New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-02
FROM FRANCE.
The American Question-New Books-Illinois
Consultation.

From Our Own Correspondent
Expect more talk Of mediation about these days.
The talk i'll British Parliament and elsewhere will
doubtless end again this time in smoke. But where
there is 80 much smoke there may be some fire. The
very talk itself is moral aid and comfort to the South
The last from America furnishes arguments for
the advocates Of the South that are telling public
opinion.
BeauTegards really mastery retreat 10 nobody
knew where, with only the loss Of those famous ten
thousand, whose subsequent whereabouts outside Of
official reports, is yet greater secret our month Of
disasters in Virginia, and our retreat from before
Charleston, are exploited as cumulative series Of
proofs Of tho Southern Rebeon's ability to sustain
isel and consequently Of its right to recognition "a
a National Power. The contrast between these mill
tsry events aud our bOa,tful predictions OF what
they were TO be bightens their harmful effect here
Some of our best friends think that If we had more
courage to fOresee disagTeeable probabilities and to
look dsagreeabe facts the face, we should lessen
the former and have fewer OF the latter to look at III
the rear.
Our new tariff is also exploited with great effect
against the North by our enemies, while warm
est friends being almost universally theoretical free
traders have TO unite in cOndemniDg II. With this,
threatening manufacturers and exporters, on one
hand with the cotton famine, pressing harder every
0dy, on Tue OlueT Dduu, YOU INV INC
opinions snd interests Of ireetradeIs and protection
ists OF the silk manufactures Of Lyons the cotton
manufacturers OF Mulh1use, Of the cloth manufac-
furers Of Reubaix, Of the vnrcrs OF tie Bordelais
and the Lore, and the I.o chanis u HoIdeau1 ana
Nantes of the uberiers lubricants and exporters
of Paris c0D be o. rned against IL IS h,lher III
the competence the deposition OF your reporter
10 cfticse here either generals or our statesmen
nor yet certsin of our journalists and polteia
have brieY TO etse the influence Of their dOngs and
udf,n f.ul L.. 20
nisclievous article III one OF tie New-fo1k
journals on our new tariff, in which the writer
" thanks God that 1t Will have for one result to
make European workmen suffer, has bad all the sue
cess In Fiance aud England which that deyout
Editor could have desired. 1t has furnished to Tile
London Times, aud the French Government press,
grateful and fertile text for equally malicious or g-
norant articles appealing 10 and arouflng tie pop
ular passions and preluolces OF EnglishInen and
FreDclnnen against us. / believe that ii has en-
loved the bouors of quotation In every anti Union
newspaper here from the MOH3teur down. Ne ssrs.
Woods, Duer, aud Coz patriotic meeingat Cooper
Institute has had an equal success. Here IL spe-
cilnen Of French off il notice Of 1t: 4" A meeting
has been held at New-York in the sense OF entire
recognition OF the principle Of the complete iDdepen
dence of the lSouihernl States" 1t promiles, the
Government critic goes on to say, " 10 be the De-
ginning Of an irresistibl- movement.
What has really passed between France ana En-
gland respecting measures 10 lie taken III concert lor
recognizing the e. s. A., or mediation or other
wise interfering in American affairs with the pur,
pose OF basteaing tie close of our civil war, and
completing our separation into two natIoDs no out
cider definitely knows That there have been eX-
change OF views and Informal negotiations by con.
versation and the reading Of confidential notes, and
other "oihcious' means customary 10 similar diplo
na.ic oases, no one doubts. The appearances are
that the advances, the covert acts have pro eeded
from France; that, in the main, the Cabinets of
LONDON and Pare, as their newspaper organs and
other indicators have shown and show. are agreed
IN thA, as they have been agreed in all otber fea
twesa them is one Of opportunity that France