The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-03 00:00:00

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more valuable or expensive (a fighting American tit Tht to bind them eternally to it. They could not
citizen is than your ordinary Old World warrior. sei 'mate from it, says the North ; but in that case
" Make war as dear as possible," say some
people, wb at becomes of their liberty ? A centre to the Con-
"and it will cease." But here it is rendered prodi- fed eration was required, and Washington was
giously expensive, and does not cease. There hos clic Ben, n .)t as the capital of a republic, calling itself
been nothing of mon_ient to chronicle lately. In Nis. the United States of America, but as a neutral ter-
ritury, s ald as a centre in which the delegates of
scurf there are tho usual mysterious movements,
t,he differt snt governments of the country could exer-
Price has retreated frOm Hunter, and Hunter
has retreated from Price ; and so matters will set- I rise their common action as regards their common
tle down with the troops in winter quarters very kigairs•
T. 'ie political and commercial interests of
3outh having become different, a division
quietly, the Confederates taking up their residence No."th and i.
in Arkansas and the Federal.ists remaining masters has natura,'ly taken place, and the Government
of the principal strategic posts in the ill-fated State which on tin A account has changed the brothers of
which has been laid desolate by the contending yestere:ay int o the enemies of to-day has been ill-
guerillas. St. Louis will be ono.' more the head- inspire d. It w, as not on the field of battle that an
quarters of General Hunter, who .has repudiated attempt should ,have been made to solve and unite
the agreement or treaty entered into by his prede- such divergent maa`ters. The blood shed,the excesses
cessor General Fremont with General Price. Ter of all kinds, and otilk more the interests and will of
quaterque infelix Fremont! His officers dismissed, the South, have eant.tioned separation ; and no
his reputation assailed, himself deposed, his' treatie.a human power can now reconstitute what has been
repudiated. And this is he who ran high for Pre- destroyed. It is time- to stop a fratricidal war,
sident! In Kentucky, it appears, that some one which, threatens to ruin the vital elements of the
blew the sailor general's trumpet a little too loud two countries, and there by compromise the welfare
and too long. The new Nelson has not quite of other nations. French commerce already suffers
equalled Samson or Leonides in the number of his t 'everely from this stare of things; and if it is diffi-
slain, or in the force of his resistance to the enor- colt for England to suppo.nt the interruption of
mous masses of the enemy. Several ciphers must co. mmercial relations with Am'Crica, the situation of
be struck off everything killed or wounded or miss- Fri trice is no better, and the injiury she sustains is
ing or taken; and then there is scarcely a battle or not less considerable. We are pea 'foundly convinced
a general at all. But what there certainly is in that the war between the Northe. rn and Southern
Kentucky just now is a large Confederate army Stet( is. if the two countries sere leCt to themselves,
under the best general in the Confederate army for would be interminable; and on the other hand, we
this kind of war,—Sidney Johnston, who with cannot under any pretext remain disinterested spec-
-40,000 men is threatening an advance on Cincinnati ~aters edf a conflict between North America and
or Louisville, and has forced the Federalists to E,agland . Evidently France is not called on to
break up their camp and retire by forced marches ave uge t. he insults received by England ; but as the
to Darville, the Tennessee troops in the United recokriti on of the South by that Power would lead
States service becoming mutinous and absolutely to a t lefin itive division of the United States, it can
refusing to turn their backs on their own frontier- not be an isolated act, and would impose on France
an equr. \By ' decisive attitude in that question. The
result w. au; a be that the two great maritime Powers
of Europe.' might be led into a common action, and
have the s ar, ie political object. That being so, Pre-
sident Line ohi, in ordering an act of brutality, has
perhaps giv -en a proof of foresight, by preparing a
separation which at the present moment he can
neither propose nor accept,"

SEIZURE OF THE CON-FEDERATES.

OPINIONS OF THE FRENCH PRESS.

