The English news.
The brief summary of English news by the
Northern journals is very curious, especially that part with reference to the views of the
Times.
We consider all of the out-givings of the press, thus represented through the polished channels of the corrupt, Northern Journals, as entitied to very little weight.
The popular sentlment of
England is with the Southern Confederacy, inevitably.
The approaching session of parliament will show it; and, in the meanwhile, the continued military preparation of the
British Government is a circumstance not to be regarded as insignificant.
As for the
Times, it is a very powerful, yet a very inconsistent and unprincipled newspaper.
It is an fickle as the New York
Herald, and as unscrupulous.
It is more respectable, indeed; but still it can sometimes descend very much in decency.
Its attack on
Messrs. Mason and
Slidell, if properly represented, is that of a blackguard.
it has one advantage of the
Herald: that its editors have not been cowhided or booted; but then
Bennett is known and accessible, while the editorial head of the
Times is a myth, a thing intangible.
It has neither a soul nor corporality.
So that, while the
Times is a paper of great energy, great ability, it has no sort of sensibility, no sense of justice, no character for consistancy, sincerity, or fair dealing.
In cold shoulder to the
South to-day is no guarantee that it will not be its warm defender to-morrow.
The
Times will in the ensuing months give us, no doubt, a vast deal of exquisite satire upon Jonathan, and not a little editorial propitiation of the
South; but the letter we will take with a grain of salt.
We shall see in good time where the
English public and where the English Parliament will stand.
We know how the
British interacts should incline them, and in that way, were there no other influences, they will go. But there are considerations of humanity and civilization forced upon them by the barbarians of the
Northern people.
These will co-operate with the appeals of interest, and we shall see in good time that
England will not be an idle spectator of the events in this country.
She will act, and she will act with the concurrence of
France.
