The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-06-28
From Europe.

The Europeon news by the 1Etna, with
Liverpool dates to the 18th, is of moro
than ordinary interest. The news had just
reached England Of the defeat of Banks,
and the unmanly fright of Secretary
Stanton.
The Times regards the defeat of Banks
as one of the most important successes OF
the Confederates, on account of the lesson
it teaches the North, showing that efforts
and sacrifices greater than any that have
gone before must be made if even Dor |
der State is to be won back to the Union.
Hopes of an early solution must be dis
PEELED, and in the meantime increasing
debts and mutual hatred tend to make
new Union more and more impracticable.
The Daily Nc,cs treats the defeat of
Banks as quite unimportant, and not in
the slightest degree calculated to discon-
cert McClellan's plans. 1t was nothing
more than a mere raid of Confederates.
| The Morning Post denounces in the bit
terest terms Buffers proclamation relative
to the ladies of New Orleans, and thinks
the government is bound to recall and
courtmartial him, and says such an act as
this, it not promptly disavowed, would
soon turn the scale in favor of the Con-
federate cause.
The case of the Circassian being under
consideration in the House of Lords, Earl
Carnavon asked whether the government
had protested against the proclamation
relative to the ladies Of New Orleans
Earl Russell said that the government
believed the proclamation was unautho-
rized by the government; he had no in
formation in regard to the action of the
United States government In the way of
approval or disproval, but for his own
part he (RusselD hoped the United States
government would, for its own sake, re-
fuse its sanction to it and disavow it.
Lord Palmerston thought no man could
read General Buffers proclamation without
feelings Of the deepest Indignation. 1t
was proclamation to which he did not
scruple to attach the epthet Of infamous.
The question OF mediation in American
affairs is renewed The Paris Patrie gives
the rumor of approaching negotiations for
joint offei by France and England. The
London Times edtorially approves Of me-
diation. Europe ought not to look
calmly on, and if the offer of mediation is
delayed, the more important question,
that of the recognition of the Confede-
rates, may have To be considered. The
Times advocacy eff mediation had no effect
on the Liverpool cotton market
The fete at Rome in celebration of the
canonization of the japanese martyrs was
magnificent and orderly The Bishops in
their addresses to the Pope deplore the
| oppression Of the church and declare TEN
poral powers necessary for the independ-
| ence of the Pope. They approve all the
Pope has done and entreat him to remain
| firm in resistance
The Pope in his alloeution deplored the
spread OF the revolutionary spirit, and OPP
| preston Of the church, and efforts against
the temporal powers Ne urged the Bish-
! ops to reduube their efforts in arresting
| the errors.
| FK.NcE.-The Costitltionnel publishes the
/ following, signed by its chief editor:
! Nothing has been received conhrmatory
| of the news of engagement disastrous to
| the French before Mexico. Such an en-
gagement before Mexico or before Puebla,
would in no way change the ultimate re-
suit Of the expedition. The honor Of our
/ flag is engaged, and, should reinforcement ts
be needed, they will be sent