The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-11 00:00:00

RECOGNITION OP THE SOUTH•

We must admire the manliness of Mr. Seholefield, M.P.,
at Birmingham, in defending himself for becoming a mem-
ber of the Southern Club, and advocating rscognition,which
was not a departure from neutrality, but only the moral
effect of public opinion. Now, we quite ages that if Eng-
land, instead of preventing France a year ago from recog-
nising the Confederacy, had joined her wiling to do so, the
public opinion of Europe would have brought the bellige-
rents to peace. Earl Russell no doubt unintentionally stood
in the way, notwithstanding his previous assertion that
"the North was fighting for empire and dosainion," and the
statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer "that Pre-
sident Davis had made a nation"—the consequence of the
Foreign Secretary's untoward conduct bring a loss, in
1863, of over 400,000 lives between North sad South, a vast
amount of suffering and desolation, and an increase of debt
to both belligerents of over 250 millions sterling. Recogni-
tion would have averted all this, and nevs he might see
North and South on amicable terms.
Commencing with 1864, wething it is tha duty of Eng-
land and France, combined with the ether European
Powers, to recognise the South, and the sooner the jus-
tice of this can be brought home to the House of Com-
Jianity, . Leal Palmerston, when Foreign. Secretary
mons, the better for civilisation, humanity, and Chris-
recognised Belgium in revolt against Holland, after a few
months' fighting, when 5,000 lives were not sacrificed ;:but
i n
upwardso nt h s
of (likelyo ne m
million
loan of lives have been
ys last, without recogni-
tion,lost, and over six hundred millions of money,
Earl Russell
recognised the dethronement of the lawful
sovereigns of
Tuscany, Modena, and Naples, having many _
supporters in
to
their dominions, but did not recognise the Southerns in their
united and unanimous election of Davis vice Lincoln.
To
thanbring these
our
countrymen truths
home c the
thouse,
, ainshiteside, or Mac-
we know none
abler
donough,.well versed in the common and international law,
and if they would do se, they would benefit their country.
What the feeling of the people of England and Europe
on the question is can be best ascertained by a late speech
of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher—our friend the war par-
son—at a public meeting in New York, after his return
from this country, that the friends of the North were in
their teens, while the people were for the independence of
the South.
Lord Palmerston should pronounce at once that his course
will be that of international justice, conforming to the will
of the people, and boldly announcing to the Gibsons and
Brights—" the dark shade" and incubus of his Govern-
ment—in the words of the poet—
" Non ego tali auxilio."
If Lord Palmerston recognises the South, and throws
himself on the people, he will find a cheering response at
the hustings, and then, as the late Sir Robert Pod said,
" We will all be proud of him."—Cork Reporter.

DIPSOMANIA; OR THIRST MADNESS.—There is
not, perhaps, in the whole range of mental or phy-
sical maladies one so distressing to 'witness, so difficult to
manage, or so disastrous in its consequences, not alone to
the individual, but to the family, as the too common affec-
tion,—dipsomania, or thirst-madness. Bad enough as it is
in itself, it is aggravated a thousand times by the uncertain
condition of the law with respect to it. The raving maniac
is a far less troublesome and dangerous patient to deal with,
as ho can bo consigned in the most summary manner to the
next asylum, where his malady, in a very large per tentage
of cases, gives way to seclusion and proper medicinal treat-
ment; but the dipsomaniac is an unfortunate, afflicted
with a vice or a disease which has not yet found its right
place, either in our system of morals or mcdicine.—Oace a