The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

TlMES.—There is not an Englishman who does
not long to find in each batch of American news
some indication of an end—amicable, if possible, but,
anyhow, an end, to this horrible war. How that
end may come people imagine for themselves. It
may be by a relenting of mutual animosities, or by
an exhaustion of men on either side, or by a bank-
ruptcy of means and credit, or by some tremendous
blow which shall place one side at the mercy of the
other; or it may be by the appearance of :new and
unexpected perils, such as dangerous conspiracies,
or a fresh secession in another quarter; or by the
apprehension of interference; or, in the quietest
way of all, by the accession of a new Government,
more likely to gain reputation by putting an end to
the war than by carrying it on. As yet we cannot
perceive the smallest sign of peace by any of these
ways; and even though some of these circumstances
are maters of fact, they have no other effect than to
increase the obstinacy of both antagonists. The
North fights not so much to recover the South as to
retain the North-West and the Border States. It
fights against that tremendous repudiation which is
to throw all the costs and all the future consequences
of the war on New York and the great cites. It
fights to rid itself of the enormous obligation it has
contracted on behalf of the African. It fights to sus-
tain its credit with the immigrants from the Old
World, whom it has invited to do the work and
divide the spoil. Succeed it never can, but to con-
fess as much is something impossible to the Ameri-
can nature. It has yet to learn that lesson. But the
lesson, so abhorrent to all its feelings and habits,
will be in itself the hardest ever thrust on a repug-
nant pupil. The Northern States will one day have
to sign a renunciation which will be only the begin-
ning of dismemberment and ruin. This is the horror
they fly from, though the further they fly the more
surely do they entail it. Like him who will not
turn round to see, because, having once done so, Lis
eye caught that which he wished not to see again,
they refuse to face the calamity which they know
to be approaching. Neither statesmen nor soldiers
know how to deal with it—not even states-
men of the Stanton class or soldiers like Hooker.
Both sides in this extremity look to us, and nurse a
quarrel with us. They do this while each draws
from us the masts of carrying on the war. The North
has drawn, and continues to draw, those supplies of
men that cannot so easily be obtained from its own
exhausted cities. It draws from us all the material
of war. Yet it assures us that as soon as three
months of decided measures have put an end to this
rebellion it will immediately hurl its armaments
against England, against our hold upon Ireland,
against our dominion in America, against our com-
merce all over the world. Whether we interfere or
not, this is the fate in store for ns, and meanwhile
we are expected to express the s‘ armest hopes for
the success of the Federal arms. From the South
there comes, in somewhat milder accents, a scarcely
less unreasonable complaint. France and England,
we are told, have only to recognise the independ-
ence of the South, and the war will be over at once.
Would, indeed, that it were so, and that we could
persuade the North to save the wreck of its for-
tunes! But no recognition or mediation would have
the smallest weight unless it were backed up by the
probability of more forcible arguments, and those
arguments we are not inclined to apply. Dreadful
as this war is, we have no desire to substitute
another for it, to take ourselves the place of one of
the combatants, and, perhaps, engross the hatred of
both. We have nothing to do but to wait and hope
that these two unhappy maniacs may soon come to
themselves, ar.d see what they are about. It is not
for our interest that either should conquer the other,
or that both should be irreparably injured. This is
a civil war, not, indeed, in our own borders, but
within our own race—that race which but the other
day we were proud to reflect was fast peopling a
continent and surrounding the world.
POST.—The course which the Russian Govern-
ment is pursuing, according to our latest telegraphic
despatches, is certainly not calculated to divert
the public sympathy of Europe from its present
channel in favour of the Polish insurgents, or to
facilitate the task of those whose duty it is to de-
fend or excuse its policy. Prince Gortschakolf
may set forth in epigrammatic sentences the danger
to Europe of the cosmopolite revolutionary party,
or he may describe in precise and even most con-
vincing terms the situation of Russia with reference
to Poland, but his insinuations and his logic will
alike be unavailing if the whole civilised world is
outraged by the ferocious and brutal acts committed
by the chief instruments he employs, in frantic en-
deavours to extricate the Government from the
difficulties into which an injudicious and precipitate
act of legislation has plunged it. Had the measuresthe
adopted by the Russians for the suppression of
revolt been in accordance with the usages of
civi-
lised warfare, Europe might still have felt
sympathy
and
rnpathy
with the insurgents, but the more moderate
Conservative section of politicians n
w
euld
sition at leasti
have made allowances for the difficult po
which the treaties of 1816 placed
d d the force of
the Russian Go-
eernment. They would
have admitted
concessions to
that reasoning which has
they have been granted,
whenever
Poland, because, them to '
ways converted their own
the Poles have
purposes. .
of Theythe
insurrectionavreyapi-t-
-that the existencetaskof European part 'of
denied
action has rendered the
volutionary element within their dominions more
difficult than it has before been, and
assumed by
they Would
agreed in the position so often
have
Ins in one por-
Russian statesmen, that to grant refor
annexed province
tion of the empire—and that an
—more ample than those enjoyed by the inhabi-
tants of Russia Proper, could not be reasonably
overnment
expected of any G
and must give rise
to endless murmurs ,
of discontent in parts of
the country Where such reforms were impossible.
People would not havel been so unj, st as to
ignore the valid it these excuses, even though
the result mighty o
tarn be misgovernment and amount of 0 a
w cer-
f ; but any sposition to
make alloancesp oressionr the character ofdi the Russian
rule in Poland must vanish before the narrative of
those horrors which have been resorted to to crush
a people whom years of tyranny have goaded into
revolt. The proceedings of Nazimoff, the Gover-
nor of Lithuania, might touch a responsive chord
in the soul of Ger. Butler, if indeed they did not
cause him to feel a pang of envy at being outdone
in his treatment of defenceless women. What Butler

only threatened Nazirnoff has done. It is due to the
Northern soldiery garrisoned in New Orleans to
admit that the violation of women was not a Inv-

minent feature OltVeiibarbarities. We are in pas-
session of trustworthy accounts from persons just
arrived from Lithuania and Livonia whinh fully

confirm the atrocities committed upon the Countess
Mole and other distinguished ladies reported in our
yesterday's impression. This young lady, who was

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*than honest under a
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somewhat powerful dispensation ind
threatened to destroy the crops ofhis and rain, which
north was
parishioners. It was
towards the close of the parishioners, pitiOUS, and serious fears were harvest, the weather was unpro-
in AthNe
entertained that all would be
lost. In the course of his
he had just completed thesecond prayer, one rainy Sunday,
weather as may enable u well-known petition " for such
that there may be abund 8 to
gather in the fruits of the earth
came a sudden blast ance for man and beast," when there
down of the old church
of wind and •
rain, which made the win-
rattle in their frames. Luther would
have ascribed this phenomenon to the devil ; the poor
minister saw in it unfavourable answer to his prayer, and
impatiently exclaiariolelidnfitt(
~ . eel, weel I blaw awa' ; muckle
guici May it do you, spoiling a' the puir folks corn the same
as ye did last year.—Yraser's Magazine.
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oil, which had floated down the stream of Black Creek,
being obstructed by some felled trees and collected in a mass,
had caught, or was set on fire, the result being that a gyriaa
illumination took place; at first the flames werereB7ltrees
proportion, but as the evening progressed at: a
t result. For
near by caught, and a startling
fire
wsasa boiling caldron,
rods, it is stated, the creek appeared 2.k
t the air to an altitude
darting sheets of red flame high
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of nearly .50ft. Crowds of
people
various stratagems were
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