The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-21 00:00:00

there is the freest circulation given to every kind of
publication. Newspapers abound, and have been
brought within the reach of every part of the
country, and of almost every house, diffusing in-
formation of the passing events of the day, and po,-
litical information of importance throughout the
whole of the kingdom ; and, in fact, bringing that
knowledge home to the doors of every man,
which before it was impossible for him to obtain.
These are all causes for.thankfulness in the present
day, but they impose upon us additional responsi-
bility, in order that we might make right use of
these advantages. The right hon. baronet resumed
his seat amidst thunders of applause repeated again
and again.

The War in America.
(From the Ddbats.)

"After marvels of courage the S mith has been at
last overcome by a constancy equal to its own, but
supported by superior forces and employed in the
service of a juster cause. The issue of this long
struggle is therefore such as we have always pre-
dicted and desired, in the interest of general civili-
sation as well as in the interest of France. The
intervention of Europe could alone have prevented
or rather delayed such a result ; but that interven-
tion, which for a moment was probable from a
quarter where least expected, and long become quite
out of the question for everybody, and no one any
longer thought of offering to the United States
counsels more or less threatening, as to the course
to be taken for putting an end to their intestine
dissensions. Mr. Lincoln justly remarked, when he
first assumed the Presidentship, that a State torn
by civil war had little to expect from foreigners ;
but success has produced its natural effect on the
wavering spirit of Europe, which had been scarcely
sensible to the voice of justice, but at once submitted
to the decrees of fortune ; not only have the words
intervention and mediation cease to be heard, but the
tone of a certain portion of the public press has changed
with regard to American affairs. Sherman has found
under the walls of Atlanta and Savannah something
more than the restoration of the greatness of his
country; he has recovered the respect of Europe.
Everything therefore tends towards peace in the
United States, giving the word ' peace ' the only sense it
can have—that of the re-establishment of the
Union in its territorial integrity, and with the
maintenance of the Federal bond between the dif-
ferent States composing it." The writer (M. Pre-
vost-Paradol) then inquires how peace is to be
re-established—on what terms ? Hitherto, he ob-
serves, the pretension of the Southern leaders was
to treat with the North as government with govern-
ment ; as foreign powers do when after a desperate
war they agree to come to an understanding for
drawing up in common the conditions of pacifica-
tion ; but Mr. Lincoln had not been elected a second
time President in order to admit such a pretension,
and to recognise the South indirectly by treating
with it as with an independent nation. The Presi-
dent has always seemed ready to receive back any
State into the Union provided it agreed to conform
to the Federal laws ; in fact, he appeared willing to
act on the plan known as that of Mr. Stephens.
That gentleman recommended that the President
of the United States should address to the people
and army of the Southern States a proclamation
inviting them to return to the Union ; that commis-
sioners sent by the United States should repair to
Nashville, Louisville, or Cincinnati, to meet com-
missioners directly named by such of the Southern
States as were disposed to treat on these bases ; and
that each State, thus restored to the Union, should
immediately send representatives to the Federal
Congress. It is generally thought that North Caro-
lina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi
would have immediately accepted a proposition of
that kind, and would soon have been followed by
the other fragments of the Southern Confederation.
The article having explained the plan in question
goes on to observe :—" If the union is re-established
in this manner, if every. state can return to it freely,
without other reminiscence of the past than the
rapidly closing wounds of the civil war, a new era
of liberty and prosperity will commence for the
American Union, and the question of slavery hav-
ing disappeared in the struggle, it is not easy to see
how any cause of dissolution could arise in the midst
of that great republic. The case, however, will be
very different if, the principal and common resist-
ance once broken, it should be found necessary to
overcome the separate resistance of each State, and
if the war against the Union should be prosecuted
by armed bands dispersed over that vast territory.
The United States could not then escape from the
necessity of governing militarily all the conquered
States, of suppressing in detail the remains of that
great revolt, and of delaying the return to the com-
mon law till the pacification should be complete. But
a man must be very ignorant of the practical spirit of
the Americans and of the promptitude of their re-
solutions, when enlightened by experience, to fear
this sterile and ruinous prolongation of the civil war.
The struggle, lately concentrated round Richmond,
is singularly abridged by the fall of that city, and all
reflecting minds in the South have been prepared
by recent events to accept without reserve this
supreme decree of destiny. This destiny, moreover,
has nothing so very painful. To return into the
bosom of a powerful empire without humiliation,
without other sacrifices than those imposed by the
spirit of the times and the very necessities of the
war, to return to industry and the arts of peace,
and to take part in the great movement of prospe-
rity which always follows civil wars—such is the lot
of the South, and this lot surpasses all the advan
tages with which it bad been lured by the instiga

tors of this unfortunate enterprise. Nor is there
anything to justify the thought that the foreign
policy of the United States will become more aggres-
sive from the mere fact that they are about to enjoy
internal peace and to live otherwise than under
arms. What is now passing in Canada is not of a
nature to hasten the execution of the ambitious
schemes generally attributed to the United States,

and which geographical position itself may suggest.
Admitting that the annexation of Canada is ar-
dently desired by the United States, nothing can be
more agreeable to them or more likely to suggest
forbearance than to see Canada organising itself as
a Federal republic, under the nominal authority of
England, and gradually accustoming itself to the
practice of the American constitution. The Ame-

ricans themselves rightly compare . Canada to a
pear :which is ripening for them, and which it

would be imprudent to pluck when it must soon
fall from ripeness. What is passing in Mexico is
more calculated to excite, if not the apprehensions of
the United States, at least their impatience ; but the
conquest of Mexico cannot tempt them yet. It is
when American emigrants have already overrun a
territory, when the American population flows over
any point of their frontiers, that the United States

begin to think of favouring or completing that move-
ment by conquest. No reason of this kind as yet

urges the United States to invade Mexico ; if we may

•
naturally impute to them the desire to see the col-

lapse of the new monarchy raised by our hands on
their frontier, it is a satisfaction which they await
with confidence from the course of events ; and they

will not, by an attempt to precipitate it, expose
themselves to the risk of paying more than it is

worth."

DISCOVERY OF ROMAN COINS AT FALMOUTII.-011
Tuesday last, while a labourer at Peunance farm,
Budock, was engaged in removing some earth, he dis-
covered, about 2ft. below the surface, on a foundation or
floor of stone, a quantity of second brass Roman coins, of
the reigns of Constantine, Diocletian, and Maximianus.
There are about 20 different types of the above reigns, but
the Genie Populi Romani type of Maximianus is greatly in
excess. There are several varieties of the reign of Con-
stantine, among which may be noticed the Principi Inven-
tori, the prince standing between two standard; and one
typo with P.L.N. in the exergue, struck in London. There
are about eight or ten third brass, some of which are attri-
buted to Gallineus.. The second brass are in excellent
condition, and are beautifully patinated.

THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A LADY AT DAW-
LisH.—A clue has been obtained to the identity of the un-
fortunate lady who is supposed to have committed suicide
by taking poison on Tuesday morning at the York Hotel,
Dawlish. On Wednesday Mr. Williams, stationer, of
Fore-street, Devonport, arrived at Dawlish and claimed
deceased as his wife. He was greatly distressed, and said
he had five children under 11 years of age. A purse, con-
taining 14s. 11d., has been found under the pillow of the
bed in which the., deceased slept.