s which
would lead both to take one and the same course as to recognition_. Mr.
Seward comments upon this in one of the most manly letters ever written
by an American Secretary. It will be preserved upon the same historic
shelf whereon reposes the manuscript of Daniel Webster's letter to the
Chevalier Hulsemann. To Mr. Adams he says, that the communication loses
its value because withheld until the knowledge was acquired from other
sources, together with the additional fact that other European states
are apprized by France and England of the agreement, and _are expected
to concur with or follow them in whatever measures they adopt on the
subject of recognition!_ Great Britain, if intervening, is assured that
she will calculate for herself the ultimate as well as the immediate
consequences; and must consider what position she will hold when she
shall have lost forever the sympathies and affections of the only nation
upon whose sympathies and affections she has a natural claim. In making
that calculation she will do well to remember that in the controversy
she proposes to open, we shall be actuated neither by pride, nor
passion, nor cupidity, nor ambition; but we shall stand simply upon the
principle of self-preservation, our cause involving the independence of
nations and the rights of human nature. These utterances were doubtless,
in their book form, perused by the British cabinet during the Christmas
holidays.

Taking the pages which close up the word-tilts of the diplomatists at
date of November first (and we dare say our Board-of-Brokers readers
regret that complete dispatches down to the sailing of the Africa, with
that interesting pouch of letters on board, are not to be had at all the
book-stores!) we may imagine Messrs. Russell, Adams, Seward and Lyons
resolved into a conversational club, and talking as follows from week to
week:--

_Mr. Adams_. It is gratifying to the grandson of the first American
Minister at this court to feel that there are now fewer topics of direct
difference between the two countries than have, probably, existed at any
preceding time; and even these are withdrawn from discussion at St.
James, to be treated at Washington. It would have been more gratifying
to find that the good will, so recently universally felt at my home for
your country, was unequivocally manifested here.

_Lord Russell (smiling blandly)_. To what do you allude?

_Mr. Adams_. It is with pain that I am compelled to ad