Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1855 — Great Britain and the United States—Threatened Rupture. [ARTICLE]

Great Britain and the United States — Threatened Rupture.

From the Liverpool Journal. * * * But there is something wrong; and - only the foreign ’ offices know anything about it. No one here could understand what was meant when the ordinance office sent down to purchase a hotel at Seaforth, the rumor being that a vast fort was to be built there to command our estuary. At Portsmouth and Plymouth they were grealty puzzled when the ships, home from the Baltic, were recommissioned, victualled and stored, We<iniMas.-=~ The ugly storyJtbaOlr. Crampton,English minister at Washington was to be rec al Fe d. be cau s e o f his assent'd complicity in the bungling illegality of agents-of onr Government recruiting for the foreign legion was not credited, but a difficulty was believed ju and nobody could tell what. Now, the truth, or a part c.f the truth, comes out. The British Government and the Statds Governmentjhave fallen out on something and..bad blood exists. The English-sfiy that some filiibustering expeditions are being prepared at New Orleans and elsewhere, for descents upon Cuba, Hayti, Jamaica, and goodnes knows where besides; that the Fedral Government is not t-ufliciently powerful to repress thlse piracies; and accordingly English ships are dispatched to defend English territory, and the territory of the allies of England. All fillibusters caught to go straight to the yardann! Lord Palmerston, at last, is going to be vigorous with a vengeance. A . plea of this kind, which we fully believe to be the. authentic reason, is diplomatically acute — it disarms national pride; it is a declaration of supicion, which is something different from a declaration of war. ' The Americans, Government and people, have no exact right to take offence. The English Government only does its duty in providing against pirates from the Gulf of Mexico, treating them on the same level as pirates in the Chinese seas, of Algiers, or of Borneo. Still, diplomatically, the Government will assume, in careful protocols, thSt tiie American Government is as anxious as the English Gnverninfht ran be

to supphfts Alaws of the kusd; flgkl Lthat on’ the,whole, the Atnerioan feel obligcd>rlbe for cqtßingto rlhe nid qf till imperfect and_msu|nIciently compact Federal executive.! mere ton Is not going to be guilty of [the'weukneas Bf ASqrdqjei.' Had he I Jbrdtred thib fieet rtr go wmft Malta .straight into Um -lXai’dauclis- when ! i.Menschikoff was on bis celebrated: I mission of bullying to the Sultan, tfiehj would never have bebn a Rtfsjsian Ivar. Mr. Crampton may have j given intelligence of certain secret ; expeditions, difficult to be dealt with ; after they had once sailed; and availling himself of former criticism on !dilatoriness, Lord Palmerston has ! now been bold, abrupt, and peremptory'.

i Biit, assuming the real cause of j these sudden movements to be as 'prefended, and immense difference iis to be noticed in the case. The animus of the. American Government is unequivocal—is in our favor —is quicdqent. As far as English i possessions are concerned, they are quite safe, or, if they were assault]ed, the Federal Government would iindemnify them—the supposition, . however, being for the present per-' ' fect'ly absurd. As regards Cuba, the ] j Spaniards may be left 40--deFend | [themselves; or, if the pirates made ! ■a successful descent, and held their; ground, it would be time enough for ,us to act when the Federal Govern-, i ment refused to act, or acted on the : side of its own corsair subjects.— ■; : Why should we take upon Ourselves. the maintenance of Spain— that i ! western Turkey? The Cuban question is not now to be discussed; if it were, it might be shown that the , English interests would be best con- [ suited by leaving Cuba to drill into ■ Yankhffliands, ifrimly because,-the-: extinctibn'oT the slave trade, the ae-' companiment of American slavery/ would save us £1,01)9,93J odd peri ; annum for the African squadron,! 1 which, so far, does nothing but raise ! the price.of slaves, mud..so intensify • the temptations to traffic. We cannot detect English policy ! in this mover; These filiibustering: ; expeditions have been the talk of the ; West Indian islands for the last four : ! years; and we did nothing; and even when the Cuban expedition did [sari, and did land, \ye did nothiug 7 'We apprehend that the ships that 'have gone off to the West Indian lhavc been fanned by* a breeze from; i Paris. The L >uis Napoleon policy j is, absolute exiting tfgSf? ies. West and East, and Lord Palmerston is apparently induced to say ditto Louis Napoleon; undertaking] in consequence, we suppose, to de-; clare to the people of the United; States that their territorial history is; finished; that they shall neither] spread southward to Mexico, nori northward to Canada, nor to Cuba. ' j nor to Japan. Consistent in an English minister who was alive when the [last French war began, and who knows that within the half century we British have just doubled our pos- ! sessions! We doubt Louis Napq- ' 1 eon’s po we r to distribute mankind; geographically; and, at any rate,it' seems to us that Lord Palmerston is ] [taking tovqarey policy with British ships. For, in a war with America, France risks; nothing England everything. We AWTWt sup’pbsing thaWwHr impends; wc are but condemning the provocation to war. We consid- j erthakthese-proeecdiugsamomHto [ a provocation, because American, public opinion is in a critical con-; dition of confusion, —because the] So uth will, feel mstt Ited by th c ■ drs~play of suspicion,—because the logic, if not .the heart of the North is with Russia in. regard to the European war, and because Lard Palmerston indicates, in what he is doing, a want of consideration for the peculiar ditliculties of the Federal Gov-, eminent. Wc arc quite sure that he would act differently, and after a’ much wiser fashidn, if he were not • influenced by the French alliance;! and we hope that Parliament will soon be reassembled, to prevent the blundering going any further. An Anglo French alliance is a splendid : fact, when formed for the purpose of! checking the growth of Russia. But if this terrible alternative must be put, rather Russia in the Mediterranean, and no French alliance, than • a war between England and Ameri!ca. The independence of Turkey, : is scarcely worth that. Let us beware of secret diplomacy, lest we . should drift into this American war.

OCr’ Counterfeit two dollar bills on the Bank of Lanringburgh, NewYork, are now in circulation. t 4Cr*Tho Sugar crop of Louisiana is said tn b<* far from. sati«fnrtorv. .. •. 'I