Year: 1862

the feelings of the whole country, as well


a. the aching heart of the sovereign.


| Tm ENGLISH PRESS AND THE New YoRx He
RALD.-The mails received by the Bohemian and
the Kangaroo show marked abatement in the
English war fever. Perhaps one of the strong
est evidences of this is the disposition mani
tested by the London journals to lavish upon in
dividuals and journals on this side the abuse
which had before been SO literally bestowed on
US as nation. The New York HERALD Of
course, comes in for its share of the vituperation
thus freely indulged in. "Despicable paper"
"viperous print" and "dirty tool" are amongst
the mildest of the highly seasoned epithets ap-
piled to it. The leading journal Of America,
and the newspaper of the largest circulation in
| the world is described as on q par with the
/ publications that emanate from Holywell street.
Where are the good manners of the writer's that
formerly used to lecture the press Of This
country on the proprieties and amenities Of
journalism!


When the abolition of the newspaper stamp
duty was first broached, the isr was expressed
that il would have the effect ef degrading the
character and tone of the English press by In
Producing into it class of writer's of low asso-
Citations and habits. The result HAS amply justi-
fed the prediction. Judging by the language
held towards this country, its institutions and
statesmen, it is impossible not to arrive at the
conclusions that it is now managed by q set Of
pothouse journ alists and penny-a-liners without
the least of principle or self-respech Butwhat
is most amusing in the Billingsgate which has
been showered upon the New YORK HERALD and
it's proprietor i the funny inconsistency and
extravaganza of its averments. We are told on
the one hand that we have been the means Of
provoking all this ill feeling between the two
countries, and on the other that our influence
is "infntessimal." It is through us, neverthe-
less, that Northern men are induced "to torture
their prisoners Of war, to threaten to murder
the wounded, to seek to block up the highways
of nature, to plot to foster new slave trade,
and to aim at lynching England into new code
of ofinternational law" We did not know that
our influence went to,quite this extent; but the
future historian will no doubt accept the fact as
thus stated All that remains for us to ask of our
transatlantic contemporaries is, that they will
do us the similar justice when they find the sur
render of Mason and Slidell by our government
anticipated and advocated in our columns
week in advance of the fact.


TALK AND AcTIoN-After all the excitement
and defamation of the British people, the va
poring of their newspapers the special councils
of the Cabinet. the opinions of the law advisers
of the Crown, and British indignation generally,
in consequence of the seizure of the rebel en-
voys, the insigniicance of the action taken in
the matter contrasts amusingly with the loud
and hostile demonstrations which followed the
first announcement of the intelligence which
affected them to- such a wonderful pitch Of
fury. What is the actual result Of all
the indignation meetings and other express
sions of popular, legal and diplomatic
opinion, by which the world was led to believe
that war between England and the United
States was imminent? Simply that ten thou
sand men, or less, have been sent to British
North America. Now, supposing that circum-
stances had led to declaration of war, of what
use would such a force as that have been, either
in defending or invading? We could have
poured more than that number into Canada in
week. But, fortunately Great Britain will
have no particular need of them so far as the
United States are concerned, and therefore the
effect of the homeopathic instalments of troops
will be just as good as if she had sent the whole
army, including the two majestic guardsmen
who protect the portals of the Horse Guards in
Whitehall, and who are notoriously the admi-
ration of all the nurse maids and small boys in
the neighborhood.


WHTEwAsHING IN THE CHAMBER OF Con-
MERcE.-The highly respectable colored gen.
tlemen who are engaged in the noble pro-
fession of whitewashing are very indignant at
the late attempt of the Chamber of Commerce
to interfere with their occupation. 1t seems
that Messrs Duer and Phelps had difiulty
in the Chamber last week, and Phelps called
Duer "a mean, miserable, quarrelsome, imper-
tinent, intermeddling fellow" or words to
that effect to which Duer responded by calling