The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-12-25
The War Cloud i'm England
Divided Opinions Of the English Fross.

The steamship Jura, from Liverpool on
the 9th inst and Londonderry on the 9th,
arrived at Portland on Wednesday morn.
Ing sez, bringing eHe day days latter news from
Europe.
The London press is occupied with dis
cussions of the Mason and Slidell affair,
and the difficulties which the seizure is
likely to occasion Literal extracts from
these articles are published below 1t
will be seen that while the Times and
Daily News continue to indulge in fierce
invective, the STIR and the Manchester
letter writers take more common sense
views of the Trent business, and the ne
cessity of moderate counsels is already be-
ginning to be urged.
The following is the leading editorial
article of the London Times Of Nov Goth,
demanding the restoration OF Mason and
sHdell and an apology from our Govern
ment: A.
wherever two or three men met to-
gether yesterday, the single topic of con-
versation was the recent outrage that has
been offered by the Federal Government
Of America to the British flag. That it
WAS an outrage all must admit The man
ner was one of unusual insait. The shot
ted guns, the swarming boats crews, the
violence, the refusal to afford any reason
/ for the seizure of the passengers taken
away, were all unusual, and, as We believe,
unprecedented in cases of the exercise of
that right of seach which undoubtedly
belongs TO beiiigerent nation However
clear the right may be to search neutral
merchant ships in time of war, this is a
right always odious in its exercise, and
which has always been jealousiy watched
| by those who have been the subjects of
it, Nine tenths Of the public who read
Yesterday of the attack of the American
/ frigate upon our mail steamer were, per-
haps, less startled by the fact itself than
they were BY the subsequent intelligence
which it was our duty to afford, that there
was prin,a tacie bcligerent right in the
Federal Government which might justify
the act of visit and of search
1 tThe Times proceeds to argue the law
point at great length and comes to the
conclusion that the law is entirely against
4 the Americans. II winds up its diatribe
with this warlike demand;
Such being the legal bearings of this
outrageous proceeding, the question re-
mains--what steps we must take to re-
move the stain which has been cast upon
our flag. When in former days the Brit
ish ship Of war Leopard unlawfully seized
deserters on board the Chesapeake, the
British Government. on complaints being
made, disayowcd the act, recalled the adj
miral from the station, and expressed re-
gret for the bloodshed which had been
occasioncd On more recent OCCASION
I when the Prince dc Joinville forcibly took
a pilot out of British ship, the King of
the French felt so acutely the wrong which
had been done in his name that he disa-
vowed the deed, and, we believe, wrote nm
autograph letter expressing his regret -
Among civilized nations, and in countries
whore high sense of honor rules, the
men who hold the Government in their
hands think il is as essential TO their own
fame as to that of those whom they have
offended, that rcparation should be swift
and ample. What the Government Of