The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-25
OUR RELATIONS WITH ENGLAND.

The Manchester and Liverpool Chambers Of
Commerce and tho ThReatensd War with
ana @ % miner GiSson-The question In Pas;i-
smcLt-Opinlon or Lord Falmcrston-Opf-
pi0ns OF tho Press.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE MANCHESTER CHAMBER OF
The annual meeting OF the Manchester Chamber Of
Commerce was held on the 4th inst, Mr. Henry Ash
The adoption Of the report having been moved and Sc
conced-
Mr. BRIGHT, NJ p, addressed the meeting at consider
able length tho subject of the contest with
America The subject in reference to which he had
dress few observations this meeting upon T.
present state Of the affairs between this country and the
ia the ne Of Ss sO
ected Mr. Golden telling story, which he learnt when
be was in Paris not very long afer the event happensd
land very citica-he mr. Brisht) believed IT was
with regsra to the Tahiti business or some
Chamber Of G. msrce, al Brdsaux to Louis Philippe.
He not they did not ca the out Of bed
but & all events they remained With him all night, ar
eupg the questitn which thus being handled the
dplosssts OF England and France and hurrying those
countries into an apparently Inevitable war; and they
word as iirs that there should bo no war between Eng
lard and France upon that question. Now, at this mo
All that | we knew was that nothing mo- could Be- RnoWs
Parliament had met the correspondence between the
Epslsh Foreign Office and the American government
everything Was concealed Our Foreign Mas ,sr
goirg TO Paris to attend the negotia liens
he trusted and he hoped they all trusted, that
he nigh. be pre-eminently successful. (aesr hear.)
Their Foreign Office would then be left without its
thorsed head and In the hands douo of tho present
Prime Minister. Nov, Mr.. Buchanan, the American
Minister had stated In despatch 70 his govern nent
that the government of Lord Aberdeen had remained
two months longer IN Office, al the points OF dherenoe
between England and the United states would certainly
have been settled and he (Mr Bright knew also that
tuna ely state Of things ases out Ct the smallest
trihe which might bring into difficulties "a great In
emerging with regard to Russia. The first steps which
brought q war we're often 30 sight that man would
be laughed a. asS Soa lead 70 d
the other, until, by some bundefing Aings came to
point In which each party found bis honor
and could not retract and then the question of national
honor became this question ssue while the original
cause of dispute forgotten and buried having
brought into struggles involving an enormous cost Of
blood and II the negotiations were opeu aud we
lnew what was doing he perhaps need not have hsd to
because he believed public opinion would snuff out great
many CT these things but he would ask what would be
the result the merchants Of Manchester conhded the
management Of their sIairs the buying of their cotton
and goocs, and the conduct Of their export and import
trade TO some % CONCEALED c1spscy most among their
their various transactions In the words of the present
head Ct our Foreign Once, we had certified" into tire
war In which we had been engaged, which showed she
incapacity and feebeness that had been at thu helm
and who lnew that we might not be drifting" into
a war powS He heard man the other day, gh, was
a violent advocate for the war with Russia. dsnyipe
absolutely the possibility of with Ar>eri.a and
be coming almost frantic In his denuncsMons OF such
contest as he had been eager IN jusidcation Of th,
other; but IL we got into the position To- which We were
after the Russisns crossed the Prutn, and after the
ccnegenoes IN 1903, we might now have a With
America, unless we did something sost wJui bs IA hu
rstion TO this country and he (Mr. Bfigh.) was AZ
uch sgairst doing anything that should bra9 hunA-
ton 10 thia country as any man could I would be
much easier now TO make peace than 1t would oe yaen
paeiona had been reused On both sdss ami when usn
had laid things they woald wish they hal NOS said
Take hefe two questons-the uuder discu end
the Of the BulwerCsyton treaty VISA rog.rd 70
&C tSe America. Now, ha not aboat Ia deny at all