AMERICA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 356, 2 April 1856, Page 8

AMERICA.

Peaceable voices come across the Atlantic. According to the newspapers which represent, or a least circulate among, the commercial classes in America, there is neither irritation nor alarm, but the anxiety felt at Manchester for the preservation of peace is fully shared at New York. The Adminis-

tration, they say, bus noiv no fears of a rupture with England-—intimating that there have been fears. " Gushing" is sharply rebuked for having " overflowed into the Secretary ;of State's office, and thrust himself into our foreign relations ;" he is •' fussy" and " destitute of political integrity," and Mr. Maicy is not unwilling t 0 disavow him. Lord Palmerston meant nothing by sending ships to the West Indies, and the American squadron which was to have sailed in the same direction is not to go. In short, either the danger is removed or there never was any. Either no threat has been used, or it. lias been, effectual, or at least harmless. That we have been disturbed by a mere chimera is not so likely as that there has been mischievous exaggeration. Evidently there has been some friction in the communications between the two Governments, with reference, the Americans aie told, chieiiy io the old bone of contention, the Mosquito Protectorate (though that may be a mere stalking-horse), and some spark struck which had since gone out. But when we find that it is popularly believed in America that Lord Pahnerston's house has been surrounded by an infuriated mob, who were only dispersed by the personal intervention of Mr. Buchanan, we have a specimen—certainly an extravagant one—of the illusions which pass themselves off as truths, and may judge how liable one nation is, at a distance of ten day's journey, to be misled about the public acts and feelings of another — Guardian.