New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-07-14

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crew che would have been beaten had she dared let h
Alabama board her for the valance Of the Alabama
crew, accustomed ~ they we're D. boarding 'see Il
n fraFc had been Irresistible Such are samples u a.,
efforts made BY the advocates FOR the defense ofC A
meg out Semmes semlness own report OF bis own case
~ Ills statement OF facts by Capt Wiuslow that wa
Published In the Opiaf0Hf Ndf0Ea on Monday evening
hss hardly been reproduced except By the Journal.
y which lie Pays represents e1feofed 70 Mr LA
n coins Government
d cspt. winslow las been in town for several days
On "wednesday he was called on By large numbers Of
his congaiulaiing countrymen 10 one u nv friends
who questioned him about the much talked Of boarding
propenses Of his opponent he explained By help Of
rough mprovised diagram, the movements and rela-
tive positions OF the two vessels and declared that
nothing on bis part prevented the Alabama from con-
ing 10 close quarters at the outset She heered when
he was holding his direct toward her That she
fred the first gun her captain aduits and that her
gsns elevated for longer range than were those
OF the kearsarge lie certainvhich looks - DiIsbury
says, like boarding out.
says IKE boarding out.
Capt. Winslow's demand on Bonfls the C. s. A.
agent at CberbOurg for the surrender Of so many OF
the corsair's crew az have been brought into
that port by French boats was uisdrected,
SAT the least Of it. Neither they nor those car
ned 10 Southampton by the Deerhound, vii be
given up at any ones demand Most Of those brought
into 'CheTbourg have gone TO England BY way OF
Havre. nm told that the KearsaIge has been ON
ciou3y" invited the Alabama was, 70 get away from
CherbOurg her early convenience The story Of two
Confederate vessels OF Confederate vessel lying IN
wait for her Ouside, is false So perhaps is SeInness
reported boast that tic 18th ofAugust he would take
the again with Alabama but there s still
persistent rumor that there is somewhere Confederate
armed ship nearly ready for and suspicious people
will persist IN guessing that she will steam out OF Dor
deaux Nantes under neutral flag. A Stettn paper
announces the Immediately expected arrival IN that
port Of two coret,es built Ia France originally Tor
the e. S. A.. and owned by the Prussian Govern
ment. These ore two Of the Arman steamers. Their
names 20 be changed b. the Victoria and Augusta
The American naval fight of Cherbourg is 10 be re-
produced by Durand Bracer Of the best
marine painters of France, who has already begun his
studies Of the KearsaIGe Several imaginary misrepre
sensations OF the combat have already been done By
very poor artists Those printed in the illustrated
Journals lock If they done from hastily reworked
property blocks. G1din, whose snowy marines are IN
greater with inland cOnnOsseurs than those Of
the faithful Du4and Brager Is said TO have received
order for canvass version OF the fight from the
Emperor.
One could not desire better transition from TO
land themes than Is offered by kind OF anplibious
guBboat with which they have just been experimenting
at Toulon On the water il sits low, and has iron
clad shelter deck With six PORTFOLIOS and eighteen
embrasures. II be separated in eighteen pieces IN
few hours 10 be easily Tansportahe by rail, and
can be rccOmpOscd as rapidly. With half dozen such
in the Italian war; Napoleon perhaps had been tempted
TO attack Peschera and Mantua and in the early days
the Mexican expedition the averment OF the Psrts
correspondent Of The Times, that some gunboats to
be sent 10 Mexico were intended for service on
its inland lakes had not been so not-sO. Apropos
Of The Timers cores ondens and notsos its Ameri
can ones bear away the palm. Hence some pre-
tend poor Msekays pension from Palmerston; PG!
