The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-22 00:00:00

shelter was being inflicted day be:0:1911 their
loved ones, and where those who gr sere '
exchanged bore to every town, In the living
skeletons of their frames, the sores in their flesh,
the utter prostration of bodily constitution
and of mental vigour, sad and incontestable proof
of what those who remained were stfllenduring. Yet
these things moved no family of the North to cry
for pause or peace ; rather they steeled every
heart, as surely the like thoughts would with us,
into more bitter and stern resolve to make an end
of fighting by fighting. And so if the sufferings
of European wounded are confined to the field,
and no nation has yet blasted its fame by cruel
treatment of prisoners under confinement, at least
we may feel assured that it will still be the armies
capable of fighting, and the spirit that from home
sustains them, that will turn the day, and that as
the cries of the wounded have never yet brought
peace, we are removing it no further off by some-
what assuaging the sufferings of the helpless.
We hope, therefore, that this benign series of
regulations, supported already by the accession of
the highest authorities, will speedily receive the
assent of the whole of the civilized world ; so that,
though wars be neither less frequent nor leas bloody,
we may feel that they will be contests of strength
with strength, and no longer waged at the needless
and bootless expense of further pain to the
miserable victims of national policy.

THE WEEKLY PRESSi ANDII. THE AMERICAN
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(From the Saturday Review.)
If the Confederacy had been as homogeneous se
a European monarchy, it would probably have been pru.
dent, from the early pert of the war, to have profited by
the remote distances of the Interior to pursue an exclusively
defensive strategy. The armies which have been crippled
er destroyed in Teunmsee and Miseimippi might, if they
were still in existence, reader Lee once more • match for
the conquerors of Richmond. The Confederate govern-
ment, however, could not afford voluntarily to abandon
any portion of its territory, and the prolonged defence of
Richmond almost justifies • policy which might other.
wise have seemed hannious. The interior of the country
to the Best of the River Miesissippi has cow been tra-
mmed in every direotion by Northern armies, and nearly
all the more important towns have parsed into the posses.
sloe of the invader. Tails, indeed, is for the present in-
dependent, and it would hold Ma times the whole Con-
federate population ; but in modern times nations are cot
in the habit of migrating like old German or Scandinavian
tribss. The terms of submission would be easy, except to
those whose property comets in slaves, sad to the earnest and
unconquerable patriots who, even among the noblest raw,
necessarily form • minority. Wherever Federal occupation
extends, the dregs end the mourn of the people will welcome
the conquerors, and unsuspected love of the Union will be
discovered as sore es it is found to be ideutical witht, to
putty and ease. It will be wormy, for the presen
tolerate the supremacy of the republican faith ; bat even
in Tameness the majority will probably hereafter be able to
displace lie oppressors. On the whole, the chasms are in
favour of an early restoration of pesos. Traders in all
parte of the world will suricierly watch the prospects of
cotton cultivation, and philanthropists of different series
will have the opportunity of studying the affects of ma-
vensl emancipation on the pogrom. The process is which
foreigners are most immediately interested will be the more
or less complete absorption of the disbanded soldiery in the
SHAW' of industry. Lf ATtrigla whorl ma orators are
to be believed, the first result of prime will be some ex•
tarsal war, voluntarily undertaken for purposes of revenge
or ambition. It is fortunately pet missible to doubt both
the sincerity and the foresight of those who make it their
badness to gratify popular vanity. High wages and large
profits will compete effectually with the love of military
glory, especially es the national appetite for boasting is
provided with abundant sustenance to last through the
present generation. If there are any hosed statesmen in
the [Toiled States, they will be concerned to prove that the
triumph of the Federal arms is not an unmixed misfortune
to mankind. _ _