The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-11 00:00:00

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denied that the French Government had any Betni-
official organ ; but somehow it seems to be under- I
stood that articles of the kind headed " mediation "
in the Constitutionnel, and aszigned a prominent
place in its columns, have a significance borrowed
from a higher source than the editor. In this
article, the necessity, not of intervention, but of
simple mediation, is pressed by arguments, most of
which would occur to any impartial and intelligent
European, and to candid Americans too; but their
chief importance lies in the supposition that they
are put forth as feelers by those who might, if ad-
visable, clothe them with diplomatic authority.
We are told, what all will assent to, that " battles,
great battles, are about to be fought in America,
and perhaps have been fought already at the very
moment we are writing. It is impossible, in fact,
for the armies of the North and the armies of the
South, in presence of each other at Corinth and at
Richmond, not to come to blows. Deluges of blood
will be shed, and, what is more sad to contemplate,
whatever the issue may be, these terrible encoun-
ters do not promise a solution to the actual crisis
either for America or for Europe. The victory, no
matter on what side, will not bo attended with any
final result."

The reasons for this are obvious. The spirit of
the South is such as renders any satisfactory result
from victory, impossible. " Violence, hatred, pas-
sions of every
Qcscription, of which the first war of
independence has given us the recital, are nothing
compared to the hatred which now animates the
South against the North; but they may give an
idea of the resistance and of the obstacles which
the Federal armies will have to meet from the Con-
federates." Granting the North the benefit of
victory in both the great impending battles, it
cannot then conquer tropical heat, and almost un-
limited territory. It cannot conquer men who
prefer destroying and abandoning everything on
that' outer circle which the Confederates can
touch.

Further, our French contemporary argues—
though there is not, as many in the North will think
much in it—that the war compels painful incon-
sistency :—" The country of freedom par excellence
has commenced by suppressing freedom. Military
directors have seized upon all the telegraphic lines
which traverse America in every direction. The
same censorship compels the newspapers to publish
only what is favourable to the North and unfavour-
able to the South. And what is the result of this
The North speaks to the whole world by the elec-
tric wires, while information from the South, when
it does come, comes tardily. In fact, the journals
and correspondence from the South, which reach us
by way of the Havannah or St. Thomas, are some-
times five weeks behindhand, and thus lose all in.
terest. . . The North proclaims martial law with
all its severities ; it suppresses every independent
voice ; it. threatens the suspected with death. In
presence of such despotism the English press has
not been able to remain silent."
In the• presence of such facts it is argued that
Peace can only come from without. The struggle
is between desperate men, who will never desist till
they have deluged the land with blood, and de-
stroyed each others resources. A basis for media-
tion must be sought in the moderation of each party.
The North must not make the civil war one for the
abolition of slavery—the South must no longer as-
sert the Divine institution of slavery. Mr. LIN-
COLN has made a beginning in the line of modera-
tion, which the South may honourably and advan-
tageously accept. He has declared his wish to deal
with slavery only gradually and legally, and to
remove it eventually by such compensation to the
States as will remunerate them fairly for emanci-
pation. On the part of the South, Mr. YANCEY
said in London, on the 9th of last November at
Fishmongers' Hall :—" When our adversary shall
have become sufficiently calm to treat us as belli-
gerents the aurora of peace will appear in the
horizon. When that hour has struck I think I may
say that the Confederate Government will not show
itself inflexible, except upon one point--rthe care of
our honour and of our independence. As regards
the great interests of peace and of humanity, our
Government will know how to make concessions in
everything simply material or of secondary im-
portanee."

The Constitutionnel will have it that between
those who have spoken thus, peace ought to be pos-
sible ; it considers the Separation, however, as
already accomplished, and we fear that only a few
of the wiser heads at the North yet recognise that
fact. It may be true that "The capture of Rich-
mond would not advance the affairs of America
one whit more than the capture of New Orleans.
The South bathed in blood, the north plunged in
bankruptcy and in anarchy, commercial Europe
seeing its sufferings increase..-such are the conse-
quences of the continuation of this war." But the
North cares nothing for Europe, nor, indeed, does
the South except that she wants our commerce
mWith blood, too, we fear, neither party is yet
saotisat. ted, or revolts from shedding it—we hear of
not one word of mourning for the slaughter on the
side of the enemy, and more of revenge than of
sorrow for losses on their own side. So far as we
can yet see the lust of power and greatness mad-

dens the North. Determination to retain absolute

power over fellow men, to use th€m as property,
and to be independent of the North that they may
enjoy this worse than brutal power—maddens the

South. Both sides are mad, and nothing we fear

but bankruptcy and misery will bring them to their

senses. They will listen to no mediator but neces

city, to no voice of humanity unless it offers to the
North the hugest empire on earth, and to the South
the most cruel right in the persons of men which

even heathens ever conceived. By a few shades
the Northern cause is the better one— for it is not

based on the Divine Bight, but on the Municipal
Right of Slavery. But it is almost as bad to be-
lieve it a divine right to murder tens of thousands
that the
American Union may become the most
powerful nation in the world—and that, we be-
lieve to be
the Northern spirit. They want to be
strong enough again, to bully all Europe.

An outcry, rather
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estilY another week has
raticn. The date from which the
.7 are to com-
mence is the 18th instant. After vhi •
eh, unless
the old system be retained in consequence
of Lord
WESTBURY being induced to alter his mind, upon
the principle of second thoughts being best, am_
davits and so forth will be set up by law com.

positurs, and struck off by law printers, and ea:e.

fully corrected and revised by law readers before

b.:ing issued. This—instead of these Lffidhvits

and answers in Chancery being, as they are at

present, and as they have been from time imme-

scrawled in round hand by tan combined

agency of the law writer, the copying clerk,

and the law btationer. It must be admitted, of

course, at once, that to the class of men last men-

ioned the new orders in Chancery authorising,

or rather imperatively requiring, that all affidavits
and answers in Chancery shall, after the ,18th of
June, 1862, be printed, instead of being still issued
in manuscripts, bears all the aspect of a griev-
ance. The change will throw many honourable