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LONDON, THURBDAT. APRIL 10.

UNTIL the beginning of last February, it yes
the inaction of the American army which their
Tory critics thought so very amusing. Whole
columns of wit were expended upon their failure
to move. The small amount of slaughter caused
by such prodigious hosts of combatants fairly
convulsed the club*. The Times twitted the
North in that style of delightful banter which,
as is well known, all foreign nations find exceed-
ingly soothing—upon the change from " the laud
"of performance" to " the land of promise,"
which the United States had undergone. And
the best of the joke was that the Northern
armies could not move if they would ; and if they
could, it were better they should not, inasmuch
as they would certainly be beaten if they did. If
they had a I.l:ceiv or a Casuioaer to command
their cavalry, or an Mart to be their quarter-
master-general, and make roads for their advance
in Virginia upon the model of the famous cause-
way from Balailava to Sapoune, they might
possibly achieve something ; as it was
their case was hopeless, and the only thing that
in the least marred the fun was that their misfor- '
tunes partook in some degree of the nature of •
judgment. M'Ctattaiv was held to have stuck in
the mud, and his troops to be badly organised, in
virtue of a providential arrangement designed to
expose " democracy " to the scorn of mankind.

Since the Northern armies have begun to more,
and have moved with unbroken success, the sounds
of merriment have suddenly ceased. The Tory
mind is no longer amused by American inaction.
It is now horrified by American bloodthirstiness,
Ame-ican love of victory. Thatthe Northern people,
after having flung the savings of half a century
of peaceful industry into the military chest, alai
taken young men for the ranks from every house-
hold, and waited for ► long year in an agony of
expectation for the fruits of this tremendous saeri-
fice, should shout for joy when battles are won
and ground is gained, is considered as evidence of
sheer depravity. And there is • peculiar fitness
in our reproving them for their sin, as we are
famed for the saintly indifference with which we
hear of the achievements of our fleets and armies,
no matter in what cause or on what soil. We
have, is a nation, a repugnance to fighting, on
high moral grounds, which the most brilliant mili-
tary successes are never quite sufficient to over-
come, and which accounts for the chilling reception
invariably accorded to our greatest sold'ers and
sailors on their return from their greatest exploits.
What now most distresses our Tory moralists about
the recent military movements in America is the
fact that they have been attended with • good
deal of bloodshed—and they are, it must be ad-
mitted, open to that objection. The war in
America is causing the loss of a great many lives,
and the destruction of • good deal of property.
When the Southerners occupy a position which the
Northerners want to secure, and the Southerners

refuse to leave it, the Federal army shoots and bay-
onets them,and are shot and bayoneted in their turn.
If fences or houses stand in the way, they are
remorselessly battered down. There is no use in
denying these painful facts ; but we warn our
readers against the notion which the recent homi-
lies in the Tinos seem intended to propagate,
that it is only in America that these calamities
attend on war. The Americans are as anxious as
any people in the world to carry on hostilities
without injury to the persons or property of the
combatants. But they h►ve so far, in spite of
their wonderful mechanical ingenuity, been unable
to discover any means of attaining this most de-
sirable result. It is not the fault of the "tuthridled
" democracy of the North" if these battles and
marches have the same mournful results as those
of aristocratic armies. And we cannot help saying
that, considering that we have had ourselves many
wars, and that none of them have been entirely
bloodless, we are hardly in a position to hold up
our hands in horror over American battle-fields.
We are not aware, however, that these considera-
tions which we are now so zealously urging on
American attention have ever hindered us from
going to war whenever our interest or our honour
seemed to require it. We have shed torrents of
blood, now for the balance of power, now for the
possession of a rock, now for the possession of an
island, now to avenge an insult, and, last of all,
in the case of India, for the gratification of what
Ds TOCQUIMILLE called " a noble vanity." And
certainly no man in England hangs his head for
shame when these struggles are mentioned. And
if any one is found to regret them, it is not the
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slaughter he mourns so much u the expense. If

any people in the world should look wish in-
dulgence at American readiness to kill and be

when honour, ambition, or patriotism seem
to them to exact it, assuredly it is we, for no
people in the world owes a larger share of their
greatness and glory to this noble infirmity than
the English. And if there be one kind of blue-
MIS more than another which we have at all
times held in hearty detestation, it ia
that very kind which our Conservatives are
urging so earnestly upon the people of the
Northern States—the baseness of allowing foreign
loges and satirists to decide for them when to
draw the sword and when to sheathe it ; when to
be indignant and when to be patient. Whenever
they reach such a point of degradation as to take
the opinion of the Carlton Club and the Times as
to when they ought to fight, they will not only
act in direct opposition to the example England
has always eet them, but will deserve the scorn and
contempt which all foreign nations, and we our-
selves the foremost, shall unitedly heap upon
them.

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There is another feature in the late Northern
victories which is causing a good deal of distress
to a large number of persons of quality, and that
is the strong probability which every one sees that
they will put an end to that humane and gastssi
institution, the " Southern Confederacy," in
ridiculously short ewe of time. The latest so
counts from the Richmond papers repressed that
highly interesting person, Jarrissox • Dsvis,