Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-04-03
Foreign News by the American

rOIelSu NEWS Dy the American
There has been interesting debate OIL
the question of the American blockade il
the House of Commons.
Mr.. Gregory denounced it and expressed
strong sympathy for the South.
Mr.. w. E. Foster denied that the block
ade was Intellectual, and stated that tn
list Of upwards of 200 vessels handed il
by Mr.. Mason as having broken the block
ade, had dwindled to l9, and most o
these escaped on dark and stormy nights
Sir James Ferguson called on the Gov
ernment to interfere in the matter.
Mr.. Mines could not believe in the fina
dissolution Of the Great American Union
and SO long as it existed he deprecated
any interference of England in the strug
gle.
The Solicitor General strongly opposed
any interference with the blockade. i
had been as efficient as other blockades il
former years.
After further debate Mr.. Gregory.
motion for the correspondence on the sub
ject was negatived:
The House of Lords passed number
Of important votes on the army estimates
Among the fortifcation votes was one fol
$4,000 for the defense of the river Mersey
A vote of 100000 for the enlargement
of the Sandhursl Military College was re-
jected by % majority against the Govern
ment.
Sir G. c. Lewis, during the debate, gave
8 complete denial 10 the report of The
failure of the Armstrong guns. He said
that 240o guns of this description bad
thus far been manufactured, and with very
slight exceptions they bad answered every
expectation entertained of them. He al
so showed that the Government stores ol
war materials, ETC., were equal TO any emer
gency.
During the debate ON Mr.. Gregory's mo.
tion, Mr.. w. E. Foster denied that the
blockade was Intellectual, and stated that a
list of upwards of 800 vessels, which had
broken the blockade, had on examination
dwindled down TO 10, and most of them
had escaped on dark and stormy nights,
thus evincing the stringency rather than
inefficicncy of the blockade. He also re-
minded the House that during the war be-
tween Great Britain and her revolted Col
onies in America, no less than 5000 priva-
teers succeeded in getting out of Ameri-
can ports. He warmly eulogized the con-
duct of Her Majesty's Government in ref
erence 10 America. He trusted that no
temptation, not even the sufferings of a
portion Of the population, would induce
the Government TO depart from the strict
neutrality hitherto observed.
The London Times has an editorial
showing that the present phase of the
American war exhibits simply contest for
the Border States, and says that the Fed
erals will simply have succeeded in the
tenth month of the war in placing them
selves where everybody expected to see
them at its very begipning-they will
stand on frontier of States which reject
ed their alliance, and will be called upon
to commence the work of subjugating an
enormous territory inhabited by versatile
and exasperatcd people. 1t can hardly
even be presumed that they have gained a
secure base for their operations; for Ten
nessee, though not purely -Secessionisi in
sentiment, is certainly not purely Unionist,
and the probability is the Northerners, if
they do everrun the State, will have to
hold it as they hold Maryland, by the
sword, at a cost proportionate 10 the ex-
tent of territory. That is tho position to
which the Northerners, on the most advan-
tageous supposition will be. brought; !;
whereas, if the reverse should befal their
cause, the result may be most serious to
them. They have undoubtedly asserted
what has SO long and so unaccouniably
obscured the military strength, but in such
a work as the re'establisbment of the I'm
ion mere n,sitary superiority will be of
very little avail.
The Daily News regards the successes
IN Tennessee as of immense importance,
and predicts, now that the North is organ
lied and on the move, it will continue to
show its superiority over the South, and
dispel the illusion that Southerners are in
vincible. 1t has not the slightest doubt
that the next three months will show many
more capi,ulatiors.
The Army and Navy Gazette suspects
the strength of the Southern armies in
Virginia when it hears of them being SO
easily disposed of in Tennessee.
The Herald complains of the fate of
Mr.. Gregory's motion, as showing that
England has no rule of conduct, no prin-
ciples of policy beyond that of self inter
est.
The Daily Ne'os eulogizes Mr.. Fosters
speech as master reply to Mr.. Gregory
on the whole question.
In the case of the Pirate Sumter at Glib
raltar, official notice has been issued that
no signals are to be made communicating
to one belligerept others proceedings.
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