Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-10-25
EURoPEAa NEWS.
Ths Chance oE European EEsCasnIfIOK Of
the Confederate States.

! the Chance OE European ugC0EnIfIOIE o.
the Confederate States.
| From ihe Loadon rhi7pins GaEetta.
Our correspondent writes with certainty as tC
the result of the acknowledgment on the part o
Francs and EDglsnd, which lie advocates. It may
l Tot be generally shared, but, whatever be the re
suits these two countries having already conceded
belEgersnt rights TO the South, cannot in common
consistency, much longer withhold recognition Of
/ an independence jor which twelve millions of peo-
ple the msjOTty Of them the descendants of French
and English settlers, are eOnteDding with energy
and determination unsurpassed in the history of
civilized mankind.
Tbs Cotton Went Crisis In EnGIand-some
! Thousand SpInneFs Dispersed and Idies
From the Preston Guardian, Sept. 90.
| Coming events" are casting their shadows be-
fore them" in Bolton, and that, too, il some what
dark and ensive form Short time Is not actually
adopted as TO 4 set number Of working hours but
production is very materially lessened in most cst
ton spinning and cloth manufacturing concerns ;
power loom weavers waiting a week at once for
warps, and one very large cotton spinning concern
-tha. Of Messrs Boiling & Slade-is closed alto
gether. The firm have six mIlls named the Carlisle
MIL. the Coronation MIL the Old end Mil the Spring
Garden MILL the Knott MIL and the Bridge street
Mil. In these they have seven steam engines of
230 horse power, and had in their ersPlOyment at
mid sumner 53l females and 2j6 males-tolal 767
In parting with the wOrk-psople, they are told TO
seek employment immediately anywhere, IS there
existing interruptions. We regret to state that
Ness-s. jackson, Of Queenstown Mil, Lancaster,
commenced running Jhree-fourths OF a week this
week, ard will not start their engines until midday
The Spanish Expedition against Mexico.
From the Lond.n Post, September 90
Advices from Madrid Of the 18th inst, are inter
estiHg Ia the present phase of Mexican affairs. On
the 10Th inst, instructions from the Spanish Govern
ment were 70 leave Cadez for General SerranO, the
Governor General for the island of Cuba relative
70 Mexico. Fourteen war vessels, mounting three |
hundred guns. and number of transports, were |
assembled at Havana route for Mexico, TO sup /
port it is asserted spanish citizens on the republic
There is mention made at present any joint
action By England and France, but the British Gov
ernment will. 10 doubt, keep watChful eye as to
the ultimate nature Of the Spanish expedition to 4
Mexico.
spain.
A decision of Marshal O'DonneH Spanish Minis
ter Ct War and the Colonies. published by the
Madrid Gazstie. September 10 and addressed by the
Captain General OF Porto Rico declares. IN princi
pie. that q slave who has touched the soil of Spain
must bs considered as emancipated evoh without
he consent of his former master. The Marshsls
etter is thus w0rded
Il have laid before the Queen the letter Shicb
-Our Excellency's predecessor addressed to the
Ministry Of War and the Colonies. dated the 27th Of
october, 1855. accompanying 1t. by way Of proof,
with the documents Of the examination relative to
he slave RufnO, who sold himself at the Havana
fter having resided for several years in the Penin~
ula en- which matter he solicited an explicit decla>
stion relative to the royal order of the 29;h of
iarch, 1886, regulating the condition to which ]
laYes from the Antilles subjected on coming L
ntO Spain. In conformity with the decision Of the
'Ouneil of State. ant virtue Of the above men :
iOned decree, her Majesty las been graciously !
leased to declare that slaves coming from that d
sland and from Cuba into Spain with their masters
lust consider themselys emancipSted, without the
on ent OF their owners being Indispensable; that u
be- eedOm granted to the said s9ves in virtue of
be decision of the 29th Of March, 1885 is not re 4
evsble and they acquire, by their arrival in the
lo;her country without any other act being neces
ary to coDicm it. the quality of fresmen, even U
lcu.d they return to a country where slav Is T
uthorizsd by the laws