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hat in sixty days all the troubles of the country would be at an end. The result shows that he has not the most ordinary sagacity. He did not pretend to give a reason for the prediction, and, in making it, prove himself a more mouthing pretender. Yet it is on such a man as this that the North relies to take it safely and triumphantly through such an exigency as the present ! If he had been a statesman he would have pursued at the beginning of these troubles the course of a Webster or a Clay. He would have poured oil on the troubled waters; he would have applied emollients instead of irritants to the inflamed passions of the people. This would at least have deferred the evil day. But he did not comprehend intelligently the interests of his own section. He did not perceive that delay of an open rupture must continue to add to Northern strength and to Southern weakness. He could not understand that such a proclamation as that of Lincoln would divide the country forever, and et
mer Scotia had been successfully launched. Lord Chancellor Campbell had died very suddenly, having ruptured a blood vessel. Sir R. Bethel has been confirmed as Lord Chancellor of England. The Times continues to maintain that the Americans have no ground for their abuse of England beyond mortification at England's lack of appreciation. It says the Northerners have thrown themselves into a passion and must be left to recover. Sir Archibald Alison, in a letter to Cassius. M. Clay, contends that the American Constitution is a failure, and recommends a National Church and Monarchy as the remedy. The Prince and Princess Frederick William had arrived in England on a visit to the Queen. The Prince of Wales would proceed on the 29th to the camp at Curragh, Ireland, to take the round of military duties. Mr. Cobden addressed his constituents at Rockdale on the 26th. He eulogized the French Government and the commercial treaty with France, denounced the volun