Additional foreign details.
By the Persia we have the following additional foreign news:The Hon. T. Bruce, Governor of the Prince of Wales, and a brother of Lord Elgin, died at London on the 17th of June, of fever contracted at Constantinople, while traveling with the Prince.
The American War.
The London papers continue to discuss the American war. The Times, editorially, says:‘ The telegrams by the Persia, if they come substantially from the National Government, do credit to its veracity, inasmuch as they proclaim that any decisive advantage over the Confederates must be postponed until great additions are made to the Federal army.
The latest dates are to June 18th, which may be considered the beginning of the summer heats. Although the probability is that both armies will keep the field, yet there can be little doubt that the spirit of the campaign must languish until fall, when cool weather and reinforcements on both sides will allow the struggle to be renewed.
The last news represents what may be looked upon as the closing scenes of the spring campaign. Though the Federal have so many more men, and such a vast army and the greatest resources, they invariably describe themselves as outnumbered by the Confederates. Halleck and McClellan utter the same complaint. Foot and powder must have been the cry of the Confederate force, which numbered 120,000 at Corinth, and being equal, if not superior, to the forces opposed to it, was yet obliged to retreat southward, and is now posted in decreased numbers at Grenada.
’ Kentuckians and Tennesseeans might, argue that since their own States have been abandoned, and fallen under the yoke of the Federal, they had no further interest in defending the cotton States, to which they were bound by ties of allegiance; but the diminishing army must have been mainly caused by the difficulty of procuring food. The Times adds: ‘"The superior numbers and resources of the North we look upon as certain in the end to prevail.’
‘"But who can see the resolution evinced by the South, the immense army it puts in the field, and the tenacity with which it disputes every position, without feeling that the war is likely to drench the territory of the Union with much more blood?"’ It winds up by hoping some means may be designed for bringing this unnatural conflict to a close.
The Morning Herald, in an editorial, contends that the restoration of the Union would be a calamity, not only for Europe, and England in particular, but for the North. It declares that the Union had become a nuisance among nations. Secession is favorable to England. Self-interest would have justified interference before this, had not international neutrality forbid it.
Even now, if there was any hope of an early settlement, no one would dream about interfering. As matters stand, however, the Herald thinks it is time that some decided action should be taken by France and England in behalf of justice and humanity, as well as for the protection of their half-ruined manufactories and hungry operatives. Such action must be taken at last, as impossible things cannot be long allowed to remain. It is now improbable that there will be any change in the aspect of American affairs that will bring us relief, and if we are to act after all, it will be saving needless misery to act at once with gentleness and courtesy, but with immovable firmness in words.
