The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-06-18

eadeIs OF the rebellion, 1t will not be disposed
to be severe with those who have been merely
their instruments and dupes.
The News from Europe-The DupliCity Of
the British Government
The details of the news by the Jura, of which
we published summary yesterday, will bs
found in our columns to-day, embracing ex-
tracts from the British journals explana.
tory and expostulatory, together WITH an
important explanation in Parliament by
Lord John Russell of the policy of
the British government towards this coun-
Try also, despatch from that Minister to the
same effect, addressed to the Secretary of War,
the Admiralty, the India Office and the
Governors of the colonies. The speeches and
the circular of the Minister for Foreign Affairs
are remarkable samples of that blackleg and
Puritan policy which has characterized the
dealings of England with other nations in
times past.
Her Msjesty's government processes to be
DESTROYS of observing the strictest neutrality
in the contest which appears to be imminent
between the United States and the so-styled
Confederate States of North America" That
is to say, her Msjesty's government makes no
distinction between a we'll known friendly
Power ana sham, unrecognized government,
which is sd anger and has no relations what.
ever with England-a "so.styled" confedera-
cy- moreover which is in rebellion against the
United States, and is its most deadly foe.
What would any honest, honorable man think
of the conduct of protesting friend,
with whom he had been on the most
intimate footing for many years, if, in the event
of fight with highway robber who was
brandjshipg deadly weapons in his face, his
friend would look coldly on, an Indifferent
spectator, "observing the strictest neutrality"
between him and the plundering assassin?
Now England has treaties of amity with this
country, and the part she is now playing is in
palpable violation of the spirit, if not of the
letter, of those treaties. 1t shows what the
friendship of such Power is worth in the
time of need. 1t was not in this way that our
government acted towards England at the time
of the Canadian rebellion. And should an in
surrection now break out in Ireland, and that
province issued letters of marque against Eng.
land what would British ministers think if the
American government should recognise pro-
visional Irish rebel government as "a belliger-
ent," and on a perfect equality as to the rights
of war with the English government?
But Lord John Russell has gone one step
further than this, and while processing
to "observe the strictest neutrality" has
not only prohibited our privateers, as
we'll as those Of the enemy, from bring
ing prizes into British ports, but has
forbidden the public vessels of both parties
doing 80, we'll knowing that the Confederate
States have no such vessels, and cannot be in.
jured by the prohibition, which affects in
juriously the United States alone Is this "the
amity" of Great Britain to the American re-
public? How different is the attitude of France.
That Power, as appears by an answer extorted
from Lord John Russell, does not prohibit our
public vessels from selling its prizes in French
ports, but only privateers. The policy of
France is therefore far more favorable to the
United States than is the policy of the nation
that claims to be their mother, and is one in
blood, in language, in religion and almost in
laws. Unnatural parent, while protesting neu-
trality, secretly and treacherously giving aid
and comfort to the enemy of her noblest Off
spring. Even few arms purchased in Eng
land for the defence of the United States, the
British government would not permit the Gal
WHILE on the other hand, rebel cap.
tain of the Southern confederacy goes to
England in British mail steamer, with des.
patches from Lord Lyons in one pocket and
with letters ofma1que for captains of priva-
teers in the other.
The tone Of the British press is insolent in
the extreme. Lord Pslmerston's organ boasts
that the balance Of power on this continent is
now transferred to England and Canada. The
wish is father to the thought. That is undoubt-
eddy the design of British policy which inserted
its anti-slavery wedge to split us into two
fragments. But the announcement is some
what premature. The game is not yet played
out, and though it is intimated that England
and France will soon recognise the indepen-
dence of the Southern confederacy, to make
the claim valid it must be first won by the
sword. The Globe, indeed, threatens that in the
event of hostilities the British feet would
sweep every American armed ship, whether
cruiser or privateer, from the seas" Why did
not the Britsh feet accomplish that feat in the
war of the Revolution and in the war of 1872
Is? On the contrary, the cutting up of British
commerce by our cruisers and our privateers'
in both wars conquered peace for the repub-
lie, and at the same time established the mari.
time supremacy of the American people
Former destruction is nothing compared with
what we are now able to ibfict upon her
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