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

NY n~IsIy uuohet u smelI, AZ usual just now.
Douglas Jerroh talks Of writing "a little book."
met Douglas t'other day, and said, $50 there IL
to be no war with America1" mo. You didn't
think 20, did youi" he answered. BY the way,
| Douglas has written an article on the assault on
Sumner in bis psper-sorrowful and angry for be
has always been friend Of the United States
hope he .eiu do the little book" this Summer
perhaps at Boulogue, where be goes for change Of
air and leisure generally.
LONDON, Friday. June 20, 1856.
| 1t 10 asserted that PalmerstOn would have dis.
missed Dallas, butHhat the Cabinet was against
| him and that he WI directly outvoted. l don't
pretend TO kno,o that this is true, but give II a.
| bit Of political gossip. We are told of Minis.
| terial discussions and Of possible crises. But
meanwh lille, let US rely more on what is GER
tain and obvious. Parliament spares the Ministry
and evades debates on the difficulty so much 30
that here and there one hears an II. =. whisper
that we have "cringed enough" The Opposition,
though their organ freely condemns the Ministry,
does not take active measures against them in the
House. They wish to let the matter got settled
as quietly as possible, and, indeed, could do
their little party no good by acting otherwise. The
Times has distinctly moderated its tone, hsv
ing, of course, found out that Dallas was
not to be dismissed, md seeing that it
would be absurd to talk big in the
face Of such bit of moderation. So Jupiter has
been following the lead Of other papers, sho wing
how q war With America would crafty despots,
pooh DO, hing the Central Americau dispute as Of
tyer.iatd importance, and lecturing our diplo
matists for general stupidity. The fact 10, tina
the public has not declared itself as may have bee
expected by those who wanted to STIR it up. o
Central America nine Brtons out Of ten know
nothing and care nothing. Who the Mosquitoe
are, where Grey town is, whether on the Alanti
or Pacific, Dot one person ia the ten really 10
Quires And as for Mr.. Champion, why they know
az little of him as of the Mosquitoes, aud are read
TO think him burglar and an ass lfyOu suppOs'
all this is 'srnging" to ysu, however, yoa ara
" ronC: for the same public never believed itself
reader to wage a naval war than now. But,
really, the questions in dispute seem SO trihing,
and John Bull U mean the simple unpOlitical
average Bully ia 90 little anxious to fight about
nothing, with any body, or to tight with America,
at all, that we are wonderfully Iacifc aud, such
being the case, politicians have to follow suit. |
expect to find US making concessions, therefore,
IL Central America, which is really the only im-
portsLt matter of controversy, while the enlist
mcnt row dies out gradually OF itself.
All this discussion brings the general subject of
America much more before US than it usually is.
J be public here don't know nearly so much OF the
United States as you would perhaps expect. What
with the classics and French and European politics.
their attention il dawn away from your history.
When they travel their first impulse is to 90 tO
France, Switzerland and Italy. The rePrinting
of YOUR authors "a movement which have observed
advancing for years. is doing more to change this
than anything As the steamers increase in num-
Der, and passages in quickness, we shall pfoba-
by visit nlOre-the run to New. York being much
what the run to Edinburgh was in the last century
1heae influences Will tend to overcome whatever
feelings may libger en- either side of the Atlantic
dangerous to natural goodwill. mentioned some
time since speech of Lord Stanleys, in which he
advocated closer attention to AnglO-SaxOn ques-
tic ms snd interests altogether, and less meddhng
with the Continent. his policy has made good
deal of stir in some quarters, especially Ia the
north, and will probably cause more. Peope be-
gin to SEE that there is really no chance OF our
statetnen interfering to any practical purpose In
countries like Italy for instance. Their real ankle
ties in The present state of Europe are for the cause
oforder-a feeling which was at the bottom Of their
eagerness to stop the Russian war. why shouid
they be likely to shake The seats Of Pope Kaiser,
or other pUt.btats, when every cOnvslslon Is felt
heIe like the ,hock Of distant earthquake
If you study our periodicals about this time, yol
will have better chance than at ORDINARY times,
Of seeing who are your friends and who not, Ia
England The Post is sore, for it is PalmerstOns
organ and Louis NapOleons. But then The Post
has 10 weight, but is only curious for its fashona'
bic news, which is picked up from ladys maids
and buffers by an enterprisiDg Individual. "a
great Occasiobs The Post and Tile Herald insert the
DIR. sses worn at state parties which are sent by
mllpers ss advertisements. The political impOr.
lance OF such papers can scarcely be great! The
poor Morning Chronicle l don't count for it s no.
toriously ehete-patsed some years since from
Wigs to Peelites-and lately from the Peelites to
one scarcely knows who or what The Liberal
press il generally kindly to America, especially
The Etadtr, written by Thornton Hunt and Others.
Tie Times expect will give you scrub or two
at intervals for some time to come: precisely be-
cause it has had to haul in its horns on the serious
matter. The Times will support Palmerston so
long as 4 can lead the country by go DOING but it
do rot see is way to that this occasion. yer.
iy believe The Times would lie an American war
II they thought they could get the country to like
it-wiich they can't. A Sar would increase its
Importance and stimulate its SALE II it succeeded
with Us, The Times would be powerful as it's trum-
peter; if We made failures, The Times would de-
nOuDce our governing system as used up, and be
ten times more powerful than ever Depend On
it. This last considt ration is felt by statesmeB
among whom dread of that interruptions print is
widely felt.
There sre low various sigDs of the sessions hav-
ing Iun the best part of its course. Morning sit
tinCs of tie House of Commons have begun, and
ON extra activity in pushing measures is percep
title Last Tuesday WsIpOle gained majority
over Government by moving some resolutions on
Irish education, which, il carried out, would up-
set the present system and compel the Roman
Catholics to have the Bible read to them at the
national Schools BY one of those accidents
which happen two or three times in every session,
he triun Pied, but will be overturned again by an
other resolution early Bext week i mention this
really tiff pg achievement merely as fact OF the
day-snd the reception of it everywhere shows
that Irish Protestant bigOtry will not prove sale