The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-30 00:00:00

THERMOMETER.

This morning
This day at Two o'clock

Barometer-30.19.
Wind—West; light breeze and cloudy.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TH/9 DAY.—Morning, 11h. 48m.—Afternoon, h. m•
To-moratow.-Morning, 12h. 14m.—Afternoon, 12h. 40m.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1863.

There is one immense inducement, even for the
most phlegmatic, to join in the cheering which yes-
terday responded to Mr. ROEBUCK'S announcement
in the House of Commons that " On an early day
he would move that an humble address be pre-
sented to Her MAJESTY to enter into negotiations
with the great Powers of Europe for the purpose of
obtaining their co-operation in the recognition of
the independence of the Confederate States of North
America." And that almost irresistible incentive to
something like enthusiasm in reply to this an-
nouncement, may be found, by any one who cares to
take the trouble of looking for it among the
series of telegrams just now brought to us from
the American capital of Washington. Changes
in the Federal Adminstration, it will be ob-
served, are there spoken of. And among
these changes—one reported to be the most
confidently looked forward to, is the installation in
high office, as one of the chief administrators under
Mr. LINCOLN'S Presidency, of no less a miscreant
than the notorious General BUTLER. Once let this
appointment really be made, once let it be clearly
known that the official notification has been for-
mally issued from the White House, nominating
General BUTLER to a Post of Honour ( 0 in the
Federal Government, and the Powers of Europe will
have had afforded to them, not simply, as one might
say, an excuse for breaking away at last from their
policy of neutrality, but a good and valid reason for
immediately giving to the world evidence that they
have actually done so—evidence as substantial and
-unmistakeable as would certainly be afforded to all
civilised men, by the mere fact of the recognition of
the perfect independence, as a separate nationality,
of the Southern States of North America, under
the presidency of JEFFERSON Davis as the chosen
chief of the Confederate Government.
Regarded from our point of view the installation
in high office of a man like General BUTLER, must
be regarded as a brand of infamy, deliberately
fixed upon the Federal Councils by the perverse
will of the President. Of all the blunders that
infatuated man has been guilty of, that would
infallibly be the greatest. Until the deed be actu-
ally done, however, it is one of a character so
astoundingly insensate that we must remain incre-
dulous as to the possibility of its perpetration.
Nevertheless, supposing it to be possible, England
would then incontestably have every inducement
to break away, as we have said, from her neutrality'
and, in evidence of this, to respond at once affito be
rma-
tively to the very tempting suggestion about
thrown out by the hon. and learned gentleman the
/Aetabee for Sheffield.
jail,l"l:.,rvena.l:l7 circumstances, the cheers" which
by um. evening greeted the announcement made
uull-Bncee had about them a very
liceara „ly 1,,"" a startling significance.
Commove, vi, :ma Lew seconds in the House of
will nevertheless ee certain of this—that they
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at
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rate as plainly
England is 8. Those
of the South by that the reeogration
ny
trembling in the balance! They 'tiree•dy
part of some at least in the British House of the
Com-
mons, a sympathy for the South, and °I
sense of growing alienation from the North. ceurtpao.n,
the course persisted in by the belligerents out there
at the seat of war, depends very much the decision
,arrived at by the House of Commons when Mr.
ItoEßtiefi's motion shall come under discussion, and
shall have led,
as we presume it must lead, to a
division. Even as things ore at
present, it is only
necessary in order to Judge which way the political
America, whether it
wind blows hitherward from
blows from N.W. or from S.W.—to note, upon
this morrow of the Cheers called forth in
the House of Commons by Mr. ROEBUCh'S
bcief announcement—to note, however casually,
the contrast of painful emotions excited in
the niinds of 999 Englishmen out of every 1,000 who
may this day read two items of intelligence in the
latest tidings brought to us from the American seat
of way. Item the first—the one already particu-
%rind. The mimed intention, that is, of Gene-