The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-05-29

| srrvh IN any part Of the United Kuxdom or any
Of his Msj-ety oominons, sCip OF Var .ruser a
AIMED vessel IN the service OF any oregn prince State
potentate Of any person persons or as
sumnS 10 exercise any powers OF
colony province or part OF any province or pc pile
belonging 10 the subjects OF such prince State or
potense or 70 the inhabitants OF any colony
part OF province country under the control
any person or 80 exercising or assuming to
offending shall be deemed guilty OF . misdemesnor and
shall upon oen convicted thereof upon any NATION
or maNctment be punished By fine and Imprisonment.
or en- or then at the discretion the court before
which such offender shall be convicted.
NEUTRALITY OF ENGLAND TOWARDS THE NORTH AND
/ SOUTH DxCIDkr-HKR POSITION TOWARDS PHI
| vATkERS.
From the London Times, May ISL
AS dcult!es and troubles thicKen In America we are
!orc.a 20 more vgiat attitude, and TO dis
tIcty and definitely the policy which II is our inten-
ton TO adhere Being no longer able to deny the
OF dreadfu civil war, compelled TO take official
mott . OF It. This springs not from any particular favor
or affection which we feel for either side but rather from
the necessity Of bringing proceedings into bar
moDy with the stern realities things Our foreign re-
1th % are tco extensive the stake hold in the
msree o. the world too vast, and, we may add our
allow ourselves the qualification OF saying "Peace
when there i peace so largely INDUCED in up
America herself Yes, there IS war, and q wa
between men sprung from race and speaking language
Eteoces and poynces are confronting each other with
hostile weapons and England, like the Queen
Of by 10 behold the unnatural combat OF
From acknowledging the state Of war; the next step is
to the rights Of the contendng
parties One OF then. the goverDmsut Of the United
States compelled " recognise her existence 1852
AND has aimee, with brief and unhappy interval Of tire
years been on terms OF smity with US The other ha
bur sprung into existence and fortune favors
with than her usual blind caprice, the les ,ochy
and The ,ooaker arra may never be in position TO
be recognized ct ALL but beligerents they are as
equal in our eyes Trojan Tyran the eyes OF
Queen Dido. We bound equay respect 0er bocades
and afatn uhtrh
the conc tions OF the most impartial updiscrimna
ing neutrality Hence arises the necesstyof the pro
But the really important part Of the proclamation is
contained IN the last two paragraphs by which the sub
military or marine service OF either Of the contendng
parties nor 10 go aboard ft out any ship to be
poy as snpofwar or priyaieer or transport or to
carry troops or Contraband of In this paragraph It
will be observed that the word "privateer distinctly
introduced 80 that the Of this country Is
doing all In It's power enforce the agreement
Conference which, but for the of
herself would have botted privateering from among
the expedents Of civilized warfare Hitherto the pro
clamaton has only reminded the subjects of the Queen
Of the penalties which the law of this country
denounces against an infraction Of neutrality, and
points out the penalties with which such Of
fences may be visited by the law OF the land by
Law OF nations But In the last paragraph the proclama
ment OF the policy which will be adopted In which
provided tor neither by the law Of the land by
the law OF nations but which arise out Of the peculiar
conditions of the present unhappy conflict.
The North in the southern States rebels against
lawful authority and viii probably, at first at least de-
cline to mise the validity of letters Of marque issued
under the authority OF President Jefferson Davis The
South viii be slow to retaate and 1t may easily
be anticipated that there will be disposition both
sides to treat those Of privaeers Who may fall
into their bands as pirates to whom the license they
duct Of the British government under such circum.
stances Suppose an En- ehman taken beard
Southern prvaieer to be- hanged under sentence Of
Court OF Admiralty a. New York-what would be the
conduct of the Government of this country? The
answer of the proclamation to the question is
such service win 90 go at their peril and Of
their own wrong. and win in nowise obtain any
protection from Us seainst any liabilities or penal con
word such is omitted The liabilities and penal
sequences are not confined &c those under the act
under the law Of nations, but left wide and indefinite
az II on purpose TO embrace the very sup
posing.
anything which could add would give additional
force TO the solemn admonitions contained in the
proclamation OF Queen who never speaks to her
subjects in vain. We have done duty IL we
distinctly point out that those Engshmen who in def
ance Of the laws Of their country and the solemn
gs of their sovereign Tush into this execrable conflict,
will do so with direct notice that il they with
mics reckless aud mercees themselves, they must
tbs country whose laws they have broken win stretch
forth her to sheld them from the consequences Of
has example in the of the expedition Of Lope-
'cH as IN the rdcd enterprises IF Walker The United
States otherwise jealous OF their treatment foreign
nations have these looked with stocal indf
ference ut the who massacre Of their citizens The
warning has been given In time; hope and believe
that will prove e.ctual and that the horrors of civil
between brethren win not be aggravated by the un
called for Of the subjects Of the parent State
SECESSION LIKELY TO DIE OUT BY DIVISION.
From the London News, May Is
II requires some with society in the slave
States 70 form any conception the popular ignronce in
political matters, OF the absence OF personal inde-
pndence daily affairs The guilt of treason and pecu-
laton does not attach TO persons who live under the
closest restrictions of speech and the press, wao are w
informed Of hat going on Ia the world and thoroughly
md cfrc ~
their own country Add to these the educated Of
planters who outside Of political factions and attached
to the Union, and who chatting the yoke of
aid which may enable them to declare for the Union
and there is no ing how small the number of respon
slole ssSsaers pay eS We SEE in every b. ten Of
wspaper tdngs from one quarter or another Of oppa
sition to secession orders. In Missouri the
VIII be furnished to President Lincoln in spie b
the Governors refusal In Virginia there Is have
OF managing the Union party ID certain districts In
several Of the States there is split decided as in the
Union itself If i is so in the first exciting hours of
had time to act, may well believe that soon
body speak out, shall find that the called
secession is the work OF faction which first bred and
foetered bad passions predsposed society Of slave
holders ers and Lsaves and then made their
profit OF the state Of things they had produced
II this Is q true Wow The conflict Will q long
In be long one, account Of the poverty
OF the slave States II may be sharp one as we hear
leave II TO Georgian and Alabama journals prophecy
Issues but ought not to be surprised at any fierce
ness OF passion between brethren at neither should
be astonished at collapse OF the Southern
when other the troops the people discover the strength
Of their opponents and tho true character Of their
GAUGE
THE BRITISH VOLUNTEER LEGION IN NEW YORK.
From the London Herald derby organ May 10
Now, British legion has already been formed at New
York for oil we know privateers may already have
sailed from Liverpool, British vessels have broken
blockade OF some southern port II any soldier Of the
legion should be hanged by President Davis captain
OF prvateer that fate at tho hands Of President
Lincoln, any ship breaking blockade be coniscated
win be rather hard upon the sufferers that they should
not have been warned that they had placed them
selves by their act beyond the pale OF British protection
II may be said that they ought to have known before
hand hat what they doing contrary TO the law
OF nations, and TO that OF Great Britain In particular.
But that some special warning needed is al
lowed in the policy which has dictated this proclama
ton. Why, then, was that warning not given with
greater prompttudeS
Tor the ~ pahy which give 70 both, and distrb.
TO neither party in this unhappy conflict, we are not
likely much thanks. We wish the two Sec