New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-11-30


head Insurrection-HnIf of the South
ern Debt Owned By EngIishmen-The
C,v,ure Of the Florida lessieurs
Berger and Desmarets in London
The Dinner at the Middle Temple
MaIi-A Supposed Secret Mission
Items.
From Our Special Correspondent.
LONDON. Nov 10. 1864.
The papers will inform you that we already
take Il for granted that Won have reelected Abraham
Lincoln Or to put it agreeably and 10 con"ense
whole columns Of editorials into epitbes; being nation
ally demented, bankrupt in money and IN morals, ana
wholly given over TO frstrcide youhave characteristic
ally determined TO persist in those cheerful prochVes
for vet another four years-uDless before that time you
sha have succeeded in exrpating another to the
last individual AFTER the fashion Of the Kilkenny eats
leaving Il may be- your really magnificent country to
be repopnlated from Europe, by emgranis who WILL OF
course wisely eschew the fundamental error OF demoo
racy and go to work to reproduce something like the
civilization of the Old World. With the big bulldogs OF
the press it is the fashion TO profess indifference as 10
the result of the eighth of November aayed with the
usual cant pity for the miseries caused by
this insane war" But those Englishmen really inter
esed in the struggle, knowing what it involves what
aide of the Atanc-are looking ont for the OF the
confirmation Of their hopes with the most eager antic
patton should find it difficult express their intense
anxiety on the subject Welcome the vessel that brings
rs the glad tidingsl We (Americans and Anglo
Americans) hardly talk or think Of anything else.
Our British friends-those who have not visited the
land of Uncle Sam-are an bound to say most hope
fuI The Americans resident visitors, doubt and
sometimes despond, almost TO despair They know how
completely the devil Of Slavery or his parasitic imps
had once possessed the whole nation, brain, muscle,
marrow-al but heart-and they fear that even four
years Of his ravages since he has got unclaimed may
not have sufced to expel his influence leaving you
clothed and in your right minds J. who rocoect stand
ing In front Of THE TRIBUNE office in October 1860 when
The big Republican majorites from Chsutauqua and ST.
Lawrence counties rolling in. neutralzing the
naturally dabolic vote of New.York City as mountain
stream might flush" q sewer-I, who know something
Of close elections thought to witness parallel
anxiety and excitement in England-shared, too by
Brtons But it is not without reason The best OF them
know that your cause is Theirs and that we sink or
swim together
Writes noble John Bright from North Wales (wherc
he is detained by the illness of six years Old sick
and like to die scarlet fever-as all decent Ameri-
cans will be sorry hear) TO friend Of mine dating
on the eventfu eighth: To-day the great issue Is TO
be decided think the Secesh papers here are rather
sick Of their clients and it is time the whole civilized
and Christian world should 'spew them out OF Its
mouth" And here is an extract from letter by ano
Their English statesman Of as high aud as pure fame
whose you may guess. but which have
not permission to use involving a shrewd insight
into Democratic tactics 1.-THE only thing that seems
to give me anxiety is the apprehension that either attire
af.o tha al
xioting, which may spread in the North. Against the
probability Of this is the inherent reverence Of the
Americans for the rights Of the majority. But the
times are exceptional and the long lease OF the Rebel
Government at Richmond is an evil example. Besides.
fear that jeff Davis has his desperadoes ready for
action in many of the Northern States Let us hope
Lincolns majority will be so overwhelming to leave
no room for cayiling about votes" speculation that
Won will compare with actual results. l have heard
similar apprehensions expressed by other Of our Eng
Ish friends generally coupled with a fervent hope that
the Executive may have had pluck enough TO vindcae
itself promptly to prevent any recurrence of the
horrors Of midsummer. 1863 in your city. II wish. :
said Brton to me- that you had Gen. Butler to every
ward in your city, just to keep order He would be
apt 70 act on the precedent of the Iron Duke with whom
II was standing order in dealing with mob, never to
fire blank cartridges nor in the air. Besides the ring
leaders ought TO get it. drumhead court martial and
pro np execution now Of one or two wealthy and prom
nent COpperheads would nip instruction in the bud
and save hundreds Of lives. or course should have
howl about it here, and old Mackay" Che is irrev.
erent person, this Briton would go into convasions
down several columns of The Tines but You ought to be
abe to stand that by this time You can't be abused
worse than you have been unless the papers take to
using Hottens slang dictionary
So much for the opinions of friends TO the great
event. now word or two about the controlling motives
Of some of our enemies. Do you know that it the
confirmed belief Of the moneyed classes here that your
Government must finally assume the payment Of the
Rebel debt, well as Its own1 wellknown member
Of the House of Commons-radical in domestic politics
but "secesh TO the back bone-asserted this during
the present week stating tMt you would be obligedt
do it in the event Of the South returning to the Union.
He added also that if you refused you would he
able to raise single shilling of loan in Europe 1t is
broadly asserted here in financial and political circles
that belt The Rbel debt al least is held in this country and
tlat is paid suentuaily half Of human money
bags riU collapse. Gold" says Shelley is the old
mans sword; land comments Dougas Jerrold, most
wckedly at times will hoary bearded.men with blood
as cold and thin water in their veins hack and slash
with it," John Bull Bull Of tho ledger and counting
house has been fighting you with itfshting in behalf
of his friend JEFF Davs-Mercsnile Bull, too, will be
the last to give only the fears and pride and natural
sympathy of the arstocracy with shareholders
listed on their side but with the capitalists defeat
means ruin-sbsoute ruin The Confederate Cotton
Loan was and is good investment long as it lasts
though trenble in British boots at the thought
Of that terrible Farragut and Wilmington-yet the