The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-20

GREAT BRITAIN-REs1GNATION OF LORD
UNCONSTITUTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HIS
SUCCESSORS APPOINTMENT.
Lord Lyons, who has long suffered
from ill health, has resigned the post Of
Minister from Great Britain to the United
States, and Sir Frederick Bruce, who
has been Minister to China, is to be his
successor. The London Times, COM
menting on the appointment Of Sir Frede-
rick, says:
By fortunate coincidence, he will ar
rive in America just when Mr.. Lincoln
will have entered upon his second term
of office. 1t will, perhaps, have an OPP
perfume significance that new Minister
should thus be accredited to the United
States at the commencement of this new
period in her annals. A Mild tuncy hal,
little aohile ago, possession Of the
american mind, that England and
France contemplated q sort Of underdand
recognition Of the CoWederacy on the
4h Of March by acknowledging Nh.
Lincol,au as President only Of those States
arhich had taken l'art IN his election.-
The incredulous surprise with which
this announcement Of our intentions was
received on this side Of the water would
have been sufficient to convince the pub
lie of both countries of their mistake.
But the Americans are peculiarly hard
to convince against their will, qVd 1t may
be .t0rtun0te, therefore, q ne0Fhed Tetu>
tation aciW be gieen to their delusion-
Tile ayriru1o Of a ,eeao Minister, accredited
to the Government achese authority zee
still acknowledge, wW be a more con-
spicuous evidence Of Me.ta1locy Of these
strange onticipations Mnn the return IF
lord Lyons. II mag, perhaps, be ulaele
more esideot thot, INSTEAD ef IN any
rag sighting their Gocern0,ent, acc are
paying it the distinct attention Of sc
lectinga uew Minister to represent as
Queen Victoria held her first Court
since the death of her husband on the
2Sth. The Queen wore a black silk
dress, with train trimmed with Grape and
jet; Mary Queen of Scots cap, with
long veil, the cap ornamented with large
diamonds. Her Majesty wore, besides,
necklace, cross, and brooch of diamonds
the Ribbon and Star of the Order of the
Garter, the Victoria and Albert Order,
and the Order of Louise of Prussia.
THE PEACE CONFERENCE.-THE BKTRINsIC
POLICY.
The Times of Monday, February 27,
says;
By this time the public will have been
enabled to digest the intelligence, COM
municated by Mr.. Seward, of proposi>
ton for terminating the American war
by a combined attack Of the belligerents
on some foreign Power. In the specu-
lation itself there was little novelty. We
now learn, on official authority, that this
characteristic idea has been not only en-
tertained, but deliberately discussed and
considered, by the representatives of the
belligerent Governments in conference
assembled. With the Confederate ENJOYS
it was tie solution which they seemed
chiefly to favor. They suggested that
the question of union or separation
should be left in suspense, that in the
meantime there should be "a mutual
direction of the efforts of the Govern
ment, as we'll as those Of the insurgents,
to some extrinsic policy or scheme for
a season." and that negotiations on the
great point at issue should be resumed
after this diversion had produced it's pal
liative effects. 1t is stated that Lincoln
and Seward did, in the course Of the in
terview, recognize tfe prospect of foreign
complications, and the probability that
England rather than France would be the
country involved. We must admit, too,
that the scheme" if II was thus re-
commended by the South, had been con.
ceivcd with considerable ingenuity in the
interests Of the seceders. BY the time
the "extrinsic policy" had been car
ricd into execution, and brought to an
end, the Federals would have become
accustomed to live without the Confede~
rates, and to see in the Southern Re-
public only a kindred State and natural
ally. We hope the public will not
lose sight of the fact that the adoption
of an extrinsic policy" at the expense
of innocent nentrals, has actually been
entertained and debated by the chief au-
thoritcs Of the two American Govern.
ments. IL the "scheme" was Matched
by President Davis and his colleagues, it
was at any rate taken into dispassionate
consideration by President Lincoln and
his Secretary Of State, while Mr.. Seward
himself is at the pains to inform us that
it was not objected to for an instant on
its own merits or from any confederation
which turn in the events Of the civil
war might not Immediately remove
This lesson we shall do we'll to remember.
Mr.. Seward has most CONSIDERABLY fore
warned us: il will be our own fault &c