The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-16

proportion Of its income being derived from tbs
duty on that article. We are informed by I.Csd
Palinerston's organ that perfect understand.
ing on the subject has been arrived at as to the,
combined action Of the two governments to-
wards that Of America, and that "ths cc-opern-
ton rs 10 be prosecuted on both sea and Iandr
iet we do not believe the Emperor Of the
ffonch VIII lake any step hostile or injurious to
u.s. unless The English government leady tlas
way. Should England enter upon such dan.
gcrous career, she will rue the day that her
rulers nave committed her to deadly struggle
WIN TINS young giant republic.
Fashionable Intelligcnce-yvhich Is the
true Jenkins, Willis OF Greeley.
we publish In another column two articles
the one from the Hon. Massa Greeley, who
since his abdication after the battle Of Bull run
Of the superintendent of the War Departments
has devoted his attention to the mysteries al
fashionable life, and the other from Mr.. N. p,
Willis, who has been recently attending to the
affairs Of the nation, and matters and things IN
general at the national capital. Both Villa
and Greeley are prominent aspirants fer the
mantle and renown of the arbiter Of elegance
Jenkins The text upon which Massa Greeley
in his new vocation, modestly enlarges, is the
Presidents wife in the dog days; and he telh
us with the zeal and gusto of tyre, how thea
lady is to be attended and how she is to b.
have and be treated throughout her journey
backwards and forwards to watering places
and bathing resorts, while absent from Wash
ihgtOn. "We are all snobs" he says, "and
heaven be thanked there are plenty Of us al
over the world" and, after this acknowledge
ment, he does not pretend to be over dictate
rial. He even tells us that there are some
kinds of snobbishness which are greater than
other kinds of snobbishness, and compares them
together little vehemently, with an evident
desire to be thought capable of comprising
them all; but he closes in a strain which is in
tended to be sweet and musical. and hopes Mrs.
Lincoln may be nowhere troubled with mus
qniocs, which is certainly kind.
Chevalicr Willis has many advantages over
Massa Greeley His natural qualifications as .
Jenkins are the greater of the two. Moreover
he brings to his aid the experience Of the Ella
boratc cravating generation of thirty years
ago, when nc was in his heyday Of glory. He
has renovated his youth, too, wonderfully, and
enters upon the scene Of fashionable life amid
gales of perfume and fragrance. He possesses
that happy faculty Of appropriating to himself
the distinction he imparts to others, which il
so refreshing part of the enthusiastic Jenkins
role. g The Princc," he says, "unbedecked him
self Of his full dress, appearing afterwards in a
Leglorn hat, frock coat and straw colorea
waistcoat and pantaloons and changing his
white kids, Of course, for gloves of the pro-
menade tint. believe was the only spectator
as the royal party passed out!'' Happy, thrice
happy jenkins, to have monopoly of such q
blissful vision! ~ find his Royal Highness q
taller man" he says, also, =" than / used 10 sup
pose he promised to be, when knew him as
boy" thus giving the admiring world to know
on what close terms of intimacy he has been
with the said Royal, (should he not have said
Jmperial? Highness, for an immemorable
period. How the President of the United States
was dressed (for Chevalier Willis is describing
dinncr) and what clothes Secretary Seward
had on, and how everybody else appeared in
his happy eyes, will be found duly chroniclcd
elsewhere.
With that proper Difference of times and sea-
sons which always characterizes discriminating
American public, the question Of paramount
importance, in this season when the dog star
RACES, has ceased to be, who is the ablest gene
raj? or when will there be another battle? and,
has, of late, become, who is the greatest Jen-
kins: We have endeavOred to throw some
light on this all important subject. The whis-
pering Arabclla, and the mustacbe-caressing
Brown, shall not sigh for solution to this tre-
mcndous problem, if it is in on power to aid
them. OF course it must be either Greeley or
Willis. Bnt, of The two, which, all which? We
dare not pronounce inconsiderately between
such rivals. Willis has the most refinement,
but then Greeley has the most vigor and
energy. He has advantages of power on his
side, derived from his experiences though
uniortunate--in the wars, which the Chevalier
does not possess. Still we leave the decision
as yet in allegiance The garland of rose leaves
must remain for u few days longer unappro-
priatcd.
DIsIoYALTY IN THE GOVERNMENT DEPAKr-
MENFs.--Thc committee appointcd by Congress