Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-06-15
GREAT BRITAIN.


don correspondence of the New York Times,
under date of April goth. We care moth
ing now for the good will of Great Britain,
as we will soon be in condition to demand
all we have reason to expect from any for.
.eign Government; but it is of interest to
the reader to watch the game that is playing
in the once famed British Parliament
They are watching (Which way the cat
jumps" and will be prepared to recognize
US when our.own success will have shown
how worthless their recognition is. We
have "friends" in Britain, doubtless so
have We in Yankeedom, as the establish
ment of Peace will surely show, by the num-
bers who will visit US with samples of their
wares; but the "Yaukee" is universal
Read the extracts Ed. Emo.
AS soon as the Danish question is settled,
the American question will come before
Parliament in a more serious shape than
ever. On Thursday night there was a five
hours debate in the House on the case of
the Tuscaloosa, with which the British Gov
ernment played fast and loose in SO queer
fashion at the Cape of Good Hope-whese,
by the way, the Alabama has just returned
to rs6t, and been received with acclama-
tions, after burning nine. large United States
merchantmen. The new move will be one
for peace, based on memorials sent from
every part of the kingdom to both houses
of Parliament. These petitions are instiga.
ted by ''Society for Promoting the Cessa-
ton of Hostilities in America" which has
for its President Rear Admiral Anson. This
society, which is acting chiefly through the
clergy of the Established Church, urges
"that the subjugation or eztermiuatiop of
six millions of people is an alternative uu-
paralleled in Christian tines" and "that it
is the duty Of every Christian throughout
the world to use his influence against the
further prosecution of such a war;" Sc
Pamphlets, tracts aud circulars are distrib-
uted in editions of ten or twenty thousand
copies.
The danger from such movements is not
that Earl Russell will be frightened from
his position of ''friendly neutrality" but
that the Government itself may be over
thrown; and as the opposition is becoming
every day more committed to the Southern
cause, there is reason to apprebend that
when it comes into power twill feel obliged
to take course quite diferen. from the one
it row condemns. 1 have reason to know
that the friends of the South, iu aud out Of
Parliament, are waiting with impatience for
the time to come when they can bring this
question to an issue. The position is favor,
able to the North as long as the present
Government can maintain its place, fer the
very attacks of the Opposition make the
ministers, law officers of the crown, and to
certain extent, the Government press, par
tizans of the North The danger is that
they will yield in Difference to public opin-
ion, or be defeated. Fortunately, Palmer
ston and Russell are too fond of power to
be easily. driven out, and Russell is stubborn
enough to have his own way as long as there
is such possibility.
In the "Tuscaloosa" case, in the House
of Lords, Lord Chelmsford accused Earl
Russell Of trucking to the Federals, and
said they had no right to seize the vessel,
and ought to make an apology and compen-
satiou TO the Confederate Government !;
which; as Earl Russell has driven Mr..
Mason fre,n Eoeland, and has not even a
consul ia the doninions of Davis, would not
be an easy matter to manage. The English
Government wishes to send commercial
agents to the South, as appointing consuls
would be equivalent to recognition, and nei-
ther ships nor guns are ready for that; bat
Mr.. Davis, understand, objects to any
half way proceedings.
Last night Earl Derby made speech of
two hours in the Lords, on the case of the
rams, making the most, of course, of the
''so.styled" Mallory report, which he said
had been furnished to the Government in
an extract from the New York Daily Times
which was we'll known to be the organ of
Mr.. Sewsrd-making' strong insinuation
that Mr.. Seward had himself concocted the
document, or caused it to be coucocted, and
reading an ezzracs from the Philadelphia
Age to support, not his charge, but iDsinu-.
alton. But as he denounced the forgery as
q clumsy one, which had neither the proper
form nor the matter of such documents, he