Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-21

lea, VIII not say another word villa regard 20
that wars beyond expressing my sincere and earnest
hope that the day viii soon arrive when the strifa
VIII cease, unless the two vast secsions Of America
the North and the South, are separated becsuse
the interests of the North sre insrinsicay opposed
70 the interests Of the South Their fseiiaqs and
interests are both different. That mighty country
has become too large to hold together, especially
under republican form Of government, and there
fore see ne means Of restoring peace but the
separation Of the two sections Of thai vast EN-
pire.
cAPT. JERyIs, N. P, DEzAsDs ISTERvESTIoS
From TIE London Star
At the annual dinner of the Colchester Censer-
vatiTe Association, on Wednesday evening, Captain
Jervis, the member for HarWich. adverted 70 point
Of very great interest to the North Of England w
the present state of affairs in America. lie said
that having been intimately acquainted with that
part Of the world. aud having only last week re-
turned from visit 70 the manufacturing Districts
be did not hesitate to say that every day during
which the war was allowed to 80 was destrue~
ton to our interests not only in Lancashire but in
every other part Of the country. We on the Els-
tern side Of the country hsd hsd bOuntiiul har-
Yest and we thought very htlie lust now Of the
bered that the imports Of Cotton from America
alone amounted to e45 900 GOO per annum while the
value Of cotton manufactured was $50 900 600. it
would be impossible that the profs on this sum
should De l0Sb 70 ble COUNTY, without Defng very
severely felt for Manchester cannot suffer without
the rest Of the country suffer also It was getting
late, and as many Of those present might be think
ing of apipe-(laughter) but here, again difficulty
presented itself
Last year sc 100000 pounds of tobacco were i'm
ported to this country from America but now rot
single pound would be derived thence, snd, by
prices being ts US raised, the working classes
throughout the country must be seriously incOn-
venenced. 1t was said that We could not interfere
in the American quarrel that if we iHterfered
with the North we should 20 against cur Cotton ID
terest; and that could not take the part of the
South, because they are shareholders. Language
such SIS this reminded him very much Of the con-
duct Of an old lady who might have been rather
loose in her early years. but who made uD for It By
extra amount Of godliness as she got older; for
twenty years ago the English were shareholders
themselves. 1t was not until 1884 that slavery was
abolished in our own colonies, and Elk years having
been allowed for its gradual humiliation il could
not be said to have generally ceased till l840 Again
we voted 100000 900 by the way Of compensation
and yet we asked and expected the Americans to
emancipate ali at once 100000 slaves worth $780,
600 600, and then to begin in the dark 70 make
living These therefore were all very well 20 talk
about, but in the meantime we wanted supply Of
Cotton to enable US 20 feed working population
We had heard great deal said about locking to
India q substitute; but it must be remembered
that we should have first of all to make roads in
India, and that we should also have 70 teach the
people Of India to grow our cotton, while cotton
coming from India on its arrival is only worth
about half as much as American. We were looking
forward to month after month of misery in this
country. We had had q bountiful harvest in the
Eastern district; but II ireland there were pros
poets of famine for that part Of the empire hav-
ing been visited By rains the potato crop
in great danger, and the hay, straw and wheat had
also suffered from the wet. Yet we were cut of
from the great Western markets. and were entirely
thrown fer our supplies on the Black Sea district.
All these things must be Carefully looked TO- in order
TO enable our rulers to come to a right decision
At Birmingham, the only town in England at which
any activity now prevailed every gun shop was
now hard at work, and e29 900 Of American money
was being spent in the town every week TO produce
weapons with which TO carry on 8 bloody war
which could not fail to involve the greatest misery
not only in this country bat throughout Earope.
Thus at the present moment the people of Lyons
were suffering the dire distress. The people Of
Lyons were not consumers Of cotton, but producers
of silk; the American demand foo Lyons silk was
large the injury which the trade had sustained was
very great, and no ruler of great country like
France could allow the population Of town of the
importance Of Lyons to suffer without endeaVoring
in some way to relieve them. We were told that
we could not break the blockade; bat there Was NO
blockade to break, for English ships were landing
arms all over the American coast. The EogEsh
people must look &C both sides of the question: go
that men in power might know how to act fos. even
if Lord Derby should suceceed those st the present
head Of affairs, Lord Derby would not move q step
till he knew what the feelings Of the country
on the subject Il Was said BY some that the Con-
federate States had no right 20 secede but he main
tanned that the doctrine Of secession was as old as
the States themselves.