The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1862-02-01
THE NEW YORK SUN.
SATURDAY MORNING, FEB. /, 1862.



Tho English journals have referred to tho mob
spirit u this country, as ruling the administra-
ton with such a rod Of iron, AMI asserted that if
no aid were extended TO President Lincoln, his
efforts 10 do right might 10 oyerlhrown by the
mad violence of our people. How such aid was
TO DO extended has not boon explained, but in
view OF tho recent action of the war party Ia
England the intima,ion may have been To-
tended that our administration should quietly
send on the Rebels TO England, without public
knowledge of the fact, and that tho intelligence
should DO first expl .ined to the American pub
lie after the ENJOYS were beyond its reach. Is,
this "a II may, many English journals, with
good feelings towards us, expressed those fears
Of our moi violence, and II was our better
knoHl,dss Of our countrymen which enabled to
dismiss them with the little attention which, AT
the time, thoy received.
1t now appears that the suppression Of p Iblc
intelligence has been practicod Ia England, APP
parently through fear OF tho public inclinations
towards peace, with results as unjust to tho
people, and as DISASTROUS in credit to tho sup
pressing power, as would have been tho case
here Tho note OF Score airy SEWARD TO our
Minister in London, Mr.. ADAMS, dated Nov.
30th. which preceded the surrender Of MASON
& SLIDaLL disavowed their seizure as official,
and expressed the readiness of our government
to meet in a friendly manner any questions
which the seizure might raise. This note was
read TO Earl RussEIL ~ London, by Mr..
ADAMS, shortly after its receipt, and tho only
official publication of its contents ever made,
was the admission, by the Ministerial journal,
that friendly dispatch had been received, but
falsely adding the statement that IL did not ro-
fer, in any wife, TO the question in dispute.
The subsequent publication Of this note, by tbs
American Journals, reveals 10 the British pub
lie how shamefully it has been imposed upon,
and how unjusuy the war expenditures have
bean carried on, long after facts had proven to
were unnecessary.
OF course this knowledge has aroused Justly
Indignant comments. The London STAR knows
OF but lone man high enough in office, and
low enough in character to have inspired tho
atrocious composition which for three weeks
gave renewed strength to the fever that has so
wasted tho national resources and diseased the
rational mind. The Minister who mutiated
ms Afghan dispatches is alone capable Of hav-
ing suppressed, and denied the existence Of
Mr.. Stewards message Of peace. The former
deed Of yillainy was done to haven't excuses fol
a war as unnecessary as disastrous; the latter
must have BON perpotratsd with the still
more guilty purpose Of provoking a still more
enormous calamity. The foolish clemsncy o
the House of Commons c,ndoned the one of.
tence; will not Parliament and people unite in
the infection Of punishm ent for the other"
The LoAdon News remarks 1--WE have
never been Of the number Of those who would
eomplAiu if every inciden, of a series OF publ,
transactions is not delivered to premstur,
publicity. We cannot, however, avoid the re-
mark that IL a Ministerial journalist 10 not ens
bled TO sRlighten the public on particular trans
actions, he is under peculiar obligations not u
mislead and perplex II by statements soemingl,
authoritative but wholly erroneous"
The London STAR, at later date also ques
tions the war journals as follows alt appear
FROM Lord RUssELLs private Instructions t
Lord LYoSs that he was not TO inform Mr., SEW
ARD Of HIS orders in the event Of reparation be
ing refused. Who then, informed the TINE
and the Posi- that, in such case, Lord LroN
was to leave within seven daysi-which il
formation went out TO America with the di
patch ana instructions, producing all the irrita
log effect which Lord RUSSELL 70 honestly an
hororably deprecated. There must be some oil
in the most secret councils of the Crown wi
traversss the declared and binding policy of i
Responsible advisers"
Such are the comments which, abiding
this transaction have appeared in most OF Il
independent journals Of Great Britain, within
few ~ eks past,