The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-11-12

Of tie United 6tates-that upon that ground
n the foreign Consuls ought to be dismiss
sl-and that Il was making an invidious dis
tlnstion-and one which would most as
suredly give o6ence-to let the whole weight
ef the punishment tall upon one nation.-
We think the AhQsirsv was right In this par
ticalar; but VI are disposed to think, also
tAAt the Government made the determination
nom . desire not to interfere with thu
French Consuls, because 1t was supposed
that the French Government was favorable
70 q. We now see that this was mistake
and We deeply regret that all were not dis.
missed q once. In that case England would
have had no right to take offence, and we
should have done At q blow what, in all pro-
liability, We shall hereafter be compelled to
do ptecemeal. We hope the Executive will
act upon thin hint-assume new principle Of
aetion In the premisesland dismiss every
Coasul who has been acknowledged as such
b. the Fedora Government.
We are alone in this war. Would that VIC
could say that the other nations of the earth
were even neutral. That they all prcfss. to
be 20 r true enough; but thefe is not one
Of them whose Neutrality weighs not heavily
upon a, while II IL altogether in favor of
our enemies. From Ireland and Germany
the ranks Of the Yankee armies are re-
oxuited - fast % they are thinned by the
Are OF our soldiers. Yet Great Britain
and al the German States profess to
b strictly and fastldiously. nAtral-
Ard % they are, so far as neutrality
consists, In autiously sustaining from the
leaGt 81 which can In the remotest degree
10 bsnslsiaI to "a. But with regard to such
sets - may be Of benefit to the Yankees the
case y very different. The British Govern.
mant, for instance, knows perfectly well
that the tens Of thousands of Irishmen who
land every month throughout the season in
New York ere drafted to serve In the Yankee
army. They know that such be their desti-
pqtlon before they leave home. Now, we
- but indinsrent lawyers, and It is many
yean since We have read any work on Eng
ubh Nv, even Of character so popular az
DaAck1tones Commentaries. Yet, If we are
not very much mistaken, We remember that
h 1)acntone's Commentaries It IL laid down
tla4 while the King can force no subject to
Aaye tho realm-not even convict, who
On stay and be hung, If ho prefers it to
Botany Bay-he may prohibit, by his writ of
~ a'sos, any number he may please from do
Ing the same thing. Lord John Russell, If
~ thought proper, could prevent emigration
lon Ireland to this country at any moment
by mere Order In Council VI the emf.
gsnnts had resorted to the Confederate States
inatead Of to the Yankee he would have
done this long ago. So could the German
povsn have done; for they are all absolute.
JastsaA Of doing 30 they are fassishing re-
csu1fs In vast quantities ia. the Yankees,
and becanse fhese rscru!ta ere not mustered
Into service In Gerpaany and Ireland they
sxpect 10 chest " with the mean and pitifnl
p(geenca thAt they are neutral. To US, we
(Ake e, Il = matter Of supreme indifference
whether they be~drilled, armed, and uni
ceenobe 81 Europe or here. The conse-
nnences, at least, are all the same to U.s.
Vould q not b moro honest, then, in these
0ovanmsnts 70 proclaim at once their real
character a enemies tous and friends to the
Yankees2
We are, We Sspeat, alone in this var. The
iNet q ths world ID not only not for ", bat
q = positively against N. There II no port
n tho world into which orr cruisers can con-
dnst ana diapose Of prize. There Is no
1hipyasd Il whIch we can build ahhip.-|
1ness = % countsy from which We can ex-.