The New York herald., 1862-01-11
England's Anxious Watchings for the
Answer from America.
[Frnm the London Times. Dec. Isl


The dolsy which winter gales have wrought in the
transmission q news across the Atlantic. be
sti in Goubt as To The reception OF the British demands
by government and people OF the Northern states.
Tie Europa, which carried the British demand Of repara-
tion passed Cape Face the 18th, but did commit
nica.e; she would however, be at Halifax in thirty
SIX hours af,er, aud then her momentoLs
would be flashed through the country having at
least two days to do its work in the Shue OF
" sensation (" tclegrams before the remonstranccs and
cxh ratons Of the Americans in this country could reach
the goy Washington. In fais y.rha3s ,es tie
chi danser # Tie unfortunate issue In country where
the msltitu e Is all powerful and a. goU7nme,t B,d
degree unk'ose'' in Evr1e quite posfLe dat ne rs
on If the ty The gedt cts o. Cs Jnitn may deer
mine H. Gciion Of s Eretaie, az teos', iea b.e chi
t the republic into deciaroons r0m rAth d,ty ud
fni & Gc,h d-uw back. We cannot n'ii that wh,
the demands Of the British government wee made
known 10 Mr. Lincoln, when he found that
IN resolve to have rei alton and when mo cover,
the deliberate and unsolicited Judgment of France
given in tho case, he or any other sensible
wculi be slow to refuse conc sscn, and 70 take tho al
Tentative Of war, which. whatever its iieiccs
other quarters, st res, in the Independence o the
South. There Is In the acts Of the Washington poiti-
clans enough To sh that they are beginning 4, have
8 me appreh ansions Of dispute with this country
and wiling e. leave open door for escaping from
the difficulty thoush they had not the ncknow-
edgr that Cai tain Wilkes net was indefcnslbe
admit hat there could be doubt aaou, the law. We
cannc bu! hoIe that they will have had the power uso
the prudence which they TO possess and that when
the demand Of the itish government arrived President
Lincoln was not Influenced by any wnrkc demonstra
tors the part of his countrymcn, committed by
any hasty language uttered by himself or his minister's
sober Second Thought on the Trent Case.
From tie LDncun Times, lee. u.
Although the weight OF the authority that has been
br ugh, 10 bear President Lincoln Cabinet by the
rspresen atoms Of or bwn government, together with
th Of France AMI Austria may be expected 10 induce
ncosson is tue Americans are really wiling t. do JUS
tie vt at this lat hour oiOM at % nit al
op o t,niy Of strengthening case osd Has aidin2
tte Gus II Ie7oe W m7.fng prdiicn q pia,n drd
unri trkegtic 0utr Oar reade have, doubt,
been sgrprisol 10 a which Is exactly
Ia point with that Of the Trent alluded 10 for the
II NE than three weeks after tho FIRST discuss
sos have began. Indcc1 u Is most extraordinary that
lawyer has mentioned the n within tho last few
days, for IL disposs of Of the rctors which have
BEEN addressed " Ei gland by the Americans
siding in Europe. When tho news Of tho capture Of
the Commissioners reached us, the FIRST feelings OF in.
dgnati, mingled with uneasy sycinn that
acts OF nclrly rosenb tll that cf Gao.
tain Wilkes might be brought forward againrt Ls.
In has been truly said that we carried
bell gcrcn, claims to the furhest point and that our
poiiticins, officers and Admiralty Judges
which foreign States deeply resented Tic law OF natons
eaty dc idcd by the conscience Of the strongest ard
oug In The &C England that conscience was for
many years in the Keeping of a 50 acute learned
ard ulrRht Sir William Scott, yet it Is as.
serted, perhaps with justice, tc, n rrs tn,on.
o,s,lg bicssd by The circunsoncs " his corpy
asd nhncic'sd prtptfles whch The jrRt dge Is III yod
10 uodify But though the judgments OF the Eng ish
Psze courts and the acts of jealous post cap
tiins have been narrowly ched to find precedent
for the seizure Of Mcssrs Mason aud Sldel yet the
Americans havo been unable 10 extract miserable su
oyooue from the records OF fty years sncefrom the
history OF time when neutral rights regarded but
little either by great adversary, Napoleon, land
or by ourselves On the ocean,