Mr. Reverdy Johnson also took occasion to promise his audi-
ence a speedy settlement of the existing difference between England and the United States. " I entertain no doubt that all the difficulties which now exist between the two nations will, at the earliest period, upon terms alike honourable to each, be finally adjusted,"—for which settlement, he said, we have " at this time an additional security in the character of your Queen, which is as well known to us as to you. Her good sense, her accomplishments, the Christian and blameless purity of her life, cannot fail, I think, to exert a happy influence in keeping her Government and our own exempt from the horrors of war ;"— which is true enough, no doubt, but why is it " at this time an additional security ?" Does Mr. Reverdy Johnson suppose that the Queen has very recently ascended the throne, or even changed decisively for the better in all these respects since the last troubles, since the presentation of the Alabama claims, or even the Trent affair? The worthy Minister is not quite an fait yet with his little courtesies. He will soon learn not to drag them in quite so much by the head and shoulders.
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