Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1862-07-29
MISCELLANEOUS.
LATEST FOREIGN DETAILS.
AMERICAN AFFAIRS IN EUROPE.

AMERICAN AFFAIRS IN EUROPE.
The steamships City Of Washington and
New York arrived at New York OH Tuesday.
the former from Liverpool and the latter from
Bremen and southampton. They bring LON
don rapcr> TO the 9th instant, not so late as
by Tue Asia oil Cape Race. We make few
extracts. however:
MIR. Lindsay. Mp, had adjourned his Par
Inincu,arv motion for the recognition OF the
South hy England second time. |, was TO
come up again on 18th of July.
The nilcd States steamer TuScararo had
reached southampton from Lisbon. The OBJ
icct oi her visit was not known.
,.o:ae rather sharp personalities were en-
c,,a:..ro III Parliament between MIR. C"i"1n
ana Lord l'allucrSton, and they attracted
considerable attention in the newspapers
The friends o, Mr. Golden argued that Pal
,nef>ton had opened an impossible gull bc-
,~.,t himself and MIR. Golden.
4l;s: ENGLISH PRESS oH AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
II. London Times" of the 9TH, is exceed
i,,.., distressed over the latest news from II"
ln:.cci States. and is especially indignant at
Il, ,..s&:gc OF the new tarill act, vi which 1t
si,o.AS n follows:
FEDERAL America, having taken seriously 10
the vice of tyranny, Is stripping herself TO the
task Of gratifying her new passion. She Is
deliberately rejecting the silks, the wines. the
trinkctS and the works of art of France, the
fine woullcIls and cotton>, the finished hard
ware. and the agricultural implements OF
Enga.nd and she Is to restrict herself Tor the
future To her own coarse. clumsy and costly
substitutes. 1t is with q shout of triumph
that these foolish and angry people celebrate
their new discovery Of Furnishing England
ami France They are cXllIling in the notion
that hy means OF this tariff they will either
shat out altogether the productions OF the
,wo great industrial European nations. or
they Will compel them by the payment OF
hign duties l." contribute To the expense of
their civil war. Could any fully hc more
pi,iahc.
II Federal America were the only market
in the world fur british and French namui;tc-
lures there might he some hope that the for
c:g:r importer, would have 10 pay SoIac por-
ton of its burdens i'll heightened duties but
while there are hundred competing cuSto-
merS for SI!cil produce. there must be a mar
kct price, independent "l any single demand.
At that market pricc the produce will DC tie
livcrcd 1T the .Ane:jc:. ports, and whatever
addition is lnc !" il ny the government
must Ec pai,i, IL" -. .he foreign importer but
BY ne american caIeG!s"r. Are American
Statc>ne' M! .'.S A;,.c:c;si' Ncoplc such chill
drcn - '..',~", zee 20 taught single
train i-'., tl'.'
On ~. ":'r.: ir..,... =. -. i.c>,. duties be-
coiuc a',,'",rir l' ,'!,.i9ri. they tend TO
no utl:a" nHrp"Sc r..'n 10 make it every
mans interest, ~. ruc!tout Europe and
throughout; Aiac:'iy.;. hat the Federal nag
shall III over rs narrow portion of earth is
it can possibly he restricted 10. The world
is happily. 50 large, and It's intcrcommunica-
lions increase 5" rapidly, that England at
least will lind no difficulty, when she has
passed through the period Of suffering which
every sudden change involves, in finding 9TH
or markets and other cotton fields even more
profitable Tor her purposes than America has
ever proved. India and China will soon be Ia
US much more than America ever was, and
even il the Federal States could shut them
selves mp so completely as to fade away from
all European knowledge, and he to us only
like that Aztec city which has been some
times suspected to exist but has never been
discovered, England would still 90 on in her
might, and hcr industry, and her literature,
spreading her language and hcr race, and oc-
cupving the attention and leading the dcSti-
MES Of the world.
VIEWS or TIE 'GorEgSMEST oEGA:;.
From tn. London Morning Post, s.si.
10 us ii ScehlS perfectly iucolicciv-
able how the government 1T Washington can
leave in military command at New Orleans
such man rs Butler. Not merely for the
sake OF consistency with their of-rcpcatcd
declarations, hut for their own interest, we
SHOULD have supp Sed that they would have
made the position "tcitizcns ofcapturcd towns
as little disagrccahle rs possible. Had n for
bearing and tcrnporizing policy been pursued
1t New Orleans, the rancor existing between
the :North and South would have been much
diminished, and Il foundation might possibly
have been laid OH an amicablc compromises
Eat now every day widens the breach. The
lUoSt warcring the most timorouS Of South
cr.:ers are being rapidly converted into i'm
piacanic enemies. Formerly they repealed the
advance Of the Northern forces, because it
threatened their political independence but
no.: ;hcy see themselves compelled to fight
in defence of their womcn'S honor and their
own lives. If the circumstances under which
New Orleans surrendered were not those
which could assure the favorable treatment
Of the inhabitants, then under none could any
other city hope to meet with anore considers
ton.
Had Gen. Butler left the maintenance Of
order in New Orleans to the municipality
and the police, and had he rcfraincd from try
ing the citizens before drum-hcad courts-luar-
tiai. the Federal cause might have been ma
terially benefited by the capture of the Crcs-
cent city. Above all, had he abstaincd from
outraging the suSceptbilites Of every man
and woman not utterly dead to the feelings Of
their nature by the publication Of his too