English View Of The Election

[Froiu the Loudoa Time, NoT. :2,] Onder the influenoe of cnrrent oauaes, Mr. Lincolu ha, bo doubt, been, as everybody foresaw be would bo, elected President. The quention which concerns us now ië not so much how he cune to this seoond elevation as what iofluence that elevation is likelj to have on our own relations with the United Statea. Ou this point we see no reason for alarm ; nay, it may probably be that we are eafer in the hands of Mr. Lincoln than we fthould be iu those of any oue elise. A regard forefigo state, ourselves in particular, we rnay reasonably believe that he has bowd his wild oat ; he has go-oe through the coursa of defving and insuliing Englaud, which in the traditional way of obtaining the Irish vote, and we may not unreanouably hope that he is oot likely to repeat the experiment. Ever ince he found himaelf firmly eatablished iu his office, and the firat efferveicence of nstional feeling had begun to eubnide, we have had no great reaaonio complain of the conduct oí Mr. Lintehi towttrd England. His tone has beeu less exoiting, iis lauguage has been less oSeuisive, and, due allowauc being made for the immeaso diffioulties ot his situatiou, we could have parted ith Mr. Lineólo, had'auch beeu the pieasure oi the American people, without ny vestige of ill-vvill or ill feeiiug. He hae done a regnids tbis country what the necesbiües of his siluation demanded froai him, and he has doue no more. A new President might possibly fee] called upou for a deinonstration of more hostile spirit. We eau regard the re-appointment of Mr. Lincoln as little lens tnau abdioaUon by the Arnerieau people of the right of fieli-govoiüineut, as au avowed step toward the fouudatiou of a military despotism, towards the subversión of a popular govei'ümwnt, which muy still erist in f'orin, but which iü substaoce is gone. We would not be supposed to iasinuate that it is tbe destiny of Mr. Lincoln to be tha real founder of the dynasty to which he has taken so loug a elep ; whatever be bis merits, his warmost admirera themáelves can scarcely contend that he ie made of imperial stuff. Hm hand has shaken the tree, but we yet await the man who is to gather the fruit. Future historians wil) probably date Erom the sscond presideuoy of Mr. Lincoln the poriod when the American Conytitutioo was thoroughly abrogated, and had entered ou that trunsilioo stage, so well known to thestudent8 of history, through which república pass on their way from democracy to tyranny. [From the London Morning Hfrald.J For our own part we rejoice heartily in the defeat of General McClellan, as a prelude 10 the defeat of the North, Wertjoice that the cuuse oí oppression," rubbery and iuju.stice ia entrusted to the hands of a Vaocillating, helpless imbecile, ratker tbn to thoae of an able, resolute, and efficiënt soldier. Nor do wo tbmk that the hopes of peaca have been seriouoly iiiipaired by Mr. Lincoln's Buccees. Peacfa, depend, not ou the wishe of a tuac, but on the diepogition of the natioo. So long aa the ur.tion was resolute in the profecution of the war, neither General McClellan nor Mr. Vallandigham oould havO made peace. 80 soou as the North shall bo heartily sick of the war, cojvinced that victory ie impossible, sod eager for a comprotnise even on tbe basis of Southern independence, peace will have become neceesary to Mr. Liucohi, and could not be long delayed even by a Sumner or a Brownslow. We beliave that uothing could tend more etrongly to bring about puch a stuta of things va ■will efïectually discourage the war party, and diepoee the North to abandon ita hopeless enterprise, than the continuance of Mr. Liuooln's rulo, and in that belief we ha-il his re-election as nn event of excellent auyury for the interests of tho South nd of mankind.