The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-13 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND THE HAR VEST.

A sudden and somewhat severe check has been
given during the last week to the very lovely
summer weather which had just set in. Strong
indications of a storm became apparent on Wednesv.,
day, and on that afternoon and the following
day the wind blew with a force almost
ing to a hurricane, whilst the rain descended
in torrents. Little or no rain, however, has
fallen since Friday, and the temperatureamount--
moderately high. Harvest remained
may now be said
to be general throughout the county of Sussex.
A considerable breadth of wheat has already been
cut, and in a very
few days,
should the weather
prove favourable, a good
deal will have been
districts are very
cleared in good condition
we
ecaarrreifvuel
. The reports from different
analysis of the statemceonlitfisiwethinicgh. reFacrhoinns,
at the conclusion that the wheat crop is not likely
to exceed a fair average. Of barley and oats the
accounts are much more favourable; the latter,
indeed, are extremely well spoken of, and the crops
are said to be good in bulk and quality. In exposed
places the heavy storms of wind and rain of last week
have produced their natural results. As a rule,
however, the damage has been less than might
have been anticipated, and the harvest is so little
advanced that the rain is held by many to have
done, upon the whole, good rather than harm. The
pastures have been considerably refreshed by the
showers and look all the better for the soaking they
have had. From the hop districts there are varied
accounts, according to the localities.
The Sussex
reports are perhaps, on the whole, the most satis-
I factory. There is still a remarkable absence:of ver-
min and disease, and although the heavy winds of
the past week have, in exposed situations, bat-
tered the bine and blown down the poles, no per-
manent damage of any extent appears to have been
sustained, while the effect of the soaking rains
has been undeniably beneficial. The estimates
in Ent Sussex do not in any degree point to a large
crop. On the contrary, a moderate growth only
seems anticipated, and there is admitted much slack
bine. From some parts of Kent the reports are
satisfactory, but in others the mould continues to
spread, and this will tell both as regards quality
and quantity. In Herefordshire and Worcester
there are serious complaints, and the growers in the
latter county appear almost to be resigning them-
selves to a blight. Under the combined influence
of these various circumstances things are looking up
in the Borough,
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THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA

The following further correspondence relating to
the civil war in the United States of North America
has just been printed:—
No. 1.

MR. ADAMS TO EARL RUSSELL--(Received June 21.)
Legation of the United States, London,
June 20, 1862.
My Lord,--I have the honour to transmit to your
lordship a copy of the despatch from the Secretary
of State to me of the 28th ult., which I was desired
to read to you in my interview of yesterday, but
which Ifound I had accidentally left at home.—Re-
newing, &c.,
(Signed) CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.

Inclosure in No. 1.
MR. SEWARD TO MR. ADAMS.
Washington, May 28, 1862.
Sir,—Your despatch of the Bth of May has been
received.
There is a statement in the public journals that
30 vessels which had left British ports with a com-
mon design to run our blockade, have gathered at
Nassau, and that they are now remaining there
awaiting the relaxation of the blockade at some of
the Southern ports which the President has per-
mitted to take place on the Ist of June, preferring
to avail themselves of that lawful privilege rather
than persevere in their prohibited operations. I
think, therefore, that we may congratulate our-
selves upon having advanced to a new stage in our
intercourse with maritime powers affecting the pre-
sent troubles in the United States, a stage at which
motives of sympathy in foreign countries with the
insurgents derived from the pressure of the block-
ade will disappear.
This stage is also marked by another improve-
Meat of the case, namely, the withdrawal from the
ocean of the pirates who have occasionally sought
shelter and protection in friendly ports while com-
mitting depredations on American commerce.
Under the President's instructions I desire to
improve the position thus obtained, to confer, if our
representatives abroad should think it discreet,
with the friendly nations upon the prospects of the
war and their future course in regard to it.

By way of introduction, I beg to recall to your
recollection the facts, that at the earliest proper
moment I set forth most distinctly the opinions
of ithis Government that the mutual interests,
present and permanent, of all maritime na-
tions, including this country, require the pre-
servation of harmonious relations between them,
and that the same interests demand that, so far as
possible, peace shall prevail throughout the world,
and especially in the United States and upon the
American continent.

