The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-05-20
AMERICAN AFFAIRS n EUROPE.
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Our London Correspondencc.
LONDON, May 2, 1862.
4soEa~Gs kansydcusiag Distren Gradually Changing
Her american Policy-Ar Gladstones Speech an Indi-
eation Of TAis-Napoeon's Pesosr Over John Ball
Chicane'y and Hostility Of the London Press-Frames
Said to Be Our Frtend-A British War Againss Fdal
tsns-The Great Exhibition, dc.
In assuming decidedly in the preceding letter the
Acstty Of this country the people Of the North
a least to their sndeavors the dreaded Union
Ihad Irscoect some slight twinges Of misgivng for
fear might from canting protestaons both Sides
% thought TO have exaggerated s extent generality
Therefore determined the nrst opportunity. TO give
fair reason for the faith II In mo- or an events
Tor such Of It as may send your readers This task
has been fulfilled for by subsequent events. refer
TO the speech Of Mr. Gladstone Manchester COM
bined with certain articles there the London
S0. Tho and the place both -ominently 70
che purpose Manchester you thought to BE- the centre
of your English friends But lot not expect tho peo
PIE 70 be more than Englishmen Their interests
e party maintained silence in Manchester the
appearance Of Mr.. Gladstone that scene. This
gentleman himself, as you know, Is Of the party,
Or rather he s somewhere between II and the
wings, as by like transition he passed
20 wings from tories On the occasion Of visit his
fatherland some months ago. spoke with high appro
val Of and Of your course. But now, before
an audience Of your best friends in England he formally
abandons them both, with loud applause. Remember
also that he not only radical but minstsr-subor.
Anase, indeed at present. but supreme in expectancy
and you will perhaps deeper import in his Ian
guase. Moreover would ask your particular attention
70 the articles in the Times OF last Saturday and again Of
yesterday. They have manfestly been inspired from
TIE Same source % the speech. They will show you
what brewing in the public mind Of England rather
= its belly, this still less sxorabe Tho Man
chester parity who keep In the present Ministry have
oesn from the outset the sole English action But
thsy submerged by the swelling Distress for
which public contributions solicited In London be
Followed perhaps in the House by claim upon the sink
hg treasury. And then to grant this claim would be
- open TO starving Ireland who reduced, usual to
knock ct the door, In such situation you will easily
conceive that in order seize the pretsxt for in
srventon hsre remains but 10 obtain the cooperation
o. consent Of France And thus you could yourself ex
plain the late demonstration.
But can moreover you In point Of fact that
Che Emperor has lately been and still II solicited 10 the
eject alluded to, in certain contingency. This would
b either formidable repulss prolonged resistance
% your main army at Yorktown Napoleon will smu-
1te inclination did befors for he wishes 10 Aase
England sreu comastsd soA u. AMericans Accordingly
the English journals resuming their OLD trick about
The urgency Of France get England Join her, and
ahsy point with sxutation 70 N. Mercier's Richmond
visit: for this people and their press are 80 inena-
BY stolid ~ TO show not the least sense Of
their former exposure. You remember how for months
Shey kept chanting selflaudations about the English
conscience and public law which alone
saved tho Americans from French Intervention, until
French minister declared in the Chamber that France
not only never had such purpose herself but would not
have allowed the act in sthers-mcanng England. Yot
che creatures thus unmasksd at their dirty work
sSain. Perhaps, however, for this the name stupid
~ 10 unjust. What is that intense sslashnsss
which hunts it's prey but by the nose and therefore
never looks above, around. behind It, and
may easily (and incorrigbly, like all nsncts) be
cIrcumvented by those who understand the creeping
cunning incidental to It, Accordingly the French gov
srnment through certain channels sewers in Paris
makes systematic Of 1t to bambooze John Bull by
manufacturing daily news for the correspondents OF the
London papers, And nothing is moro comic To those who
know the farce than the truly aplon with
which these cocknsys reveal each morning their pro
found readers the closest French Cabinet
che quarres OF he French general and Rome
the Vaccinations Of the Empress favor OF the Pope
the dssensions OF the French and Spanish generals in
Mexico the dgnined attitude Of England amid all these
fo!lies and when the has end or is ex
posed by events, the contrary reported by the
scrbes without comment, and all the contradictions
"upon the best authority" This authority will now
perhaps, as formerly supply them with French nstga
sions American intervention and the press
Ind public again may copy and credit them 1t is
possible, TO prevent this that have gone into these
details For, however such conduct should DO named
n the English, who guled but through overwcen
ing real for own interests In tho Americans who
weuld be knowingly thus imperilng their own cause
ptdny. .3..-
may bs told that one or two OF the London journals
plead your and must thus imply certain English
public in your favor But u be that those things
luposs upon Americana One OF the said champions
hs Manchester organ and only mark It's silence since
s'f9S'sS Pl ;f;s ~ Srs5 ss E'.SSn
0srcal rival OF the Tines. Whatsoever IL cspouscd by
Che oearchca leading Journal is decred by the radical
Cpmpettor, which would be leader Such, accordingly
LOT the NORTH the Union, that vindcates tho
topic, with Mr. Bright, ID frss institutional IN
not ths South asr The secession that il ever ves the
theme Of indignation is the bondage Of the negro But
what Eng shman would venture or would caro- 70 take
unbrage about these tri.s distractions OF reedom"
and "sIavery, which he we'll knows TO be the stock in
trade OF the national can would discard paper be.
cause It utilities any topic whatever in business compe
sitonf Trade with him is warfare, and all is fair in
The abored because ukcwarm declaration Of the Lon.
Con Ncs might be hereafter cited, when the Union was
show Americans that body OF tho Engsh
people-ths merchant casses-had been always, to a
man. In favor Of the North, ana Ike the just OF
0odom, should atone for the whole country. Hence
ths paper Is connved at In It's Pckwickian advocacy
And so, in paiaton, constant inveighs against the
principal champion OF the Union the NKw York HERALD
this being the sole American Journal that into tho
English. This is tho plain truth about your two sole
organs In the English press. No; II England
posd, by ballot, the question, would stake
my existence that the North would not have twelve
votes.
Do not therefore, inquire about the Southern Commits.
soners what may BE- their ntrigues or the dispositions
Of England. All that is decided, cut and dry Keep the
Of your government and people but 10 two things
that they mantdn their present advantages and .nrqy..
Of keep good pt France Either
Of these positions and these alone save them from
what they would have months ago but for Ma