The Portland daily press., 1862-12-30
FOUR DAYS
LATER FROM EUROPE.
Arrival of the Etna off Cape Race.

CAPE RACE, Dec. 27.
The steamship Etna, from Liverpool 18th
and Queenstown 18th, for New York, arrived
off this point at 1.30 Saturday afternoon. She
has q cabin and 1S1 steerage passengers
Dec. %, at / p. NJ, the Etna passed the China
in lat SO 10 N, lon. Is 20.
The steamship Persia, from New York, ar
rived at Liverpool on the 10th with her ma
chinery damaged. The piston of the star
board engine was broken. The Asia would
take her place from Liverpool on the 10Th.
The City of Washington, from New York,
arrived at Liverpool on the 15th and the Jura,
from Portland, on the 10th.
President Lincoln's message was eagerly
canvassed, and variously construed. 1t was
mainly discussedinr relation to the emancipation
scheme. The papers almost unanimously be-
leve the scheme impracticable.
The city article of the Herald says it was
regarded on the stock exchange as pacific in
its character, and predictions were made that
hostilities would speedily be brought to close.
The illusions in the message to foreign af-
fairs are differently construed.
The Times says it is sufficient that the Pres
ident expresses respect for the rights of
neutrals, and his readiness to establish mutual
conventions to adjust complaints. Words of
offence are left to the Secretary of the Navy,
and experience has shown how little they need
be needed. Towards the South, the Times
says, the message is less threat of extermi-
nation than bid for peace.
Another article in the same Journal says the
emancipation scheme is labored substitute
for the edict of September--the dream of a
very weak man.
The Herald finds the message made up of
absurdities and Inconsistencies. 1t says Pres
ident Lincoln ought to know that if the Con-
federates were not allowed belligerent rights,
the blockade of the Southern ports and search
OF British ships could not be tolerated.
The News says Lincoln's emancipation
scheme does his humanity credit, but 1t has no
faith in it, and believes the liberation of the
slaves can only be accomplished by war.
The Morning Post cannot imagine how the
Federal government arrived at the conclusion
that Great Britain, after once recognizing the
belligerent character of the South, would re-
cede from that position.
The Tuscarora had overhauled the steamer
Thistle when leaving Madeira for Nassau
The British war steamer Leopard tried to stop
the Thistle to see what the Tuscarora had
done, but the Thistle would not stop. The
Tuscarora represented that they had not tax
en- the Thistle, but il was considered strange
that she ran from the British vessel. The
Tuscarora left Madeira Nov Both, to return in
few days.
The London Globe defends the British gov
ernment against blame in the Alabama affair,
and says that the Federal agents could not
get evidence sufficient against her, and the
government could not possibly interfere.
The Times has an editorial to the same eff
feet.
1t is reported that Mr.. Slidell has had anoth-
er audience with Napoleon, and that Drouyn
de Huys and Persigny favor the South.
England offers, with the consent of the
great powers, to cede the Ionian Islands to
Greece.
Ferdinand late King Consort Of Portugal,
declines the candidature for the Greek throne.
Continental politics unimportant.