Year: 1869

Motley's actual suggestions to Lord Clarendon
are fully pervaded by this spirit we may none ios
his predecessor. 1t is. however, far too ear as yer
TO express any confident hope as to his mission az
sence In London with some definite instructions
from his government, and that Is, the removai oi
the whole question from the region OF unS.i,oia %
debate and rhetorical exaggcraton into tnat VI
business statement ana dplomatlo negotiatioMn' ~
We are content to leave our side Of the question IN
aceeps e aas 6e settlement he and Mr. Motley
between them. We should be glad 70 pc equsa.iiyy
sure Of its acceptance by the Senate oi tne ol's"
States.


The London telegraph speaks In this msaner:-


It is matter fof satisfaction, therefore, that Mr..
Motley comes rather conduct the general relations
between Washington and the Court OF st James.
tnan to press any special and Imperative negotiation
In his capacity Of American Minister Mr.. Motley Will
be all the more welcome to as from the fact that at
one TING we were forced to regard hm as tho possl-
Bic bearer oi Instruction which could not fail I'd lead
had good deal too much recently OF amateur Oh
plomacy and we are none the less satisfied with the
any explanation OF his own views or OF the prtnci-
Plies he wds instructed to uphold, when he met those
members OF the Liverpool Chamber Of C9mmerce
who thought ft to wait upon him at the very
hour Of his landing on British soil Our views may
be od-fashioned, but after our late experience We
shall much prefer to learn the intentions OF the
American government through accredited methods
Of communication rather than through casual talks
with sectarian deputations or painfully unstudied



satisfaction that nothing can be more friendly or
cordial than the language In which Mr.. Motley re-
Piled to the deputattOn which met him at Liverpool
He assured the delegates ''that 1t was the most
earnest hope and wish OF the President and the
people of the United States to cultivate faithful and
friendly relations between England and America"


The London Star has the following:-


The presence Of Mr.. Bright in q Cabinet Of which
Mr.. Gladst0nu Is the head lS sufllcent guarantee
that love OF peace and determination to do Jus.
tice will animate the Ministry; and when these are
the ruling principles Of our foreign policy we need
not conclude beforehand that our brothers OF Ame-
rica, who send John LOthrOp Motley as the repre-
sentative OF their great nation, are about to commit
the crime from which we ourselves, without dstinc
ton of sect party shrank with adherence. II s
indeed, somewhat humiliating that not our vast
commerce, that not our daily communications
by means Of the swlftest ships, that not
our hourly intercourse by. the mysterious
highway or thought beneath the sea, has
been able to blot out the hideous word
is a word OF which the most imaginative among us
cannot realize the horrors. Mr.. Goodwin Smith sees
In it the triumph Of the reactOnary party OF England
We see in 1t the triumph Of the enemy OF mankind.
What is all our b0asted Christianity, civilization,
freedom, literature, II we can still prate OF letting
murder loose over half the habitabe globe, and OF
Transforming the arts OF peace into the plans and
projects OF destructiOnp Let us, whichever side
Of the Atlantic our lot may be cast, regard those
thoughts or horror as mere distempered dreams and
turn once more TO the prosecution of business, well
knowing that where the two governments are AMI
mated by such sentiments as those TO which Mr..
Motley gives utterance, the arrangement OF all differ
ences is a mere question Of time and patience.