The Debats is gradually becoming less favourable
in its opinion of the American incident, as it now
declares that the San Jacinto has acted illegally.
Not that England has not, it declares, been guilty
of infinitely graver offences, and without any con-
sideration for the feelings or interests of the parties
whom she wronged :
' When England," says that journal, " subsidised
the Continental coalition against France, and when
Europe sold her in return the liberty of the seas,
the English Government committed against the
law of nations, to which it now appeals, many acts
of violence compared with which the stopping and
searching of the Trent by the San Jacinto, or even
the seizure of Messrs. Mason and Slidell, might pass
as mere peccadilloes. The Government of President
Lincoln will of course exhume a host of these pre-
cedents in attempting to justify itself, and the Eng-
lish, well aware of their weak point, will not fail,
as may be seen by the extracts we have given from
their journals, to make the amende honorable, and
to disavow the exaggerations which their courts of
law endeavoured in bygone days to get accredited
as principles of maritime law. It is right and
praiseworthy, no doubt, to repent of one's evil deeds,
but will that prevent people from reproaching the
penitent with his past conduct P On the other hand,
it seems that the United States have little right to
make this return to justice, or—to speak more ac-
curately—to injustice, France apart, there is no
Government that has protested with so much perse-
verance and energy against the proceedings of the
English navy and of the jurists of Great Britain
touching the principles of an equitable and liberal
maritime law for all nations. In 1812, even, the
United States undertook, in defence of these prin-
ciples, a war which did them much honour, but
which forbids them now to revive on their own ac-
count the evil practices which they then combated.
The search of the Trent, even were it legal, which
we think it cannot be, and were it not an act
absolutely to be condemned, would still appear
inexplicable on the part of a power so excessively
jealous of the respect due to its flag. Who, since
the peace, has shown more susceptibility on that
point? Who has been on every occasion more
litigious, mere exacting, and more disagreeable with
other Powers, when that question came under dis-
cussion ? Who preferred leaving facilities for the
slavo trade rattle' than admit the right of searching
their ships, even in the restricted limits of the Gulf
of Guinea? Who refused the liberal principles of
the Congress of Paris, while assuming the air of
asking for still more ? Aryl what did the United
States ask ? Why, that henceforth every merchant-
man should be, even in time of war, declared
inviolable and exempt from all the consequences of
a state of war ?"

The Debats then declares that, if consulted, it
would advise the Government of Mr. Lincoln to
accord at once the reparation demanded ; but, at the
same time, it admits that it sees little probability of
such a resolution being come to—first, because all
the circumstances which are known lead to the
belief that the search on board the Trent has been
the result of a maturely deliberated plan ; and next,
because the first act consequent on a reparation
from the American Government would be to
replace the Southern Commissioners on board an
English vessel of war, which mode of proceeding it
is doubtful that the American people would per-
mit. The hebats expresses the opinion that
President Lincoln has not sufficient moral power
to impose the will of his Government, supposing
it to lean towards an arrangement, on the mass of
the people, and that, therefore, in every case, the
chances of his granting the very first condition of
a reparation are but slight. Our contemporary
then proceeds as follows I

CO VNTRY 111 A ILLE26.

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CC L(IHESTER—Nov. 30.

A fair supply o r g rain, which was taken off at about
the same prices as last week.
Wheat, white... .. .. 545. 68s Beans, Mazagan .. 36s 406
red .46s 64s middle & small.4os 44s
Barley .......36s 42s Peas, whito 38s 40s
Oats . 24s 30s gray 38s 428

OREL M SFORD—Nov. 29.
Notwithstanding Ai ne,-ican news, showing a prospect of
war, wheats to-day ad not maintain the rates of last
week ; the best samples of which scarcely made recent quo-
tations, and middling dew riptions is cheaper. Beans is
lower. Spring corn of all kinds dull; p. ices as before.
Barley dropped from is to .2s p er qr.
Wheat, old white...29s 63i l reas, Partridge- ...37s 45s
new .. 4`it; 69$ .1 i White 39s 41s
old red....22$ 52s Boiling 4ls 47s
new 54s 638 Dun 36s 408
Barley 26s 37s ,Ditto new —s —s
Chevalier 27s 29s Beats, Tick, old ..37s 43s
Grinding 23s 32s new..—s —s
Malt....
Chevalier . ..... 64s 69s new..—s —s
Oats 23s 308 Mazagan.. 35 37s

COAL ➢TARN
Meets of Coal per Ton at
s. d.

:ET—DEC.II2
the close of the market

Walls End.

s. d.

Byass' 8 Bebside West
Hartley .. ,15 9 Hetton • • lB 6
Carway and Duffryn Haswell lB 6
Malting ci.t 0 Kelloe
Do. Anthracite.. 21 6 Cmsop .. 17 9
Lambert's West Hart-
ley
15 3 Russel's Hetton 17 9
Howard's West Hart- Tunstall
ley ..15 g Heugh Hall 17 6
West Wylam 15 0 ,SonthKelloe l7 9
Davison's West Hart- 12-unwick
ley ....15 9 BrlWyll's Hetton 17 9
Hastings Hartley ....15 6 Frae34 ellgate l7 6
Tanfield Moor Butes ..11 6 Tees ....• lB 3
fie
North Pelton 15 0 South Hal 'p001......17 3
Craighead Steam 14 3 Harton
Ships'at market, 76 ; sold, 49,

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FOREIGN NAIL P.ACKET LlBl7-

MAILS DUE.

