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I don't think myself it would be cheap to break the blockade, at the cost of a war with the United States. I think that the cost of a war with the United States would be, probably, half wages, for a very considerable time, to those persons in Lancashire who would be out of work if there were no cotton," &c. Now, there is an old proverb which teaches that a half loaf is better than no bread, and we presume that when a man's bread depends upon his work, half work is better than no work at ahis views upon the cotton question, enlightens his constituents upon the Constitution of the United States. He seems to have derived his notions from President Lincoln. He says: "Well, what is the pith of this question? Do you suppose that if Lancashire or Yorkshire thought they could break off from the United Kingdoms, that these newspapers that are now preaching every kind of moderation to the American Government of Washington would advise the Government in London to allow these two counties