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

RECOGNITION OF THE SOUTH.

We must admire the manliness of Mr. Scholefield, M.P.
at Birmingham, in defending himself for becoming a mem
ber of the Southern Club, and advocating recognition,which
was not a departure from neutrality, but only the moral
effect of public opinion. Now, we quite agree that if Eng-
land, instead of preventing France a year ago from recog-
nising the Confederacy, had joined her willing 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 dominion," 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 being a loss, in
1863, of over 400,000 lives between North and 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 now he might see
North and South on amicable terms.
Eng-
land and France, combined with the other European
owers, t
o Commencing
recognisewith
1864,the South,
we thing it is the duty of
P
s outh,
and the sooner the jus-
tic° of this can be brought home to the House of Com-
mons, the better for civilisation, humanity, and Chris-
tianity. Lord Palmerston, when Foreign Secretary
recognised Belgium in revolt against Holland, after a few
months' fighting, when 5,000 live 3 were not sacrificed ;:but
in this war of 36 months (likely to last, without recogni-
tion, to 1870), upwards of one-millton of lives have been
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
their dominions, but did not recognise the Southerns in their
united and unanimous election of Davis vice Lincoln.
To bring these truths home to the house, we know nono
abler than our countrymen Cairns, V hiteside, or Mac-
donough, well versed in the common end international law,
and if they would do se, they would benefit their country.
What tho 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 ware turn
ar-
son—at a public meeting in New York, after his r
from this country, that the friends of the North were in
their teens, while the people were for the independence of

the South.
pronounce at once that his course
Lord Palmerston should p
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 auxilios"

If Lord Palmerston recogn lees the Smith, and throws
himself on the people, he will find a cheering response at
the hustings, and then, as. the late Sir Robert Pool said,
" We will all be proud of hum."—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
the individual, but to the family, as the too common not alone to
manage, or so disastrous in its consequences,
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 respect to it. The raving maniac
is a far less troublesome and dangerous patient to deal with,
as ho can be consigned in the most summary manner to the
next asylum, where his malady, in a very large per centage
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 medicine,—Once a
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