Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-03-11
INTERVENTION.

tiations are going on between England and
France for the recognition of the Southern
/ Confederacy, and that if England refuses,
France will act alone. The English ministry
does not seem disposed to intermeddle, but
there appears to be strong faction Of the
people inclined that way. In the House Of
Commons a motion, calling for all the cor
respondence relating to the seizure of Laird's
rams, supposed to be building for the Con-
! federacy, was lost by five votes, and in the
| stormy debate on the motion, Mr.. Fitzgerald
and other members denounced the action Of
the Government as pusillanimous, and ac-
cused it of being intimidated by foreign EN-
/ bassies. Now the real cause Of this lll-will
of large part of the British people-for
there must always be popular support to such
attacks-can be nothing more nor less than
a rancorous national Jealousy wishto ruin
/ a country that is outstrippins their own in
naval and commercial achievements, and a
wish to have established on this side Of the
/ Atlantic an aristocracy similar to their own.
This is undoubtedly the general wish Of the
British people; but the ministerial party
foresee the consequences of interfering.
They know that if they once commence to
irtermeddle they will probably become an
active party in the strife, where they will
have much to lose, and little to gain. The
war to them would be naval and foreign.
Our numerous fast steam war ships built
since the rebellion broke out, would soon
almost annihilate their commerce, and the
Gordon of powerful ironclads that guard our
coasts would protect US from the depredations
of anv transatlantic feet that ever yet has
been constructed. Should England ever en-
gage in war against the loyal States of this
Government, she is almost sure to lose the
Canadas, her best American possessions.
But unless the ministry is changed, or is
driven to do it BY an overwhelming influence
brought on BY blind prejudice, we may not
expect them to bring England into the strife,
/ or to interfere in our affairs any more than
/ to take all the advantage that she possibly
can, Of our troubles, and make herself as
obnoxious as possible; without becoming an
open, active enemy, she will, undoubtedly
pursue the same course which she has fol-
! lowed from the time of the Trent affair.
But the same cannot be said of France.
! The people there do not control the actions
of the Government, and the ways of Napo-
! leon III are almost inscrutible. We cannot
Judge from the temper Of the people how that
nation will act in the matter, but only from
His Majesty's crooked ways. To secure the
foothold he has acquired in Mexico is his
chief inducement to interfere in the Ameri-
can struggle. To establish upon this CONT
nent 4 stable monarchical government to
counterbalance the rising growth Of our Re
public, and prevent the United States from
becoming the sole dispenser of the products
of the New World, is what he avowed to his
commanding General in Mexico to be his de-
sign. France has not so much to lose in an
American war as England. She has not got SC
much commerce 10 suffer, and ii reports are
true, she has more powerful navy TO employ
Since Napoleon has come upon the throne Of
France unusual attention has been paid &c
the naval department Of that government
He has allowed no new invention that might
De of use to Il navy to go without thorough
trial. Ships Of the most powerful kind have
been constructed in great numbers, and the
steam iron-clads of the French navy are said
row to be greater in number than those o.
the English, as well as more powerful. Louis
Napoleon tries every thing English, Fedora,
and Confederate. He immitated the Merri,
mac, then took pattern after the Monitor; he
tried the Armstrong gun, then tested the
Parrot gun. His navy, so perfectly built, i:
deficient only in sailors to manage it; but
even this want is in great measure supplied
by the introduction of steam power, which
does away, in great measure, with the wan
of experienced men of this class. Napoleon
has, moreover, put the harbors Of France III
an almost perfect state of defense. On the
! litlle HoIUUE VI SuSIOouAS a'OAS' A~ tA~A>
caused to be expended an almost fabulou:
amount Of money. The question has otter
been asked what is all this preparation for
and the answer as often returned, for Eng
land but is it not possible that the EN-
peror, before he tries the new-built feet:
against the hereditary and inveterate enemy
of France, would not De backward about
testing their ineficiency in more distant
struggle: With such state of defense ant
such means OF offense it is not unreasonable
to expect that the tone of the French Min
lister at Washington will, some Of these days
suddenly change and become cold, i'm
perative and insulting. 1t is not very I'M
likely tina, this navy will be put into active
service, to assist in tearing down the glor!
of the nation that might become the sole
dispenser of the products of the New World