Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-05-24
Gen. johnson passed down the Orange Road Wednes-
DIV on ronte for his command at Harper's Ferry

From the LONDON Correspondent of the New York Tmes
LoNpox May 4th.-rhe newspapers viii inform you oil
III course taken by the British Government with regard
10 American alters announced by Lord John Russell
in the House OF Commons, but believe | am in po-
ou TO inform you of what has since been determined
q, bv the Cabinet If will refer TO your file OF the
Morning Herald of the you will find the views OF the
conservative opposition very plainly sisted IN the second
leading article. In that article 1t stated that war be-
tween ENGLAND ard the Federal Government Is now in
owl able as less evil than suspension Of the Cotton
r de and gu. stion is put the Government whether
IL j. in contemplation TO se1d out ut once armed vessels
. Lake Ontario to protoc by force ii necessary British
interests there believe am correctly informed that
the steamer conveying this letter bears dispatches to the
authorities at Halifax with Enclosures to the British Ad-
pira on the station requiring him at once TO detach
ono or more vessels from the home eet for that service
From the quarter whence this information reached me- /
feel assured that il may be received with lmplcit conf
dencc and regret TO add that unless your affairs have
now taken more pacific turn, that England will shortly
no either with the Northern States against them In
the highest Official circles you, war is already
regarded as all but Unavoidable and such being the case
u nav not be diff nit to provoke.
The Gu s,ion If blockade is need not say, where the
.soe will first pinch L. "a alleged whether correctly or
ncorr civ YOU will be best able say, that Mr. Buchan.
M Administration PLAYED s; and loose with the Paris
declarations of the Great Powers at the cose OF the Rus
sian war The doctrine held by you in 1912 that free
n make free goods asSented to BY Lord Claren-
don the express understanding mat tne Ohed states
we're 20 accede TO what other questions egreed 10
oy the other Powers but it said that you have bro
ken off entirely from that engagement and are now to
nut ia force those doctrines which this country hes dis
aided and against which you fought This is pronounced
uuprucDed aud il will unquestionahy prove inconven-
lent and embarras ing To of ships approaching
the Southern seeboard and TO capture them if they per
al in going in will matter of course rpset all cal
rons Of merchants and shpcwners not to say that 1t
vii completely cut # the supply of cotton. An carly
howl Is therefore, 10 be looked for from shpownera.
and amsrtug u~dT the interruption ofhe cotton trade,
a al classes will Co. high words must follow the first an-
ta,ai Of warning and should there he any seizures
, collision vii not cas- Is be warded off, Il is ply that
re,ort 10 blockade has been deemed but for
.ha trouble with this country would not only have been
prevented but PRECEDENT Lincoln would have bad the
sympathy OF large section of the British people. Per
hspS he may have seen his way to make blockade a
mere matter of form 10 British vessels and in that case"
believe no harm will come Of powerful feet being IN
he Chesapeake in perhaps week or ten days after you
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