text:  England has concluded no commercial treaty with any of these powers; and the negotiation with France which the measures of Lord Palmerston interrupted in 1840 at the very period of its ripeness appears still to slumber--owing we believe in part to the prevalence of an anti-Anglican feeling in that country which for the credit of common sense and of human nature we trust will be temporary; but much more to the high protective notions and the political activity and influence of the French manufacturers which overawe an administration far less strong we regret to say than it deserves