The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-25

and rrsnoe-HaShly Inp0rtan NEWS.
1t Is not only very remarkable coincidence,
but very significant fact, that on the 4th of
March, the day which ushered our new admins
tration ct Washington into power, Mr. Gregory,
in the British House Of Commons, "gave notice
thot on an early day he aoosld cal the attention
Of her Mqjesty's government to the espediency of
a prompt recognition Of the Southern Confederocy
Of america" Thus, while from Washington
the indissoluble character Of our old Union Of
November last was proclaimed to the world, its
disruption was formally announced In the
British Parliament, and with the view to the
Official recognition Of that Independent govern.
ment set up at Montgomery, Alabama, which
Mr.. Lincoln's administration theoretically ig-
nores.
Mr.. Gregory is from Galway, and . director, we
believe, in the company running the line ofsteam-
ers between that port and New York. He had
doubtless been considering the subjectto which
he refers in its commercial aspects, and we are
free to conclude that his proposition is from q
conviction that the great interests of British
capitalists In American trade will be best sub
served by "s prompt recognition" Of our
Southern confederacy. Perhaps Mr.. Gregory
has also an idea Of establishing line Of steam
ers to ply directly between Galway and some
one of our Southern ports; but, in
any event, his proposition shows that the
new revolutionary government Of our
seeded States Is beginning to be understood
and appreciated among the ruling commercial
classes of the British islands, and that they re-
cognise the expediency Of adapting themselves
to the new order of things amongst us. 1t
further appears that "a special messenger from
the British legation at Washington sailed in the
Cunard steamer from Boston on Wednesday,
with dispatches for the British government
giving full statement of affairs at Washington
and. in the South; also, copies OF the two
TARIFF"
"The two tariffs" Here we have that
last parcel which breaks the cancels back. We
have shown that between the prohibitory du-
ties of our new Northern tariff and the very
low scale Of duties of the tariff of the Confede-
rate States, every drawback exists which Is cal
culated to drive away foreign trade from our
Northern ports; and every inducement is Of
fered, on the other hand, to attract foreign
trade to the ports of the South. The London
Times declares that the European operation of
our Morrill, tariff law will be the almost abso.
lutte suspension Of "all imports into the United
States from England, France and Germany"
that 1t is q measure Calculated at once to
ALLEVIATE foreign nations" and that from the
pressure of said law upon foreign Powers the
arguments of President Jefferson Davis, in IA
vor of his Southern confederacy, twill receive
an enormous accession of force" Depend upon
it, that when England discovers her old
markets closed in our Northern States against
her, and new and more inviting ones opened
in the South, che will not be long In discover
ing her line of policy.
Next, we find that the organs of public
opinion in France are beginning to. compre-
head the commercial issues involved in this
disruption Of our late Union, and in this IRE
pressible conflict" on the tariff question be-
tween the North and the South. The Paris
Moniteur says that this ''new (MorrilD tariff
should be one OF the first sacrifices made for
the reconciliation of the South otherwise
rS'.-.rA vill end by seeing only fortunate
event IN seraraffo~ which Ohio at R~st
deplored, and 1t will become not only right,
hut duty for us (France) to recognise the
Independence of the new confederacy." The
Constitutional broadly intimates that if things
should continue as they now stand between
the Norta and South in reference to foreign
imports, European trade and sympathy must
inevitably D. diverted to the Southern States,
in spite OF then slavery system and pro-slavery
institutions.
From the movements and manifestations of
public opinion in El4land and France, thus
grouped together, the re,der will perceive that
the idea Of the recognition by those great
Powers Of the independent syernment of the
Confederate States has alread. lost the Cha
racter Of miserable delusion. Ia statesmen
leaders, organs and orators of the Ati slavery
party now in power ct Washington i've been
boastfully ringing it into our ears that \. COM
mercial considerations could induce Engand
or France to recognise this Montgomsv
government organized, as 1t is, upo
the basis Of human slavery. But these
philosophers forget that the government
Of the United States was founded and re-
cognized, has continued and still exists upon
this basis Of slavery. The differences now ex-
listing upon this subject between tho constitu-
ton of the United States and the constitution of
the Confederate States, both Lord Palmerston
and Louis Napoleon, we dare say, would pro-
nounce as of no consequence whatever to Eng
land or France.
French and English abolition philanthropy
would have revolted AGAINST our Southern con-
federacy had it declared itself in favor Of the
revival Of the African slave trade. This was
the point to which that philanthropic member
of Parliament, Mr.. Buxton, addressed his appre-
tensions of this Southern pro-slavery revolu-
ton. But Monsieur Gallairdet, Of the Paris
pscaea milling from that city, aaua fhat atha