Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-12-23

The tone Of our foreign dispatches pub
ished in ts-dsys telegraphic columns Is very
much moderated from the warlike stand
which was taken when the news Of the seiz.
are frst reached England. Then It was,
sdOgn on your knees, you villAinous Yam
KEGS deliver up The prisoners or fght." Now
&c Is negotiate, and tel US Why yOu
dia %, and if you had any just warrant in
international law. If it be 50 decided, the
matter In dispute viii be quietly dropped"
Some Of the journals, it is true, are Is bel
Iigsreuta Is ever, but the majority Of the dis
patches are much more peaceful. The re-
pors from France and Ireland are especially
interesting. Il is asserted that the Patrie,
the French journal which was most conh-
dent that France would be bat too ready to
join England in an immediate armed Occupa-
ton Of the Northern waters, was incorrect
IL informed Of the temper Of the throne and
that It spoke entirely without authority. 1t
6 furthermore asserted that the Emperor has
no desire to enter upon a foreign war, while
tbsrs "a 50 much dissatisfaction and incipi-
snt rebellion within his own boundaries to
look after. He has, ct present. enough to
attend 10 at home without sending two thirds
Of his army and navy three thousand miles
way TO find 8 foe. The Patris processes to
give the substance OF the dispatches sent BY
the English cabinet to Lord Lyons, but even
the English papers themselves though they
had, in their former issasA put the same in
tsrprstahon upon those dispatches, now
warn the public that this Is bat the French
view and should not be relied upon. These
dispatches tend to confirm the view which
has been generally prevAlensin this country,
that tie French Court has no special desire
10 70 10 war with America, although she
may, fer q time, seem 70 urge England into a
wa, IN the hope of seeing that proud rival
weakened and vsnquished.
Prom Ireland We have reports of an inn
usnss mass meeting to discuss the question
ofthe impending war, ct which the feeling
va, Is might be expected, strongly in favor
Of America. Ireland bears no love to her
hEughty mistress, England, and has too vivid
Q recollection of the oppression with which
abe has been treated, to feel a great amount
Of sympathy for her English rulers. Espe-
ciaIly Is this the case when the contest is
likely 70 be between England and America.
There Is scarcely, in all America, a city,tORn
or hamlet, where a representative of the En-
srald Isle Il not to be found, and in ireland
there Is scarcely q family which has not .
representative in America. All the ties Of
faTsiIy and kindred, therefore, bind Ireland
20 America. And the United States has to.
day no trueF defenders upon the field than
The Irish regiments. It is the free North
which has given labor to tens of thousands
Of Irish emigrants, and 1t was the free North
which sent money and corn in abundance to
Ireland IN her days of want and starvation.
Ireland never forgsts q friend, and wherever
she may be forced to stand by the powers
that are over her, her sympathies viii surely
be with the federal government.
The English press still talk of war, but
not 80 reeklessIy as at first. Active prePar-
atoms are going on for war and troops are
being shipped for Canada. Up to the pres
eRt writing, we have no satisfactory infor-
msiOn OF the nature Of the dispatches sent
% Lord Lyons, and cannot therefore, decide
the position Of the English cabinet. Our
Government is opposed to any foreign war
& & csn be honorabIy avoided, and in this
tbs whole people Is with it, but they are not
ready to make d~ishOnOrable concessions or
humiia6ons.