, 1862-06-10
AMERICAN AFFAIRS IN EUROPE.
RENEWED RUMORS OF INTER
VENTIOW.
In Alarming ResuIt-England sQrrenaets-
Cotton-TeFrlhle Distress In Lancat
st1lre-Wbat Hunger May Do
Intervention In Mexico.
Especial Correspondence n. 7. Ti1acs.7

Intervention In Mexico.
Especial Correspondence n. T. Tir1cs.7
LONDON. May 2s, 1862.
The surrender Of New Orleans and the |
evacuation OF Yorktown hare fallen upon the |
British public like two very heavy claps Of |
thunder. TIE first event is a II; stcry no oae |
pretents to explain. We w.lt for further pr
Iicrlars. AS 1t now appears, it is pr.rElans |
with alarm. II gus:boats eau lsl5s snorc bit
tcriss aud harbor dcfensc8, what city in the |
world is safe? An lrnn-cla1 guuboat could /
asceEd the THAMES any day, :,ud lying in the |
Pool below Londou bridge, reduce the great
tie same is true Of New York, and Of every !
city which lies upon the sea or 4 navig-,,,e |
river.
There is general giving up here. so far as
military operations arr CONCERNED. Mr. Spence |
holds out, Lut the Tines su:ren:.crs The !
the South must sooner or later be con-
quervd. The ouestioa DOW is, II Will they be !
tubdued? VIII they give up q struggle go |
hopeless, aud accept sllvh terms as their con-
qusrors may otisr:'' II go, there viii soon be
peace, comm. rec and cotton. But what il tue
s>uth still retist-turn cotton ard tobacco
I'LL hack into the iuterio: and carry on the
war as tha Coionis:s did IN 17776-S3 This is
w.at Europe ;reaGs, and must, If possible,
take measurts to prevent.
IL CDHtHi I'll Etlth UE btltutf7 A44I .u5 plAul-
eFs will sell ti-iT cotton und bur goods, they
i::,y co IS ti!e} p:ciSt about the rcs:ora!i:a OF
the Union. There is Eympsthy with the South,
but it is useless. There is hltred OF the North
kut it determines no action. Interest and in.
te1est alune will govern. And what is that
INTEREST," Ous-thlrd o. the cotton mills in
England arc Idle, and more thau another third
are working short handed or short time. Short
time means two or three days in week. The
India cotton, which thty are ooii is5cl to use, is
20 full of trash and waste, aod 50 slo-t il sta
4le, that the extra time required to work it
e.;ll further reduces the wages OF the opera
tvs. More than 4 hundred thousand people
in Lancashire are raupers. Three times that
number are on the verge Of starv2tion. TIE
distress extends to the co1lieries, the shop
keepers, and every branch Of trade. Some
lave died Of starvation; others are too far
gone for help Insanity and horrible murder
Lave begun their work in Manchester.
father, driven to despair, killed his three
children last week, and then murdered the
landlords agent, who had stripped him Of his
men begin to be held. A meeting Of $3.50 at
Ashton, a few days ago. demanded in'eryen-
! tion. And this demand will grow louder
aud louder, unless therr is q prospect Of pca:e
| and totton.
And cotton there must be. Every promise
| Of supply has been deceptive. Less cotton
| is on The way from India than there was
| year ago. China sends none. TIE supply
| from I'll other sources is but a drop in the
bucket. Day By day the small stock dinln-
| the widespread misery increases. America
| feeds m army Of more than half q million,
| but Eu.1and has still larger army, which the
| war bas brought into conflict with more
terrific foe than the Southern Con
| federacy-lupger. Engllnd is rich, but she
| upon her. England las wonderful power Of
| almsgivipg, but what aims are sufficient for
! such calamity. Private beneyolence is
! oyertasked. The war in America is costing
England more money and more suffering than
many war Of her own. What eau you ex-
Tcct then, when feeling and interest are alike
| against it? If it do not end in thirty days,
there will be measures taken to bring it to q
close, Your Washington correspondent
whose letter on the visit Of II. Mereier to
that France has called upon the Confederacy
to surrender. It is not credited here that
the Emperor would give such advice. It is
very generally believed, and confidently
stated, that his feelings wonld lead him to
wish for very different termination.
