Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-11-24
EuROPEAN MISCELLANY.

From late United States journals we copy the FOL
lowing interesting extracts:
THE WAR MUST CONTINUE. .
Ina Richmond cor! eJpOndsnt OF the London Post
tAu, concludes his letter Of September 81:
Assuming tie worse aspect of the case for the Con-
federated tbe-WAr must go on No pen OF mine could
rive Won even faint idea OF what this people have suf
ered and are daily suffering in struggle for indepen-
ence wi enemies who possess more than three times
their number and resources The burden sndeed hard
the anguish such as would move the heart Of stone
hut there is no option for the Southern people save to
endure In tbs providence of God their subjugation
and ruin are compassed BY race who knows no pity,
whom no signature can bind and in whom the slightest
pros poet OF triumph, far from eroking magnanmity
only serve TO inspire TO fresh atrocy and more IN
spaiiug hates Submission would be but the prelude TO
cruetes on moro gigantic scIe than Russian despot-
ism-crmes at which Europe would shudter. Thus all
ua,ed the South has no opion but to hight on TIL her
male population eIterminatsd OFunt the presence
of another comba in the field eha lead the North
to abandon the contest IN which she will longer pos
sess that superiority of numbers and resources witch
first induced her to undertake it."
SCANDAL N HIGH LTE-LoRD PALNEHsroR THE DE-
TENDASr.
TIE London Star Of the Sd says an action for d.
vorce has been instituted in which Lord PAlnersoD,
the English Premier, is the correspondent The follow
ing is from the 1opdon correspondence of the Irish
Times ..
LONDON, Monday.-The divorce case in which Viz
count Pamerston 10 named rondent has given
abundant food for the gossip among legal and general
ehcles for the past week. lcoHess have felt del
icate subject to touch upoI But the general publicity
given TO makes public property. The scene of the
offence is laid in Half Noon street. Picc ldilly within
few doors of Cambridge Hous; thedate alleged the
latter part Of last season, the end Of Jy aud the be-
ginning Of August. TIE plaintiff il aclergymarfhamed
of he fair hnt Ira;lO (.
handed about. They who wish to ure the reputation
of the noblS Lord that the case has been CON-
promised by the payment of q sum Of money, but his
admirers indignantly deny it, alleging that the whole
affair is plot TO eItO;t money and that Lord Paners-
ton will show his usual pluck by meeting the case in
open court as his father in law Lord Melbourne did in
similar Gaze which gained the then Attorney GeEera
Sir John Alterward Lord Campbell, great Ieyeaue-the
cause of Norton Melbourne. The cause, il it be rot
Withdrawn, cannot come this .rh, and l believe
never will cone on. would fam be persuaded, with
those who take the noble vi counts side that the re-
suit must create such reaction in his hVor the popu.
lar mind % to lenfiresh vigor to his Ministry.
GEORGE n sAUHDKRs HIS MISSION ABhoAD.
Phe London correspondent of the N. Y. Times says:
Mr.. George N. Sanders has been drawn from his
cover In PImlico, by the ram question. LIE declares
that be has had nothing toSdo with the rams at Brk
enhead His innocent and LAWFUL mssioo is to coz
taot for sir fast mail steamers-not vessels at all
nor aimed 10 any way. Thty are to be paed, to be
[ure 40 as to- lua the blockade with the mA and are
10 carry such freight as may be desirable These steam
ers he contends, are perfectly lawful aid he PROCESSES
his Wingness&o tell Lord PAlmerston-eonhdentialy
presume-where they are now being Duir aud to give
him Al needed parcuars Mr. Sandss is quite frank in
the mater He admits that his steamers might very read
ily be converted into ofwar, and that once at
Oharless6a or Wilmington with the mails the Confede-
rate Government, making him suitable compensation,
might arm and use them. That WOu d, however, be no
1Fir of his nor of the British Government. Pity Mr.
laird could not make out that his rams intended
70 carry the mail and that the iron beaks were only to
he used In blowing their way into of the shallow
bsrbors of the Southern coas-the plating given them
Conceive Of such a happy idea Engshmeu are not up
70 suck Inventions. -,
But With all his ingenuity, / am disposed to think
that Mr. Sanders mail steamers viii meet the fate OF