Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-06
What the British Statesmen and the
British People say OF Our National
TrOubseS.

The ties of consanguinity, language and COM
merce, can not but inspire sympathy between the
British people and ourselves. 1t is, therefore,
only natural that when great political CONFUSION
such the present shakes the United States of
America 10 its foundation, and even to the dis
ruption of the Union, feeling of anxious interest
should prevail in England concerning That
it does prevail, and widely and deeply We have
abundant evidence. In the House OF Lords, on
the 9Th inst, Lord Derby said, in the course of
speech on the American crisis, that he was quite
sure there was no one in Great Britain who would
view without deep interest and regret the disrup
ton of a community which had attained an almost
unparalleled prosperity, and a personal liberty
and freedom only second to that enjoyed in Eng
land The noble lord quite right upon that
occasion in attributing much of the interest felt
in England to the disastrous effects upon the
British people of civil war between the North and
South, and he drew a tolerably accurate picture
of the probable results in both countries OF such
dire calamity. To the horrors OF internecne
strife in America would be added the horrors of
starvation, and, perhaps, rebellion in England
among the operatives disbanded from the factories
left idle for want Of cotton. The English press
teens with similar expressions and that az
fairs are subject fc0nstant conversation through
out Europe, but particularly in the United King
DOM is fully testified by all authorities, and there
is only one common feeling, and that is wishing
US well out of the ordeal through which we are
passing.
Lord Palmerston, in his speech at Southamp-
ton, echoed the feeling of the British public
when he said that if the separation of the South
from the North could not be arrested, he and his
fellow countrymen sincerely hoped that it would
be a peaceful one, for nothing could be more ter
ribe than brother rising against brother in san
culinary conflict. There is hardly private letter
from England to this country that does not con
tain some mention OF our perilous condition, and
a hopeful word or two that we may escape the
worst results. The following extract from a let
ter dated London, February 8, 1861, and written
by the Duke of Newcastle, the Secretary of State
| for the Colonies, 10 gentleman of this city,
may quote candid and voluntary expression
of English opinion, and one entitled TO more than
usual Importance, considering the eminent source
| from which it emanates:
Let me assure you and those with whom you are asso-
cated how Gnxousy all desire in this country
a happy termination to the troubles which Of
icng the United States. The accounts from thence
watched with an intensity Of interest scarcely less than
that which three years ago attached TO every from
India. am, dear sir, yours very truly,
NEWCASTLE.
By the last sentence of the Dukes letter, wherein
he compares the present feeling il England with
that felt during the Indian mutinies, we may in
! fer more than he could have told us in a lengthy
epistle. We know what the feeling in the mother
country was during that time; and when one of
the greatest and most prominent OF English states
men tells US that the interest is now as intense
about ourselves, We can not be mistaken in est.
mating THE depth of British feeling i'm behalf of
our distracted country, although the apprehension
of losing Canada may be to some extent involve ed
in the view taken OF our afiairs.-N Y Herald