man quf merzn ferGf," as the jaunty Premier IS
said 20 have quoted when giving 10 poor poet Maekay
the hundred annual pounds whatever may be the pow
ery ofinventon IN your Scotch friends verse my dear
Deane-as never read II can't tei-tts wealth in the
prose he sends YOU deserves more than the hand
come pay you grant him here goes for the paUrrs
rieaI boak0mme good poets write none the worse for
starving This Is what Didsbury reports from London
ruInor and adds Yet at the date Of pensi0ning
Mackay his Lordshp had not some Of the highest
flights of tho correspondents winged Words'-that
fVgfaV hnr nEnF
VicksbuTg, preparatory 10 swOoping down on
Grants undeServed reputation great captain, he
discovers and declares that ieksburg surrendered not
to Gen Grant but general hunger only after haUiHS
ea'sn the l1t dor and the last mule Leaving MI MackeY
does all truth Of the question: the seyerest critics OF
his rhymes must allow pretty fancy here ~ this swa
lowing OF the last mule, who should say the be-
sieged ate their words, gu ped thor defiant OBJ
stinacv backed down with their last ditch and all
into their own throas so to speak But theIes another
American correspondent Of The Tunes who is ryaing the
cnnny ScOchman 1t should be the same who wrote last
OF Lees army then invading Pennsylvania, that its
heroic soldiers marched Nth The fmnOrGbness Of marble
statues WHY that master stroke alone did not earn
him the spare fifty pounds which Lord PamerstOn OF
rcd the other day TOO late 10 the corpse OF the daugh
ter Of photographer Watt just removed iTom Glasgow
poOrhOuse to her grave, i don't know Perhaps be-
cause fifty annual pounds thought sum beneath
the dignity Of TINES correspondent 70 accept and
poor Ma kays pension cuts deep into the small fund
which his Ordship has 10 dispose OF IN favor OF de-
cayed writer's BE that as it may. the deeayed Tims'
correspondent IN Baltimore Is phosphoreseent with
briance in proof this one flash OF many IN n
recent letter from the Monumental City, where he says
that listening at the house doors OF that town can
catch efe sound Of from Lee aud Grants con-
tending armies.
is an encroachment the English domain OF my con.
frere, your London correspondent, T. r. u. must
still speak Of English theme but viii only touch on
the French treatment OF IT. The lame cOncnson OF
the London Conference, mping round In vicious cir
Gle 10 end just where began the tone OF feeble resg
nation lis dying close that marks the funerea dis
lg.fs aaHI Pol Pm aalla ttz
dying close. provoke no end Of courteous maicions
comment of isschieyously pretended special wonder.
and Of opinions that are anything but golden from oil
sorts OF Frcnchmen. The Constitutional ITSELF despite
the notably complimentary PHRASES TO its Emperor's adj
dress in the speeches Of English Ministers, almost
openly tauns them with the eebeness Of their ncon
sistent conduct toward Denmark and thefcebcness OF
their last defense VI IT, That after playing With Den
marks hopes for months and months together Minis
c Should give her up 10 Prussia without defense
and then put in qUOs ego prOyisO that If Prussia should
seize Copenhagen and take the King prisoner why eH
Eneand would have something 10 say about IT, pro-
yokes general mild outlaw The French naturally
and nationally overlooking the fact that, If the policy Of
intervention 10 be ruled by material interest England
is probably the best Judge OF hers in the and that
if il is TO be ruled by sentiments Of honor or other,
France Is deeply bound TO aid her old faithful ally
than England s DO very much amuse themselves at the
patiently shabby conduct Of England in respect OF her
future Kings wfes fathers royal estates. Al OF them
secretly or openly confess 10 sucl malicious pleasure st
observing this transient obscuraton Of British prestige
as becomes friendly allies Is OILY the weaker ones
who mistake II for real setting down Of Great Britain
from her first rank among the nations Emile
Girardin, WHOSE singular mind il taken with
one of its wise fits the occasion. aptly /
formulates the opinion Of thoughtful men /
I'm his Yesterdays comment: 1.-THE British Government
is losing reputation. Whence this manifest loss
is il because IL makes sacrifices for the sake Of preserv
ing peace which national dignity would forbid No; It
is because il talks way and acts another. II is
this ilogicalress in consequence between words and
acts carried certainly in the present beyond the
safely permissible limits Of even the practical Anglo
Saxnn natnre that so oNends the nght lined logical