New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-04-29
ENGLAND AND THE UNITED
STATES.

STATES.
The London Times, in one Of lis recent edl-
torials. made the reluctant admission that
English expectations concerning the American
war had been disappointed in many and i'm
portant respects. The greatest of these disap-
pointments concerns the issue Of the war.
Hundreds of British journals had predicted with
an assurance which fully equaled that of the
most rabid organs Of the Rebel States, that the
United States would never be able TO restore
the Union. This confidence. ~ is no longer de-
MED by any one has been shaken. Some OF the
Rebel sympathizers are candid enough to admit
that in their opinion the Conlcderacy IS lost;
while others endeayor TO console themselves with
he hope that we shall be troubled for at least 20
or 30 years with guerrilla warfare. The shock
which English opinion has quite recently re-
ceivcd by the fall Of Richmond indicates that
even this confidence will ere long give way. The
surrender Of Lee and Johnston will complete
the revolution in English opinion, and a
few months hence the entire paciiica,ion OF the
Rebellious States willprove to the most virulen,
enemy Of the United State, that the Democratic
institutions Of this country, on which so much
abuse had been heapcl have come triumphanty
out of the fiery ordeal through which they have
passed. What the English aristocrats dreaded
so much, and what many of them frankly adj.
United 10 be- the chief cause Of their
sympathy with the Rebel cause was the
astonishing progress and development Of the
United States which will again manifest itself,
and at a more rapid rate than before. The
comparative increase Of population and of COM
mcrce in tho United States and in England
during the last thirty years, is guarantee that
/ in both respects England will soon fall far be-
| hind the United States.
We have again before us, thanks beto God, the
prospect of long and lasting peace. England Is
at present, less favorably situated than we arc.
While here the last Rebel army is on the poiu;
of surendering, England is involved in two
foreign wars, without induging even the hope
| of bringing them soon 20 satisfactory close;
| the one. the war in New Zealand-,he other,
I that against Bhootan, a country north Of British
India.
We need not enter at length into the origin
aud the character of those wars. Public opinion
jamong liberal Englishmen blames their own
statesmen for both, which, it is supposed, could
aud ought to have been avoided. On the other
Hand, it Is but fair for even tie opponents OF
England TO admit chat, just or unjust as the
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not gain By the defeat OF the English, as their
Iopponents are sayages, like our own Indians,
whose triumph could only arrest the march o.
civilization.
For our purpose It suilces to cite these war,
in Ncw-zealand and in Bhootan as proofs that
the external relations OF Great Britain are of a
/ less pacific character than those OF the United
States. Neither Of these hostile tribes are suii-
cently powerful TO carry on an aggressive war
against England with any chance Of success;
while, on the other baud, both have demonstra-
ted their ability to keep the English at bay for
considerable length Of time. Both have shown
that they can fight; and the letters Of British
officers who take part in the campaign against
DIOOidhs dbIilAt thdL l4'l HdNN i'A'lhtu Hohi
the sayages a sound "thrashing." Since then
/ the English have again gained some advant.
4 ages, and they were preparing TO strike de-
csivc blow before the rcopening Of the hot
weather when the operations must be closed.
II is fortunate for England that the sayages
who have learned how 10 fight have not ut the
same time learned how to issue idi,rs Of marqHe
IT, in the ease of either Of these wars being pro-
tractcd, the New-Zcalandera or the Bhootans
should secure the services Of some smart "Fe-
MANS" who would copy the conduct Of the
Rebel leaders with regard to the United States
III is Obvious that English commerce would be
Exposed TO a more lasting danger than ours has
been. England, in due time, will learn that,
South Carolina ere long will show less dislrcc-
ton toward the United States than even ireland
does against England.