The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-01-01

Comments Of the Foreign Press on
tho Capture OF Mason
aud Siidcll.
A FafEvD or LIvcoLw'S GOVERNMENT
xBoET 3EiNG NOgRED.

TRACTS ts FeIaston 10 inc arrest OF neeSrD.
Mason and Siidell. Our readers have already
bsea apprs..d of the effect which EnsIand's
Indignation has had npon the Ramp Govern
meat. after all the bluster and bomoast
Of 'as fspseee they have been m AIDE to swal-
lew tEeie words, and TO aecede 10 every de-
msnd whtsa ha. been made upon them
saK wax yksL,xa IN ENGLAND.
The English press, with the solitary excep-
Taent.y acsnie in tone. The nnanimity of
sentmeils 90 tha point Of obtaining rerara-
tlGn for what is considered the insait offered
to The British ilsg is wonderful. Indeed, II
appears 20 he so deep. seated, and to have been
so ready 10 manifest Itself, that 1t is almost
impossible to avoid saspectinE that there had
existed previously In the public mind a
forssoIs conclusion that war would be neces-
slry, sooaar IT later. The 2isass ssdulousiy
!osisrs r" "a .isf that tho President and mr.
Seward l. - of malice afore thought " done
their brst TO force Eogla into it.
The Observer makes loud complaints q bout
the systs Hi OF espionage PR ctised by American
agents in tie q flerent ports. 1t seems TN AZ
the Federal Government bias persons EN- pillow.
ed III every English port OF any con sequance
TO AXE note OF the ships that are ioauing, OF
what their cargo consists, &c, and IL the in
Snection IS hot satisfactory, these agents take
photographs of ,hs vessels and transmit the
portraits 10 the Federal cruisers.
Ihe n1fal aad military preparations for
war are being prosecuted vigorously. and The
usVai reserve arc coming forward as yuluu-
teeIs IL large NUN 5eIs.
TIE FEELING IN IsELAsp.
The organs OF the " You Y ireland p,rtrn
have been tire Sn int Mysteries FROM iov M
the prosoec: wa, :.ssween Eng.r MI .n,t
America. Tie Nate Il csrs the Gu ,t;.4.. a., m,
Commissioners ou tur a y Brit s.taansr
WIS en- act wor Thy OF lie spirit, daring ana
dash of the Americans it was oae to mako
he
continues the same orgaa, has created wild
excl emit and enthusiasm in dublin and il
viii also awaken similar feelings and sensa.
lions throughout the whole countryn ~
the English Government. act Extensively.
thsn, are told, will come &c great II,
for Ireland ; then will the men who are gone
with vengeance prove vengefrl men in
deed; then will the Irish race in America
rnsh 70 arms ana pound into the battle"
The Du bin fresnsan announces that in few
days The A" Dation lists'' will hello = meeting
to express their opiHicn as TO tbs course &c
be- adopted III the preseIt crisis Of affairs be.
tween Eng land and America.
On the other hand, the London Times fleets
to decide this manifestation of Irish feeling
and sGys that it is nothing more than what
always occurs when England gets into diff
heaity. The same journal also asserts that
the real feeling Of the Irish people at large is
one OF sympathy with England.
THg PggLIEa IN FRANCE
IL .euee to the French press us supporting the
Enalish view OF the Trent affair. GA this
French support the Liverpool Esropsan Ysmss
ilas the follo"io Z remarks:
Che extraordinary sympathy which the
French press has shown towards this coup.
try IN the matter of the Trent begins TO ex-
cite suspicion rs to it's disinterest edness, al
though IL is very acceptable to those who are
doing all In their power TO write up war
ieei,a < on {his side Of the channel Suspicion
rs regards the French press may no: be with
out reason the press there is not free, and
can hardly De supposed to speak its own sem
tiInents. A war between England and
need not necessarily involve
trance, unless, indeed. the Empe be all
'hat MS enemies amongst-us paint him, In
which case ne would be more likely to be
70. d acting against than with rs
Hitherto the French alliance has been
viewed with suspicion by great mum hers of
p3ople in this country, and when we CO.
