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alteration Of Eaglish FEELING from, tha sida or
justice, the evil effects of which are now falt
and, we fear, will long be felt in tbe astrsnge,,
ment of England and America
For, as NJ. Louis Blanc, with his customary
candor, repeatedly and with pain acknowl-
edges there icds q distinct alteration Of feeling
on the part OF English society on the Part,
that Is, of the great mass of the aristooracy aLd
the middle class-from those lib sral principles
which receive everywhere more than enough OF
the homage ofour lip-loyalty. The people did
not join la this somewhat contemplate out
,'t v'urst OF Jealous vanity; but the People had not
,eI ~, succeeded to its heritage of governing
sanu. ln public affairs, the House of Com
sentiro tha administrative committee, repno-
oon.,nS tne land and the capital of the country
was neld not uunatul allv by foreign nations
~ oII AnefIcah klnsmen, az well as by our
Gonunsn.a' ION S nslghoors, to represent the ma
ton. ANA when It became clear that "lhe
Model Republic, as it was tauntingly tanned
was fnextrlcably involved in the coils OF n as
astrous civil war, it did not long remain a mat
ter OF doubt that the large majority Of tie
British Parliament was eXuitaht at the assum-
ed ruin of the Democracy, the formidable Of
shoot of Anglo-Saxon energy, and dreaded riv-
al of the British name. Hence the rapid
change OF sentiment on the Subject ofSlaveIy,
So seemingly inexplicable, SO uninteligib'e, so
illogical NJ Louis Blanc seems to have fet
the sudden evolution astonishing at ali events,
even If capable OF a simple, though not credlta-
BILE explanation.
1t Is manifest to any one now looking back on
the history Of the four years during which the
future OF the American Union was wrapt in
gloomy uncertainty, that our Tory and Wbig
statesmen, our pseudo-liberal orators and jour
nalists, rejoiced in the danger TO the Republic,
and, In prophesying the defeat Of the North,
forecasted their most Jealous anticipatiOns
For this base rejection of principle we have
since been punished; the Restoration of the
Union has been thing to make England un-
easy; and as yet, who shall say that the peril
has passed by' The United States have not
| forgotten-it would hardly be in human ma
ture so soon to forget-the building and equip
ment of the Alabama, the opposition which
was offered to the enforcement of the
Foreign Enlistment Act the apathy that
was exhibited in the matter of Mr..
Lairds questionable practices. Aud some time
most earnestly do we hope that day may new
er come-it may be in the power Of the men
we then thought it light thing TO insult aud
wrong, to pay back to US some of the injuries
and contumelies which we were guilty of abet-
ting. A more short-sighted and suicidal po J.
cy than we maintained, from the hour that the
first shot was fired in South Carolina TO tho
day when Lee gave up his sword at Appoma-
tox Court House. could not have been easily
devised. At the time, as these letters abun-
dantly testify, our mistakes were plainly seen
by the the most liberal minds; but for the in
slant prejudices were omnipotent and
wrought mischief of which it would be rash to
| say that we have yet seen the end. No part of
| these volumes Is more instructive than the let
| tsis which deal with the Alabama case Now,
/ with the Union restored. with Fenian organ
ixaton continuing to menace u.s. the warn
| ings contained in these acute political discus.
| sions have o most notable confirmation
"DuaIism in Austria" La Bruyere, his
Life and Works. Democracy" "Russia,"
and the usual review of Contemporary Litera-
ture are the remaining contents of this num-
ber.
THE EDINBUReH REVIEW, for October
| (from the same American republishers) con-
tains q review of the first fifteen volumes Of
the Correspondence of Napoleon L.; very in
| teresting article ON the Life and Writings Of
Maria Edgeworth; political paper entitled
"The Session and its Sequel" an article on
Trades Unions" in which some prominent
features of the labor question are carefully
discussed; another on the "The Amendment
| of the Anglican Rubric; !" some account of ''The
Christians of Madagascar review of the
| memoirs of Thomas Drummond, and a pape
| on Qualification" in which the disorder and
complexity of the condition of English civil
| law are very torcibly set forth.