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than those before received, from which we
make two extracts.
THE LONDON TINES REMARKS UPON AMERICAN IR .
RITArioN," AND THE FARIs BREAKFAST.
From the London Times, June 81
No one will be surprised at the irritation which
now prevails among Americans on the subject
OF the disruption Of their Republic. 1t is q
great calamity, and it is the first that has be-
fallen them. In the records OF fiction it ia al-
ways the giant who shouts aud writhes uncon
trolaby under pain, and in real life we find the
great, the fortunate and the imperiOus often
agitated beyond measure by the first shock Of
misfortune. The people Of the United States
have, since the early days of the Republic, ad-
yanced without interruption from one success
to another. The laws which prescribed to ma
tions as to men that good shall be checkered
with evil-that sunshine and storm shall sue
coed each other in worldly aflairs-seem to be
suspended in their case. BY slow and painful
steps, by long struggles, have countries like
England or France won their prosperity, remov
ed the obstacles to freedom and civilization,
and asserted for themselves leading place In
tho world. In our own land, for instance, in
spite Of the glories of successful war, of wide.
spread commerce. and Of great intellectual
achievements, society was burdened till within
the last few years by an ever present uneasiness
arising from the knowledge that the laborng
classes were exposed to much suffering, and
were habitually sullen and disaffected. Then
we have had heavy taxes, and useless wars end
ed by peaces almost iDglorious; we have had to
deal with rivals in Europe, with rebellious mil.
lions in Inpia; we have been checked by our
own colonies; we have had, for the sake Of more
important matters, to bear with the petulanee
OF the Americans themselves. The communi.
ties which grew up beyond the Atlantic have
passed through none of these trials. No wonder
that their preachers and moralsts should as
sumo that they were placed on the new cont-
nent to carry out special design Of Providence,
for race, climate, geographical position, and the
state of Europe have combined to give them q
prosperity beyond the dreams of the most ar
dent patriot who fought with Washington.
With the whole North American Continent in
their hands either actually or as soon as they
ohose to grasp with range of territory in
which every production of temperate or tropical
climates could be hatnralized; with the whole
world coming to them for corn, cotton, and gold;
with coffee and sugar, aud even wine and tea,
among the staples congenial to their soil, and
with the hungry or restless crowds OF Europe
pouring into the country to do its rough work
and to be fashioned in the next generation into
educated and alert Republicans, the American
Union seemed to be Advancing to inordinate
prosperity and power, without any of the trials
which have hitherto been deemed inseparaDe
from the pursuit of greatness.
We are among those who think that the
Americans Of the North have no reason to de
spond as to the future, because certain cOmmu.
mites of slaveowners, differing from them in
interests, habits and temper, have resolved To
withdraw from political fellowship with them
| The ill-judged assertion of a young member oil
Parliament that the "the Republican bubbl,
had burst" gave an opportunity the other eve.
ming for Lord John Russell to express what W,
feel sure is the real feeling of Engishmen OF
what is passing in the New World. We can
not exult in the humiliation of America, moi
only because it would be no subject of exulta-
tion, but because we do not believe that there is
any real humiliation. That whatever may be
the result of this war, the people of the North
ern States must remain among the most power.
full and wealthy in tho world, is sufficiently
plain to every one who considers the true causes
of National gIeatness. Whether Southern
Senators and Representatives be sent to Wash
ington or not, New York must be the CONNER
cal metropolis of the continent Chicago must
be the Queen of the Lakes the tide Of Euro
pean immigration must flow to the temperate
regions Of the North climate and better social
organization must make the Northern States
individually far more important communities
than the Southern. But it is useless to expect
that the Northern Americans should look 80
philosophically on the subject. With them the
Union is O word Of magic power. IL has made
them grasp much and yield much, assert extrav.
agant rights and abandon the most obvious
principles. 1t has made them conservative
politicians athome, while their irritable patriot.
ism has been always on the point of embroiling
them with foreign nations. To maintain the
Union the North has yielded to all the forward
ness OF the South as to spoilt child and, in a
land where ambition and the love of gain are
strong enough, men have given up honor, power,
the possession and the distribution of emolu-
monts, in order that an obstinate and turbulent
section should be bribed by success, into COM
placency. Now that all has failed, the indg-
nation and bitterness are extreme, and we, the
English people, who from the fret hour OF the
dispute have been guarding ourselves from any
act or word which could seem like partisauship,
are not to be spared. The American giant at
the first twig of pain, breaks forth against
those who are near him, both friends and foes.
The British Government and the British Press
are the objects Of violent animsdversion wher-
ever the Northern Americans come
We learn by telegraph that Lord John Russell's
recognition Of the Confederate States as "bellig.
erents," has been discussed "in tone highly
hostile to England" Other rumors, though
perhaps not accurate, show the spirit in which
the strictly legitimate and necessary course of
our Government had been received at the North
1t was reported from Washington that the Fed
eral Government had resolved to declare war
against any Power that should interfere in the
present dispute. But the most singular instance
of this groundless irritability is to be found in
meeting of American residents at Paris, held
at the Louvre Hotel, and addressed by two, at
least of Mr.. Lincoln's dplomatists, in language
full of anger towards this country. Mr. Cassus
Clay, whose letter we published some time since,
reterates his opinion as to the vengeance which
is in store for the rebels, aud intimates that q
similar chastisement may fall on sympathizing
England. Where and wnen that sympathy has
been expressed he does not show, and he would
be unable to show. But he assumes it, and tells
US that its punishment will come from the com.
bined forces of the United States and France.
"When England mingles the red crosses of the
Union Jack with the piratcal black flag Of the
Confederate States of America, will not Just as
certainly the Tri.color and the Stars and Stripes
float in fraternal foldsf Can Napoleon forget
St. Helena, etc.7" ''D0es the Times understand
met" he asks in another place. Mr.. Burlin-
game, the Minister to Vienna, follows with less
violence, but in similar language of complaint.
1t shows how incapable of reflection the North
erners have become through excitement, that
this gentleman resents il as an insult to his
country that Lord John Russell alluded to the
precedent Of the Turks and Greeks, which Mr..
Burlingame calls comparing us to Turks" as
If when reported case is cited to support legal
decision it is intended to draw any comparison
between the character of the former and the