Later from Europe.
The Australasian has arrived at New York with Liverpool dates of the 5th instant.
The Morning Star admits that, if the facts are as stated, a great breach of international law was committed in the seizure of the Florida, but says the matter rests with the Brazilian Government.
It is not a question that England can touch even with the longest possible diplomatic pole.
The steamer Sacramento left Southampton on the 2d instant.
Spain has sent an ultimatum to Peru, by Senor Pareja, that if full satisfaction is not given, the Spanish squadron is at once to seize the Republic and destroy the fleet.
The success of the allies at Japan is confirmed.
The Straits were opened after three days fighting.
All the batteries were destroyed.
The loss was slight.
The Paris papers publish a telegram from Calcutta, giving the following details of the destruction caused by the late hurricane at Calcutta: One hundred and ten ships were wrecked and
the Tory party and the predominance in the national councils of the commercial interest, national chivalry has been dead in England.
The Tories, with all their faults and errors, were the true representatives of the British Lion.
That king of beasts disappeared with them.--It is not possible that he is still in his old cage, when Brother Jonathan can poke the longest kind of pole into it every day without eliciting a single roar.
We agree for once with W. H. Seward when he says that England is responsible for the present calamities of this continent, and that our once prosperous and happy States are now the scenes of almost unparalleled bloodshed and misery, the responsibility rests upon Great Britain.
The anti-slavery party in the North would have died out long ago but for the inspirations it received from a country to which all Americans were in the habit of looking for lessons in civilization and morals.--By books of travels, by novels, by songs, by sermons, by reviews, by
every way.
The retention of Charleston is not, as many of its inhabitants imagine, indispensable to our success; but the retention of the military line from Kingsville to Augusta is.
The project of abolishing slavery, on condition that England and France will lend us material aid in the war, while it would be rejected by those Powers, is producing further mischief by alienating the Cotton States and forcing upon them the necessity of considering the propriety of re-adjusting their polseemed to think would be done in a few months) the United States would turn their guns against Great Britain.
He said the ocean would soon swarm with five hundred Federal cruisers, which would sweep the British flag from the sea; and that after England had been sufficiently reduced and exhausted, he would land upon her shores and pitch his tent in Hyde Park.
These threats may never be carried into execution, but they prove the animus of the North, and leave no doubt that the first thing the F
on correspondent:
"It was only the other day that Mr. Anthony Barclay, formerly British consul at New York, and now a resident in Savannah, was repulsed by General Sherman with the remark, that as soon as the rebels were disposed of (which he seemed to think would be done in a few months) the United States would turn their guns against Great Britain.
He said the ocean would soon swarm with five hundred Federal cruisers, which would sweep the British flag from the sea; and that after England had been sufficiently reduced and exhausted, he would land upon her shores and pitch his tent in Hyde Park."
We should like to have beheld the countenance of that worthy and respectable Englishman, Mr. Anthony Barclay, upon this announcement.
He must have been highly gratified and entertained.
Although not now a representative of Britain, he might, by virtue of his long services in that capacity, have ventured on this occasion to return her thanks to General Sherman for the promised
foot promptly and flatly. "Every State of Europe," says the Times, "acknowledged the Republic when it was governed by a Constitution permitting slavery as fully as the Southern States permit it now.--Why should its abandonment by the Confederacy buy a recognition that is withheld for many other reasons?" Precisely!
What could be more sensible?
Nay, the Times goes further; and, as if to put us out of our misery in case we entertain any eccentric notion of a European protectorate, says that England will certainly decline it, and it knows no other European Power which would accept the offer.
It is the case of the Netherlands over again — no one would receive us as a gift.
We may, therefore, save ourselves the trouble of abolishing slavery.
The best authority now assures us that slavery is not the reason we do not obtain European recognition.
The truth is, neither Europe nor the United States desire the abolition of slavery.
It is indispensable to the commerce of the world.
It
on to expect that the consequences of our failure would be less disastrous nor deplorable to individuals, to property and to society, than have been the consequences of defeat, without exception, to vanquished peoples.
No more than Ireland, India, Hungary or Poland, may we hope for another fate than political subjection, with all the accompaniments of humiliation and wretchedness — the fate of subjugated national ties.
We go even further than this.
We believe that the dispositions of England to Ireland and India, of Austria to Hungary, and of Russia to Poland, are benevolent and merciful compared to those of the Yankee Government to the Southern States.
In none of these examples were so many base and cruel appetites enlisted as in this contest.
It is not alone the lust of power, the greed of gain, and the madness of fanaticism — added to all these are the devilish passions of envy and revenge, the infernal spirit of the French Revolution, combined with the ambition of the Cza
adually, and after sufficient experience, from the dimensions and forms of the ships which have been found to possess every good property.
This has been tested in every recent instance of a new vessel, and has led to the adoption of a system which the Lords of the Admiralty do not choose to disclose, but of which our naval proficient speak with proud confidence."
The writer gives the following reasons for going into these naval particulars:-- "Because the extraordinary naval energy of England, just now at peace, is very significant; because the Naval and Military Gazette, a semi-official paper, has lately been taking great pains to hold the naval pretensions of the Federals up to ridicule; because the North American squadrons are being changed, and all the less-trusted vessels are being sent to do duty far from the American coast; because the Federals show they expect 'something,' and, on the principle that 'whom the gods would destroy they first make mad,' they are irritating u
th will be an actual advantage, in a military point of view, by increasing the strength of its inland armies.
The index then points out that friendship may be restored between the North and the South, and so close an alliance formed as to practically make a new Union.
Under such circumstances, war with England or France, or both, would be a necessity.
The Index contends that the United States Government is paving the way for such a war. It says that the war is reaching such a crisis that England and France must decide to become the friends of one of the belligerents or fight them both; and events are occurring which may precipitate that decision — at least in the case of France.
In the mean time, the Index bids the friends of the South to be of good cheer, and promises them shortly a series of agreeable surprises.
The Index also gives a rumor, which is alleged to be current in political circles, of the intention on the part of the British Government to sever its connection wi
ed exterior and divergent lines.
It was not till, in an evil hour, the French consented to forego the advantages of their fortifications that England obtained a foot hold in Canada.
The country thus defended by the French is now occupied by the English, and they are not likely to overlook advantages of defence which they found it, in so many campaigns, impossible to overcome.
There is no such disproportion between the population of the United States and the population of Canada as at that time.
Then the English colonies had nearly twenty times the population of Canada; now the United States has only about six times the number.
We are, therefore, disposed to question the report that England intends to give up Canada, and are inclined to believe the report that she is fortifying it; and moreover, will be easily able to hold, it in the event of a war with the United States; and not only to hold it, but to make it, besides, a base of aggressive durations against that country.
The London Index, a Confederate journal published in England, says that the war is reaching such a crisis that England and France must decide to become the friends of one of the belligerents, or to fight them both, and that events are occurring which may precipitate that decision, especially with France.
In the meantime, the Indies bids the friends of the South to be of good cheer, and promises them shortly a series of agreeable surprises.
We trust the friends of the South in England need no such invocation.
If men cannot be of "good cheer" who have such a bill of fare as Confederates abroad sit down to, their spirits must be very low indeed.
What the "series of agreeable surprises" is, which the Index promises, we are unable to imagine.
We are not so demented as to expect English or French intervention after so many disappointments.
Perhaps the "series of agreeable surprises" may be the return to this bereaved country, one after another, of the Confederates abroad.
