The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-07-30
LATE EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
Hostile Tone of the British
Press
DENUNCIATION OF BUTLER /.
THE FREE TRADERS On FaE RAMPAGE ABOUT
THE NEW TARIFF


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The screw steamship City of Washington,
Captain Brooks, which left Liverpool at four
o'clock on the afternoon of the 9th inst, and
Queenstown the 10th, arrived at New York
yesterday morning.
The steamship New York, from Southamp-
ton the 9th of July, also arrived
Her Majesty, with the royal family aud
suite, were to arrive at Windsor Castle on the
22d inst, and on the following day take their
departure for Scotlsnd The Court Journal
says:
"The distribution of bride-cake on the ocea-
sion of the marriage of the Princess Alice,
has been on the most liberal scale possible
All the royal personages present at the we'd
ding had 9 whole ca Ike sent to them, and whole
cakes were sent to the Queen Maria Amelie,
and others of the French royal family who
were not present. Every one else at the cere-
mony, and many others, connected with the
court, had pieces of cake presented to them
or forwarded to their n sidences, each piece
weighing about four pounds. All these gifts
were made without trenching upon the large
cake made for the special use of Her Msiesty
herself and she royal family, and which will
be personally distributed. There was also a
cake for the Duke of Cam bridge, one for the
Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary
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The Times correspondent says =" The ac-
counts received Of the progress of the harvest
continue to be satisfactory. The mild weather
which has prevailed for some days past has
produced the best results
Spirit Of the Foreign Journals ON the
American War.
From the London Times.
This new revised Tariff is to be in effect
prohibition of all European goods. " Its eff
feet will be-" says the most popular paper of
New York, " to deprive Europe of the Amer
lean market, a result more disastrous to Engla'd
and France than thousand blockades of cot
ton ports" This is new Secession movement;
a secession of Federal America from Europe
and from civilization 1t is to build up wall,
more impossible than the great wall of China
around all the country where the Federal flag
may fly. Federal America, having taken Sc
riously to the vice of tyranny, is stripping
herself to the task of gratifying her new pas
sion.
She is deliberately rejecting the silks, the
wines, the trinkets, and the works of art of
France, the woolens and cottons, the finished
hardware, and the agricultural implements Of
England, and she is to restrict herself for the
future to her own coarse, clumsy and costly
substitutes. 1t is with shout of triumph that
these foolish and angry people celebrate their
new discovery of a means of furnishing Eng
land and France. They are exulting in the
notion that, by means of the Tariff, they will
either shut out altogether the productions of
the two great industrial European nations, or
that they will compel them, by the payment
of high duties, to contribute to the expenses
Of their civil wars. Could any folly be more
pitiable?
If Federal America were the only market
in the world for British and French manufac-
turers there might be some hope that the 70
reign importers would have to pay some Of its
burdens in heightened duties; but, while there
are a hundred competent customers for such
produce, there must be a market price, indie
pendent of any single demand. At that mar
ket price the produce will be delivered at the
American ports, and whatever addition is
made to it by the Government, must be paid,
not by the foreign importer, but by the Anne
rican consumer. Are American statesmen
and the American people such children that
they require to be taught simple truth like
| this On the other hand, when these duties
become absolutely prohibitory, they tend to nc
other purpose than to make it every mans in
terest throughout Europe and throughout
America that the Federal flag shall fly over as
narrow portion of earth as it can possibly be
restricted to.
The world is, happily, so large, and its in
accommodations increase so rapidly, that
| England at least will find no difficulty, when
she has passed through the period of suffering
| which every sudden change involves, in find.
| ing other markets and other cotton fields even
more profitable for her purposes tnan America
| has ever proved. India and China will soon
| be to us much more profitable than America
ever was; and even if the Federal States OF
America could shut themselves up 50 CON-
pletely as to fade away from all European
knowledge, and be to US only like that Aztec
| city which has been sometimes expected to
exist, but has never been discovered, England
would still 60 on in her might, and her indus
| try, and her literature, spreading her language
and her race, and occupying the attention and
| leading the destinies of the world.
| But what destiny are these degenerate
and insensiate people preparing for them
! selves They are not shutting themselves
| out from all mankind in order to work out
some philosophic dream Of peace and inno-
cence. They have not even the short-sighted
wisdom of the Chinese or the japanese, who
| in their happy conceit, feared to be contami-
mated by outside intercourse. These people
are isolating themselves only in order that
| they may indulge their own fierce vices uncon-
| trolled. With this object they are reducing
| themselves to q condition which is a warning
| to the world. They have at last actually
taken upon themselves system of taxation
which is like the cask of Regulus, so full
of points that no man can stand or sit or lie
in without being pricked every moment
They are draughting off day by day the youth
/ of their country 10 die of pestilence or the
| sword, or to return to them in a few weeks
broken and emaciated for life. Private letters
say that McClellans army alone is losing
every week before Richmond, 1000 men; and
there is carefully suppressed whisper at
Washington that Mcclellan himself is stricken
with the fever.
Even the hirelings and cut-throats of Eu-
rope viii not much longer be attracted by
any promise to such q fate as this. It is evi-
dent that the levies begin to fail At home,
no mans life, or liberty, or property is secure
for how can life or liberty be secure in coun-