The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-13 00:00:00

The French seem very anxious to do all they
can in the business of Intervention. They have
Rome and Mexico already on their hands, and, as
if this were not enough, they are eager to inter-
meddle in America also. For the last they can
plead, as we can, a material excuse; indeed it is
hardly fair, perhaps, to call it an excuse. We
are not aware, at present, that the French Govern-
ment has any secret reason, in addition to the
ostensible one, of desiring to reopen to its workmen
the supply of cotton ; and whatever we may think
of the utility or policy of interfering just now, our
Lancashire experience teaches us not to censure a
Government for impatience of a blockade which
punishes millions of persons who have nothing in
the world to do with the quarrel. We cannot there-
fore blame our Imperial neighbour, especially when
we remember that the millions in France have been
long taught to look, much more than English work
men do, to the Government for work or for bread.
We suppose the assertions of the Paris press re-
specting the interviews of Mr. SLIDELL with the
EMPEROR are correct, and that the EMPEROR is
really desirous to do something. This, however, is
little more than is well understood to have been
the case from the beginning. He knows, of course,
that his unsupported intervention could have but
little effect on America ; hence he has always been
desirous to secure English co-operation, and that of
Russia also. Russia has no interests at stake in
the question. Commercially she is a gainer, since
her raw products are made more valuable by the
war. Still, we are told from St. Petersburg, that
she " has constantly tendered advice in a friendly
spirit,"and this she thinks is the only kind of inter-
vention possible. England well knows that any-
thing she could say or do would be misunderstood
or taken in the worst possible sense, and, if on that
ground alone, is very properly disposed to do no-

thing.
But England is also justified in not attempting
what would certainly be unsuccessful. Bad as the
blockade is, it is now beginning to tell more than
ever. Probably no party in the North dare advo-
cate giving the South six months, during which to
exchange its cotton in Europe for all the neces-
saries of war. Those who propose the six months'
armistice may hope indeed that during that six
months the fiercer passions now raging might cool

down, and both North and South become better dis
posed towards peace. But, if the war is to be re-
newed,
oit is evident the North would find itself in
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far ese
position at the end of the six months
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than at present. It is obvious that during the
conain g six
months the North will have great ad-
vantages. The rivers will again enable their gun-
boats, which they have been vigorously building,
to pervade all the more important districts of the
South. The North has always been victorious, and
almost necessarily so, wherever gunboats could
carry their heavy long range artillery ; and as the
cities, such as they are, and the trade, of the Scuth
are all along its fine rivers, this very fact gives the
North a vast advantage.

Besides, the North, during the winter and spring
will feel the advantage of its greater means for

carrying on the war. It will be able better to
clothe and feed its men than the South can. It will
find the cool weather, as it did last winter and
spring, most adapted to the habits of its men. The
South, on the contrary, begins to show signs already
of great distress. The Governor of North Caro-
lina's appeal is most piteous. He begs the ladies to
part with their carpets to be substitutes for
blankets in the camps, and to knit each of them a
pair of socks for the soldiers. The conscription has
to be ruthlessly enforced ; and the Governors of
the States are already quarrelling with President
DAVIS respecting his interference, by enlistment,
with the sovereignty of their States. The winter and
spring will try the Confederates very severely, and
there seems reason to think that the North will more
than recover all its losses then. Glad, therefore,
as the Southerns would be of an armistice, which
would save them their hardest trials, and equip
them afresh for the war, the North for that very
reason, and because the next six months are its best,
would assuredly not listen for a moment to any such
overtures. Knowing all this as well as if Mr.
SEWARD told us so in one of his bland despatches,

it would only be undignified in England to proffer
advice which she knows will be met with ridicule
and satire. As no one, yet, proposes forcible inter-
vention, all we can do, is to do nothing.

The Marquis de Noailles has left the Clarendon
Hotel for Paris.
Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has returned to
town from a tour of visits.
The Countess Swieykowska and family have left
the Clarendon Hotel for Paris.
Field-Marshal Viscount and Viscountess Comber-
mere have arrived at "'Wolverton Villa, Clifton, from Corn-
bermere Abbey.
Viscount and Viscountess St. Vincent and Major
and Mrs. Warrender have left Brown's Hotel.
Lord and Lady Chesham have left Grosvenor-
square for Brighton,
Sir Andrew Buchanan and Hon. Lady G.
Buchanan have left Fenton's Hotel for the Hague.
Sir R. Tufton has arrived at Fenton's Hotel
from Hathfield-plaee, Kent.