The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-06-16

itcI1c0 q 40toer ffUR b4S -
OF The New York 9yaes, q which No ilisitc
particular attention. s Tho New York ISmes,
~ everybody IN tho South Il we'll aware, has
always been bitterly hussils 70 everything
Soathern. Il has throughout this contest con-
unaally incnleated The necessity Of reducing
M to state Of vassalage more intolcsHble than
negro slavery. Il would gladly Gee the Afri.
can race III the head Of aiiairs IN the whole
Southern country, and the whites laboring in
the fields under the crack Of their whips II
hates the South with an intensity which can
be accounted for on no other theory. tlmn that
the editor, Raymond, has had his selflove
deeply wounded in some way by Southern,
| men, Whatever il or its correspondents say
therefore, favcsable to the cause Of the South.
may tc taken without allowcncs. They
woaM willingly lie s,esnst us if they could
But the case Is tco plain and too palpabls to
bear the weight of a lie.
AS we have always believed would be the
case, the failure to receive the usual supply Of
cotton from the South has produced famine
| in England The terrible details with be found
in the letter TO which we have already called
attention. AS VIC have always known il
would, the atteiup. 20 make India a substitute
fer the Southern States has failed btost disas-
tronsly. The cotton that ce:nes from India
will not answer the purpose at all. 1t is so
full of trasl, nhh so short IN staple that it re-
q''ires extra time to work it, and is means OF
still further reducing the wretched pittancc
doled out in the shape of wages TO the starving
| operatives. Oi,e-third of the cotton mills are
absolutely idle, another third work short
,imc--that is, two days in the week aud there
are Indications that allwill have to stop before
very long, Already one hundred Thousand
people, in the great manufacturing county Of
Lancashire alone are panpers-that is, ARE sup.
ported at the public expense, because they can
| get no work on account of the cotton failure
| Three times that number are on the brink OF
starvation. No branch of trade escapes. Col.
lierics and shop keepers suffer equally with
those directly engaged in the cotton mills
| Many persons have already died Of starvation.
The terrible accompaniment of famine--in-
sanity and murder, begin 70 make their appear
ance A father killed his three children because
! he had nothing for them to eat. lie then mur
dered the agent of his landlord, who had seized
his goods for rent The people begin to hold
meetings and TO demand intervention in tones
of thunder. 1t is impossible that this demand
should not grow louder and louder, until 1t
makes itself heard and respected "Cotton
there must be, says the correspondent in ques-
ton. "Every .promise of supply has been de-
ceptiye. Less cotton is ON its way from India
than there WIS years ago. China sends none
The supply from all other sources is but drop
in the bucket. Day by day the stock dmin-
ishes. Day by day the want, the hunger, the
widespread misery Increases
England is rich, but she cannot long bear the
.bur'ien thrown upon her. England has won
derful power of aims giving, but what aims are
sufficient for such Il calamity? Private be-
| nevolence is overtasked. The war in America
is costing England more money and more suf-
fering than many war of her own. What
| can you expect, then, when feeling and interest
are alike against it! III do not end az thirty
days, there ,riH be measures taken 10 bring IL to
a oiosc.'' This letter is dated Goth May. The
"thirty days" will have expired next Friday
We do not think the war viii be closed by that
time.
The laboring classes of England have been
reddced TO This condition by she imbecility and
, heartlcssncss of Lord John Russell Had
man of sense been Secretary for Foreign AT
fairs, he would have seen the true te.of the
case at IA glance. He would instantly have ac-
knowledged the independence of the Confed-
crate States, and raised the blockade of their
ports There would then have been no dis
trcss in England, and the war would have been
long since over in the South Many thousands
of lives might have been saved, aud much bit
ter feeling have been spared. In the mean
time, we begin to believe in the pretensions of
King Cotton after all, Notwithstanding the Sc
we're shocks administered to his throne within
the last year.
1t is curious to see what ideas are entertain
ed in Europe with regard to the war. ''The
Times this correspondent tells us, 'surren-
<iers. The power of the North is too great to
he resisted" And yet the Grand Army of the
North, led ty the Yankee Napoleon, was beat
en- out of its entertainments fortnight ago by
onc-half iss fosce of rebels and has not
since bndged one foot in advance, while it is
faced by a "rcbel' army fully its equal in all
other respects, and far its superior in valor,
who desire nothing so much ~ another trial of
strength. Its General contcnted himself with
sending lying bulletin to his employers, and
issuing lying proclamation to his troops, but
HIS not ventured TO make The advance he 80 val
,orously threatens. Richmond is not yet taken,
jackson is chasing Fremont down the Valley.
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