplomacy