The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12

Foreign News and Gossip.
The English Parliament and press still
continue the discussion of American affairs.
An Irish member, Mr.. GREGORY, having
given notice in the House of Commons that
at an early day he will call the attention of
the Government to the expediency of a
prompt recognition of the Southern Confed-
eracy, the London Nescs says:
There is no occasion for Mr.. Gregory or any
one else to be anxious to get our government
to acknowledge the so-called Southern Confed-
eracy of American States. The practice of the
British Government in such cases is firmly es.
tablished and well understood, viz, to recog.
nize all de fdctO governments, irrespective of
opinions, origin, or any circumstance but the
fact of being the actually established ruling
power. If ever and whenever that happens
with the Southern States, which now profess
to be a confederacy, there is no doubt about
their being recognized by all the European
Powers; and by England, with the utmost GER
tainty and distinctness.
The NetOs claims that the COnfederacy
has rot yet reached this stage, and that the
American nation has a right to demand
from its foreign allies, delay in any recog.
milton of its sovereignty.
The London Times, of the 18th of
March, contains lengthy article on the
MORRILL, tariff, which contains many strik-
ing passages. Not having room for the
entire article, we quote sufficient to in-
dictate its spirit. After stating that man.
kind will not ultimately judge American
affairs by sympathies and antipathies on
slavery, but by their own interest, adds:
Their internal instructions are their own af-
fair their financial and political arrangements
are emphaticaly ours. Brazil is slavehOld
ing empire, but by its good faith and good
conduct it has contrived to establish for itselfa
place in the hierarchy of nations far superior
to that of many Powers which are free from
this domestic Contamination. If the Northern
confederacy OF America evinces determine.
tiyn to act in narrow, exclusive and unsOcial
spirit, while its Southern competitor extends
the hand of good fellowship to all mankind,
with the exception of its own bondsmen, we
must not be surprised to see the North, in
spite of the goodness of its cause and the great
negative merit of the absence of slavery, sink
into secondary position, and lose the sympa-
thy and respect of mankind.
The Times then goes into review of the
feeling in Birmingham, Manchester and
Sheffield, and other important manufactur
ing points, consequent upon the passage Of
the MORRILL, tariff, and declares that it has
disrupted international ties, (Which were
becoming closer every day, and which
America never needed more than now" It
concludes its article by the following start.
ling declarations
Protection was quite as much cause of the
disruption of the Union as slavery. In that re-
spect it has done its worst but it is destined, if
we mistake not, to be the fruitful mother OF
other descriptions. What interest have the
great agricultural Western States, for instance,
in being made tributaries to the iron masters
of Pennsylvania or the cotton-spinners of Low
ell? They will desire, as the South have de-
sired, direct trade with England, and the pc.
culiar position of Canada, with its facilities of
communication by lake, river and railway, will
show them the readiest means of obtaining
direct trade by a fresh separation--possibly
by an amalgamatiOn with our own colonies.
These topics are SO obvious that we fOrbear
to insist upon them, but we beg to point out,
for the comfort of our own countrymen and
the warning Of the government of the United
States, that in attempting to exclude at one
blow twenty millions OF exports from their
territory, they have undertaken task quite
beyond their power They may, indeed, de-
stroy their own Customs revenue they may
give additional strength to those vested inter.
ests which claim prOscriptve right to live on
the vitals of the community f; they may ruin
the shipping and cripple the commerce of the
towns on the Atlantic seabOard, but they can
not prevent English manufactures from perme.
ating the United States from one end to the
other. A glance at the map is sufficient to
show this. The Southern cOnfederacy, will of
course, desire no better than to make Charles
ton, Savannah, Mobile, and New Orleans de.
pos of English manufactures, to be Struggled
across the long and lmperceptble frontier
which separates them from the United States
Nay, it is quite possible that the great city of
New York may prefer to declare itself free
port, and to become the depot of an enormous
illicit traffic, rather than see its wharves rot
ting, its streets deserted, and its harbOr empty,
because suicidal folly has driven commerce
to the inferior bors of the South. The in
denied coasts of the Northern States give am
pie opportunity for smuggling, and, what is
still more Important the frontier between Can
ada and the Union is virtually traced by the
stream of the st. Lawrence and the centre of
the great Lakes Ontario, Erie and Huron. 1t
is region which might have been created for
the express purpose of Furnishing the presump-
tuOus folly of seeking to erect the barrier OF
prohibition between nations which have long
enjoyed the mutual benefits of commercial in
tercourse. The smuggler will redress the err.
before. The change may occasion delay, loss
and inconvenience ; but the stream is too
mighty to be choked, and no sooner will the
old channel have been stopped than new one
will be forced.
- The London Chroniele is picturing tn
horrors of slavery, to prevent any recogni-
tion of the Southern Confederacy. Here is
specimen of the pabulnm it is feeding the
Britishers on
The over. worked, urder-fed, miserably.clad,
and wretchedly-lodged slaves, have been com
PEELED, as means of depressing their intelli-
gence, to work in iron collars, to sleep in the
stocks, to drag heavy chains at their feet, to
wear yokes, bells, and copper horns; to stand
naked while their masters or mist: brand
them UNANIMOUSLY, to have their teeth drawn, to
have red pepper rubbed into their excorated
flesh, to be bathed in turpentine, to be thrust
into sacks with mad cats, to have their fingers
amputated, to be shaved and to be whipped
from neck to heel with red hot irons. 1t is of
no avail to denV this imnea chment. COnpreSs