The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-25 00:00:00

MANHATTAN AT IT AGAIN.

"PEGGING AWAY" AT THE ENGLISH MINISTRY.
There is but one opinion of the acts of the Eng-
lish Ministry; there can be but one wherever God's
sun shines upon people who can read the A B C
and write—even in the colonies of England—and
that is this : that the English Ministry had one of
two courses to pursue, a right one and a wrong one.
A right noble one would have been, if they deemed
it for the interest of England to acknowledge the
South, to have done it in a noble open manner, and
have let the consequences take care of themselves.
If they had done this they would have dismembered
the. United States for eser, and, at this moment,
the Confederacy would have been independent, and
a grateful friend to England. This was a right
course for an English Ministry to pursue. The
Ministry was too small potatoes and too few in a
hill to do anything so grand and so noble. They
wished to sneak into doing good to the South, ant'
so they allowed English capital, English sailors,
English shipbuilders, English boiler-makers, and
English everything else makers, to fit out ships
in English ports as pirates to go on to
the Atlantic Ocean, and there, under the rag
adopted by our Southern brothers, to burn and de-
stroy millions of property belonging to merchants
and shipowners, like old-time pirates, without much
regard to wiaether the property was American,
English, or Swiss. Is there a reflecting man in
England, or a true-born English child between the
age of three and twelve, who will say that that was
the right cheese ? Or is there one who is proud of
the achievements of such a glorious ministry ? Yet,
as the man said to Noah, "D your old boat; I
don't believe there is going to be much of a shower."
So even now the organs of the English ministry,
while territory after territory, each vaster in extent
than all Europe, is weekly passing from rebel do-
minion, hopelessly and irrevocably, these organs
declare that the South has just began to fight, and
that the Confederacy was never so prosperous—and
the stock goes up.

" A SLASH" AT NAPOLEON.

The English ministry did wrong, and if they
remain in power when the South caves in there
can be nothing else than a long and bloody war
with America. It is as inevitable as that the tides
ebb and flow. God in mercy avert it. Of course if
the English people want war with America, they
will have it by keeping iu the present ministers,
who have made such a lovely mess of everything.
But I suppose the million of pounds sterling that
Napoleon is said to spend yearly in London to keep
his viceroy Palmerston in power will have its effect,
and that he will command his deputy to plunge
England into the coming war that we are to have
with France, use her as he did in the Crimean war,
and as he does when he pleases, as the monkey did
the generous eat, to pick the chestnuts out of the
fire for his Majesty's own eating, while the unsus-
pecting cat burned her own paws. England, great
and glorious as she has been, must to eternity com-
mand the respect of mankind, and of those who
speak the English language all over the world, no
matter what their nationality, when she leads in
the affairs of the world and of the great nations on
its outside surface. But how low she sinks when
no great measure can be started by her ministers
until a telegram has been sent to and received from
Paris. I trust and I pray that whatever England
may do in the coming contest, she will do it as mag-
nificently as of old, and not as second fiddle to the
French Emperor. It is a reflection upon the mil-
lions of hogsheads of English blood in human sys-
tems on this continent and elsewhere, to suppose
that England—old powerful England—is afraid to
go to war without the backing of the legions of
Paris No. 2.

EDWIN JAMES REDIVIVITS !