Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-11-01
Foreign Advices.

The mails received by the steamer City Of
Baltimore are rather more encouraging, upon
the whole, in thsir general tone of feeling
npon the American question than those
which had preceded them. We have noted
elsewhere the language Of the Manchester
Guardian upon the blockade, in which it is
urged that It would be folly as well as an
outrage upon the principles Of national law
and courtesy, to enter into 3 war with this
country for the sake Of breaking down a
system which we have a perfect right to put
into operation. In this view the London
Star coneurs. In commenting upon COM
munieation which recommends the breaking
Of the blockade, it says 'the price would be
TOO heavy-ior it is that OF guilt We have
no more right to force our way into Amsri-
can haEbors than have a hungry crowd to
pillage a eOrn.store or bakers shop. The
law ct nature may entitle the iamishing to
Wrestle with the luxurious, but it does not
permit the improvident to relieve themselves
By violence from the grasp Of want" The
Star also says that general improvidence has
made England dependent upon America for
cotton and she must now take the consequen-
ess Of that self-impOsed dependence. They
had abundant fields from which they might
have supplied themselves, but preferred at
once to maintain the slavery of the negro,
and the poverty Of the HindoO, rather than
put forth their strength where it was frst
due and would have been the most reward
ed" It further states that all the moral and
religious feeling Of the country would be
reused into rebellion against policy that
would mAke England the defender of sla-
very.
The London Quarterly Review, in an able
article upon the division Of the United
States, refutes the argument that disision
Of this country would be productive of safety
to England, by the removal of a powerful
rival. On the contrary, it claims that in the
As; place it has too high view of the mis-
sion of the 8ritish Empire to feel anything
like cOmpIaeency when its greater glory is
sought by the humiliation Of any Christian
country; and secondly, the policy of public
safety fOrbids any hope of disruption of the
States. Heretofore the States have been
harmless as to a foreign war. They had ne
army, no navy which a military power need
fear. But if two rival nations were formed,
both would be warlike powers, both naval
powers. The one would border upon the
British North American, the other upon the
West Indian possessions. Either would be
more dangerous than the united country has
been heretofore. Beth would be ambitious
Of conquest, and 30 the one would want
Canada, and the other the West Indies
The Review closes by saying, uncertainty
ss to the issue is only an additional reason
for honest men to say what they desire, and
our fervsut desire is to see the South utterly
Vanquished"
The London Times in speaking of the cot
ton crop Of Jamaica, says that the advices
continued most favorable. The season for
planting was good, and there was no want
Of labor.
Russell's last letter says that if the rebels
ere conducted to direct attack, as they have
been promised by their leaders, "their defeat
ought to be q matter of positive certainty,
for the Federalists will fight with every pos
Sible condition of success on their side"