New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-16
LETTER FROM LONDON.
Special to the New Orleans Crescent

LONDON, March 81, 1861.
| stranger who at all enters into any specula-
| tons concerning the condition of England in her
| relations with other nations of the world cannot
| help being amazed in contemplating the vastness,
variety, remoteness and the complications of those
| relations, which would seem to require the hands
OF Buareus to grasp, and the eyes of an Argus to
watch 1t must impart to every considerate mind
q very high estimate of the administrative ability
of her Government; Of its immense labor, watch
fulness and prudence, well of boldness and even
| audaclty, in her diplomatic and commercial deal
| ings Repose for her statesmen, there can be
| none. The sun might as we'll attempt to stand
still in the heavens without throwing the universe
| into disorder. Every other nation even Austria.
is more compact and accessible for its dependencies
lie all around it, and although FESTIVE and insubor-
dinate, are easily reached, if not so easily con-
troed. The colonies of France are, with the en-
ceptlon OF Algeria, quite unmportant. 1t is so
with Spain, which almost subsiSts upon Cuba
Russia has larger territory, it is true but that
too-Wlth the exception Of the possessions on the
northwestern coast of America-es on a CON
tinuous line Of land communication and is cut off
by no intervening foreign soil. While England
stands completely isolated, and many a sea and
many continent divides her from those provinces
from which she derives the elements of her material
and political greatness. These span the earth and
islands, from Australia to Columbia In Asia,
Africa, Europe and America, she unfolds to the
breeze the red cross of St. George, erects her
hristling Notifications and stations her fleets The
signs of England's power obtrude themselves upon
your sight, wherever you go.
1t is not wonderful, therefore, that the policy of
every other nation is subject of deep interest to
her; that every movement is watched with the
most critical attention, and that she is necessarily
preparing herself to meet any emergency either
OF war or OF diplomacy, whether in China or
America. No spot of earth inhabited by the most
lnconsiderabe people, escapes her eye or fails to
feel her influence; for all these bear some relation
to her possessions, or threaten complications with
larger powers who may be friends or foes The
effect OF all this is naturally, to make her iealons
and dstrustfu and to give to her dealings an air of
shreWdness, which is not without touch of cruelty
and injustice. 1t is the price of her emincnce
She must adapt herself to circumstances, or with
the strong hand compel circumstances to Weld TO
her. 10 retain India, she must wage relentless
war against an ingenious and amable people who |
rise in defence of their liberties their RELIGION and
Their hearth stones, although such war lead to |
nnanclal RUIN and the dire calamity of famine in |
that oppressed country. She must deceive Sicily |
with false promises, oppose the liberation of italy,
only to acknowledge it when Effected; allie herself |
with Austria; allow Spain to carry on the slave |
trade; check and frown down the struggles of |
hungary; tight to support the rotten Government |
Of Turkey; compel the Chinese to buy her opium:
and hnal!y, support the dynasty in France she |
formerly incurred an enormous debt to overthrov
These are the odious necessities to which she is |
compelled by her condition and to forego which |
would be her ruin. Her own most able writers |
allow that she is the natural enemy of free gov
ernment every where but at home for free GOV.
ernments threaten a political and commercial |
rivalry, which must impair her influence and d.
mlnish her power
Why did she threa' en- both France and Italy with
an alliance with the despotic Government of Aus
tFla on the breaking out of the Italian war? Why
raise such an cutlery because of the annexation of
savoy! Not because she loved Austria, or Naples
or the Pope; but because that war was calling
another great nation into being that would not
only compete with her before the world but
strengthen the Bonaparte dynasty. and give France
Il learlnl preponderanoe in any future European
war. II was therefore very foolish though none
the less required policy, that Lord John Russell
should make such haste as he did to acknowledge
the independence of Italy, and talk like revoiu-
nG ?til ana republican. Why did England unite
with france to drive Russia out of Turkey? Not
because she loves Turkey; but because Russia
must not have Constantinople, and so close a rich
market to English fabrics, enter the Mediterranean
With her fleets, and so become a great maritime
power, ana perhaps assume prepOnderance in
european affairs. Why is she unwilling tn 1t tho
Erench troops should remain in the occupation of
syria? Not because she does not feel any COM
passion for the poor Christians exposed to certain
destruction on their withdrawal; but because she |
ars it will turn out to be permanent occupation;
nd that then from this would follow a convention
etWeen France and Russia, when Turkey would I
e wiped out, the Sue2 cunaf open the way to |
nda, and the regions of the East spring into Wig
rous life under the administration of a wiser 20 |
cy. Hence the smallest movement in Turkey on |
he part of the Christians in Bulgaria, Montenegro
Ibania, or anywhere else, alarms England, for it
rings up before her vision the ascendancy of
tussia.
1t would seem to be a condition of her future
xlstence, as nation. that there should be no
over in Europe greater than her own; for when
uch power arises, England must necessarily an
cipate the loss of her colonies. Hence she must
esafu' notwithstanding her professions of sympa-
V. Of thn c
nted States with favor. The North thus divided
ON the South, can no longer look toward the an
eXaton OF Canada. Canada NAV annex the
orth, when England lends its aid to the South to Il
K nguish great manufacturing and CONNER cral IT.
val Nor will she envy he South the possession
Mexico and Central America, so long as it holds !,