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London, England, 1861-11-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 12.

TO OUR RILLDERS.

SPORTING nammoENCE.

A late edition of the liagress is published every
rrening during the racing season, containing the
results of the day's races.

Tics Circular of Mears. Nina. Bacirucas,
which we printed on Friday, will prove of great
service in this country by the light it casts on the
real character of the war in America. It will
probably stop the senseless scolding which oar
public speakers and writers have so long adesix«,.
tared to the Americans for not making op their
quarrel without dealing with the causes of it.
Everybody who reads that Circular must see that
it is pure folly to irritate either of the contending
parties with admonitions to stop fighting while the
deepest principles which lie at the foundation of
human society are in question, and are so
thoroughly understood to be so that they cannot
now be hidden out of sight, as they have
hitherto been, in dread of this very conflict
If the Messrs. N►ILL have conveyed to English
readers some polies] of the extent of the resources
of both sections of the country and of the spirit of
the inhabitants, they must at the same time have
made not a few writers and speakers ashamed of
their impertinence in making light of a contro-
versy so grave, and of a struggle so fierce and
determined.

The statements of the Circular will be approved
as nearly correct, as far ma they go, by those who
unite with the local experience of Messrs. Neer.
the wider survey which can be taken from a dis-
tant*. While decidedly and most usefully right in
explaining why the war cannot be stopped, and how
it can be carried on for many years, Messrs. Nom.
overlook the very probable ague, that a split in each
section of the country may alter the whole aspect
of the quarrel, and perhaps precipitate its settle-
ment. The latest mails have brought some par-
ticulars of Northern and Southern news which are
of deep interest and significance.

In both sections there is a strong and wide-
spread discontent with their reepective adminis-
trations. Several of the leading Southern jour-
nals speak out without reserve about both civil
and military misrule. It is not only that vale-
ment patriots are angry at not being yet in Wash-
ington, nor likely to winter in Philadelphia, as
promised : it is that the citizens cannot under-
stand why a military force like that under Joan-
nom and Bus URZGARD has not followed up the advan-
tages afforded by the inexperience of the Northern
force, with its raw officers and citizen soldiery. It
is that the Southern forces are melting away with-
out having achieved any decisive success, the Caro-
lina men betaking themselves home from Vir-
ginia, and the Texan and Alabama regiments
parting off from the forces in Missouri and
Kentucky, at the fittest season for fighting.
Whether these regiments are wanted to de'end
their own seabord, or dare not absent themselves
longer from their homes, the mortification to the
Southern public is the seine. The civil discontents
are graver. The two parties headed by Georg:a
and Alabama are separating more widely, instead
of becoming reconciled ; and the citizens are
ranging themselves in an opposition almost as
marked as that between South and North. The
party of Governor Hume openly declares that
the war should never have been begun, and that
the despotian which dared it will not be endured
when the war is over. By some of that party'
it is said that a single victory of the Federalists
would break the Confederacy to pieces. Two re-
cent incidents afford some confirmation to this
view. A clergyman in the Union force has
reached Washington from Cape Hatteras, as •
messenger to Government from tho commands,.
there, and from the inhabitants of the neighbour-
ing district. He was the bearer of a declaration
of repudiation of the Con'ederacy by the
citizens of Hyde County, Nowt\ Carolina, and of
a request for arms, to defend themselves
under the national flag. They have given a de-
tailed account of the state of repreasiou in which
they have been living; and they naturally sup-
pose that other counties are in the same condi-
tion, and that the strength of Union sentiment in
the South is too great to be long kept under by
the stringent despotism now applied to the en-
forcement of silence. What the dread of that
sentiment must be is shown by the desperation of
the expedient for sealing men's lips. The slaves
of suspected Unionists are made suspicious of
their masters, and encouraged to spy upon them,
and keep them in fear, information being spread
among the negroes that the object of the Northern
invaders is the extirpation of the blacks. Such is
the testimony of Unionist fugitive citizens asleep-
lag into Kentucky. The other symptom we have
referred to is very striking. The Secessionists of
Maryland are openly reviving a speech of General
Tenets, an authority as high as Jameson Davis
himself, in which he remi•ded Congress, two years
age. that the South always held in ►er own hands
the power of emancipation as an ultimate re-
mune. In Baltimore it is at present declared by
llemeisaisis that it will be the policy of the Con-
federates to abolish slavery r►ther than yield to the
North the opportunity of doing it.
The movement of hostile parties is not the only
recent news from the South. The discontent of