The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-05-19
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on the aeth Of April Lord Palmerston
made speech on the Hustiass OF liver
ton. in which he arraigned the government
for ;,s conduct ia tho negotiations that pre-
coded the rupture between France and Aus
,r;a, and charged il openly with manltesting
strong Austrian sympathies throughout.
At Ahyesbury, on the I'd Of May, Mr.. Dis
raeli replied to this speech, defending the
government, justifying the manner in which
i, had proceeded during the negotiations in
question, aud denying that there was any
treaty offensive aud defensive between
France and Russia, for the purpose OF
abAsing the power of Great Britain, or for
any other purpose whatever. The rumor to
that effect, he said, had been manufactured
by a newspaper, which he did not name,
bat which is well known to have been the
London Times, for no other purpose than
that Of producing panic in the stock mar
ke,, in which it had but too well succeeded,
the ruin of large number of honest and
deserving families having been the conse
quence He stated distinctly that there had
been no secret treaty, and no alliance be-
tween France and Russia, and that the only
thing resembling it was an engagement
which had been voluntarily disclosed to the
British government by the French Minister
of Foreign aa.airs. The amount of this en-
gagement was, that Russia in the event OF
a war between France and Austria, should
assemble an army of observation on her
German frontier. This was no more than
England is doing, when she is sending a
powerful feet into the Mediterranean. The
Russian government had been asked whether
in case of war between France and Ger
many, Russia had engaged to declare war
upon Germany, and it had answered ode
cidedly and unequivocally' that il had en-
tered into no such engagement Denmark,
reported to have been one OF the parties to
the compact, had made declaration SINH
lar to that made by Russia. Nj. Dlsraell
thought that though the war had actually
commenced, England and Russia ought
still to maintain their position OF mediators,
prepared to take advantage of the first ia
vorable opportunity that presented itself,
as the friends of both parties, to bring
about a renewal of peace In reply to the
question of what is to be the policy of Eng
land, and whether she may not be drawn
into the vortex, he said the policy of Eng
land was pelce Her interference in the affairs
of other nations, in order to change their
internal affairs, whatever be the mo-
domestic institutions, or to influence their
tive, is always a mistake He hoped the
flsehoods alluded to had not been propa-
gated for stock-jobbing purposes, though
they had had ruinous effects. He hoped
the only object had been to defeat The min
istry at the elections, &c.
From the remarks of Mr.. Disraeli, we are
induced to hope that even though the cleo
tons should 60 in favor of the ministry,
which by the last arrival seems certain, En-
gland will not be dragged into this war
The ministry, indeed, seem to take as much
pains to produce contrary belief as the
opposition, a strong proof that such line
of policy will not be tolerated by any party
in Great Britain. Disraeli, indeed, took
occasion to observe that it was for Europe,
not England, he feared, and in this connex-
ion, he made striking allusion to the great
Powers that have arisen, both in the West
ern end Eastern Hemispheres, in America
and Australia, between whom and England
there existed the tie of a common origin and
a common language. The balance of power,
he said, could no longer be confined to Eu-
rope. Ole Europe should prepare for the
"awful competition which she is doomed to
encounter in coming tines" with these
new Powers, instead of wasting her en-
ergies and resources in this war. AS
for England, she was not a mere Power
of the Old World "Her geographic
cal position, her laws, her language aud her
religion, connect her as much with the New
World as the Old" ''Ifever Europe, by her
short-sightedness, falls into an inferior and
exhausted state, for England there will still
remain an illustrious future" We are
bound to the communities of the New World,
and to those great States which our plant
ing and colonising energies have created, by
ties and by interests which will sustain our
power, and enable us to play as great part
in the times yet to come as We do in these
days, and as We have done in the past
To these remarks, an American may re-
ply, that there can be little reliance on any
alliance not founded on community of in
terests, and that as the great commercial ri.
walls of Great Britain, there can he no COM
munity OF interests between US. Besides,
we make no alliances with any nation what
ever. We were taught better by Washing
ton sixty years ago, and we have never seen
cause to repent of the lesson. This country
has mission of its own, entirely distinct
from the task of propping up Great Britain,
and enabling her to be As great in the time
TN come as she has been in the tmes that "a ra
past. 1t cannot be overlooked, that she
seeks the alliance of the United States when
she Can no longer hope for alliances in Eu-
rope. If she were hard pressed by enemies,
she might have our sympathy and good
wishes; but We can foresee no conjuncture
of circumstances in which it could be our
interest to abandon the policy of Washing
ton for the sake of alliance with her espe-
cially, it seems, since she is to reap all the
advantage.