The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-08 00:00:00

and plucked, by the shadow of her presence, some
transports from their anchorage near the fortress,
just as a specimen of her power. Her delE y in ope-
rations is not without good reason, and I think her
co-operations will soon explain it. Good-bye to

wooden walls and stone fortresses. Ta‘ age of iron

seem to have revived in more senses tl an one. Fort

Pulaski is knocked away in a few hours by improved
artillery, and heavy frigates are cracked like egg-
shells by an iron prow. One letter, or a hundred,
would not cover decently an enumeration of all the
results these two conflicts by land and water will
establish. The whole world will be startled by it,
and a people not even recognised as a Power is the
pioneer in the road to naval supremacy. Why is
not the Southern Confederacy acknowledged?—
fairly, frankly, and kindly acknowledged by the
European States ? If English accounts be true,
England has, by refusing her co-operation in this act,
prevented other States. Is this wise, or is it just ?
From my point of view it is too plainly alike incon-
sistent with her duty and her interest. The
Southern States will form a Republic, a form of
government in which (unlike England) the sym-
pathies of their people will mould their national
legislation and commercial relations. We, of the
United States, have seen the effect of the hereditary
sympathy and friendship which even the present
generation of our people have for France. And
why ? Because of her generous aid in our season
of trial. No matter what motive caused its be-
stowal ; the benefit was felt and not forgotten. I
have experienced myself, and witnessed in others,
the emotions produced by the presence of a great-
grandson of Lafayette in this country. That name
will ever be a passport to every American heart,
'or he was a friend in need.'

"The wild suicidal efforts of the North with her
astonishing exhibitions of power to crush and deso-
late the South, are met as they should be by the
South, but when girding her loins bravely and un-
flinchingly to meet such fearful odds, how can she
regard those nations who coldly criticise her efforts
and suggest her points of weakness and possible
failure, withholding even that formal recognition
which all European precedent authorised Southern
people to expect ?
"I tell you, British statesmen may have exhibited
cool prudence in this business, but no higher qua-
lity of statesmanship, and yet there are higher
qualities. I honestly believe the sentimental states-
manship which 30 years ago converted Jamaica
and her sister islands from gardens of plenty into
idle wastes was not more one extreme of mistaken
philanthropy than the cold and selfish refusal of the
British leaders, considering present interest alone,
errs in the present case, where civilisation and hu-
manity, no less than the NN orld's convenience, call
for her best efforts and influence to end this wicked
cruel, useless war. But the South will be free, and
if a generous love of right, and an abhorrence of
wrong, cannot influence other nations to stay the
furious force directed against her existence, she
will gather her sons, and, trusting in the Great
Ruler of human affairs, go resolutely forth to that
battle which

"'----- tho' baffled oft
Is ever won.'
" The state of affairs in the North transcends all
I ever imagined, and foils all reason based on pre-
cedents. Business of all kinds, excepting in connec-