New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-01

/. traton distracted by civil war. The record Of
mankind chronicles selfayowed infamy like this
One of the yeow-plushes Palmerston's private
Moniteur-IHe Morning Post-fnds itself arraigned
on most ugly charge from the American papers.
John Boil has never been informed-on information
carefully withheld from him by the oligarchs that
lord it over him-that Mr.. Seward, without awaiting
Russers dispatch, had disayowea any participation
of the Washington Cabinet in the act OF Capt.
Wilkes. Mr.. Stewards dispatch arrived at London
on December 10. On the Goth December, the rumor
Of this " secret" spread on the Stock Exchange. On
the 2lst, the yelIow-plush of Tie Morning Post
stepped forward to gravey herald that the dispatch
in question does not in any way whatever refer 10
4" the outrage our mail packet
In The Daily News, The Morning Star, and other
London journals, you win find yellow-plush pretty
sharply handled but You viii not learn from them
what people ont of doors say. They say that Tie
Morning Post and The Times, like the Patrte and
the Pays, duped the public not only to politically
misead them but to fleece them in the monetary line
on the Stock Exchange in tie interest Of their pat
rons.
The brazen Times, fully aware that during the
whole crisis it had compromised nobody but ITSELF
and given another proof OF the hoowness of its pre-
tensions of influencing the real people Of England
plays to-day trick which here at Loodon only
works upon the laughing muscles, but on the other
side of the Atlantic, might be misinterpreed. Tho
" popular classes of London, the "mob," as the
yellow-push call them, have given unmistakabls
signs-have even limited in neyspapers-that they
should consider il exceedingly reasonable joke to
treat Mason (by the by, distant relative OF falmefs-
Ton since the original Mason hsd MARRIED daughter
of Sir ". Temple), Sidell & Co. with the same
demonstrations Iaynau received on Lls visit at bar
claws brewery. The Times stands sghast at the
mere idea of such shocking Incident, and bow does
il try TO parry III IL adm)nsbes the people Of En-.
GLAND not 10 overwhelm Mason, Sdeli Il Co. with
anv sort Of public orationl Tie Times knows that
its to-days article will form the aughingstoeH OF al
the tap.rooms of London. But never mind! People
on the other side Of the Atlantic may, perhaPs fancy
that the magnanmiiy Of TIE Times has saved tnem
from the afront Of public ovations to Mason, siiie1
s. Co., while, in point Of fact, TIE Tunes only IN
tends saving those gentlemen from public iDeuu'
So long az the Trent affair was undecided, The
Times, The Post, Tile Herald, The Economist The
Saturday Reriew, in fact the whole oil the FASHION
able. hreng press Of London, had tried its utmost
to persuade John Bull that the Warrington Govern
ment, even if it wiIled would prove unable to keep
tie peace becsuse the Yankee mob would not allow
il, and because the Federal Government was mob
Government. Facts have now given them the lie
direct. Do they now atone Tor their malignant slaa-
ders against he American peopel Do they at least
confess the errors which yelowplusb, IN presuming
70 iudge Of the ac,s o! free people, could not but
commit BY no means. They now unanimously dis
cover that the American Government, in not anticl'
paiing Encand's demands and not sunendenpg the
Southern traitors as lis they were caught, mssed
great occasion, and deprived it, present concession
OF all merit. Indeed, yellow plush. Mr.. Seward
dsavowed the act OF Wilkes before the arrival Of
the English demands, and NJ once declared himself
willing to enter upon a conciiiatory course and whs'
did YOU do on similar occasions! When on the pre-
text Of impressing English sailors on board American
ships-a pIetext not a, ali connected with mari
time begerent rights, but downright, mons
lrous usurpation against all international iaw-the
Leopard fired its broadside at tie Chesapeake,
killed six, wounded twenty-one of her sailors, and
seized the pretended Englshmen on board tho
Chesapeake, what did the English Government dol
That outrage was perpetrated the 10Th OF June,
1897. The real satisfaction, the surrender Of the
sailors &C., was only offered November {, 1872,
i've wears later. The British Government it is true,
dsayowed at once the set Of Admiral Berkeley u
Mr.. Seward did in regard TO Capt. Wilkes; but to
punish the Admiral, it removed him from inferior
to superior rank. England, in procisiming her
Orders in Council, distinctly confessed that they
were outrages the rights of neutrals in general,
and Of the United States in particular that they
were forced upon her measures Of retaliation
against Napoleon, and that she would feel but too
glad TO revoke them whenever Napoleon should
revoke his Entertainments on neutral rights. Espo-
leon did revoke them, far as the United States
were concerned, in the Spring of 1910. England
persisted in her avowed outrage on the maritime
rights Of America. Her resistance lasted from 1896
to 23d If June, lSl2-after, the 18th OF June,
1912, the United States had declared against
England. England absisined, consequently, in THE
case for elk years not from atoning for confessed
outrage, but from disseminating it. And this people
talk Of the magnificent occasion missed by the
Ame can Government Whether in the wrong or
in the right it was a cowardly set on the part Of
the British Government 10 back complaint grounded
on pretended technical bunder, and mere error d
procedure, by an ultmatum, by demand for ths
surrender Of the prisoners The American Govern |
ment might have reasons TO accede TO that demand;
it could have none to anticipate il.
BY tho present settlement Of the Trent collision
the question underlying the whole dispute, and likely
to again occur--the belligerent rights of maritime
power against neutrals-has not been settled shall,
with your permission. try TO survey the whole ques'
ton in subsequent, letter. For the present, allow
me TO add that, in my opinion, Messrs Mason and