The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-06-01
THE AMERICAN CRISIS IN EUROPE.
The Queens Proclamation.-The Union Per.
manently Disselvsd--A Quasi Reeogni-
ton Of the Southern Confeder acy.. Extracts
from The English Press. DC.

THE QUEENS PRocLAMATfoN.
Where's, we are happily at peace with al
the sc vereign Powers and States, and where
as hostilities have unnappily commenced be-
tween the Government of the United States
and certain States styling themselves the |
Confederate States of America and whereas,
we being at peace with the Government, of
the United States, have declared our
royal determination to maintain strict |
and impartial neutrality between the
said contending parties; we therefore have |
thought fit by and with the advice of |
our Privy Council, to issue our royal pro
clamation, and we hereby warn all our loving
gu bjpc is and all persons whatever entitled to |
our protection, that If any of them shall pre-
sumo in contempt of this proclamation and
OF our high displeasure, to do any acts In
eierogation of their duty as subjects OF a neu-
trail sovereign in said contest, or IN violation
or con travention of the law OF nations, and
more especially by entering the military ser
vice of either of the contendng parties,
as commissioned or non commissioned oflcers,
sailors or marines, or by serving as officers,
sailors marines on board of any ship or
vessel of war or transport Of or in The service
of either of the con tending parties, or by
engaging to goiLg to any place beyond the |
seas, with the intent to enlist or engage in any |
such service, or by procuring or attempting to |
procure, within her Msjesty's dominions, at
home or abroad, others to do so, or by lifting |
ont, arming or equipping any ship or vessel |
TO be employed 4 ship ofwar or priyateer |
or trans port by either OF the contending par |
ties, by break king or endeayorlng to break |
sAy blockade that has been fully and actu-
ally established by on behalf of either OF |
The said contendng parties. or by carrying |
officers soldiers, dispatches, arms, military |
stores or materials, or any article considered |
- deemed to be coutraband of war according |
10 law or the modern usage OF nations, for the |
use OF either Of the said contending parties; |
all parties offending will incur and be liza |
Bile to the several penalties and penal cOnse-
quences by the said statute, or by the law of
nations in that behalf imposed.
And do hereby declare that all our sub
who may misconduct themselves in the prem
ises, will do so at their peril and OF their own
wrong, and they will in no wise obtain any
protection from us against any Liabilities or
penal conseq uences but will, on the contrary,
incur our displeasure by such misconduct.
VICTORIA.
Given at Richmond Park, May 18th, 1851.
VIEWS OF THE ENGLISH PRESS.
! from The Manchester Guardian, May lltll cotton
spioners' organ.
Thrust surely be abundantIy clear toeyerY
| one but Mr.. Lincoln and his advisers that the
| Union is permanently dissolved; that the
/ slayehoIding and non slaVenoidlng States
| cannot get together in peace under one
| Government; and that the worst thing that
| could happen to either would be for them to
/ be Joined together by forCe-for nothing else
| will make them one. Why, them in the name
! OF common sense, should not each go its own
| Igay; each under the ms tons which suit
| it best? Here we have q case similar to one
| in which husband and wife, after having
| led Il cat and dog life for forty years, ind
| themselves divorced; what friend OF either,
with knowledge OF their antecedents, would
! seek to bring them together again No crime
having been committed, and no mutual obll-
| cations having been incurred, who would
| think twice before he advised them u separate
| without delay, lest surrounded by old causes
OF irritation, ald constantly reminded of old
! ..rudges one or the other should do something
! which might stand in the way of an honOra-
| BILE parting? We do sincerely hope that,
| when Il sufficient quantity or the bluster
| and "bunkum," which 1t is the weakness Of
our friends over the water-and We all have
| our WeakneSses-to indulge in, shall have
been expended, common sense view OF the
case Will be taken; and that, If part
they must, the parting may be peaceful.
