New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-12-25
PROGRESS OF FEELING IN EN-.
GLAND.
From An OCCASIONAL Correspondent.

from q concurrence in tie frantic Growing OF tie
British press over war incident, which, according
to the English Grown lawy ers themselves, reso es
itself into mere error of procedure, aud may be
summed up in the words that there has be breach OF
international law because Capt. Wilkes, instead OF
taking the Tent her cargo, her passengers and the
Commissioners, did only take the Commissioners.
Nor springs the anxiety Of the well-wishers OF The
Great Republic from apprehension lest, in the
long ruu it should not prove able TO cope with Ed
gland, although backed by the civil war; and, least
of all do they expect the United States to abdeate,
even for moment, aud in dark tour OF trial, the
prond position held by them in the council Of nations.
Tie motives that prompt them of quite different
nature.
In the first instance, the busness next in hand for
the United States is TO crush the rebellion and to
restore the Union. The wish uppermost in the minds
of the Slayeocracy and their Northern tools was
always to plunge the United States iato war with
England. The first step of England as coon an hos
tlties broke out would he to recognize the Southern
Confederacy, and the second to terminate the block
sde. Secondly, no general if not forced, Will
accept bsue at the time aud under the conditions
chosen by his enemy. =" A war with America"
says Tie Economist, paper deeply in Pslmersions
confidence, must always be one Of The most amen
able incidents in the history Of England; but
if it is to happen, lie present as Certainty
ne PERIOD at ichich IL rW do lie m'a-
mum Of harm, and The only mOmeat in our
oiat annals at ,chich il could confer an inc-
deHfal aud partial compensation" Tue very rea-
cons accounting for the eagerness Of England to
ssHe upon any decent prefext tor war at this "only
moment ought TO withhold the United States from
forw aring such a pretext at this "only moment"
You 20 not TO with the aim to do your enemy
I" me minimum Of harm and, even TO confer upon
him by the war; 'an incidental and partial eomp'n'
sal,oa.' The or o tunty of the moment wou'd all
DO ON ole side on the side of your foe Is there any
great strlin Of reasoning wanted to prove that an
Internal war raging in a State is the least opportune
time for entering upon foreign war' At every
other moment the mercantile classes Of Great Britain
would have looked upon against the United
States with the utmost horror. Now, on the con-
trary, large and influential party of the mercantile
community has for months been urging on the Gov
eminent to violently break the blockade, and thus
provide the main branch of British industry with its
raw material. The fear Of q curlailment OF
the English export trade TO the United States has
lost it, sting by the curameot Of that trade having
already actually occurred. They the Northern
States says The EeonOmist, are wretched Gus.
toners, instead of good ones The vast credit
Usually given by EngIirh commerce to the United
States principally by the acceptance Oh bills drawn
from China and India has been already reduced TO
scarcely fifth Of what II was in 1897. Last, not
least Decembrist France, bankrupt, paralyzed at
home, Leset with difficulty abroad pounces upon an
Anglo-Ameriesn war rs real godseud, and, IN order
to buy English support in Europe will strain all her
power to support Perfidous Albion on the other
side Of the Atlantic Read only the French news
papers. The pitch of indignation to which they
have wrought themselves in their tender care
for the 4" honor Of England" their fierce
istbes " the necessity on the part OF England to
revenge the outrage the Union Jack, their vile
denunciations of everything American would be
truly appalling if they not ridiculous and dis
gushing at the same time. Lastly, If tire United
st ties give way in this instance they will not dero-
gate one iota of their dignity. England has reduced
her complaint TO a mere error 81 procedure, tech
nicai bnnd Of which she has made herself syste mat
ically guilty in all her maritime wars but against
which the United States have ceased 10 protest.
and which President Madison, in his message in-
augurating the of 1872, expatiated upon a. one
Of the most shocking breaches Of international law.
IL the United States may c defended in pay ing En-
gland with her own coin, will hoy be accused for
magn animously disavowing on the part OF single
American captain, acting his own responsibility,
what they always denounced asa systematic usurpa-
ton on tue part of the British Navy! In point offact,
the gain of such procedure would be all on the
American side. England on the one hand, would
have acknowledged the right Of the United States
to capture and bring 10 adjudication before an Amer.
lean prize court every English ship employed
in the service of the Confederation. On the
other hand, she would, once for ALL before the eyes
Of the whole world have practically resigned claim
which she WA not brought TO desist from either in
the peace Of Ghent in 1874 or the transactions car
riod on between Lord Ashburton and Secretary Web
ster in 1912. The question then comes to this: DO
you prefer to turn the "untoward event" TO your
own account, or, blinded by the passions Of the mo-
men turn il to the Of your foes at home and
abroad
Since this day week, when I sent you my last let
ter British consols have again lowered, the decline,
compared with last Friday, amounting to per cent,
the present prices being 500 TO for money and 80 to
for the new account on the 9Th Of January. This
quotation corresponds to the quotation Of tho British
eonsos during the first two years Of the Anglo'Rus-
sian war. This decline is altogether due to the war
like Interpretation put upon the American papers
conveyed by the last mail TO the exacerbaung tone Of
the London press whose moderation of two days
standing was but feint, ordered by Pamerstor, to
the dispatch Of troops for Canada, to the procama ion
forbiddng tie export of arms and materials fos gun