The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-06-13


Each successive arrival from Europe, will
doubtless continue, for some time to come, to
show that the aggressive policy initiated by the
Palnerston ministry, is already confessed to
have been gross blunder, and that, in view
of the complications that would grow out of q
war with the United States, the British govern
ment is willing, hereafter, to leave us free from
ts impertinent interference. Lord John Rus
sell has announced, in Parliament, that priva-
teers and armed vessels will not be allowed to
bring prizes into British ports, and alarmed by
the threat of Mr.. Adams, that aiding and
abetting the Southern rebellion, would be
followed by demand for his passports, he
has given private assurances to our Minister in
England, that he had expressed pro-slavery
sentiments, and entertained no sympathy with
the attempts to destroy our nationality. The
London Times calls for the ''utmost care aud
circunspection, on the part of every man and
party in England" and deprecates the wrath
manifested by Union journals in America, on
account Of the tone of the Queens proclama
ton. We are about to be deluged, in fact,
with highly satisfactory assurances" to which
MIR. Seward might, with perfect safety, reply,
that, by the haste of Grea. Britain, in retracng
her steps, she has only escap cd, by the skin Of
her teeth, from revolution at home, and war
with Louis Napoleon at the head Of half Of
Europe, which would not have ended until the
Napoleonic idea had been realized of the recon-
struction of the Continent.
r. roodo brt ono rauaral WI rnnra In dash
into pieces the widespread empire, upon which
Englisbmen love to boast that the "sun never
sets" History presents no parallel Of so vast
dominion held together by so slight thread
and so literally dependent upon "hand to
mouth mode of living for its existence. The
land would be irrecoverably lost The de-
struction Of her commerce With the United
States, would lead to domestic insurrection
and the downfall Of the British throne. A
Jingle great naval disaster, would deprive her
of her colonies, and reduce her to the rank of a
second or third rate Power in the world Such
an increase of her debt, as would be necessary,
n case of powerful combination against her
would lead. in less than three years, to nation
al bankruptcy. Moreover, England cannot fall
to rise again. When the British empire begins
20 totter, it will perish. Its colonies will melt
from its grasp at the first reverse, and its lodan
possessions, the Ionian Islands, Australia, Ire
land, Canada, and the vast domain between the
lakes and the North Pole, all disaffected, and
heartily loathirg the mother country, will suo-
cumb the yoke it imposes, without blow. For
such day of calamity and disaster, the far
sighted Emperor of the French is fitted To pre-
pare the way, and he would have asked for no
more propitious occasion to do so, than rup-
ure between the Court Of London and the 60
verpment at Washington.
Public sentiment, in Great Britain is alive to
the dangers, that menace England from France
The London Times. of May rs, publishes an ar
tcle which whines forth, in notes Of terror and
dtmay, the apprehensions entertained of inva-
sion, and impending ruin. An army, it says,
is maintained by Napoleon, "of four hundred
thousand men, and, whether from just or
a groundless terror, we are accustomed to be-
ieve ourselves the probable object OF invasion.
Franz is low in the very state that she was
n thirty months ago, when she poured her
legioDs over mountain and sea, and drove a
great empire and friendly State out of an an
cient appanage." All Europe knows that the
srmed hand of France has been raised over
rglaDd ever since the close of the Italian
campaign, and that Napoleon is only waiting
for the suspicious moment to cone, before
ne strikes what he intends shall be death
blow to her prosperity. With what silent con-
cealed enthusiasm, be would egg on the weak
i'ngs of the Palmerston ministry, in their sui
eidal provocations of American Indignation,
until reee ntance should be too late. The first
cannon fired by an English into an American
vessel, would boom forth to the world the in
auguraion Of new era for Europe; the re.
construction, by Napoleon, of its map, in con-
toImity with those gigantic schemes which were
batched in the brain of the founder of his dy-
nasty; and the humiliation of British suprema
cy, for all future time.
The war between the United States and Eug-
land, in 1872, was the supplement TO QUE strug.
gle for independence, thir'y.6ve years earlier.
Il grew out of hostllities of Great Britain with
France which our Revolution had indirectly en-
gendered. The military power that sprung into
existence from the great uprising of 1898,
nearly crushed England then. If conflict
should arise between this country aud Great
Britain now, it would be the turn of France to
receive her impulse once more from this hemi
sphere without the chance of a doubtful result.
Deprived of her commerce, separated FROM her
colonies, with an available maritime prepon-
derance against her, honeycombed by convul-
sions at home, weighed to the earth by debt,
and with millions of her population suffering
from want of food, an issue disastrous to Eng
land, would be certain. Hence it is, that the
Palmerston ministry have seen fit to retrograde
with haste from the position it assumed few
weeks ego, and why it is not improbable that we
shall have no overt intermeddling to look for,
from the British government Nevertheless,