Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-09-01
RICHMOND WING.


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Ffom as Lo~do. 7s,a,s, Augrst rs.
Tbsrc appears be iutuve, unconscious nnpalpa.
~ ssss Of probability 10 which every Who lives in
particular country circle Of society has With
pecs 20 wha itel, % take place 10 his own country or
n his own circle We do not know how became poe
ss>ssd o his standard. and this practical insight into
shinrs II II aud bred with mbibe Il by the
ss q living In shis state Of .hos. !. . part Of the at
ssnsby the truthuness oi this standard aud adds TO Its
certainty aud security Take the sensible and best
educated man. who has lived In his country among
his class In society al his e and has strsyed
bsyond his natural sphere when you to his ideas
about society In other counties and other classes what
mistakes you fnd be makes what untrue notion he has
of al, general mould and make Of society which Is extra
nsous him. Of the way In which things go in IT, is
order Of events and course OF nature You hnd his
whole Of probability relates TO this external section
Of the world childish one anybody could take him In,
and "cr.m" him indefinitely with absurd impossible, and
fncongruous facts about IL he H. In Short child and no
thing more In his knowledge Of IL; he may have in
sight into the realities Of his sphere OF life. his
owu country and class; but he is without the test
and standard OF reality as regards this extraneous
sphere his ideas paper ones, like the ideas OF
Q child about everything in the world except its
sery Talk n Frenchman about England, and you bud
what mistakes he makes about English society and what
would would not be likely to occur in it-mistakes
which the person in this country could
simply because he belonged to this country, while the
Frenchman did not We discover In such cases no" little
general acouirements book information, and reasoning
powers help towards true ideas without actual ex
perence and conversance with faets You find out in
when friend, who talking SIMPLY
going upon his general knowledge, aud proceeding upon
the data Of human large instead Of natural To-
cal experience and the iniuve standard OF truth which
IL imparts Basil Hail. in his American travels gives
account Of a conversation he had with a intelligent
and well informed American on the subject OF England,
Its society manufactures and political parties
He congrstuatiug himself on having at last come
across American who thoroughly understo English
politics, when his friend sudden suggested difficulty
which had occurred him. the weak point in the national
basis the where the shoe OF the Commonwealth
pinchcd aud where general break up and dissolution
would ultimately commrnce,what there in excl
ted state Of public feeling, to prevent the popuace OF
Manchester Birmingham from besieging Londoay
We do suppose that the report Of Chancellor
OF the Exchequers interference Ia the approaching Pres
dental election has gained any serious acceptance in the
United States Such report however is, understand,
more less the Atlantic and has its
II rumoured that Sir George Cornewa Lewis has
has supplied the opponents OF Mr. Buchanan with money
To assist them In carrying their and defeating the
Democratic candidate. Whoever believes such report,
and however few those be who do II it is believed
at ALL il is curious Instance how completely Americans
may be about English politics and English states
manshp, and on the things go on in the English
htical world Can any conceive event more
trary the order Of in political England than that
Chancellor OF the Exchequer should be intriguing in
Presidents election la the United States and securing
by bribery aud corruption the return OF the English
didatey We nothing OF the classical virtue OF Sir
George Coruewal Lewis himself which peculiarly units
hlm for success in such Transaction What would his
friends, the old Romans OF the DAYS Of pure republican
simplicity, their portrayer engaging in such po
ceedings, No. we well imagine Cincinnaius him.
self WELDING balobox and intriguing in Trans-atan
tic election Chancellor of the Exchequer But
Transatlantic friends cannot be expected to appreciate
Sir George Cornewal Lewis himself What call
ton to is the extraordinary grotesqueness OF the idea itself
AN English Chancellor Of the ESchequer medlhne
with the election Of President tor the United
States, aud bribing at the American hustiugs.
There is curious obsoeteness about the picture.
Ii carries US back TO times when Cabinets really snug
closets IN which British money could be spent without
fear of explanation. Happily English Cabinet is
90 powerful a centre American alarniss would
present t. IL has secret purse the strings OF which
u open in any part OF the world al A6Di Ii can
think Of carrying American election than it
OF carrying election to the Spanish Cortes, to
the Belgian Chambers TO the Dutch States General
IL is secret irresponsible tribunal meeting, the Anne
rican would represent it, like the vehmgerieht OF
the middle ages, aud welding hidden ubiquitous machi
merry. Happily everything must be open With US, and
when the Chancellor Of the Exchequer got up in his
In Parliament TO announce that such sum had swAyed
the election in the United States, need attempt TO
describe With what surprise the would be
ceived in the House. We believe If Sir Cornewal Lewi-
announccd from his place that he had, in imitation OF
2receden' Sc, ~ nsny of his predecessors in the Eng.
he had consented to give up half his fortune for
penscs OF the late war; the would hardly
be astonishing. That English Chancellor Of the
EIchequer should NEEDLE and bride in Transatlantic
election fact about discordant with the present pi
IL of English politics, about incongruous, grotesque,
and antquaed, that he should thumbscrew capitst
We have particular for liking Mr. Buchanan,
wishing him success at the approaching election. H.
Is committed to party which contains strong AntEns
nsn element IN w. ana the noue IN "hich hs Conducted
his diplomatic mission Minister In this county has Civ
reason 10 desire any further dealings with him..
He does appear have consulted the interests OF
peace, to have made good understanding between the
two countries his object Too evident signs rather appear
OF his having parposey refused to understand Lord Car
endons peaceful offers in order that he might keep up
convenient topic for party in his country cry
by aid Of which he himsf might at last fulfil the ambi
tior of iis Hfe and obtain the Presidency But Eng
lish by this enough know that should
not do ourselves much good by mcddiug out Of
by large portion OF the American constituency that
interfering would Of itself ruin the candidate IL
whose the interference said to be made. Amer
who afraid Of being thought traitor TO hs
try would think it necessary TO vote against the socaed
British candidate. Ii is only due To Colonel Fremont
then to point out the extravagant absurdty of this
less rumor aud whoever in the United States
creduous enough TO believe such story that
have meddled, aud shall medde in their elections