The New York herald., 1862-03-03


Tm NEWS FROM THE UPPER PoroNAc.-One Of
our contemporaries is greatly exercised about
our publication ON Saturday Of tels-
graphic despatch, from General Banks column,
giving an account of his crossing tho Upper
Potomac and of his movements to protect tho
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He calls upon
the Secretary Of War to do terrible things with
the HERALD. Now, it so happens that we were
duly authorized to publish the despatch In ques-
ton; and had our contemporary little more
enterprise he might have had the same news,
on the same day with the HERALD, instead Of
publishing it the next day, with alterations and
additions, while calling upon the Secretary Of
War to punish us for giving the same news
publicity. There was nothing wrong in the
publication. On the contrary, it did much good,
by relieving some painful anxiety at Washing.
ton and elsewhere.
II seems that there was some mistake about
the meaning of Secretary Stantons order, which
prohibits tho publication of news Of military
operations, unless authorized by "the War Do
partment, the general commanding, or the
generals commanding armies in the field in the
several departments"
The General Commanding is. Of course, &c.
neral Mcclellan; and it was believed that "gs-
nerals commanding armies in the field in the
several departments" undoubtedly referred to
the division generals in department, and not to
the general commanding the whole department.
But it appears that Mr.. Secretary Stanton
meant otherwise, and that General McClel-
Ian, for instance, who Is not only "the Com
manding General" of the whole army, but in .
special sense General of the Department Of
the Potomac, is the only general who can au-
thorze the publication Of military movements
in that department; and only General Halleck
can authorize the publication Of intelligence OF
military movements in the Department of the
Missouri and General Buell., who, though only
brigader general, commands the Depart
ment of the Ohio, is the proper officer TO autho-
rize the publication Of military operations in
Lis department. General of department. il
not title of army rank, but territorial de-
sgnation, comforting authority half military
and half gubernatorial over military district
The TONE OF THE ENGLISH GOvERNMENT.-The
recent debates in the House of Lords on the
subject of American affairs indicate very pa
cifc policy towards this country on the part Of
the British government, and show tone which
contrasts remarkably with that hitherto dis
played towards the United States during the
course of the present war; We need no stronger
evidence than this that England has begun to
understand and take right view of our posi-
ton, and that the voice of the kingdom unani-
mously proclaims against any interference with
us in the suppression Of this unholy rebellion
The leading London journal, which has SO per-
tnaciously and maliciously m represented u
since the outbreak of the rebellion, received .
meritcd rebuke from Lord Malmesbury for it,
wilful distortion of the speech Of the Earl Of
Derby respecting the blockade, and for persist
ing in the falsehood after the latter had himself
contradicted it. The aim of that rebel organ
has been to force upon the government con-
viction of the necessity Of breaking the block
ade, in order to open our Southern ports to
British trade and the export Of cotton,
and its arguments in favor of this course
have been utterly INSCRIPTIONS and positively
vindictive. In these attempts to dissolve
the American Union it has been aided by cor
respondent who has systematically misrepre-
scnted us since he first landed on our shores
and who still remains in our midst, slandering
our people, villifying our government and
doing all he can to prejudice England in favor
Of Southern confederacy.
The replies Of Lord Russell to the speeches
of Lords Malmesbury, Caernarvon and Derby
are of very reassuring character and demon
strate, as much as the words Of those statesmen,
that the feeling in England towards us is very
different from what it was before the affair Of the
Trent. Indeed it would seem, on the Mephis-
tophccan principle. that out Of evil there cometh
good; that the difficulty which threatened an
other Anglo-A merican war has so purified the
political atmosphere in England that she is now
enabled to see us in q true light; and, the mis-
of doubt which before intercepted the English
view Of the war in the United States having
been cleared away, the last hope of the rebels
of foreign Intervention in their favor has disap-
peared.
Two FLYING STATE GovERNNENTs.-The two
flying governments of Tennessee and Missouri
are rapidly coming to that grief which will
soon overtake the unholy rebellion in which
they have been conspirators. That arch traitor
Isham Harris, who formerly held the rcins Of
government in Tennessee. we have driven from
bis hotbed of treason into Memphis, the remotest
corner Of the State, where, at the proper mo-