operated in the Orimea, in China, and now
IN hiexieo. common fesiing animated both
which could hardly be mis-
construed. Bat, ia this Am ertcan difficulty,
the salue mutual self-interest is not perhaps
qaite SO plain. Whatever crippiss England
ossy lie sAia TO strengthen France, aad We
have no Doubt that the Emperor OF the
ffencn THINKS England would not be the
worse for a little erippling.''
the Si.r observes:
s. The dignity OF Great Britain has been
very well EustGineG 80 far without either
schooling OF assistance from the class OF Pa
-i'ian journals TO which We refer; and we
haraiy think the moment when very grave
ana puTten tions question is Il: issue between
England aud The United States the d ties. op-
.,0riuuity for sudden display OF new born
Partisan zeal fer British honor, and lad igna-
tol 1t the outrage Is is supposed to have re-
ce.yed- The French Journalists to whom we
sliude are acting in this instance the exces.
sively good nasuced{tsr Of a bystander who.
Observing two boys In menacing and angry
y 4 "a nf,Sxoy- ,,r-
by stiru niatlrg TO the utmost the wrath of
he bigger com Datant."
"ISDIdSArIoN AERrIEas."
The London aud Manchester journals are
flied with Indignation speeches against
America. At one OF them, "a. Uldham,) on
the 9Th, Hon. Joseph Howe, Prime Minister
Of Nova Scotia, said:
Ii TWO Of the biackest and ugliest slaves in
the South had escaped to British vessel
xould Eagiishmeu have allowed them to be
seized, Suppose Haribaldi or Bixio had been
coming TO England from Italy to negotiate
for f'aacc, or fair play, or anything else, had
heeu taken out of an English ship in the
IL Ell erransan by Neapolilan man of war?
III either case would NOT every Englishman
ave demanded and enforced redress Hear,
aear) Yet this had, in effect, been done
Gen. Scott, whom he Fnsw personally, was
gallant old fellow-twice the
size of the Duke Of Wellington, to whom
soTae of the newspapers had com pared him
oU. II was not TO be admitted that he was
ever likely to become as great General
Gen. Scott said that the North would disa.
Vow the act and make reparation. But he
.a!r. HoWe) did not believe it. Did Mr..
Adams. tho American Minis ter IN London,
bel 1--we iiy
O1e of the newspapers announced that MIR.
Adams WAS preparing 20 go home; and it was
very likely. Mr.. Adams must know that
tight or wrong the people would attempt 20
astify the seizure; and that they would not
naka the amende they ought to do. Mr..
Charles Summer, with Mr.. +. Evsrett) had
attempted sojustify the seizure. What might
.e inferred from that? Why, the men Of
he MOST moderate temper had made up their
minds how the current was setting, and that
england was to be insulted. NE. Sumner
n as a remarkably clever fellow and pleasant
,enial companion; but clever AS Mr.. Sumner
vas, ne. fBr. Howe) was not going to take
,is exposition Of International law against
nat Of the law officers OF England. Jap
,l6use.)
The speaker, after expressing himself in
avor Of tbs principles OF Wendell Phillips.
ath sr than those Of "Lancosn AMI Seward"
vent on 70 say:
The North was like tho dog In the man
er - WheE he saw the Northsrners sitting
pen five or six million bales or cotton which
could not eat or manufacturs, and W aich 1t
id not know what - do wtth-when he saw
he people Of Lancashire looking little blue
{ the aspect of the times, and by no means
ertain as to the result Of the coming winter
Is /" enlightened conscience taught him to
pply the fable, and to conclude that England
goald be as entirely justified in getting her
hare Of that cotton as tina hungry cattle
gon!d have been In tossing into the cir the
og who lay in the wsy of their getting the
as they needed. CA.aughter.1 The com
arison between the sasEension Of The Eng
sh hatcas corpus act OF 1s5s and Of that In the
United Stats, was entirely mistaken and in
orrect; and to claim for the Northern press
hat Ii enjoyed freedom was ridiculous Ia the
zee OF the fact that nine or ten editors and
Ia the North had been tarTed and
:athered, ridden on rails, or had their estAb-
SIN ashed, simply for freely express
,g their opinions.