16 SEPTEMBER 1854, Page 1

Not long since, we had reports in London of some

formidable Anti-British movement on the raid of the American Government, in Greytown the capital of the small empire of Mosquitia ; but, unappalled by these alarming rumours, we ventured to anticipate that the two great countries would not go to war about a nest of adventurers in a swamp. The reports have been revived, and ru- mours have been afloat in Washington and New York, that per- emptory demands were to be made upon the British Government. We heard something too of American dissent from Western views on the question of privateering: but we now have, through the American journals, the correspondence between the re- presentatives of America, France and England, and learn how to value these reports. The France, of this corresponds we discuss in a separate paper; but the present political feet which they disclose is, that the excellent spirit which has prevailed in the communications of America and England is unbroken. It does not diminish our confidence in that spirit, to find that the views of the statesmen representing the two countries are not always in ac- cordance, but are sustained with an independence and a force that might be expected from the men. For Mr. Buchanaft has not lost with the growth of years any of the clearness and energy that have distinguished him as much in St.. Petersburg as at Washington; and Lord Clarendon Seldom fails to rise with the occasion. But, while representing tangible and undeniable grounds upon which they take separate positions—while paying less attention, perhaps, than some writers, conscious of a more hostile spirit and less personal respect for each other, to the dry forms of courtesy—the English and Ame- rican statesmen lay down their proposals with that explicitness which is in fact a compliment to the understanding of each other. We may rest assured, that so long as the official men of the two Countries really represent the entire communities over whose in- terests they preside, and really understand each other, there can- not be the slightest risk of discord. It is only through personal ambitions, and still more through some stupid kind of personal ambition, that America and England are likely to be embroiled. While their relations are in the hands of men able and frank, they must always be capable of reconciling differences of view or dif- ferences of necessity arising from their separate and in some re- spects opposite situations.