New-York tribune., 1875-02-03


ence," and he asks Indignantly: "Have English
troops surrendered at Saratouaf Has an English
army capitulated at Yorktownf Have hostile fleets
paradcd tho British Channel in defiance of En-
gland" No. he says. So far from that. England
had quite lately been bullying the United States
successfully. In his own words:
One of the last Transactions that took place between
the countries before Mr. Gads one acceded 10 occ
was that Great Britain having demanged .ns & vne
of American citizens captured in the Trent ahu
intma6d refusal Of her demands mSht ped pOdGod
| serious consequences, those demanus "oio N'"'
| with promptly aud unconditi0nally :,
An American desirous to retort upon Lord Russell
| in his own mood might find HIM an answer TO his
question about the condition Of England III his own
pages:
had TO reason suppose that he Mr Gladstone was
less attached than TO national nOhOr; htt NO H
less proud than was OF the o Of onr
& ny Ses ana bis o,19sres ,r5d tend to reduce The
0Tcof Gnd glorious empire Of lich Re dS pat u charge
oo,5s ,r an GrsgT and nGVy reduced by pdITy sarfgS
10 a standard Of 5eakAeSs and tneUc'chcT
Nothing he saws about his own fault Is to be taken
as modifying his view of the Treaty Of Washington.
He is still of the opinion he stated in the House OF
Lords that by that Treaty the honor OF the British
nation was tarnished her character lowered, ana
herInterests endangered" He still thinks the COM
pensation paid "extravagant and inOrdinate." His
consolation in these distressing circumstances is
that:
prominent candidate at the late general elcc
tiOn had blamed the foreien policy OF Nc Gladstogr's
Caouct ana as tnht G'hGf cIect.on h'I & io i's 80 % &
majority Of fifty for Mr. DSraeil IN the place Oh nv
jonty Of sixty for Mr.. Gladstone, IN my opinion the
British people. by giving miiorty 20 the Conservative
candidates passed sentence OF eohde aghhst
the authors of the concession whca hai tarniSntd te
honor lowered the character endangered the interests
OF the British nation.
His bitterness breaks out again on the San Juan
matter which he thinks was misnanaged, because
the whole Treaty of 1915 was not submitted TO arbi-
traton upon the result of which he thus COM
mcnts:
Pinned TO the chcice between two lines both incon-
slscnt with The Treaty the learned men, TO whom the
nperor IL Germany referred the question decided it
against Great Britain. IhCg prObI6y HOu4dt mat GFcdt
Btria could ,ccii 6eqr an additional huiati0f. There
fare n rus int not ontJ icerc the oires 0f Canada t
ctdyrs not only me mothers Of Canada cf chtdlcss
WGtoUt pcHS4ti1a 6t caS determiHed 10 complete
tie sEIycdr ~ british honor and Of British character
The lines i;alicize contain an insult to the En-
percr of Germany so gross that what is afterward
said against some of our own cOuntymen seems only
the weak expression OF a tOothless rage. Impua-
tiqns are dung out against English aud American
statcsmcn with equal reclllessness. The conclusion
Of tie dlcuity oi 1iS5-4 between England and the
United States gives rise to such innuendoes as these
The relations of amity between the two countries OF
England and the United states not disturbed and
Lot even ne Oldest " the old women OF Great Britain
expressed any apprehension OF war between the two
na.iJuJ But tAcu Cen NdShl"slOA had no iucIlatioh
20 cumular lord Grcnyile' ana the secretary o the
Treasury "a L1glaui WAS not concerned 10 raising
panic in EuglIua for Tn" sake OF obtaining majority
| IN tnc House OF Commons.
Shortly after Earl Russell permits himself to
express the hope that If similar should again
arise the Official correspondence will be conducted
IN the tone of George Washington and MI. Jefferson
of Lord Granville aud Mr.. Hammond, and not in
! the language of Fish and Cushing, of Lord Gran
vile and the Marquis of Ripon." Note the intcn-
tioual discouresy with which the Mr.. is omitted a
/ e. If ord
RusscIrs wish to emphasiz3 his dislike and contempt
forthose gentlemen. Probably he forgot Coleridge's
subtle definition of contempt pt-egotsm in an ill-hu
nor He says to Lord Granville "as Sir Peter Teazle
said to Ms. Candour, my character is attacked
only beg or you not TO undertake my defense'0 He
cannot quit the subject but returns to it TO confess
that Lord Granville and Mr.. Gladstone had deeply
wounded his fooling5.' Lord Clarendon dispeascd
him in not repelhng the original dispatch Of Mr..
Fish, but Mr.. Gladstone and Lord Granville
allowed the accusation Of falsehOOd and hypocrisy
| to be LAID i'll the name of the Government of the
great Republic before five arbitrators of different
nations:
The Prime Mlnister and the Foreign Secretary took
for ther model apparently the character of Donna Inez
in The poem OF Don Jdlu ~;
Cal they heard each cllumnv th't roe,
And 'Aw tis agoniea NJ susn ,Gglm ~,
That all the world exclaimed - WAT usgnanimityi I"
SO let IL De.
From mis- own countrymen he flies off once more to
attack Nh Fish and for the sake Of harder hit at
him condesceuds to offer compliment to the Re
public:
The moro respect the Constitution and tho character
Of the great American Republic, tIb nOre2am inclined
t. fc, ca'umnies from such source. Happily neither
likely to suffer from the charges OF Mr.. Fish.
His last word in this extraordinary chapter is
against his former colleagues:
Ihave only furthcrto say that DO not wish to mpue
70 MF. Gladstone and Lord Granville any personal i'll
VIII 10 luc IN alI 1hs matter Dat ic' scc.h 10 nave
been quite uuav are that the Unted Kingdom Is great
country and that its reputation ought to be dear to
every BrdsA heart
All this is very pitable. Nobody can enjoy the
spectacle Of an old man Of 81 scattering calumnies
on all sides of him What Earl Resell says cannot
be Of much consequence to Mr.. ash, but it must
give pain AID seems meant to g,gc pain, to Earl
RusseIs former political associate at hOme-mem-
bers of the same party. his cOmra es who in many
struggle shared defeat or victory with him.
Them he will not forgive because they found out
his mistake sooner than he did, and still moro be-
cause they offered part of the repara.iOn due to
kindred nation. 1t is not what Earl Russell says
now it Is what be did formerly that is OF moment
to the American people There occurs" he tells
his English readers, from time to time the press
of the United States an explosion of ambition and
envy.p In the Earl Russell of to-day it is not an
plosion ; 1t is IN eruption. In his own in
terest it is to be regretted that he should mar
the effect of his single recantation by repeated
outbreaks OF what is after all, not so much venom
as spleen.
Other American topics are touched here and there
through the book. You never can be sure where
subject may not turn up; complete is Earl Rus
sells disorderlness of mind The 7th chapter leads
off with an acoOunt-from Lord Russeil's point of
yiew-of the Trent affair.
When we first heard of the seizure of the two COnfed