HAS ENGLAND THREATENED THE UNITED STATES?

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 6, 1 June 1883, Page 21

HAS ENGLAND THREATENED THE UNITED STATES?

(Correspondence of the N.Y. Sun.) Washington, March 22. — According to a report current here Minis* ter West has informed the State Department that he is instructed by Lord Qranville to say that the violent expressions which certain professed American citizens have given utterance to since the dynamite explosions in London, may disturb the otherwise amiable relations existing between her Majesty's Government and the United States. A correspondent of the Sun repeated this statement to Minister West, and asked if it was true. Mr. West replied that of course he •ould say nothing in his official capacity, and he would not admit that this Government had been notified of any such instructions to him. But he said that her Majesty's Government could do no less than take some cognizance of the sentiments given vent to by O'Docovan Rossa and his associates, Finer ty and others, through their newspapers and otherwise, and that he h >d expected just some instructions from Earl Granville. "I am gratified," he added, '• at the tone of the maj >rity of the American newspapers, and I think none of the reputable journals have exhibited any sympathy with the preachers of anarchy, destruction, and assassination." Secretary Frelinghuysen was asked if the statement was true. " I have nothing to say upon the subject," was his answer. It is believed that some communication has just passed between the British Minister and the State Department, but there at least is reason to doubt that it took anything like the menacing form ascribed to it by rumour. There is a disposition here to attribute the colour given to the rumour to the Navy Ring, which is not weary in its efforts to find pretences for imposing a war establishment upon the country.