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THE SUN.

LONDON, MGNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1862.

Solemn lectures on the inconsistency of English-
men leaning to the cause of the South have not
yet ceased. But the reply to these homilies is
plain—the North itself must answer for it all. Both
parts of the name under which we are accused of
inconsistency compel a kind of sympathy with the
South. We are English; therefore, we resent the
special ill-tretament we get from the North. We
are men, therefore, we feel for men who fight so
bravely with their hands tied. We do not deny
that blockades have been and are held to be lawful
in war. But we also hold that the American
blockade is a confession that the North cannot fight
the South on equal terms. The twenty millions
cannot fight the six millions (of whites) unless they
keep the latter out of the arms and ammunition
which Europe can furnish, This may be lawful
fighting, but it is not equal fighting. We do hot
know an Englishman who has not, therefore, as a
men, felt an irrepressible interest in the marvellous
akill and courage with which the party, whose
hand_ is tied by the Northern navy, has fought its
battle. It is not in human nature not to wish for
success to DAVID with his sling against the mailed
giant with his sword and spear.
And as to the rude
Yankees and their rude Secre-
tary of State—,l,
-ere is
the Englishman who does
not share the feelin -
gts uttered so honestly by Mr.
lioEßtfcli at Sheffield? We m,ay permit our Go-
vernment to hesitate and
be caution about recog-
nition, and we may in our Cooler motnents despise
the contemptible insults of Yankees too much to
make them a ground of national action,
but the feel-
ing of irritation will remain, do what
we will, and
the Northerners take care it shall
not cool. The
very latest accounts tell us of a most audacious and
cowardly attack on the British steamer the pr.
and of an insolent boarding of another mail steamer,
as if the Trent affair had not been enough. The
Herald was at half-speed in sight Jf a British light-
house, and because she would not stop after hoisting
the British flag, the Adirondac,Yankee frigate,steers
cff her four hundro yards, fires a broadside into
her, and continues the firing till she was within
two miles of the lighthouse. The British Queen
is also reported to have been boarded, and her cargo,
destined for Nassau, a British port, is detained at
New York. And all this is done by the men who
almost made it a case of war that our gun-boats
should examine whether slavers carrying the Ame-
rican flag were really American vessels! Is it to
encourage such intolerable pretensions, that we are
to sympathise with the North rather than the
South? With fellows who not only show so cour-
tesy to English vessels, but who, consciously unable
to fight a. well-Anned South, treat unarmed 139 itish
ships wAth desperate violence and spiteful rudeness ?

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Tne survey of the state of affairs indicated by the
vo:unlinous news just arrived is, indeed, still any-
thing hut encouragieg for the Northerners, and we
:11„,•_ke some allowance for the soreness they must
the Collapse thus far of their
naturally 1.,' el under
expectations., first of thirty da
278, then of a ninety
days' settlement. A people must be somewhat
provoked to find the army, Whi -eh
vas to have taken
Richmond, almost as likely to be taken itself; and
the fl.?elt.s, whicn were to clear the Mississippi, ob-
liged to retire before extemporised defences at