Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-10-01
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
The Retreat 10 English
Hopes Of a Rising iu Maryland.

From the London Trrncs September III
Ihese operations, now distinctly presented
10 our View, reject high credit on the Confed-
crate arms, and shoc ne inferioirtv of the Fed
eTdt g6n"rdls if not of the Federal troops Pope
fought well, and il deserves 20 be noticed that
nc did succeed in preventing the enemy from
getting between him and the capital jackson
did not cut him of from Washington though
he drove him for shelter to its walls; hut there
ends the Federal success. Ateyery other point
the northerners have been foiled McCleilan's
troops Were not found available for Pope $ sup
port; the lines of the Rapidan and kappahan-
mock have been saceessively lost, and the
Unisnists have sustained fresh series of de-
moralizing though not disgrdcefal defeats.
Their conduct iR Ht field rebounds 10 their honor;
but the end of the campaign is that Washing
ton, instead of Richmond, is beleaguered, and
Maryland, Instead OF Virginia, exposed 20 in
.Naslon. 1t does not appear, indeed, that n
single acre Of Virginia soil is new held by Fed
eral troops, except on the very brink of the Po-
tomac itself, and everything indicates that
worse is at hand. Possibly the defencps of
washington, raised with so much care a
t%elNe months ago, may prove too strong for
the Confederates, and il is not unlikely that
Mcclellan, who seems given to engineering.
and who now commands at the Capital NAV
do better behind trese foFtdfie eations than he did
IN am aggressive campaign. ..-
But single glance at the map will show that
Washington itself, with all its dpfrncps may
beturned by the Confederates They have hut
10 cross the Upper Potomac, which, as far as
can be Judged from the latest adyices, is their
intention, and they viii find themselves i'm
Maryland, The WhOle Of tchich State, tcith all its
precious resources in men, money and meniftSns,
as prepared, are cTediGly assured, 10 rise and
freicOHte them. Such an instruction would
leave the Federal Capital environed on every
side 10y foes, and an escape by sea would be the
only chance open TO those rulers who have
threatened the South with conquest and subiu-
CATION. These are the present prospects of the
civil war. Wen may the New York press be-
gin 10 despair of the Union cause. and well
may the Governors OF the New England States
take counsel at Providence. If such reyersee
do not teack the North to reconsider its course
we do not see how political wisdom is to be
learned or political error retrieved.
The following additional news by the Europa,
AZ Cape Race, is furnished through the Associ-
ated Press:
GREAT BRITAIN.
A telegraph dispatch from Holyhead, on the
evening OF the 10Th, reports the screw steamer
Alabama, better known as No. 29U, off that port:
having had TO put back. This report is thought
TO be incorrect, the Alabama alluded TO proba-
bly, being an irregular Mediterranean trader.
The London Daily News editorially taunts
the friends of secession with being iubilant
over the triuUphs of the slave power, and asks
who is the better for il! II saws that should the
hopes of the English friends of secession be
realized, and twenty millions Of the free men of
the North pusilanimously consent TO let six
millions of the South give law 10 their conti-
nent, we may expect to see them asserting the
free exercise of the right and trade on the coast
OF Africa. We shall find they will be rs little
disposed 10 defer 10 our notions about the Afri-
can slave trade as they have been to accept the
doctrine of New England about the slave trade
between the States. which is right Jeff. Davis
has expressly reserved fOrthe South. His ad-
mlrers in England may find that they have not
yet done him all he service he requires.
The London Times earnestly denounces the
policy OF the abolitionists of the North I'm seek
ing 10 raise the negroes of the South against
their masters. 1t says that the idea OF the alb
clitiOnists is to organize a series of Cawnpore
massacres as legitimate devices of warfare, but
il thinks they Will not be successful in the AZ
tempt. 1t trusts that President Lincoln will
refrain from an act which will be at once A
crime and a blunder, which will in no way ad-
vance the Federal cause, but only deepen
and make eternal the hatred between the two
sections.