Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-02-14
EUROPEAN OPINION on The AMERICAN WAR
INV YORK HERALD's MANCHESTER CORRESPONDENTS.
MAEcaETxR, Enc Jan. %.


MAKCaEsTER Enc Jan. %.
British Sympathy with the Sou!h-Th' ORpo"sioH
Journals Iaerea,ed DStrsss-HO1 GfsaI Britain
Prs,ervss Neutrality &c.
la reference to the aaiDu governing and uAiencing
British feeling towards America just now there cannot
eeit ately exist 6cond opinion Il Is that Of either
ilcoucealed or openly expressed hostility. Eich new
day is throwing light upon the past aud as the snake be-
gins to unco itself Is hisses aud you may rest assured
1l continue 10 do 80 until il ia ecoched. Indeed, go
vile an nsuseous have been and still the commsnts
of the British press upo1, and so hostile ard 80 ranco
rous are the articles daily written against everything
American that DO not wonder the moderate on both
sides of the lautc should begin to feel thoroughly
ashamed Of such ungenerous and undignihed system
of procedure Hence, not at all surprised TO hnd
the New York correspondent OF the Manchester Exam
iuer aud Times writing under date OF January All from
that city, Is follows: -" Tha. the journals meaning
the English should DO 50 widely quoed mere, SIM
ply because they abuse every hing American, when ex
nressiops 90 much friendly and sppreciitiye are
oualy ACCESSIBLE one OF those psychological pheno
msna which il would be interesting to investigate.
Your correspondent agrees with the writer o: the
above that t would be interesting to investigate H. ana
he believes the problem is OF easy solution and that II
,b,tit all arises from Great BIains anxiety to sopar-
az federal interests and destroy federal CHARACTER by
bass calumnies malignant ISLANDERS, and vile nveotves,
and all for the purpose of promoting her own evil dc,
SIGNS upon your constiu ion and national greatness add
| forts to crush unnatural rebellion.
Ca Sunday las at the Free Trade Hall in this city,
lecture was delivered by very poprllr and talented
,ptis, minister the Rev Arthur Mursel, who after
ligous morning service in bis conventica de,aers
each Sunday an afternoon lecture three O'Clock TO ta
working classes many thousand Of whom attend. ;!s
lecture last Sunday was on a very prolific suotst--
| "E lgard aud America" Now hear his description Il
America or lao dice He says Il believe ;he
old popular notion Of America to be the true one that
to very great extent she is 6raggart naughty and ill.,
tolerant nation without any discretion in hsr proesta-
ous Of vaor but With Wondsru discretion in her man
estators OF IT. glib enough to talk over gisss OF gin
siug and spttoon about "whppiug creation" but cos
6uing herself pretty exclusively to her coward
/ prerogatiVe of whipping the niggers.
| "Nsver had people g'ander opportunity oil d.
p!aying their inherent msgnanimy than our trans
atlantic cousins in connection with this uulucky Trent
sF,ir" Surprised into delicate compls xiiy with q
ton 70 which they owe everything that ID great aud
good among them-there was an opportunity Tor dis
NAV of real greatness and fraternity which would have
done moro to binds the regards Of the regards Of the
two nations and 20 their permanent alliance,
than all the diplomacy OF a century. KroWing a. they
did that piece of brutal and covardy piracy had been
committed under the shadow OF her Stars ani Stripes
upon the high sea the oovous and honest duty Of her
government was either to hand the kdnaT
pd men TO the Ambassador Of the cDun;ry from whose
protection they had been seized or Immediately to have
Sc apologize dispatches to The nsultsd PoWer TO dis
Own the act and to SAX for Instructions how to act Ia rem
| a
ceved their plumber with yell of eKultatiOn, such
only the American igle raise they doomed them
10 prison keeping them in dlrance vile, while the ruff
fan who peTpetrAtcd tie iDgloncus deed was loaded
With all the honor which AIuerd ignorance could heap
] upon him
and circulated amony many thousands Of the Lancaster
people Indeed IL Il truth 10 write, that this persons
lectures are circulated TO enormous extent throughout
Great Britain. i ia 10 such harangus as these that the
| i. E.t,. arf,, II 49, H..
sboring classes in ,hs county ia due. She held up
10 them 10 the mos. odious light and the present de-
preston OF trade ard the iamisaiug condition Of the
factory operatives throughout all worcestershire are laid
nj her door.
