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LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1863.

" News of battle !" as Professor AYTOUN sang of
the Scotch, as with a clarion of a trumpet through
his noble " Lays of the Cavaliers"—" News of
Battle I' of a less chivalric kind still comes to us
from time to time in driblets and at uncertain
intervals from the opposite shores of the Atlantic.
There the Roundheads of the North (unlike their
forefathers of the English Commonwealth, perpe-
tually beaten !) are still at strife with the Cavaliers
of the South—the latter (in this a striking contrast
to the followers of RUPERT in all except their
kindred heroism) continually victorious. Another
pacquet of intelligence from the seat of war between
the Federals and Confederates has just been
brought to our own shores from those of
America by the Royal Mail steamer Arabia,
bringing advice from Boston to the 18th, from Hali-

fax to the 20th instant. From these advices—as
usual—it will be recognised that 110 headway
whatever has been made in the prosecution of the
war by the Federal Government with a view to its
conclusion, either strategically (their forte, this,
we presume, from their everlasting allusion to it) or
by dint of good hard fighting, or by means of diplo-
matic negotiation. Diplomacy, as one of the means
to the desired end, may be described all along
in sporting phrase as "nowhere." Hard fight-
iog the Northerns seldom or never give,
themselves a chance of under any circumstances.
Either they content themselves with blazing away
for hours together at the safest distance, as upon
the occasion of the very first incident of the war at
its actual outbreak, when the remote fortifications
of the enemy were reduced to a heap of ruins by the
agency of cannon balls and not one soul was a bit
the worse upon either side, not a single life was
lost or even jeopardised ! Or, when the Federal
warriors are brought to close quarters with theiran-
tagoniste, as at Bull's Run, they show their agility
in a stampede, and call it—a strategic movement !
7 hat, in point of fact, we repeat, being, quite mani-
festly, their forte—what the French would term
their pietier. Supplimentary, however, to their
really remarkable capabilitie as masters of the stam-
pede—we may pardon as skilled strategists—they
have, during the progress of this deplorable war,
evinced a frightful ingenuity in contriving nnac-

customed methods for endeavouring at least to in

filet as large an amount of injury as possible
upon the foe. For example, there was that
—positively we can find no other word in
which to express its character than by calling it—
diabolical scheme of the Stone Fleets ! A project
at the mere mention of which there rose at once
from the more civilised races of the old world but
one cry of horror and execration. A contrivance,
it will be remembered, to have been for permanently

injuring the mouths of the rivers emptying them-
selves into the Atlantic, along the coast of the
Southern or Confederate States—of permanently

injuring those important outlets for the sake
of obtaining a temporary advantage in the
prosecution of an infamous Civil War. Again,
quite a kindred project of its kind to the one just
mentioned, quite kindred in its refined atrocity,
was the one coolly hit upon by the since (in conse-
quence of this!) notorious General BUTLER—the
delivering up to the license of the Federal soldiery
of every Southern lady, of every girl and woman
numbered among the population of the Confederate
States who might be recognised as guilty of the
high crime and misdemeanour of sneering at a
Federal officer or a Federal soldier ! Then, too,
more recently, quite in keeping with all this
system of dastardly attack by the submergence of
a stone fleet, and of their other system of detestable
retaliation by means of the atrocious expiation of
insults from girls and women devised by the ab-
horred General Butler—quite of a piece with all
this is the singular malignity of the enterprise we
are now about to particularise, there is that scheme
(already partially carried out) of digging, almost as
one may call them, devillish channels of diver-
gence from the waters of the mighty Missis-
sippi ! Whatever the devastation caused by
this project could in any way approach in magni-
tude the calamitous scope hinted at in the rumours
afloat in regard to it last week—rumours talking
of valley lands upon that vast continent flooded to
an extent equivalent to the dimensions of the whole
of Scotland—whether or not the devastation actually
accomplished by the digging of those channels ca
divergence from the borders of the Mississippi
could under any circumstance attain a mag
nitude so fearful of its kind and in
its extent—the mere projection of the
enterprise at all reflects infamy upon; the: coun-
cils of the Federal Government. Again and again
Humanity has had reason to cry aloud against the
mode of conducting this war, visible under different
frightful aspects from time to time on the part of the
South. To recapitulate the pick amongst those

trocions devices—The Stone Fleets—General BUT
LEn's Orders—and the digging of three canals of
divergence from the bed of the Mississippi,
Added to all, which should certainly be sreci-
fied, moreover (we, with a cry of horror
and indignation rather than with the blatant bray
of applause audible from Exeter Hall)—the auda-
cious signal given (abortively as it has happily
proved !) for the outbreak of a Servile War, the
signal given for that deadliest curse of all in a Civil
War, given by that vaunted Humanitarian, Mr.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, given by him in the prosti-
tuted name of Negro Emancipation, that sacred
cause being in effect nothing less than prostituted
to the vilest purposes of a proclamation, rendering
it in a manner petal in its operation ! Employing

the manumission of the Black as a means (it was
hoped) to ensure the more cruel and pitiless prose-
cution of the war against the South ! Why, amongst

the more conspicuous of the Northern civilians—
men speaking arms, but not using them—who has
been more flagrantly conspicuous that the brother
of the humane authoress of the famous pro-emanci-
pation novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin—that Reverend
Mr. BEECHER (lava the mark! that is, his romance!')
who has delived up his name to lasting
execration by the refined atrocity with which
he (nominally one among the Ministers of the
Gospel of Christ !) preached against the South, in
the same organ of Negro Emancipation—a War
of Extermination ! It would hardly be rash to
predicate quite confidently that a War so con-
ducted as this Civil War in America has been
conducted throughout, as it is still to this mo
ment being prosecuted by the population of the
Northern States under the guidance of Mr. LlN-
cout's incapable and systematically blundering
Government, cannot—can not by possibility pros-
per, cannot but end' soone or later (it is merely
a question of time) in defeat, contempt, and utter-
most discomfiture.

The questions which Herr SYBEL laid upon the
table of the House are most significant, and doubt-
less were those from whom he demands intelligence
in the Palace of Truth we shou' d hear some startling
revelations, as it is, however, it is to be feared that
there will be some evasion or subterfuge, and the
matter will be left in doubt and mystery. Herr
SYBEL asks what expenses were caused by the con-
centration of troops on the Polish Frontier ? By
what funds were those expenses covered ? Why up
to the present time has no communication upon the
subject been made to the Chamber ? The reserve
which is alluded to in the last paragraph proves
the want of straight-forward conduct that has dis-
tinguished the whole conduct of the Prussian
Ministry. In the case of Poland, however, there
has been something worse than ordinary. It is a
positiveby disgrace to a civilised people to aid and
abet
every means in their power, using surre-
ptitious influence where they could not employ
open force to lend a helping hand to the destroying
tyrant who sought to crush out freedom with the
iron heel of despotic violence. At least the Go-
vernment should have been neutral if they
could not or would not do anything to assist the
outraged nation of the Poles. The news from
Prussia hints at future difficulties that lie in the
way of Herr von BISMARCK when the question of
the convention comes again under notice through
I he representatives of foreign Powers, Also we