The New York herald., 1865-03-29


The British Press ana Parliament ON
| tion.
Awouderfal change IN the tone Of the British
press and in the debates u the British Parla-
ment has been brought about within the last
few months in reference to American affairs.
| The leading English journals have discovered
| that their much vaunted Southern confederacy
is failure; that il is vulnerable at every point;
that, exhausted Of its military reserves, il may
| be penetrated and overrun in any direction;
that, whether now resolving to abolish or to
maintain slavery, it is "house divided against
itself, and cannot stand;" that the end APP
proaches, and that there is reason to fear that
the terrible armed legions Of the Union may
pour over resistless tide of invasion into
Canada The perfdious neutrality Of England
in this war is suggestive Of fearful settlement;
and the guilty parties of the press, Parliament
and Cabinet, in their alarm, have dropped
their bravado, their mockery and insolence, and
are beginning to whine and cringe and put in
their feeble excuses.
We are restored, in British opinion, to the
dignity of recognized Power among the na-
tions; we have become great and magnani-
nous peoples we are no longer mob-governed
rabble of Goths and Vandals. President Lin
coins administration has shown every DISPOSE
ton of peace and friendship towards England.
He is President statesman, and the great mass
of the American yeomanry of the North are
likewise sagacious and conservative. Let US
be thankful for these latter-day British compli-
ments, and let us forget the Alabama in the
fattering recognition by the Edinburg Revie,o
of Grant and Sherman as the equals in the
strategy and tactics of war to Napoleon and
Wellington.
Very consoling, indeed, was the general drift
Of the debate in her Majesty's House of Com
mons on the 18th inst. Mr.. W. Fitzgerald was
apprehensive of war with the United States,
and thought it important to look to the defence
of Canada. Mr.. W. Forster believed such fears
utterly groundless. The suspicion arose from
the efforts of two classes-'one consisting Of
Confederate agents and sympathizers, the
other of disappointed prophets" Good for
Mr.. Forster. But Mr.. Disraeli particularly dis
tnguished himself on this occasion. He had
no complaints to make against the government
of the United States. On the contrary, he was
free to say that under circumstances Of almost
unprecedented difficulty that government had
conducted itself with great energy and discre-
ton. (Hear, hear)" He had q good opinion
of the American people. They were not to be
judged by the "rowdy rhetoric Of certain jour
nails" They were not "made up of the scum
of turbulent cities" and stock jobbers. They
were "a territorial democracy" They would
recognize sufficient task before them in the
reorganization Of the government AT the same
time her Majesty's advisers had been very in
consistent in their declarations during this
war-one day leading the public to expect "a
diplomatic recognition Of the Southern States,'
and shortly afterwards asserting that they did
not recognize single element of political inde-
pendence in the South" From these hints it is
evident that Mr.. Disraeli could work up this
subject into romantic story, exceeding in its
interesting situations his "Wondrous Tale Of
Alroy."
John Bright, that fearless representative Of
the British masses, administered some whole.
some truths to her Majesty's government
touching its unfriendly course towards the
United States in this struggle. He thought,
however, that as the United States had no de-
sire Of making war upon Canada, and that as
neither Canada nor England desired 1t, the
Fenian Brotherhood would hardly be, able to
bring 1t about. Az for American mobs, he
broadly hinted to Lord Palmerston that "the
real mob in your sense Is that party of chival-
rous gentlemen in the South who have received,
am sorry to say, so much sympathy from some
persons in this country and in this House."
Lord Palmerston closed the debate as the
very prince Of peace. However belligerent he
may have been heretofore, he is now very
good specimen of q Quaker gun. His govern
ment from the beginning had sought to avoid
giving offence to the United States. There was
"no jealousy in England of the United States"
Not q particle; nor would England give any
just cause of complaint. Canada, however,
ought to be prepared for defence, and defended
il necessary But not upon this matter, nor
upon any other, was there any real grocnd for
a quarrel between the two countries. He had
sno complaint to make against the United
States" "The present relation between the
two countries were perfectly friendly and salts
factory
Is not this q charming picture? Gould we
desire anything more? But in all this discus
sion the real ground Of England's sympathy
with the rebellion, and her real dangers rom
its suppression, were not even limited at.
With the success Of our war of independence
the republican ideas Of khe United States kin
put down the Bourbons, exterminated the
ancient aristocracy. set up the republic of
"Liberty Equality and Fraternity" and shook
the continent Of Europe for twenty years as
with the throes Of mighty earthquake. The
same republican elements still exist, from the