Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-05-28

TIE GREAT CIRCULATION IN ESeLISp Let
| Ter from France, In the New York Commercial
Adver tiser, dated May 10, ssys:
| From London we learn that the Government f.
really In great ri bulation az 70 what course 20
pursue on the question Of privsteerine But for
| Tue sudden and overwhelming demonstration that
| there is government at Washington there IA "a,
telling how Tar In the interest Of the Manchester
factories the Government might have been led
In France IL has been said that In view Of the fire.
quent public afroEts offered to England bV tae
United States within the last twenty wears ws
ought to anticipate, now that we are rendered
weak by internal strife, few thTusss from Ena.
land by way OF revenge.
But IL is not ptoba ole that the British Cabinet
will go further than the declaration slr.sdy made
by Lord John Russell in regard TO the rights OF
belligerents. They Will wait 70 see rho "a likelr
to prove the stronger party in the contest befor.
arriving at any active policy. The reference Of
the question TO the law OF GERS Of the Crown thus
serves also as an excuse 20 gain time.
From all that we can see, however OF demon.
STATIONS among the people Of England, Lord
John Russell has gone as far toward tie recog-
milton OF the Southern Confederacy as viii Be
endured.
Mr. Gregory, the great cotton manufacture
and Mr. Mccullough, the author Of the DlctIop-
aries, are the leading secessonists OF England
The London Times blows hot and cold but on
the whole rather leans 10 the South The pane<
Is directed upon that very English principls that
because the policy Of TIE southern states 1, to
thereby cheapening the great staple, that Eng.
land ought 10 favor the South 4. their struggle.
This Is exactly the policy which the Times ad-
vocated during the struggle for Independence in
Italy, and which drew from Louis Napoleon the
expression that France alone fought for an idea.
AFFAIRS IN MISSOURI The stories in regard
to the proscrip tion OF Unicn men az ~. Joseph
Mo, are said By the - Louis Evening News 60
he much eNagg erated, though il is admitted that
deep-sesed spirit OF resistance 10 the authority
Of the United States yet exists In the interior OF
the State. The ST Louis Democrat Of the Path
had advices from Jefferson CITY, tue capital 10
the evening previous, which state that tue troops
al Jefferson City have refused 20 disoand upon
the order Of the Governor and Gen Price. Greet
dissatisfaction was expressed by the secessonists
at the arrangement made with Gen. Harvey. IL
this report be true, * becomes the duty of the gov
eminent 20 assist the State In carrying out the
programme which h2s been agreed upon between
Gen Harvey and the state OF Missouri.
One hundred men, with six pieces CT cannon
arrived at Jefferson City yesterday, on tie w hite
Cloud, from Independence.
A special dispatch TO the 81 Louis Republican
faxes The number OF State troops then concentrated
at Jefferson. City At ,OOO well-armed men.
EL-GcrtTHOT SgetoGTs State PO9ter -EI-
Governor has written letter TO the 81 Joseph
Journal, contrsdiCting the statement thet be ives
driven from 80. Jose by secessi onlsu. and init
mates that such thing could not be done IN
community where bis sentiments 'sare greatly in
the ascendant" lie denounces severely The sc-
ton of the Legislature in robbing the schooi
Fund, and passing other laws that, II persisted
in, will bring us into open and hopeless con-
flCt with the General Government " He init
mates that the people Of Missouri will never sub
NIT to tie hssiy legislation Of the extra session.