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LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1863.

The American news which we have lately pub-
lished does not tell us of any striking event or de-
cisive encounter. Its tone, however, only confirms
the opinion which has for some time been gaining
ground in this country, that the subjugation of the
South is hopeless, and that the Norther r. Govern-
ment will soon be compelled, by the exhaustion of
its finances and the growing discontent of its people,
to abandon the fruitless and cruel war which it has
persisted in waging in defiance of reason and re-
monstrance. Signs of the increasing desire for the
cessation of the struggle are beginning to show
themselves. The New Jersey Legislature has
passed peace resolutions, protesting against
war being waged for partisan purposes; against
the domination of military law in States not in
rebellion ; against the arbitrary arrests and the
suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act ; against the
division of existing States; against the emancipation
proclamation and the expenditure of public money.
On most of these points they will have the sympathy
of Europe with them. The present war is waged
only with the view of the subjugation of the
Southern States without regard to the cost or
consequence. There are doubtless many fanatics
among the Northerners who would rather reign
over a desert laid waste by fire and sword than
suffer the fertile provinces of the South to
flourish as an independent State. The tyranny
of military law has been suffered long enough in
districts where it was totally uncalled for, while the
results of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act
has filled Englishmen with indignation. We need
scarcely remind the reader cf the numerous
instances in which the so-called free Government
of the Northern States has exercised a degree of
unconstitutional authority, which would be bold
in a despotic sovereign in these days. In the
words of one of the victims of authorized oppres-
sion the history of whose wrongs has been
recently laid before the people of this country,*
" The unlawful and oppressive acts of Mr. LINCOLN,
his advisers and subordinates, during the war be-
tween his Government and that of the Confederate
States, will hereafter constitute no insignificant
portion of the history of these times." The following
brief summary of the state of affairs in Maryland,
even early in the struggle, from the same authority,
shows plainly enough that the protest of the New
Jersey Legislature is not uncalled for. Mr. HOWARD,
the writer in question, tells us that Northern troops
having been placed in the city of Baltimore and
throughout the State, numerous points were forti-
fied, and the President proceeded to put his plans
in execution. " The Cemmissioneis and Marshal of
Police were arrested in Baltimore, and the police
force was disbanded. Many of the most prominent
members of the Legislature, on the eve of the meet-
ing of that body, the Mayor of Baltimore, and one
of the members of Congress for that city, were ar-
rested at midnight and dragged off to prison. Edi-
fens and other private citizens were also among the
proscribed. Newspapers were suppressed, and the
functions of the State and municipal authorities
neurped or suspended by agents of the Administra-
tiun," No wonder, after such proceedings, that a
protest is issued against theomination of martial
law ! Another point of the New Jersey remon-
strence is, we are glad to find, directed against
that proclamation which, under the profession
of virtue and religion masks but faintly an exhor-
tation to the horrors of a servile war. Further-
more, the New Jersey Legislature supports that
project of a meeting between representatives of the
rival parties which was originally proposed by the
astaft ruler of the French. It is believed that if the
rumoured successes of French arms in Mexico are
eoroact, NAPOLEON M. will be encouraged in the

* Fourteen Months in American Bastiles. London
11. F. Mackintosh.