In explanation of these views I set forth the opi-
nion that the industrial systems of Western Europe
and the United States, including their agriculture,
manufactures and commerce, are in some respeets to
be regarded less as distinct national systems than
as one general combination of agricultural, manufac-
turing, and commercial agencies, in which a jar in
one country necessarily produces disturbance in all
others, so that a serious disorganisation of the ma.
chinery employed in production here cannot fail to
result in derangement, probably in disaster, every-
where abroad.
There are now some painful evidences that these
speculations were not unsound. There is distress
among the peasantry of Ireland, in the manufactur-
ing towns of Belgium, and the wine presses and
silk looms in some parts of France seem to be corn-
ing to a dead stand. All the sufferers—l will not
stop to inquire how justly—tracetheir misfortunes
to the civil war of the United States. It is manifest
that what the European nations want is an end of
that war as speedy, and leaving the industrial sys-
tem of this country as little disorganised, as possi-
ble. It would seem impossible for any considerate
person to doubt that this is the very consum-
mation which the Government of the United States
must want even more than it can be desired by the
European States. This Government has expressed
that want earnestly, decidedly, sometimes perhaps
even impatiently. Nevertheless the war has con-
tinued a whole year, against the wishes of Europe
as well as of America. A new campaign is even
beginning. In order to determine whether it is
likely to reach the desired end, it may not be un-
profitable to consider the causes of its prolongation
to the present period. This Government at the be-
ginning assumed, and it has constantly insisted,
that the Union could, must, and should be pre-
served. On the other hand, the European nations,
when they saw the storm burst upon the country ,
either doubted, or actually disbelieved, the pos-
sibility of that great salvation. Europe had but a
subordinate and indirect interest in the great pro-
blem, and it supposed that if the United States
could only be convinced that the Union could not
in the end be preserved, they would at once forego
the contest, and consent to a national dissolution,
which it was erroneously thought would be followed
by peace, while we knew that it would only be the
beginning of endless war. Thus European opinion
has practically favoured the insurgents, and encou-
raged them with ephemeral sympathies and unreal
expectations of foreign intervention, and has thus
protracted the war to the present time.

Certainly this government and the American
people are even more confident of the preservation
of the Union now than they were a year ago, and
are therefore even less likely now than they were
then to accept peace, with the inconceivable pains
and perils of dissolution. Can it be presumptuous,
then, for us to ask European statesmen to review in
the light of the events of the war the opinion which
they formed at so early a stage of it, that the opinion
itself might, perhaps, properly be deemed a preju-
dice?

Of course, in such a review, the observer would
not overlook the contrast between the position
whichthe Federal Government held a year ago and
its present situation. Then it had been practically
expelled, 'with all its authorities, civil, military, and
naval, from every
State south of the Potomac, Ohio
and Missooritive
in this capital, cut
off : whilst it was held in close siege
from communication with
even ,the States whichhad remained loyal. Now, it
has virtually retaken all
the positions it so early
lost on the seaboard; it
possesses the Mississippi
and all the other great natural highways, and has
forced the insurgents to battle i
the most ost inacces-
sible part of the insurrectionary district.
The forces
and resources of the Government
are unexhausted
and increasing. Those of the insurgents are dimi-
nished and becoming nearly exhausted.
No one, either here or in Europe, now
contests
these simple facts. The only argument °lvo%
them is, that the insurgents have determined ed to
not to
acknowledge the authority of the Union. The
deuce of this is a certain resolute and defiant tone
maintained by their organs.
Certainly, so long as the insurgents have any hope
of ultimate success, they could not bo expected to
discourse otherwise than in just such a tone, nor
will they fail to cherish such a hope so long as
they find a willingness to meet it with sym-
pathy in Europe. The: very last advices which
came from that quarter previous to the arrival
there of the news of the fall of New Orleans and
Norfolk were full of speculations about some newly
conceived form of intervention,

But it must be remembered that the insurgents
are men, and that they may reasonably be expected
to sneak and to act like other belligerent factions
under similar conditions. So also being men and
subject to the laws which determine the economy
of society, they must in all cases conform them-
selves, however unwillingly, to the circumstances
by which they are surrounded. They cannot, more
than other masses of men, determine for them-
selves, under one state of circumstances what they
will do under a different one. A writer upon war
advises brave men never to nail their colours to the
staff, remarking that if they shall be able, and find
it desirable, they can maintain it there without
while it will be
nailing, more convenient to lower
it if they shall find themselves unable or no longer
desirous to keep it flying,
But speaking practi-
cally, what has been the result thus far in the pre-
sent case ? Has disloyalty been
found an indomi-
table sentiment in this war ? It pervaded
even this
capital and this district at the beaiim7. of .the
strife. It no longer exists
here. It diimAuxi
Y-
land, and provoked conflict there. The Union is