" But if the American Government has often
given proofs of haughtiness, it has also very
often given proofs of good sense, which should
not be wanting in the present case. It would be
the height of folly to add the scourge of foreign
war to that of civil war. Embarrassed finances,
paralysed industry, ruined trade, a military
marine at so low an ebb that, in order to enforce
the blockade of the Southern coasts, it has been
found necessary to arm merchant vessels, are not
conditions to render a war with England desirable,
even if it should be endeavoured to excite such a
desire by the consideration that English capitalists
are the principal creditors of the United States, and
by the hope of conquering Canada, which is offered
as a bait to rouse the cupidity of the multitude. In
any case, such a result could never be attained, but
at the cost of infinite sacrifices and sufferings, and
above all at the expense of the moral law, which
we have been always told is so powerful with the
American democracy."
The article of the Debuts terminates with an ex-
hortation to the English Government to show
moderation, and, in case the Cabinet of Washington
should evince a willingness to give satisfaction, not
to prove unreasonable in its demands.
Several others of the Paris journals have long
articles on the same subject, but the only one that
seems to call for particular notice is the following
from the Patrie, which discusses the point—what
ought to be the conduct of the French Cabinet at
the critical conjuncture that has so unexpectedly
surged up :
" What will no 6, be the attitude of France? In
our opinion it will be difficult for her to remain in-
different in presence of a violation of international
law which interests all maritime nations. We are
inclined to believe that the Government of the

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Dee. 19.
via Marseilles Dec. 13.
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Dec. 4.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Dec. 2.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Souttlampton Dec. 2.
via Marseilles Dec. 13.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampten Dec. ec. 2.
India (Bombay), via Southamptonvia Marseilles Dec. 11.
.
via Marseilles Dee. 5.
Lisbon Dec. 1.
Dl3.
Malta, Egypt, and Men, via Southampton Dec. 2.
via Marseilles Dec. 5.
5
Newfoundland.Dec.ll.
Oporto and Vigo
.
.
U. S. and British N. Amorica, by Brit. packet ..• • . Doc. 5.
by U.S. packet •
by Canadian packeti•Dec. --.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffo Dec. 10.
Bahamas, via New York . .- D ge• 19.
...
Mexico • •
Dee • 30.
• •
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 Dec. 14.
California,and British Columbia..

GENERAL SCOTT IN PARIS.-A numerously at.
tended meeting of American residents in Paris assembled a.
few days ago, at the Hotel Westminster, to present their
respects to General Sco t on the occasion of his a' :ival
in
that city. His Excellency Mr. Dayton, the United States'
Minister, in addressing the General on behalf of his ctoun-
hymen in Paris, assured him of their respect for himoelf
personally, and their high appreciation of the value of hie
long services to his country, referring particularly to the
activity and energy displayed in his recent loyal defence of
the capital, when threatened by the Confederates of the
South ; and declaring that his countrymen would ever
cherish in their hearts a grateful recollection of his name.
lie expressed their regret at the feeble state of his health,
and their wishes for his speedy restoration, and trusted that;
on his return home he would find his country once more
happy and united, and more prosperous than ever. Gen.
Scott who seemed much affected at the compliment paid him,
replied in suitable terms, expressing his warm thanks, after
which the gentlemen withdrew. A copy of verses,from the
pen of Mr. Horner, was presented to the general, in honour
of his arrival in Paris.

The Hertford Mercury publishes a circular pro-
posing the erection of a school at Haileybury, not inferior
to the schools of Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Winchester,
and where the sons of the clergy and gentry, of professional
men, merchants, and traders may be educated under com-
petent professors at a moderate cost. Haileybury, it is
said, may be purchased at about one-fourth of its original
cost.

Northern States will refuse to recognise the justice
of the claims of England ; and in that case we may
anticipate that war will be declared, and that the
recognition of the Southern States will be the first
act of hostility by England. We have not hitherto
concealed our opinion on the American conflict, but
we had no right, whilst stating the reasons for
that opinion, to anticipate what would be
the resolutions of the Emperor's Government.
At present, however, we think we may ven-
ture to say that we do not understand how
the pretensions of the Cabinet of Washington
can be defended. The different States of the Confe-
ration, as is known, enjoy an existence of their own;
that is to say, are free and independent—have their
separate and distinct legislatures, finances, and ad
ministrations—possess, in a word, autonomy; and
because some of them in the exercise of their libel ty
think fit to form themselves into a separate confe-
deration, the North is to assume that it had the

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