The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-25

repetition the British and French Con
suls at Charleston, Bunch and Boulgny
induced Prescott, Assistant Secretary Of State
under Buchanan. to proceed to tho rebel
capital, and prevail upon the rebel govern
ment to adopt the maritime articles OF the
treaty OF Paris, one of which declares a block
ade to be invalid unless 1t is elfectual Whether
there was promise then made of q,lid pro
quo, or whether these Consuls were authorized
by their governments to pursue such course,
is not for us to say; but certain it is, the In
surgent chieitain is deeply disappointed that
nothing has yet been done in the way of break
ing the blockade. He states that he "has
caused the evidence to BIO collected which
proves completely Its utter ineficiency," and
be will lay it before such governments as will
listen to him. He maniiestly calculates that
the British government will take up his
quarrel in the case of his ambassadors"
Mason and Slidell, and make that a casus 5eai
with the United States--a plausible ground for
breaking the blockade, in order to obtain
supply of cotton. But long before his message
shall have reached England her statesmen will
have seen that whatever may have been the
| ineffciency of the blockade before, 1t is now
complete, AID that a cotton port is already
| opened to British commerce by our arms. But
If it were otherwise, and cotton was still
king at the South, recent news from Great
Britain, which we published yesterday, will in
form the President of the rebellious confederacy
that there is famine In the realm of the Eng
lish sovereign, and that, therefore. there is
l T,y H.
North, and that king is Corn. Davis s. Co.
will therefore DO left for some time to come to
| fight their own battles; and how long they can
keep SO large an army in the field needs no
gho st to tell.
TIE REAL BLocKApMG FIEEr-The feet of
twenty-five old whalers, that sailed on the
10th inst is the effective blockading squadron
Of the Atlantic coast. A blockade Of such
a description did not enter the minds of those
who framed the treaty Of Paris; but the popu-
lations of Charleston, Savannah, Mobile and
other rebel seaports will find that it completely
answers the purpose Of preventing ingress and
egress to their respective harbors. In the be-
ginning of the present century, the patriotic
fathers Of the republic of the United States pre-
sented nearly every one of the practical points,
that have since occupied the attention of inter-
national legists for the consideration of the civil
lied world. 1t has taken the Powers of Europe
about half century to deyelope them, and to
reduce them to their present shape; but just
as rapidly as foreign governments come up to
our ideas, we go ahead and leave them far
behind, in the wake, after us. Hence it is that
l fho ~ fha hat
blockade is a mere dead letter, and in England
and France that it cannot be rendered efectual,
| will be rendered absurd when the quarter of a
hundred vessels that have just been despatched
| from Northern ports shall have fulfilled their
| mission. Rebel channels and rebel Ravens will
be Theoretically sealed up before the close of
| another month.
| TIE IMPENDING FAMINE IN IRELAND.-By all
| accounts the restitution in Ireland this winter
threatens to be as widespread and severe as in
1916. The part which our people took in allie
waiting the distress of that calamitous year has
never been forgotten by the Irish people. Great
as are our own troubles at present, they must
not render us oblivious of the duties of humani-
! ty. 1t would be noble and polite act if, out
|
to provide some relief for the distress Of COM
munity bound to our people by the closest ties
Of kindred. We would suggest that the Presi-
dent, in his forthcoming message, recommend
| to Congress the appropriation Of half a
million, or even million, to purchase
| corn for the Irish poor. It would be the most
gratifying reward that we could offer our adopted
| of hiatt fho cfo os<
unselish support which they have given the
government since the commencement of the
war. 1t would also produce an excellent effect
abroad, by showing that, severe as is the present
drain on our resources, we can still spare some
thing for the relief Of the suffering populations
! who are not blessed with the same advantages
that we possess
| The DECISIVE BATTLE OF THE CAAPAIGN-The
student of history must have remarked that
single decisive battle has, ordinarily, brought
to close every great war in which the nations
Of the world have been engaged. A work has
even been written, entitled the Fifteen Deci-
sive Battles Of the World" to illustrate this
theory. Such conflict has yet to take place
between the respective armies Of the North and
! the South. Napoleon once remarked: -"Show
me where the enemy is the strongest, and there
l will attack them" Now the victory at Port
Royal has not diminished the effective strength
Of the Confederate army at Manassas, and there
is very little question that General Mcclellan,
| aware Of the vital Importance Of a blow in
Virginia, will, ere long, strike treason to the
ground there, where, for so many months, it has
| on the right bank of the Potomac, will be deoi-
sivs Of the fate of rebellion, and signalize to
| the world that the back Of treason is broken
| forever.
SOMETHING MORE THAN SHOwER-Owing to
| the fact that General Sherman has not seen fit
! to occupy Beaufort, or march on Savannah and
Charleston, some of the Southern journals are
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