New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-19
BRITAIN.
HOW THE PEACE is RECEIVED.

LONDON, Tuesday. April L. 1856.
OF course, the great event here is the Peace
which everybody is talking Of though with much
variety Of opinion. The arrival OF the news was
quite scene in its way. Sunday had gone Of -
our Sundays do-the upper classes dull and deco
rous-the middle duler still, but not less deeoroQs
the lower making holiday OF it for the most part
and swarmpg away to the suburbs 20 enjoy the sun.
which is at last beginning TO make itself felt We
have had terrible east wind lately, searching
ones corpus like cold steel; so when the Spring
sun set the bright starry night was sharp and wo-
try. London WAS settling down into its hage calm
when boom boom went Park and Tower guns,
and the population turned into the streets to listen,
to chatter, to wonder, and to be amused. Tue sail
ors in hundreds of craft were awakened rom their
first sleep on the river BY the thunder from the
gloomy old Tower, and everybody knew that the
Peace had been signed. All the bells Get Of at
DAYLIGHT like awakening birds and, BY 40
unhappy conci1ence-there was to be an execu-
ton. So, such a crowd as suppose only London
land London on such a morning. could produce,
assembled at the Old Bailey. BY still more 10
happy accident this execution proved unusually
like most of our offcials-and his nerves being
shakey he did his office III. The criminal (who
had murdered q wife and three children at one
swoop) struggled for life that he had to be four
times cast off the scaffod, among yells that sug-
gested PandemOnium, from the thousands around
When all was over at last, away poured our crowd
TO hear Peace declared-iresh from the foot OF the
eslows to the Stock Exchange. The city, mean
while. was abroad for the purpose; and when the
7 Il ri and read the Offf,al
announcement from Government, there was nat
urally much excitement and no little cheering. 1t
had been reckOned on, as certainty. latteriy; but
still, a show is show. We have not many puolc
gatherings to give us the peculiar thrill OF CON-
mon sensation in mass and the emotion was
natural. Nevertheless there has not been the 60
thusiasm-there have not been the Nominations
which some may have expected. Taken as a
whole, the British public has received Peace and
her olive with frigid politeness. We make her
ladyship bow-but We are very quiet about is
For many of us don't exactly feel ourselves enti-
tied to wear the said olive as crown though II is
pretty Christian plant enough and we have no
right to rtfufe it.
/ think there is a vague, dumb kind Of disap-
pointment among the peOple-as if we had hardly
done enough. No doubt we are very, very proud
of Alma and hike rmann, ("Ama' cottages, coffee
houses &C., are springng up everywherel
and suppose our soldiers will be cheered leaf
when they land. But then there has been the Re
dan failure and the fall of Kars, and we have
commission of inquiry to come of about peoples
cOnduct-ard we had notion that we were now
at last in perfect trim aud going tremendously to
work. had the business lasted. Another year,
Sir" observed my barber to me, lately, we might
have had another year" | am speaking, you see
of the people strictly so called. Among the upper
classes there can be little doubt hearty satisfac.
ton prevails. The war was dangerous-might be
reyolutOnary-was liable to excite internal dlsor-
der-was paving the way for future troubles here
by it's vast expense, and, in fact, had best be
stopped. 1t was not one OF
those games which their subjects wise,
Kings would not play at"
as Cowper described wars, and as war was when
the House of Bourbon" fought with the /" House
of Hapsburgh," and not nation with nation. Ill
significant of the times, that the people fought
eagerly here, and the Kings did not halt like 1t.
There lies whole world of change in that one fact.
II will be three weeks yet, $50 says Palmerston
he spoke last night when the House met after
the Easter Recess, before all is formally ratified
and the terms laid before US. But, says p, there
is little doubt that all will be considered satlsfac
tory. Russia 1--WE suppose from this) has conceded
in the matter Of the Black Sea, Nicolaieb, the
Princpalites and left Turkey secure as treaties
can make her. AS our Ministers were rather in
terested than otherwise in carrying on the war
the ar having done for Palmerston personally more
than it has for any other statenan-I see no
present reason to doubt that the notifications will
prove as satisfactory as people expect; though as
have said before, enthusiastic satisfaction is not
felt and need not be expected. l place some re-
lance on The Times, likewise, and its apparent
satisfaction. For The Times would have ear.
ried on the war if it cOuld-it has been
violent and vehement about it all along;
it has been growing at Napoleon Tor bis
determined peacefulness, and lately enlare'
ing on the sufferiDgs Of the French IN the Crmea
Had there been a real opening for breaking Oh
with good pretext and a loud roar, The Times
would have done it before this. l conclude, then,
tnat it does MT see its way to such doings, and it
now wonderfully moral and philosophlc, and par.
sonic, on the subject of war generally. The yer.
satility and adaptability of that print IS wonder
full and those who don't like it admit its adufra-
bic management Of John Bull.
We are now looking to our Parliament again for
interest and amusement. We are to have Sir L.
Bulwer Iy ton on the American question shortly,
and very clever he will be, doubt not. lie 10
acting now with the Derby Tories, so you must
not expect such q "liberal" efiusion as America
would have excited from him in the old days ana
YOU must bear in mind that he is bound to take
such a view Of it as will first of all njure the Gov.
ment, and only secondarily meet the question
But iDiure the Government he will, and there 10
talk now that Pam must be got rid Of asa hre,
brand at any price. His object, meanwhile, Oh
course, is to make the difficulty with your Gov
eminent national question: question between
us and you--wbereas an obstinate public nM loOk
at it as question between him and you: l may
tell you, in limine, that as to expecting waI
with America or looking on it asa probable tnins
that next to nobody dOes-though every
body recognizes the importance OF the po'
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