Aud AZ regards tho latter may mere observe that the
dis;rcss Is daily acroasi gin fact, ia assuming mag
riude truly alarming whilst the poguancy Of hunger lie
dou 4, increased b, the yery AID incl ment wealth
er row 20 u1bapp,y prevalent You do Lot know how
gt,. s the distress here, aud way you do not, aye
ts following O1.rac, from article on the cotton
crisis" in ihe Rsrw iH psUr NoRdsI, French jour
| nal TO explain:
'In England" states the writer "the organs Of public
o.niou take ges: rius, GU. Of self love, to conceal
the national calamity or q, least, 70 diminish tho ex
tent OF il. They have touched very lightly on the in
| crease Of raupsism since the commencement Of the
N ,nufacurng crisis and /, is With great difficulty that
OF can collect the ncc ssary information"
Thus this England this 'msres9 OF the seas" placed
az she saws she is in tie "r ermopy Of The universe"
world But yet get an mixing OF it from the local
journals though general rule their Information Is
ysry erroneous The last accoun from Blackburn in
| form IA tha. SUN Of about thousand pounds was
raised for giving relief in ood tho Mayor stating that
In tho borough alone the:e sI thouard operatives
wholly unemployed. Ard, sgain, turning TO Wigsn
there are somewhere about twelve thousand unempoy
ed and several mills daily expected 70 stop
Add so on throughout LancGstershre and in the
featuring districts generally ard not only in these, but
70 greater less eItont throug the country.
letter now before from Stock port states that the
das,ution existing there is rapidly on tho increase
that on every do there exists nothing but very gloomy
prospects, for the operative classes record the above
not only general pecs OF intelligence, but also to
show TIM. popular MUD led away by Misrepresentation
az 70 America beDg the primary Of all this dis
tress ia quite prepared and open 20 have is passions
and animoses eXcisted against you, whilst equally dis
posed 10 give credence to anything no mater howeEer
absurd derogaory, asserted against the American
nation
NAV not he on. of place to observe that for some
months past we have bad amid the rehssh of acsumu
lated offences served up against American courtesy,
rious accounts TO the personal insult and unifendy
treatment measured out to Enghhmen la America who
were known to sympathize with the South. Well, LET
me assure you that your courteous negh5or at this side
of the world has not been pitcuiry backward in this
resDcct for myself have known and seen instances
where the grossast insults have been offered, and The
most rayonR language used aganst those who dared 10
synpsth'z, with tue Federal during the late m
pending crisis This particularly the case as you de-
soepd in the soci srslc until IL becomes fierce a1d raa
tc among the eanaiLe do not relate these things to
e,site hatred or contempt in the American bosom but
have lately read SUBJ frolhy Anthems n our jour
nas here against your opinions, policy manners GUS
tome &c. that thought it just af well to pont ou The
here in England there has been deficiency in
foul snEuage staggering braggadocia insulting epiphet
and vindic;ive phraseoo2y
We profess neutrality and yet We will not be neutral
", bays been s,tisfsd fully as 20 our demands in the
Trent stir bu. We content, and, ;ordingly
We now prefer another Indictment against you horid
Americans The British press informs us that the fact
of your having blocked up the entrance to Charleston
hlrbor is SO lgrsat crime as TO demand foreign in
PREVENTION.
The Paris correspondent Of tho hanch' ser Guardian
always well and accurately informed, Wries under date
T.o,n pa,is ID AZ follows.