The English people look now with some
hope for speedy end of the war By resuI.
they have all along declared impossiblE-t
conquest Of the South. They are also looking
fer tremendous financial crisis in the North.
The people Of Europe cannot understand the
manner IN which L government eau 90 on
month sitter month with the most lavish and
enormous expenditures, without revenues OF
| taxation. They predicted d failure Of the war
months ago for lack Of nletns- They do not
see how it can 60 on; and when stocks rise,
compare it to the South Sea bubble and thu
railway mania, and are looking for the crash
that they tinR 1n,1st inevitably follow. But
all calculations have failed and all expectation:
been disappointed.
can make no claim to infa1libili.y, but ]
have hccn to Lancashire and looked upon its
suffering and distress. It is heartrending ir
its character aud appalling il its cxtsnt. NJ
one can TIL what may be tue result. The gov.
erumcnt 1uay he forced to action which il
does not now contemplate. Half million o1
people reduced to starvation is volcano that
1nay burst into eruption, The Irish starved
peacefully, because, it was said, they wer;
used 10 starvation. The operatives of Lanea
shire haTe not been accustomed to it. They
know that the government could give them re
| licf-tbe only relief they deslrc-labor, l
would not be strange if they should dcmani
, help in 4 manner that no government could re
/ s.st. The first sign OF action Will be 4 chang
OF administration, unless the present govern
: mcnt chooses to avoid such change, by
, | change Of policy. But it cannot have escapes
| your observation that the only ORGANS Of pub
: | lie opinion here favorable to the North, hay
been the extreme liberal papers, while the en
tire moderate conservative and tory pres
has been in sympathy with the South, ant
c the more Violently and decidedly tory papel
: the stronger has been Its opposition to th
: | Jpion.
= Intervention Oh the American continent "a
;, commenced in Mexico. According to prcser
= appearances, England and Spain have Will
d drawn IRON the field, and left the Enperc
= free to establish an Austrian monarchy on til
: southern border OF the United States. The1
!. Is come jealousy and modification here, br
e England puts tie best face she can upon i
It for it is useless to complain. But inttrve1
*irt7 fhS17 af ,1f1r
: habit When man places himself at th
It head Of civilization, and believes that he hi
z a mission to regulate the universe, what ca
s. you expect? It will be some days before til
Il reaches you. lcannot tell what has hapPene
J. in the ten days past, nor what will be done
e the ten days to come, in America, before til
/, comes to land; hut shall be much surprise
u if the action OF N, Mercicr do not prove to |
y but the prelude to some further and more II
:, pOrtant action.
at much annoyed at the consequence given
q the young scions Of the House Of Ofl:.ans
t. our government, and their positions on II
ID staff of the lasc Commander~inC Chief Of Il
lg American armies. Perhaps it did not stri
in MIR. Lincoln as IN indelicute proceeding; b
er if ii had been done By any European Potter
IL would have been all insult. How would Y:
u, tor Emmanual like to see the ex-King Of n
Of piles occupying o similar position in t
OF French army There is a story that the Ell
ke | fEGNT expressed his ul5SliIS1iEtIuu III II
IN matter to Archbishop Hughes in no eauirot
terms. It is to be hoped th,t the arniat
Is prelate vas able to make satisfactory exp
i'll nation.
tie The International exhibition feels the pre-
,s- ure Of the times. The receipts Of last we
were less than one-half those Of the corr
I'd pondiug week of the exhibition of 1851.
~ opens slowly, and will not he fully in ort
el~ until the lst Of June, when the great body
l1.s the people will be invited to come for ST
nd ling. In ordinary times there would
&c crowded excursions from the n1anufacs uri
on districts. This year they cann9t PC PC io9a on
cs. North to Keep from dying Of hunger:
re. All eyes are turned to America The 70
nd | Victor Emanuel aud all European intere
he are forgotten. Prosperity OF adversity, pc
ice or var. life or death, depend upon the esc
be now taking place in Virginia and the Sou
,tn west II the North is to conquer, it must
ng | soon England cannot bear a protr,c
:en struggle. There will be Intervention if til
nj is not peace MoSADSoS6