Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-06-14

A Pregnant letter from EurOPe-The Cotton
Famine In Earnest -Interyentio On Inevitable
Agn lsmsn 6as o6Agi1sy furnished US with the New
York Tssss Of The inst. /: contains much matter Of
a,e-es which will be transferred the FAg epace
perm t. Tie following letter from the regular LOudOu
correspondent Of the Times is perhaps the most mPOr-
.lat of all as bearing upon the question oil European 10
.srvsniou. We have never doubted that time would
arrive when such intervention could be logger pest
p,red or avoided The statements contained in this
e.ter-and they ctud no; came from more uuirieud'
' sourcs-deoote shat tha, tine is at hand TIE
et,sr Is published precisely We find it in the Time
v Il the writer's or editors own italics
LONDON. Tuesday Nay go, 1862
TAe surrender Of New Orleans and the evacuation Of
Yorktown have fallen upon the British public ike two
very heavy caps OF thunder. The first event is uys-
.ery no one preteads explain. We wait for further
5articulars. A il appears Is pregnant with alarm
L guaboat pass shore batteries and haroor offences
hat city 10 the world is safe An iron clad gunboa
could ascend the Thames any day and yrg In the pool BE-,
oE Lonoo1 bridge reduce the great Metropolis to sub
mis- o. o. TO ahs. Blu the same Is true o. NeE YORK.
sra Of every city which lies upon the nayglbl,
river.
mere Is a general giving up here so far military
OpGaions concerned NJ Spence holds out, but the
7ass surrenders The rover OF the North is too great
90 be- rrsisted-ho South nus. sooner or later be con
guer,j. The qies.oa now il, Will they be su5duedy-
V thew give up struggle so hopeless and accep, such
.ers as their ccrqu rols may oherg II So there will
,1On be psace commerce and cotton But what IL the
south still resist-bura cotton and tobsCco-fa back
mo the interior and carry on the var as the Colouis
did l. l176-SS. This is wat Europe breads, and must
L ptsuble, take measures TO prevent
II Southern ports bs opened and the planters will sell
heir cotton Ga BAY goods, they may do they please
about the restoration Of the Unon There il sympathy
IL - - Il =, 49,. .l,V, II.
Ncrth but it determines action. Iotarest aud inter-
It alone wil govern. And what Is that INTEREST," 0re
third Of the cotton mills in England Gls and
.san another third working shoFthanded CT shor;
,me Short time means tNo or three days in week.
fre Irdl cotton which they obliged to use, is so
IA OF trash and waste and 50 short 10 spo, that the
extra time required work it sill further reGuces tie
Eag. OF tie operatives More than hundred thou
ssad psor il Lancashire psupers. Three times shat
lumber are on the verge Of sarvatcu. The dis,relS
lx,ent- to the co.eries the slopkeepeis and every
b-aaCh OF trade. Some have died OF aviation; others
are too far goue for help. Insanity aud horrible
der have begun their Eolk 10 hlnchCs er. A father
driven - despair led bis Jhree children las week. and
hen murdered tie lAndl3rd agent, Who had stripped
rim Of his household furniture Meetings Of working
men begin to be held A meeting Of 600 at Ashton,
lev days sgo demanded Intervention. And this demand
WI grow louder and louder unsl there is prospect of
pescs aud cotton.
And cotton there must be. Every promise o. supply
has be, deceptive. Lass cOCn IS on the DIy from In
d thai. there sIs years ago Caina sends none The
supply from all other IS but drop in the bucket
Dly by Jay the small stock dminshes. Day by day
the watt he hunger the widespread misery increases
America feeds army OF than half million, bus
England has sill larger army, which the has
brJagh a o COZ CT with more terrible foe than tho
5 u.hsru Coz idefacy-hunger Eog'aGd is rich, out
sNe cannot long bear the burdens now thrown upon her,
En- land has Woaderiu power of slmsgivirg bu. what
are sufficient for a calamity. Private benevo-
eucs is over taskej. The in America il oostiIg
England more money ard more suffer DC than many u
Of her own. What can you expect then, when feel
ing AMI interest alike against itr II Il DO not end
iy thirty days there vH Be measures token to 6riHg 10
a elise. u Washington correspondent whose letter
e. tae vis OF 4. Mercer edmond is copied In the
Times believes that France called upon the Cou-
eGer4cy to surrender IL no: credited here lha. the
{ nperor would give suea advice. L. Is very generally
believed ard conf ieny stated, that his feelings would
lead him TO wish for very different termination.
The English people look now With some hope for
speedy end Of the bs result they have all along
clated imposabls-the couqu OF the South. They
also looking for tremendous financial crisis in the
Nor.b The people OF Europe cannot understand tho
msnucr 10 which Government can 90 on monh after
month with the most lavish aud enormous expenditures
Without revenues or taxation. They predicted failure
Of The war months ego for the lack Of means They
not see how can 30 on and when stocks rise and the