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

THE SON. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1863,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MANHATTAN AT IT AGAIN.

"PEGGING AWAY" AT THE ENGLISH MINISTRY.
There is but one opinion of the acts of the Eng-
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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 Loble 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 hud done this they would have dismembered

the United States for ever, 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, and
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 whether 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 ; 1
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 in 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 cat, 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 now 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-
❑ificently 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 ItEDIVIVUS

Edwin James is in deeper trouble for his slander
of the English widow. It will be a rich trial when
it comes on. Mr. James enjoys himself in the new
country. He is not an early riser, but sits up late
at nights to equalise it. It is asserted that be will
soon lead to the Hymeneal altar a beautiful girl,
daughter of an ex-governor of this state, with in
her own right a million. When the marriage is
over the parties will probably go abroad.

YANKEE SQUEAMISHNESS ABOUT Bullock's BLOOD.

We have an amusing war at the present time
between the butchers of New York and the city
inspector, Boole. He is opposed to the system of
slaughter-houses, with blood running in the gutters
of our best streets. It is a great nuisance, and is
a source or seva,... ;o to be boron that
Boole will be the conqueror.

CLEVER APPLICATION OF A PROVERB.

The retreat of General Bragg from Gen. Rose-
cranz has surprised many. It only proves the truth
of the old English saying, " Brag is a good dog, but
Ifoldfast is a better one."

WAR! WAR ! ! WAR!! ! WITH FRANCE.
A war between France and the United States is
inevitable; but may Heaven avert a war between
England and this country. It must come with the
present ministry. The ministers are so leagued in
with France that war cannot be avoided, if Napoleon
wishes ; and it is folly to suppose that this country,
when the rebellion ceases, will be powerless. The
anxiety to wipe out the past disgraceful civil war
will make our new war ferocious. If the rebellion
is crushed, the Government will have to go into a
foreign war. France is fair game. She only has
given us cause of war. We need Mexico now, and
we will have it. It was a great blunder of Polk's
administration that he did not keep Mexico when
we had it, and Scott with his army was in Mexico
city. It was prevented by the Southern statesmen,
who opposed annexing it for the same reason that
they always opposed annexing Canada, viz., it
would have enlarged and strengthened the free
states and free territory.
[Not a word about the human blood now, (for two
years) flooding—not the gutters of New York but
the vast countryside of what was once the Union :
not one word about this fearful pouring out of
human blood, says Manhattan !] • •