The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-15 00:00:00

No. 22,167

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a word, the experiment which so signally failed when
the North was the aggressor would equally fail ittlae
South in its turn became the attacking party.
they why is it that not only has
ressivthe Sout
oliehk4ie:e,,
Commander-in-Chief adopted an ogg p
but that in the opinion of most men it is believedyej
e
that policy will be crowned with Success? The
answer to this question is to be found in the
peculiar nature of American institutions, and the
strangeness of the light in which the issue of
the war is regarded by one at least of the bellie
gerents. However singular it may appear, there
aremany in the Northern States who are perfectly
indifferent which of the contending sections; of the
republic should prove victorious provided that ulti-
mately the Union should be re-established.
these persons—and they are mere numerous than is
imagined—it would matter little whether Lincoln
should dictate to the Southern States from Rich-
mond, or Davis to the Northern States from Weeti-
; ington. Hence it happens that the advance of the
Southern Comeiander-in-Cbief is regarded with
feelings which on this side of the Atlantic it is so
difficult to comprehend. The attempt to ditqato
terms to the South has fsiled, and now there
appears to be a willingness to discover whether a
similar end cannot he attained by aflowieg
alts
South to dictate terms to the North. To this feel-
ing must he ascribed the strange apathy with which
the Penneylvan' • though opposed to slavery, 1111 M,
re-
garded the invasion of Gen. Lee To the Confede-
rate Commander-in-Chief the existence of this feel-
ing was well known, and it doubtless prompted an
enterprise which would otherwise have been rash
in the extreme. Nine months have elapsed since the
Confederates last crosseda the Potomac, and during
thatda remn
ei
eepsee period i
theo d
whichm at Northern pi
uct-ohna e t m
occurred to shake the confi-
dence in the prowess of
fondly Southern
would overrun the entire area they
of the
Con-
federacy. imagined
But supposing
thatG en. Lee should de-
feat Meade and enter Washington as a victor, what
el musto revert
would be the consequences ? Again
to the singular condition of public opinion
North for a reply. Would the North act in in the
Northsuch
e
a contingency as the South would have acted if
Richmond had fallen ? We aro inclined to think
not. Neither strategically nor politically is the
security of Washington indispensable to the North ;
but still if it was occupied by a Confederate army we
believe the war would come to a close. The North
is utterly disgusted with the Administration which
has now for two years and a half done its best to
lead the country into irretrievable ruin. We cone
eider that, with the fall of Washington, the Go-
vernment would equally fall, and its successors,
appointed, would command the homage of the
multitude. There is at this moment, as indeed there
has been throughout the entire war, a thorough
want of patriotism, in the European acceptation of
that term, in the Northern States. The sentiment
expressed by the Federal officers when flying from
the first battle of Bull Run of having been " licked
into a cocked hat," has never ceased to pervade the
language in which the Northern population have
always spoken of their reverses. The people
of the free States have witnessed, without the
slightest feeling of shame, an army cross their fron-
tier and threaten their principal towns. And with
' the same absence of shame we verily believe they
would see General Lee march into their capital at
the head of a victorious army, and dictate the con-
ditions which should henceforth regulate the politi-
cal system of the American Federation. Already
sanguine politicians in the North have begun to
speculate on the possibility of the Union being re-
amed in its original integrity under Southern
auspices, and have gone so far as to express a hope
that, under the restoration, the North may once
more secure its previous supremacy. "We will
fetch up again on that arrangement," writes Man-
hattan, the correspondent of one of our contempo-
raries, " for we can outvote if we cannot outfight
them." But it might possibly have occurred to
Manhattan and those whose spokesman he is,
that the South has not " outfought" the North in
order to afford the latter an opportunity of after-
wards " outvoting" it. Setting aside political con-
siderations, is it at all probable that the South
would ever coalesce with a people which has laid
its territory desolate, and which would, if it had
been possible, have exterminated its population ?
