New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-19

The alarm about our claims may seem 10 us very
absurd The willingness TO sacrifice the Treaty
rather than submit TO claims which they regard as
preposterous and sure to be rejected, may both
absurd and dishonest. Ii does seem so to me, bat
what we Americans think about it viii not and
not alter the fact The situation is felt to be very
grave People have grown sober about it. There is
intense anxiety. which share, to know precisely
what this Government has said TO ours. and what
answer will be sent back, and whether the outburst
of English feeling is to provoke similar outburst
of American feeling Hardly anything else will be
seriously talked about this week. even in Parliament
where there are plenty Of other serous subjects TO
come up.
Taesday Feb. 6.-The fact Of the sending of the
dispatch. Of which Mr.. Fish was in Ignorance on
Saturday. is asserted this morning in words that
diSpe all doubt il doubt there We're It's transmits
sion is put prominently forward in The Times as
reason for postponing the expected debate in Far
lament. "If,' says that journal Mr.. Gladstone
and Lord Granville should deprecate discussion OF
the point in dispute pending the receipt of reply
from Washington TO the dispatch already forwarded.
tlev will certainly be supported by Mr.. Dsraeli and
the Duke of Richmond: nor will the most mutinous
of their own nominal adherents be disposed to en-
barTass them in the conduct OF so critical ne@o-
tiation" No doubt, but it cannot be supposed that
discussion viii be deferred unless the ministerial
declaration be explicit enough to countenance the as
"a to the character oi the dispatch already
made in those journals which arc supposed to speak
for them Nor is that declarat Oh Just now the most
essential part of the situation. The answer from
America is the essential thing; tho answer of tho
Press not less than that of the Government. There
;s NOT line from New York in this mornings papers.
presume there has been a delay on the cable and
flint eerqs did not arrive in season 70 be published
DO hat 1paV uln
are b,cinninc Think, to understand that they have
not heard the genuine echo OF all their passionate
protestations and high resolve.
Fofr ny part should be content if, for the next
fey, weeks 10 cable were in existence The facility
for RAPID intercourse ia too great, and just now
rapidity is a thing quite undesirable. Ii Lord
Granville could only write to Sir Edward Thornton
by steamer and Sir Edward were instructed TO send
Lis reply by the same conveyance. there would DC
much less likelihood Of rupture. There would be
less hazard Of display of f.mness' and OF swift
retOrt upon liable statements" and all those incl
dents Of skilled diplomacy ont of which 50 mauy
pretty quarrel has been needle ,sy fosered. Trend
sent me q message yesterday hoping | would not
write too strongly about the English attack on the
Treaty / should be Only too glad if ! were not
obliged to write at ali, whether strongly or other
wise.
should be perfectly content 20 let the English do
all the writing for | cannot but think that ore of
the chief dangers of the sitnatien lies i'll the facility
of discussing il, and the temptation TO say strong
things. The American who lives here, and NOM
ing after morning reads the English newspapers,
finds his fingers and brain tmgling with eage1ness
to answer this argument, and expose that nsstate-
ment, ard reply to that other taunt But If h; Las
one particle of prudence he viii do nothing Of the
kind There are few letters in the papers signed
as If written by Americans, and suppose they are,
but fhcy seem to he mostly Americans ct KIND
who, after the defeat of the Rebellion, nave pre-
ferred to live abroad. The origin and aniInus OF
s,cb letters are too manifest To do harm. Travel
inr Americans of the other kind have shown them
selves singuarly discreet, and We are spared tho
spectace and the irritating eject Of controversy
carried on by volunteers IL W. s.