England And The Southern Confederacy

i lio JBri:is:i mister to the Uuíied States has mitifiíid President Lincoln thattho Uiiiish goverument would not rccognizo a blockade f thc southern port, uiiless such blockade were complete and eflfective. No politica] significar.ee must be attnched to that faot. It was very natural that Enghind should not deaire, by reuogniziDg the blockade, to show any hostility to llie eouthern Stat'i?, and by a s.pecws of interveotioD, inore or leas direct, close those ports aa;:iinst herself and alit-nate the sympathies of that people from whom sha receivea the greater part of the cotton which supplies her loónos. ín liko manner, it ia very probable, as lias bcoii also announced, that the othoi' great Po.wers, i.nspire;! by the like purely commercial considerations, wil) follow Eüglahd'sexample. It doos tiot beloósf to theni to muddlü in the nteroal aSaira of tho United States. Thoy allow tho various contedérated parta to eottle their matters as thoy think proper. There, as ulsewhere, tliey will respect the principie of non-intervention. Only, in recognizing the blockade, tliey would necesearily take part with the northern against ;ae southern States, and would cominit a politicnl sol, inctead oí con(ining themaelvea to taking care of their commercial interusts.