The London Times of the nth instant
! closes a long article on American affairs with
the following view OF the prospects of the
campaign:
| Where events are influenced by ever chang
| ing circums tances, ting on wlvering politi-
| clans and impetuous MODS, it is more than ev
| er difficult to calculate future, and it remains
! to be seen whether the Government viii carry
! on the war gainst Virginia rs against the Con
| fedprateS or Whe Their Mr.. Lincoln, ha wing re-
deemed some OF his pledges and secured the
Capital, will be inclined to moderate coun-
sells He no doubt, has the chance of Win
| ming victories, and of acquiring q ch4rac ter
| for energy aud firnness. He may, not con-
| tent with assuring the possession of the two
| little Northern slave States, lnflict grieYous
. ! injuries on the Contrderates by blockading
| their ports, iGterrupung cultivation and
even tamperng with their slave population.
But, on the other hand, 1t is more and more
| evident that war for the snbJugation OF The
South Is an enterprise OF which the Washing
| ton poll ticians have not as vet conceived the
magnitude. Ia this Case superiority OF
strength on the one side would be balanced
, by desperation on the other. The young law
yers and clerks and farmers who have hurri-
ed to Washington must be drilled and disci-
pinned for a long war in sparsely inhabited,
unhealthy, foodless country, where they will
-
| obstinate at all times, and reused to fury by
, | the invasion of their soil. The occupation ot
| what is geographically the larger half of the
= | late Union will have 10 be accom- plished by a
| militia stationed among i people who Will
| look upon them as they look upon Indian
| sayages. The only alternative is 10 enforce
? blockade ana 10 let tue rebellion sting it
/ self TO death. Whether this policy is likely
| TO be successful, those who know The Amer
D cans can best judge.
a The probability of new complication en-
cages the attention Of the London Times
: says:
: The extradtion case which excited so mucl
$ | sympathy in this country few mon tbs ago
s derives fresh impor lance from the progress o
r recent events in America. Should the Seces
IL sionists succeed ia gaining for their new Con
= federation place among sovereign states, tn
= Ashburton treaty will virtually lose its appli
= cabiity 10 such crimes that of which An
l. derson was accused. That treaty provides 70
! the surrender OF persons charged with speci
o fled crimes, upon the req uisition OF the Uni
n ted States or OF any one OF the cons tItuen
b States. of the American Union. The benef
l. of il therefore cannot be invoked by any Sta e
g which shall have obtained from a recogni
| ton of their independence; and for the pres
ent no appeal is likely to De made TO IL IN
/. similar case by Mr.. Lincoln's Government, G
II any Of the Northern States.
IT The provisions of the Fugitive Slave la
is shave never been very faithfully carried on
D even in time OF peace, by the Norther
10 States" What sort OF Inagnanimity may b
, expected of them in time OF civil war, it is M
re for us to say. Hitherto there is no sign of
Is servile instruction, and the African race
lr have shown too little capacity OF combine
I'd tion even in their native country, to NAL
1t any general rising very probable
a. The Liverpool Mercury, in speaking of IL
TO blockade and cotton supply, says;
I'd The position OF the British people who wi
OF be the greatest sufferers by the terrible COZ
ty yulsion which is now shaking society al
Id disturbing all the peaceful pursuits of indu
As try in the United and Confederate States
ID America, is that which resides in the nortl
az western district OF England consisting
o. Lancaster and Cheshire. and in the ives tel
Id districts OF Scotland in and around the flou
III ishing city OF Glasgow. These distric Is, NJ
only find in the Northern and Southern Sta a
the best market for the products of their il
)n dustry, in common with the whole OF the IN il
ing and manufacturing districts OF England
but they also derive from the Sou theru Sta
~ 81, much the greater portion OF their supply
~ cotton and tobacco, and from the Northel
az States large, il not The largest, portion
AZ their supplies of grain, Hour and provision
us In addition to these commercial relation
io the ports of the Mersey and the Clyde are il
~ terested to a great extent In the shipping traa
X of the Atlantic, which is placed 10 consider
at Bile peril by the blockade of the Sou theI
10 ports aud by the issuing eft letters of maru u
ne which will soon cover the Ocean with priv.
teers, who al the best are only one degree r
x-a.I n.r Ian Ia tpa -