New-York tribune., 1869-05-12
THE LONDON PRESS WAKES UP AT LAST.
AN EXPLOSION OF ANGER
IFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

THE LONDON PRESS WAKES UP All LAST.
AN EXPLOSION OF ANGER.
IFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
LONDON, April 3O.-The response to Mr.. Summers
speech delayed for three days. has come at last with
such an explosion Of anger as has not been heard for
many a month 1t has stirred that kind of rage
which rises in the breast of man who finds himself
suddenly summoned to make complete reparaton
Tor acts of the guilt of which he is conscious,
but the consequences Of which he had hoped
TO escape, In private, there Is no limit
10 the gross epithets bestowed on Mr.. Sumner.
In public he is the object of vindicivo denuncia
tion almost without limits. shall not think itworth
while to pay much attention to the attacks OF jour
mails which we have long known as enemies. Indeed
they are comparatively moderate. The most vehe-
ment abuse comes now from some of our old friends.
But they too must wait till have given an account
of demonstration from another quarter.
Among all the replies elected by Mr.. Summers
speech that of The Pail Mall Gazette is by far the
most remarkable and most important 1t is, indeed,
of the most remarkable articles ever printed in
any newspaper. have said IN a former letter that
there are three daily journals in London so cOnspcu
GUS for ability as to form class by themselves. They
are The Times, The Daily Nelcs, and The Pal Mall
Gdsette. Ii happens also that each of the three
represents a distinct class, The Times speak
ing for that great section which pos
as Mr. Goldwin Smith has named it The Daily Nelrs
representing modern Liberalism and The Pail Mall
Gazette being distinctly the organ of the English
OhgaTchy, by which mean the ruling class, COM
posed mainly of what is called the aristOcracy. and
for the most part possessing property in land. tits
the class which is predominant in society well as
in politics. which gives the tone to the clubs, and
from which officers Of the army and the navy are
mostly recruited. Politically, and for convent
Conservative like that well-known New-England
family which invested as Theodore Parker said, one
son in each political party Spite of all political re-
forms, spite of the startling growth of the more
purely commercial class, it is still the landed aristoc
racy Of Great Britain which rules Great Britain and
it is this great power of which The Pail Mall Gazette
than any other one journal is the representa-
tive. explain this at some length because want
10 impress upon American readers the importance Of
tho declaration which it has made on the Alabama
question.
What is this decarationi In the first place The
Pail Mall Gazette says, frankly il is glad the speech
has been made, and for two because, first,
it viii bring home to Englishmen what the American
demand really amounts tO-and tins demand is esti-
mated at f5OO, 100000 in money; which seems TO be
the only English way Of estimating anything. 1t
welcomes the speech, secondly, because 1t will
strengthen the hands of the Government in
declining to negotiate any further. 1t has held all
along that Lord Stanley and Lord Clarendon ought
70 hayo made it clear to Mr. ReveTdy johnson that
in arguing the question of recognition he simply
wasting his breath" Mr.. Sumner has now shown
what viii be the consequences of discussing the
question Of negotiation-a bill for five hundred mil
lions sterling damages. Hence, says The Gazette,
" "either VIC must acknowledge that the civil war
was as much our work as the souths
must abandon the hope of bringing the
american people into more friendly attitude
toward this country AS even the EXTREMIST
Northern sympathzer will hardly 90 the lengths
demanded by Mr. Sumner, We may hope that the
opinion of Euglishmen Will be practically unanimous
an favor of the latter course" That is, in many
words Tie Gazette hopes all Englshmen will agree
80 abandon the hope of being friends with America.
There can be but one logical conclusion TO such
premise, aud The Pal Mall Gagette does not shrink
from drawing it. The pith and purpose of its whole
article aud of what is to be benceforth its policy
are condensed into one cogent sentence:
1.-The paramount considerations which should
govern the present policy of this country toward the
United States arc the fruitessness Of further nego
tiatons, and the necessity of being prepared for
war"
1t would be total mistake TO suppose that this is
Iaid hastily. or the effect of irritation on reading
Mr. Summers speech.
think IL beyond doubt that the very able and re-
markably sagacious conductors of this journal long
since resolved this policy and have waited only
for q suitable occasion TO declare It. Mr.. Summers
speech furnishes the occasion. BY this declaration
Ihs PeH lfaH Gazette has put itself at the head Of
movement destined believe, to 90 far and do much
before its end is reached. This is. in iact the revival
of that old party which lOnged for the destruction
of the Republic by the Rebellion. Had The Pail
1aU Gazette been in existence at that tme 1t would
have been the rival Of The Times for tho leadership
IF that party. Now, by single article, 1t has
achieved the distinction which then it might have
Struegled for in vain Il takes the lead Of the strong
resolute, and clearsigbted party which wants war
with America
The reasons why such party should exist are
numerous and 10 an English mind Of great weight.
Commerce and letters have in these days 80
turned the minds Of men away from strife, that the
majority Of this, ~ Of other civilized nations, is
clearly opposed TO war for its own sake But there
is always powerful minority which finds itself able
to regard war as thing desirable for its own sake
A. standing army ID such manifest nuisance that il
cannot but be impatient for an opportunity