New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-21

disturbance of the relations of peace between England
and tie United Statestba at any time during the civil
war thus clearly Implying that al one time such dan
ger did exist We should be glad TO be Informed when
aud for what cause the danger existed, and what
are the circumstances thus darky alluded TO, which
render il necessary for the United States 10 take the
extraordinary measure OF terrifying against LDgland
frontier of upward OF thousand miles. DR.
Seward alluGes evidently, to our entertaining some
idea of breathing the blockade. We are confident he
has no grouEd FOR such surmise, but, If he had
does lie suppose that it is in the direction of the great
Lakes that the blockade would be broken Does
lie think England will 20 to look for cotton on The
shores of Lake Ontario, and Lake Erie, and
Lake Champaign, when there are the ports OF
Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, and New-OrleanS
lie eyioris tue SOvtrn5Is--that II, principally the
Governor of New-York-to lay the edse beiore the
Legislature, promising that Congress shli relm9u'e
the expenditure. But the Legislature OF -fofh
does not meet till January, while Congress is snm
noned for December, the result being shat It would
be more easy and more speedy TO 90 TO congress
for the money at once than TO the Legislature OF
New York 10 advance ii on promise OF repayment
ENGLAND'S sELF-CuAGRAI ULAii0S.
We may add to this that tire conscience OF this
country is completely clear, that we are not III The
habit of taking secret and insidions resolutions
against our friends and neighbour and that what we
DO is celebrated on only too publicly before It is
attempted In thu country there never has been
the .lghest IDEA Of intervening IN any way IN the
American quarrel Our interests are not identical
with either side and thde Is little 10 the ease 20
evoke our sympothies. Were there more, 1t Is no
longer orr practice 10 plange into war Tor synpa-
thies ana sntipaiies. But if we were the children,
| thoughtess, reckless, and impuleiye, which MI
Seward presumes us 10 be--if the elOquence OF TWO
or three gentlemen from the Southern States VINO can
tell us nothing do not know already, either about
our wants or their DO wer OF supplying thein-aOous
the causes of tine war, the motives by which they
are aciuaed-cOuld induce Us To plunge INTO ihe con-
ict what POSSIBLE gain could hope for ourselves
by invading from the North the great, populos, ard
agricultural State of New-York, peopled 10 great
extent by omgTants from these islands, and present.
ING to us nothing but the certainty OF brave ana
vigorous resistance 10 wanton ana oblectless inVa-
sion /, il really too much that we should be COM
PEELED to defend ourselves giinst such Nominations.
We have Issued no anonymous pamphlets iCresnsd-
owing the ABSORPTION OF friendly States we Inaln-
tain DO enormous ermy irsting tor pay and rlunder
desire nothing but peace with all the world ana,
as we have repeatedly shown, with no country SO
much as With The unitcd States.
4 FEW CROCODILE TEARS.
We cannot wonder that this extraordinary mani
festo of Mr.. Seward fell like thundcrbolt upon The
money market Of New-Nork. The American people
are coming forward To support the cause of the
Union with a Iiberality prompted mach more by
~ init OF patriotism than of commercial foresight
They are content 10 subscribe TO loans, when lhcy
well know must be deprecated IN the Market ra ner
than leave their Government without Inc means Oh
over tie whole territory, iron the Lakes 20 the
Coli OF Mexico a fingle Republican Government.
We honor the heartiness and disnte s'edness OF me
feeling while we are forced to believe that II j. ms
diTecud. Bat if the American nation believe that
the funds with which they 70 lavishly intrust their
Government are likely TO be diverted from the rur-
pose for which they contribute them-ior the pur-
posc for instance, Of that attack upon canada when
Sir. Seward recommended in the first months OF
the Dreseut yeartho whole cause OF the success oi
suarpau loapq will he DESTROYED. and the IOuu-
tain of public bounty suddenly driednP. lLe imine-
date effect Of Mr.. Stewards letter was a reduction
in the price of public securities OF Two per cent, az
awkward operation to be performed III the iace VI :.
ncrcsson of loans and of military prospects hitherto
almost uniformly uniavorable. IL must lower 'ne
credit Of The American Government III me eyes Ci
,hose who believe. on lie authority coilisOh "i.n
this country Uossibe IL must lower n stu more ia
the ewes Of those VINO believe, like us, thai ruch
collision is inpossible-the frst, ebcause ihey De-
lieve in the presence OF Immediate danseri 'he
second, because they that levity aud insoenee
from which they know danger Is never lar removed.
LESSONS IN GRAMMAR FOR LYONS.
FIRM The / ndon Time', NOr. 8.
We fear that most OF our readers VIII snare ID tne
dis abstraction with which weconfess to have read
the correspondence between Lord Lyons and Mr.
t Seward. TIE occasion was important one.
Great interests at stake, and matters OF The
highest consequence depend the result OF the cor
Iespondencc. 70 surely worth while 10 write q
letter at least olerby well eXprered and toerably
; well reasoned when we addressed ourselves u the
task of calling fee and kindred nation 10 account
for he violation Of the liberties Of mankind and Of
then own Constitution The fret paragraph Of the
letter Is in the past tense: - Her Maleslys Gov
ernmcnt were much concerned" " they bad learned
from teegraphic Dispatch" - they could not but
regard" The succeeding paragraphs are all in the
prtsen, tense: they perceive they conceive
and so forth. The arrangement is sloveniy as the
writing: Her Majestys Government find that
1.-TWO British sueets have been seteetedto arbitrary
arrests." Her Maestys Government perceive
that when British Subjects ms well as American ci
zeDs arrested, they are immediately transferred
to a military PRISON. This does not mean. we cup.
rose that il il only when her M8estys sublects
arrested together with Americans they placed IL.
"A military prison, but rather that when arrested
they nc wei as Americans, are so placed. Let that
pass, however " Her Malesty.s Government con-
ceiye tnat this practice the reffal Of the military
authorities TO pay attention TO a writ OF habcGs
gus--"is directly opposed TO the maxim OF the Con-
rtitution Of the United States, that person shall
he deprived OF life liberty, or property without due
process of haw.'" How the refusal Of the
military authorities to obey a wit OF la
teas cOrpas can be a violation OF that
! provision OF the Constitution which requires
that no man shall be Imprisoned without legal
process we cOnnOt conceive, unless the refusal OF the
remedy tor IN illegal imprisonment be ltselt an e-
gal imprisonment. Having thus entaDgled very
Jlan question: the letter proceeds to state that Her
/ Maiesty's Government wOuid not have been sur
priced if the ordinary securities for personal liberty
! Lad been temporarily suspended'-the very thing
which has happened; and il is only from the next
paragraph we learn that by " suspended" they mean
. suspended by Congress" Would II not have been
more 10 the purpose 10 have sad that Congress Is the
only power which could legally suspend the habeas
corpus in the United States and that Congress has
not done So and therefore that its suspension by any
any other authority is illegal!
TIE TINES PUTS TIE CASE IN GOOD ENGLISH.
AwkwardIy, however, az the ease is stated and
compe as seems TO be the justification OF the Gov