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acknowledged If /. be In existence three
months longer, and the Southern ports will
be opened.

acknowledged If /. be In existence three
months longer, and the Southern ports will
be opened.
I will give you little sample OF English
feeling about America. spent the evening
few nights ago. at the house OF a wealthy
clergyman of the Established Church, vicar
OF rich and fashion BILE " lest. end parish
The first thirg that saluted my aatonished
gaze when l entered his study, was the Con.
federate flag flying from the arms Of statu.
e:te. On she walls wers elegantly framed
portraits ofJef Davis, MIR. Slidell, and o other
Confederate statesmen. On the library Bile
lay the insulting caricatures OF Punch This
was English neutrality When the Tusca.
rora and Nashville were spoken OF, it was
vorite. My host was perfectly frank in his
conversation. 1--WE can't interfere Won
know" said he, "without some pretext.-
Bu. we are all glad. OF course, to see the
American Republic umbling in pieces, For
twenty years the English Republicans, and
Chartists, and Reformers. have been dinuing
US with the success Of the American Gov
ernment. Now they are answered. We did
not like to zee q great Power growing up
alongside our Norin American possessions,
and are glad to see it split up-the more
pieces III better
"But do you want war;" asked.
"Certainly not. No Engiishman wants
war. War means taxes. 1 don't want an
increase Of the income tax. War oes straight
TO our pockets. War with an Eng.ishman
is either A question OF pride or relI. II it be-
comes necessary to open the blockade, we
shall do it, but not from any phiiantnropic
notions
"And the slavery question !'
"Whateyer sympathy the English have
ever had for the North has been Oh account
of slavery; bat as the HoEernme luo Con
stitution are pledged to the Iuai0uuGace
where it exists, they do not see that ti;o sue
cess Of the North VIA promote aCC Hilton so
they care very little Abous it. AS q moral
and religi Gus question, the abolition syInpa.
thy is with the free Sta ties, but poll lea iiy
Englishmen are more inclined to favor the
South conservatives, because they are Glad
to see the Democratic system disCredited,
and dangerous power broken up, ar d radi-
Gals, because they think the South has rs
good right to choose Its own Government
now as the colonies had eighty years ago.
This was the substance OF the converse ton,
and belisve this reverend gentleman spoke
the sentiments OF most of his mOdera teiy
conservative countrymen. Even among the
most Jealous hbolitlonists l have met here,
/ do not fluid any great sy IN pathy with North
ern efforts to preserve the Union They have
heard that Union denounced for years, by
their own, and by American Abolition era
tors, as compact to uphold slavery. They
see no sense IN lighting for Il Constitution
which they have always understood 10 be q
covenant with HE'LL If you will throw
the Constitution overheard, with all its en-
gaSeneIts and compromises in behalf of
slavery, and hght On the John Brown plat
form for the obstruction of slavery, pure and
simple, there will be no lack OF 4boii ton
sympathy. But this will not help you with
the Government or the governing classes
The Abolition sentiment Of El gland and
France has never hinGered the purchase OF
Sne pound Of slave-groWn cotton or rice, or
sugar, and tobacco.
RECoSEIrIoN.
In the New York Herald, OF the sth, we find
letter from its LoLdon correspondent, in
which 1t Is authoritatiN ally announced that
England and France have finally agreed to
apply the pubic law OF Europe to our cis-
Atlantic affairs. The recognition OF the
South by these Powers will be followed oy
results which will a.uply compensate for ths
Roanoke disaster. .-EorfoH Day Book.