The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-23 00:00:00

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AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, SEPT. 21.

The Royal Mail steamship Asia, which arrived
here at 11.20 p.m. to-day, brought 69 passengers.
She landed the Irish and English mails Sand five
passengers, and proceeded at 11.40 p.m. for Liver-
pool ; all well. The Asia left New York on the
11th inst.

NEW. YORK, SEPT. 10, EVENING.

(Per Asia, via Queenstown).
The following is the text of the despatch read by
the Baron de Stoeckl to President Lincoln at an
audience on the 7th September :
" St. Petersburg, July 10.

"Mr. de Stoeckl, &c.,
"Sir,—From the beginning of the conflict which divides
the United States of America you have been desired to make
known to the Federal Government the deep interest with
which our august master was observing the development
of a crisis which puts in question the prosperity and even
the existence of the Union.
" The Emperor profoundly regrets to see that the hope
of a peaceful solution is not realised, and that American
citizens, already in arms, are ready to let loose upon their
country the most formidable of the scourges of political
society—a civil war,
" For more than the 80 years that it has existed the
American Union owes its independence, its towering rise,
and its progress, to the concord of its members, consecrated
under the auspices of its illustrious founder, by institutions
which have been able to reconcile the Union with liberty.
This Union has been faithful. It has exhibited to the world
the spectacle of a prosperity without example in the annals
of history. It would be deplorable that, after so conclu-
sive an experience, the United States should be hurried
into a breach of the solemn compact which, up to this time,
has made their power. In spite of the diversity of their
constitutions, and of their interests, and perhaps even be-
cause of their diversity, Providence seems to urge them to
draw closer the traditional bond, which is the basis of the
♦ery condition of their political existence. In any event
the sacrifices they might impose upon themselves to main-
tain it aro beyond comparison:with those which dissolution
would bring after it. United, they perfect themselves ;
isolated, they are paralysed.
" The struggle which unhappily has just arisen can
neither be indefinitely prolonged nor lead to the total de-
struction of one of the parties. Sooner or later it will be
necessary to come to some settlement, whatever it may be,
which may cause the divergent interests now actually in con-
flict to co-exist. The Americannation would then give proof
of high political wisdom in seeking in common such a set-
tlement before a useless effusion of blood, a barren squan-
dering of strength and of public riches, and acts of violence
and political reprisals shall have come to deepen an abyss
between the two parties of the Confederation, to end, defini-
tively, in their mutual exhaustion, and in the ruin, per-
haps irreparable, of their commercial and political power.
" Our august master cannot resign himself to admit such
deplorable anticipations.
"His Imperial Majesty still places his confidence in that
practical good sense of the citizens of the Union who ap-
preciate so judiciously their true interests.
" His Majesty is happy to believe that the members of
the Federal Government and the influential men of the
two parties will seize all occasions, and will unite all their
efforts, to calm the effervesence of the passions. There are
no interests so divergent that it may not be possible to re-
concile them by labouring to that end with zeal and perse-
verance in a spirit of justice and moderation.
"If within the limits of your friendly relations your
language and your councils may contribute to this result
you will respond, Sir, to the intention of His Majesty the
Emperor in devoting to this the personal influence which
you may have been able to acquire during your long
residence at Washington, and the consideration which be-
longs to your character as the representative of a sovereign
animated by the most friendly sentiments towards the Ame-
rican Union.

" This union is not simply in our eyes an element essen-
tial to the universal political equilibrium; it constitutes,
besides, a nation to which our august master and all
Russia have pledged the most friendly interests, for
the two countries, placed at the extremities of the two
worlds, appear called to a natural community of inte-
rests and sympathies of which they have already given
mutual proofs to each other. I do not wish hero to ap •

preach any of the questions which divide the United States.
We are not called upon to express ourselves in this contest.

The preceding considerations have no other object than to
attest the lively solicitude of the Emperor in the presence
of the dangers which menace the American Union, and the
sincere wishes which his Majesty entertains far the vita
tenance of that great work, so laboriously raised, and w

appeared so rid; in its future.
"It is in this sense, Sir, ;that I desire you to express
yourself as well to the members of the general Government
as tc. ttie influential perilous Whom you may meet, giving