Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-06-03
LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE.


By the arrival Of the Europa at Cape Rice, Liverpool
dates to the l7h ult, have been received Toe sum
mary Of the news Published in the Northern papers,
embraces little of general interest except the comments
Of the British press, which We subjoin:
THE AMERICAN QUESTION IN EUROPE.
The London Times says the FederLs are accommodating
debt for which no finances providing though their
armies are threatened With q summer campaign should
the rebels bold out; and though preends
plain how the republican government is to be worked
with eight millions OF persons brought into the Union by
force the mssrs for the payment Of the interest
on the debt Incurred for their sublgaOn yet the Ella
ton caused BY the recent military success ia so exrava.
CANT at the North that federal doubts full ana final
victory TO be within the grasp of the government.
As regards the South, tue London Times says they
are apparently Gs determined as ever but from
the mtnuer in which the military leaders have allowed
themselves 10 be WoIsted on the Mississippi the
confidence Of their own people and foreigners must
be shaken in the ultimate success Of their cause.
The London Morning Post reiterstes its belief tina.
the effect OF tire Federal occupancy Of New Orleans on
tae will be inappfeciable.
Toe London Morning Herald Of the l7th believes the
Confederate retreat FROM Yorktown will be found piece
Of mastery straegy by the Coniederates TO gain time
When every weeks delay is Of the utmost imporauce
Th " compel the enemy take up positions at greater
stance hs base Of operations thus deprvng the
enemy Of his chief OF strt ngth-the aid OF the
gunboat3-sEd they obtain perfect concentration of
the whole Confederate army In Virginia around cE-
mond 30 rendering each Federal esrpI ddrss couverg-
ing upon the Southern capital exposed to crushing St
tack from overwhelming numbers.
The London Oily News Gays the military problem
which awaits solution the same before the ev4cua
ton of yorktown. chmcnd must be defended At al
b. zrds Il is universally admitted row that if that city
should fall the Confederate on the eastern seabosrd
is lost Towards this Gen. Banks Is advancing
Mcdowell is within sky miles Of his Oh Jet and Gen.
Mcclellan has advanced 10 Williamsburg, about fifty
miles on the road from Fortress Monroe TO RcAnond-
This success DOS not 10 have been achieved With
out severe struggles The obte: OF the Conederates is
not merely TO save Richmond, but even il deieaed, =
delay that disaster until the stest moment IL is hoped,
no doubt; that the federal victory will late in
the season. az that the vcoorOus army will be so shat
tered that the time required for Reorganization will
n ske iu,tler operations this Sumner impossible.
Tae London Tsmss remarks it would be b.. mockery
10 ask Lancashire 10 send chips 10 Besuot Tor cottor
nov that the great emporium Of the Mississippi, access
bls 10 millions Of OF cotton growing land, is 10
toe power Of the Generals IL ia therefore oSvious
policy TO trade with New Orleans, 10 get our further
supplies Of cotton for the OF Europeans OF plant
who still assert their allegiance 10 the Southern
public
TIE Morning Herald says 1t is stated that the pros
pse,s OF an adjustment OF the American question be-
CONS more probable than through an assumed inter
veEDn OF Fraace by OF The recent Federal sue
cesses