, 1864-03-06
LATE FROM EUROPE.
Debate in the British PnrI1nmcnx-Sc-
sSnrdss DtploMacy-En=l1s1l Feeling
towards the United Stutes-C1ntEl or
Damages for the Pirate AInbanfa-
The last Call for Men AstonisIlcs nIr.
Hull.

LohDoNs 1utsuay+ FcD- ~ lSbl+
Members of Parliament are talking about
the treaties Of the last century, while the
armies Of Austria and Prussia have driven
the Daues ont Of the two provinces, and are
about to attack them in Alsen and Jutland.
It is natural enough that Peers OF seventy,
seyenty-tlve. or eighty years Of age, as Prince
Napoleon remarked the other day at Paris,
should have faith in treaties, constitutions
and alliances which they helped to make
when they were In the prime Of their man
hood; but the Generals Of an invading army
stuff these antiQuated and obsolete docu-
mcnts into the mouths Of their cannon.
While England talks, Germany fights.
The English army press makes the CAM
palgn in Denmark tie text for new attack
upon the conduc: OF the war in America
':sec real what Generals do with real. dlscip.
enough to look at the map first, and the scale
Of miles appended. WHY, the field Of oper.
attoDs is about ns large as the State Of Con-
necticut, the roads IN good order, the ad-
vince By rail, and the preponderance Of force
Snt The pek ef Armies @ numbering 5 % a IL the as
grcgate q. million Of men; armies, large num-
ber6 Of whom were In the campaign Of Italy.
But our old friend J.. B. IL not In good
hunlor. He feels surly; bis head is down,
his brow corrugated; be is nttering low and
omincus growls, and may make an ugly rush
in come direction at any moment.
In the Lords, last night, Earl Derby re-
newed hls attack upon Russell, for yielding
to the threats Of the American Government.
Earl Russell denied the soft Impeachment
three days before receiving. the urgent re-
monetrances Of the American Secretary.
"Then why did you say that the matter was
under serious consideration, II you had made
up your mind :" asked Derby. because,
though had made up my mind and wrote to
was under consideration In tie Treasury De-
partment," answers Russell But how
about that dispatch which Air. Adams did not
communicate to -
LATAnD, few nights ago, in answer to soma
searching inter1ogatories Of Lord r. CEcl1, I
believe declared upon his honor, that the Gov
esnm ent had had no intlmation of such dis
patch % that Of the 1lth OF July; but last
night Earl NussEL; pushed to- the wall' by
had received any dis, a,cl, from Washington
which might be unpleasant, had been in the
habit Of keeping 1t 6af: in his pocket, while
he Informed Eati Russell verbally Of Its pur-
port, and this, :you will remember, IL precise
letters. It IS pcrhaps proper to o. say y hi that
did not get my information from Mr. ADAMS
sr any member Of the American Embossy.
but It was none the lees authentic.
The truth is, that the American Secretary
Of State has played his cards like master,
md has been ably seconded BY Mr.. Adams.
Earl Russell, like an old coon in the story,
las come down every time, ns soon as the
gun was pointed at him, and Mr.. Adams has
not been Obliged to play his trumps or ex-
pend his ammunition. Federal diplomacy
Important than mnny in the feld.. It was
this that made Mr. Mnson withdraw to Paris
He eaw, long ago, that he had not the least
chance with Earl Russell, who trsatcd him
with positive dlscouttesy. America could
scarcely wish for better ally than Earl Rus
Sc j, and it was By his orders, no doubt, thar 4
q Confederate cruiser has Just been seized By.
the British authorities at the Cape of Good
Hope. 1t Is not improbable that orders have
been sent to other Colonial ports, to seize
other Confederate privateers, which If this
policy Is really adopted, Will be compelled to
The news Of the proclamation for draft Of
I've hundred thousand men hns created lit
tic surprise, and. perhap2, more than sur
prtse-consteuation. A country entering
upon the fourth year of a war calls into the
tield half million Of men, In addition to Pre-.
xious leytes Of million and half The
idea is overwhelming to the English mind.
England could send into the field, to the aid
Of Denmark, say twenty FIVE, or, at most,
thirty thousand men. To raise hundred
thoneand, beyond the volunteers or militia
Possible. Yet England Sc .s country ofless
population 1aising annual 1evies, year after
year, Of half million of soldiers. It may
we'll be said that Englishmen do not under.
stand America. They cannot understand the
practicability Of raising such armies, or Of
supporting them.
For all this, It would be wrong to say or
think that English feeling In respect to the
war has undergone any considerable change.