The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-10-29
News FROM EUROPE.

Hahfar, oct. 20.-Tbe Royal mail steam,
ship Europa, Capt. Leitch, from Liverpool or;
the afternoon of=Saturday, the l0:h instant, ar
rived at this por5 at l 10 o'clock this evening"
She left Liverpc-l at p NJ. Of Saturday. She
reports that sh.. passed on the 18Th large
vessel, ship.riggSd, apparently screw steamer,
standing east; 18th, passed Large screw
steamer, steering east. /,
She has f63, f60 in specie.
The steamship Indian, from Quebec, arrived
out on the 7th, and the Persia, from New Y ork
on the 10th.
The steamship Borussia, from Hamburg for
New York, put pack TO Hamburg on The 7th.
The cause was sot stated.
There is moth ng later from India.
There had been a terrible storm on tie Eng
lish coast. ThefAmerican ship 5. b. Bimball,
from Sunderland, bound to New Yok, had
been lost. Her Grew had been all ssvets
The America crisis was severely felt in
England and France, and money throughout
Europe was a, vancing. Specie was being
shipped to Ams- lea.
. The King of e'russia was feared to b., dying.
1t was reportSd that the Governor General
Of India had besn recalled.
The Bank ofFEngland had raised its rate Of
discount from s ! to 6 per cent
The Times hF some remarks on the Increase,
and says '.TkS suddenness of the renewal Of
the drain of goH which has led to this -tep has
taken the publif by surprise, because they were
not prepared fo' the extraordinary news by the
two last American mails. Allowing due weig hit
to that intellig snce, there is nothing in the
movement to c. eate alarm, although there is a
high probability it msy soon have to be re-
peated" Upof the whole, it is possible that
the combined Operations of the American panic
IL T. i G.
have affected English resources TO the extent of
two or three millions, but the Times considers,
as regards the Board of Trade Of the Empire,
that it is impos yible to discover cause offear.
The discount establishments have al5o ad
vanced their rs.tes per cent. The Times ar.
gues in the sane article that fright alone is tie
cause of the daily ruin now going on in Amer
lea, and that taere ia nothing in what is now
passing which gll, before any length of time,
interfere with tie business of the country.
The London Commercial Daily List of Fri
day evening Sc 8 it is the general opinion that
money matters have seen the worst in America,
AID although f4uch canton has been observed
in the negotiak pms of bills the feeling is rather
better than it as yesterday.
The rate of,aiscount is now from 6 to per
cent.
The weather has been very stormy on the
English coast. and numerous wrecks are re-
ported, including the ship A. B. Kimball, from
Sunderland to New York, which was wrecked
on Goodwin S, nds. Her crew were saved.
The English papers are filed with reports Of
the day srmons. The London Times
devoted tweuAsix columns to abstracts from
the discourses delivered in l64 churches.
Rev. AR. 81 C. H. Spurgeon addressed, at
the Crystal PsJace, the largest audience that
i
to the ministrrof the Gospel. Nearly $4,000
ed in aid of the Indian relief fund, and the con-
tributions at churches generally were on lib
eral scale.
The Londos Morning Chronicle processes to
have good ant lority for stating that steps have
been taken fe. immediately proclaiming the
Queen of Hifdostan, and that the next tele-
graphic adviSss will probably bring news of
such proclamation.
At Cslcutts, the statement was generally
regarded as ABSURD, on simply constitutional
grounds.
A large sto-e was thrown at passing train
on the easte,n counties railway and struck
Prof. Rogers, Of Boston, in the face, breaking
his Jaw. bone.
Catharine sayes, the singer, was married in
London, to NJ. Bushnell, of New York.
A proclamation had been issued by the Irish
authorities, extending the limits Of the pro-
claimed district around Belfast, information
having been received that the people, instead
of delivering ,pthe arms, were conceaiDg them
| outside the o<iginal limits, so that they would
be available N case of fresh Disturbances.
The Lond. Morning Post of Saturday pos
itively announces that the Governor General
of India hs, been recalled. No other Journal
has the newt
Rumors we're current of an approaching con-
ference at P iris on the Danish question, affairs
of Italy, the union of the principalities and 9
general redI ;:ion of European ornaments.
The Ameican schooner Sarah Jane, captured
on the west1oast of Africa by British cruiser
| had been taken into Sierra Leone, on suspicion
! Of being engaged in the slave trade. The sum
Of $4,000 was found on board, but no papers
The stean:er Indus, with the hesvy portion
Of The last Indian nail, had arrived at South
ana pton. Oh, had nearly four hundred. thousana
pounds in Australian gold on board. The pas
sengers say that almost the only mas escspec
the massacre at Cawnpore had goas iylng mac
when they left Calcutta. Only three thousAaa
persons had arrived there since thesoutbrea<
1t was believed by many at Calcuits, that wheI
some English troops arrive out, the nuhny VII
suddenly cease, and the Sepoys viii bring money