The bare idea of such a contingency appears to our
mind so inexplicable that again we are obliged to
account for its being entertained by referring
to the singular condition of opinion in the North.
It is scarcely necessary to say that the Southern
States will, if they prove victorious, form
an independent league. They have learnt too bitter
a lesson during the administration of an ultra-
republican President not to profit by the moral
which it inculcates. Slavery is no doubt an odious
institution ; but for that very reason there can be
no amalgamation of States if by some it is tolerated
and by others disavowed. The separation which has
at length taken place between the free and slave
States of America was toreseen long since by Ame-
rican statesmen ; and the only cause for wonder is
that it was so long postponed. It is much to be
regretted that the separation was not Effected, as it
might and ought to have been, in peace; but having
occasioned a war, the bloodiest and most disastrous
with which modcfn history has made us acquainted,
it would be strange indeed if it was not final.
HERALD.—Lord Russell is the last man in the
world to get out of a mess with dignity. The award
of the King of the Belgians has given him an excel-
lent opportunity for abandoning the absurd position
he now occupies in respect to Mr. Christie's demands
and Admiral Warren's reprisals. Still he cannot
make up his mind act upon Sir Lucius O'Trigger's
principle, that an affront handsomely apologised for
becomes an obligation. But he endeavours to con-
ceal his defeat and his errors by the agency of the
Portuguese Minister at the Court of Brazil. Well,
we do not desire to see an English Minister on the
stool of repentance, a butt for all the jests of foreign
journalists, and we shall be heartily glad if the good
offices proffered may be made the means of restor-
ing friendly relations between the Governments of
Brazil and this country. But we cannot too strongly
speak of the perversion of facts of which our
Foreign Secretary was guilty last night, when he
accused the Brazilian authorities of refusing to
produce the bodies from the wreck, or to hold
ro o si
an inquest to know what had
fbetocome oubstantf theatem.
There is not a shadow of p
either charge. Four bodies were produced. The
them. And there is not
Brazilian authorities did not. refuse to produce
i sc ver
thatt would be received in any
the remaining bodies, they simply asserted their
d
law in this
ncoeunthrey to prove that it was in
inability
of to
evidence
an inquest
their court
produce
held m. As to the inquest,
an investigation wasv e_. over the bodies that were
be found, or an inquest to ascertain
er verdict was " Found drowned ;"
but who
d As Lord Malmesbuey of them?
onbodies that
what
haddiscovered,
bpoo ocf oe
everer andto Pt
heardh e
of
ob-
served,
the British Government had assumed at
once the offices of judge, appr •
could not
,he might add, with perfectfuser, and executioner
n e ; for more unwarranted truth, of false wit-
made by Earl Russell l accusations than those
to have head. Weast night we never reinem-
bergood offices of the sincerely trust that the
up this most Portuguese Minister may patch
Rus-
sell, content withunseemly quarrel, and that Earl Rus-
to make some advances his present triumph, will see fit
which he has ances to the friendly Government
so cruelly outraged.

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EDUCATION.—From 1839 to the close of 1862 the
Government grants made to schools connected with
the Church of England amounted to £4,039,333; to schools
connected with the British and Foreign School Society to
.537,`279; to Wesleyan schools to 5;303,113; to Roman
Catholic schools (England and Wales) to £238,110; to pa-
rochial union schools of £75,677; to schoolsconnected with
the Church of Scotland to £100,135; to schools connected
with the Scottish Free Church to £322,778; to schools con-
nected with the Scottish Episcopal Church to £34,..164; end
to the Scottish Roman Catholic Poor School Committee to
£18,793. Including charges for inspection, administration,
&c. the total expenditure of the Committee of Council on
Education from 1839 to 1362 amounted to £6,710,363. The
" &c." included £20,036 for " poundage on Post-eilice

orders."
JOINT-STOCK. COMPANIES.—Not less than 297
joint stock companies, with limited liability, have
been registered in England in the first half of the year 1863.
Thirty-three of them are banking companies, but one of
these has already registered a resolution dissolving the com-
pany, and others may probably have come to nothing. The
nominal capital proposed for there banking companies wag
more than £16,000,000.