New-York daily tribune., 1861-09-08

uned lnQr al OF tho late disaster as -, sr,ash of
" Tb> three lessone taught by me coIos ;ct drill
Bull Inn TO our English Volunteers arc e"'N'
trUtwOrthy officers, suoorclnauoh. ,o favorbblo 10
The london Globe, on the whole lavoI"Ol' ~
our cause. and as favorable to ts partisano ono a0
can ask On impartial judge 10 pe' SOY a'd oup |
other things more and less aere'"''' "
new Generals . IL, n S,o,;sb relience |
IN the North upon mere numoersi as y, ~ ~ IN COO
100 900 men Of any yaiue' srnaS that
na;on. are not elections, and that battles are ios
lie caScusee. wherein the party numerically the
s inevitably the victor. iEe future oi the
contest depends upon these TWO tnings; :;
trsinina and organizing the better army and whether
Mcclellan or Beauregard is the better General"
Here, as well as anywhere, let me pass from direct
quotation Of type passages from editorials reFesente.
tive of English opinion, to remark sunmaIIy, tPat
the little c0mbats aud skirTnishes of whch 80 mLch
is made at home, are not much thought OF he
the very reports of them in Amenean prints net ab-
solutely relied on, am sorry TO say; thss the
chiefest base on which Esglish, and to some ehonsd
cradle extent French, opinion OF our miihry con-
ditOus rests this remarkable correspondence OF Mr.
Russell, which, / believe, is reproduced In The
TRIBUNE, and therefore needs not extract or com.
ment in this letters that the very gor AID extent Oh
reform lately inaugurated by Gen. Mcclellan have
not only awakened due admiration for nim, but due
opinion is steadily drifting to the conclusion that
the dsunon of the late United States is practically
fat decOmpH. That is the drit, think; whether
in the right direction or not, is another question,
which awaits it's solution from the future and facts
positive. Your reporter in fulhlhnent OF disagree
able duty reports it, does not sit IN Judgment upon
it, One thing is certain, the bar-starred flag If
more favorably looked on by Europe than il was
two months ago. and if il freely floats over half our
late territory year from to-day, will be legitlmated
by success-the fercest counter-basts of Congress
sional and correspOndcntial and editorial eOquence
to the contrary notwithstanding. If Francis IL.
| had held out at Naples, at Gaeta--li his late al
| tempt at insurrection, now in course OF vigorous
suppression could have succeeded IN the PROVINCES
-ihe Italian Kingdom would be shorn of its south
ern territorial half and Francis H., instead OF beng
I a cheap secondhand King, cOmmendablo to the
| reduced means and rOyalist wants OF South
Carolina, would be enthroned at Naples, at least
OH the royal road thitherward.
| But here another summary observation, more
| agreeable and not less true than the foregoing As
! il was the English Observation-Disclosures Of Parha-
ment, newspaper editors correspondents, and gar
rulOus civilians of all sOrts-exercisDg their Anglo
Saxon birthright of free tpeech--whO, few years
ago. told each other and all the world OF their shame
full disasters in the fret year OF the Cnmean war (t0
the shamefulIy malicious delight OF some of us Anglo
phoban Americaus) aud just by virtue of that SEEM
|
cussng their cwn faults and defects thoroughly cor
rected them, coming out of that war they out
of the Indian insrrecton strengthened by The trial.
to the great disappointment Of certain as foolish as
wicked French and American hostile theOnsts-so
il is now our Northern selves who freely betray our
shame and nakedness to the English and other Eu-
ropcan worlds. And il is just because We can, dare,
and do blatantly reveal, boldly discuss our own fail
| ings, that here and there thoughtful European
| man Lous Napoleon, among others, think fore
sees that we shall correct them While, on the
| other hand, the comparative absence of Southern
revelations affects the vulgar, high and low, III their
favor more, perhaps, than the patent, superficial
success of our enemies in the only battle deseryng
! the name that has yet been fought. OHne ignotulR
pro magnifco, TO be effectively classical aganl.
How and why, apart from these considerations,
| French public opinion has become within the
| past mouth less favorable than formerly to
| us and our cause, shall be the theme
of future letter. Let me return now, to
England, where, beg TO insist, in virtue OF con-
siderably extensive and painful newspaper reading,
let alone other reasons there prevails, Ill and out Of
the press gang, soundness and fairness Get alone
kindness Of ieelng) of judgment toward US in our
present time of trouble quite equal TO say the least
| 10 our soundness and fairness Of judgment toward
| them in their times of trouble. That The London
| Telegraph or The London John BEu, are either
sound or fair correct in statement logical in deduc
| form, no American no English, rational gentleman
will pretend. But the New-York Daily Swasb
| Buckler then the Weekly Spread Eagle, the Herald
of Bosh, the Tribune of Injustice, and Courier and
Inquirer after the World of International Prejudces
| consult their columns during the time of the
| Crimean war and Of the Indian Insu1ection. i
guess the impartial reader viii find in them occasion
al sacrifices OF truth in favor Of isphyheadDgs Of
logic in favor of subscribers prejudces of the seat
| mept of right and wrong in favor of "sensation"
| smart writing.
| The last smart article in The London John BUD
on our Bull Run disaster is very carcatue, clcv-
| erly DONE of articks / remember reading q few
years ago in American prints, apropos Of buDges in
| the Cnmebn and Cawnpore horrors. The reason
| why our men ran from welfought field in disest
rout is to be found, says editorial J. DnH, in our
| vote by ballot Why free-ballotiDg SOutherners
| beat us, why democratic NOrthernen managed 70
fght admirably for hours preceding the rout j. BsH
| does not explain.
| Let such stuff pass, and come to far graver,
practical matter, our financial condition, az it pre-
sents itself to the eye Of European spcculation:
"a financial Bull Run is in prospect. The Feder-
aliss are however, far from our mind about the sin
erasts should distinctly explain what i. is that they
make, in order to restore the Union. II Is easy to
bluster Of bleeding and dying but TO how
many hard dollars will the 'last drop OF blood be
equivalent If could but get this view Of devotion
in the decisive shape Of money, some notion might be
formed Of what was likely TO be done in the field,
where capital is not less commanding than In COM
merce." London Examiner.
The speculation would not afford the slightest So
curity that the money advanced would be paid"
Loudon Morning Post spropos Of the Sl0o Of the Amer
ictn loan reserved for foreign cOuntries"
Facts and votes are, however, very different
things. The measures which the Federal Legislature