Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1862-02-06
LATE, FROM EUROPE.


LATE FROM EUROPE.
We copy the following summary Of late
European news from the Ncws Sheet of Tues
day last:
The European advices brought by the Africa,
place the recognition of the Southern Confede-
racy at an early day, almost beyond peradven-
ture. Nearly every prominent journal in France
and England warmly advocates the policy and
propriety Of such measure on the part of those
two governments and quite number of them
predict that propositions to that end have alrea-
dy been the subject Of discussion, and are rapidly
ripening into execution. n. Grandguillot, whose
political pamphlets are understood to be writ
ten with the cognisance, or at the direct iustl-
cation Of the Emperor Napoleon, has just pub
lished at Paris brochure entitled "The recog-
milton Of the South" in which he urges that cit
would be greatly for the interest of France to
recognize the Southern Confederacy." The Lon
don Observer, ministerial paper, following in
the footsteps of the London Herald suggests the
expediency of intervention by France and Eng
land, as in the case Of Greece. The Observer
adds significantly, mo one can doubt the pow
er of England, or the beneficial effect Of such an
intervention"
| A correspondent of the London Times writing
| when the de tacto government of the South
must be recognized by other Governments
France, he continues, 1--WE are given to under
stand is wil4eg to interfere to put an end to
this unnatural strife. Why should not France
and England now united to put an end to the
struggle while there is anything left to be saved?
After citing Lord Russell's speech at Newcastle,
as indicating that the British Government was
ready to act, on cause being shown, he says -
II fee! confident that this country"
"would be all but unanimous for some such in
tervention as 1 have indicated: The London
correspondent of the: New York Times writes.
"The great body of the English, and still more
the Irish people, are disappointed, they expect
ed war" to grow out Of the Trent affair. . o
England is ready at this day to seize upon any
pretext which will allow her to take a bellige-
rent position" . The question of the
recognition of the Southern Confederacy will be
one of the first brought before Parliament y
o "If you do not end the war France and
England will" o o: o France is to-day more
the friend of the South than is England even. y
An English official, in letter to the London
Times, declares that the pressure upon the Gov
eminent is such that cit will very likely end in
| the Federal States being compelled to recognize
the Confederates as beligcrents, and to admit
that state of war by virtue of which alone they
can legally claim either the right of search OF
that of blockade" The Independence Beige
states that the Emperor Napoleon is prepared
to take the initiative with regard to the stone
blockade, and that he will have the moral sup
port of England. Lastly, the Washington cor
respondent of the New York Times writes that
the Governments of England, France and Spain
mediate an early recognition of the Southern
Confederacy. A similar admission is made edi-
torially by the New Your Tribune.
! Independently, however, Of the simple act Of
recognition, and .fraught with still more import
ant consequences, are the limitations from
abroad that the stone blockade is everywhere
regarded as piece Of barbarity that no mari.
time nation ought to suffer to be permitted with
impunity. Earl Russell has warned the Fedora
Government against the preparation of the act
and has publicly declared that its consumma.
ton ."would lead to the belief in Europe thai
the reconstruction of the Union was considered
impracticable." - e~s.. -.---. .
The well-informed London correspondent O
the Manchester Guardian, in abiding to thu
general indignation which has been excited by
sinking vessels filled with stone in Charleston
harbor, says: at would not at all surprise m.
to hear, that all the great Powers had united il
a representation on this subject to the Fedora
Government, and that too going beyond protes
uuu W P1ohioibiOb. uS AIOiI'H'i
Post, Lord Palmerston's organ, "rejoices at tn
general condemnation of the stone blockade,
and declares that the adoption of this method o
destroying Charleston sis cenfessedly to atom
for the inefficiency of the naval blockade" TIL
Paris Monite,y calls it ssan act of inhuman ant
barbarous revenge" The Pays, whose chic
editor is M. Grandguilot, characterizes it :'as al
act. Of vandalism and barbarity, only worthy o
the dark ages" and the Paris correspondent o
the New York Times. who quotes these -denun
Citations, adds,- .naiyely enough: Somehow o
other, the opinion is growing that: there woul,
be an advantage 10 the separation of the Union:
However this may be, nothing can be clearer o
more conclusive than the fact that the Who'll
tenor of the European news is such as looks t.
almost immediate Intervention, and when tina
; step Is taken, the separation of the States int
| two distinct conEederacies follows as matter c
: course. -1'--s
Our Foreign Relations--Good Feeling Re
stored.
WAsHINGToE, Feb Notwithstanding tn
alarms and -croakings of some Of the foreig
journals and letter writer's about the stone bloc
kade and other similar sinister reports the des
f patches received at the State Department al
, regarded as conclusive of a complete restoratio
Of the entente corai0le between the United State
and Great Britain. and Of the best possible un
| Outstanding with Tie governments of France
: Italy and other Continental States Yesterda
Secretary .Seward and Lord Lyons exchange