Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-02-01
AFTERNOON DIsPATctes.
Foreign News.

Nsv YoRK. Jan, 81.
The Africa, from Liverpool the 18th, Queens
town the 10Th, arrived heae this mesninR. with
two days later sdviees.
GREAT BRITAIN:
ihe commissioner Of Customs had received
orders 10 permit the Tree Of oil articles
against which prhohi bitiona we're recently issued
twas reported hat Lord Russell, IN response to
. memori Al from the Liverpool Sh p-owners Asso-
citation, in reference to the stone blockade Of
s'harlsston, ssii hs sent dispatch in december.
70 the government At Washington, against tho i'll
Ieelhg tnat such proceeding WOULD engender,
and also that 1t would lead to the opinion that
recon .truction Of the Union was considered hoi =
less after the design w,s carried out. He cent
another dispatch expressing strong hopes that
the sinking Of vessels filed with stone would not
be repeated elsewhere.
II Vas rumorsd that the French end other gov
srnmsnts were taking siailas steps in this con-
neoti0n.
The London Morning Post rejoices at the gsner-
vessels and says that 1t i ssousiDg European gov
ernments to common sentiment, and asks Why
more forbeaSancs should b shown America than
wss the case when Belgium Wss recognized, par
ticulsrly ~ Holland was never guilty Of the bar
ba,itiss committed BY the Cabinet Of Washing
ton.
1h' suspension Of specie payments continued to
DO The theme Of gloomy representations for the
Northern States.
Toe London Daily Ne,rs, in reviewing Mr.. Sew
ards Trent dispatch. says that although it con-
ta'ns much that is Questionable In law, its main
positions are based on acknowledged legal princi-
pies.
aiore diplomatic corresponde nee had been pub
lished, inc uding letter f,om Ar. Seward to the
Secretary Of the Navy ,condemning in strong terms
the fact that the British schooner Jas. Campbell
was taken into New ok with the british flag ay-
ing under that Of the e. s.. and another mute COZ
demhlng an American comms nder Tor extracting
IN oath from British seamen tor breach Of the
blockade; that they would not undertake similar
proceedings again, and relieving tha seamen from
the obligations OF the oath.
The London Otserrer suggests tho expediercy
OF an Intervention by france and England between
tho Federal and Confederate States Of North
America. such an act would be approved by the
whole world. The il terv-nsion w.uld be gla ,ly
accepted by the Confederate States, and would
give satisfaction TO every man Of the Northern
states, who has anything to lose. Our government
and that OF France will BE called u,on, therefore,
to repeat what was done in the case of Greece and
Turkey. No one can doubt our power or the bene-
6cisl effect Of such IN ,tervention.
Latest telegraph to Queenstown:
MADgID, Jan. 70.
The Sumter has been ordered BY the Spanish
Government to leave Csdis, and she has gone to
Giberalta.
The journal des Debate thinks that Lord Pal
merstons intentions towards the United States are
no, pacific
The Paris Tmps in announcing that Messr5,J
Mason and Slide.I are expected to arrive shortly
at homo, says no bstasle will be offered to
the fulfillment sf their mission te France and
England TIC pleuipotentiaries Of the South
WILL be allowed TO plead for the recognition Of the
South.
Tho Pressc says the French Government will
not receive Mason and Slidell, nor any othe,
Southern Comm issioner.
The Pays says that the Government Of Ecuador
has requested the meoiation Of Ensls and in Peru,
and that En-. land has accepted the office Of mod
orator.
The Independence Reiye says that France will
assume the initiatIve, making diplomatic remon-
strance agains. the blockad. Of the ports Of tho
South, snd that Epsland viii only atford France
moral support.
The Nosstssr says that the number Of pxrtizsns
in England for the recognition Of the South I'm
Confsdsracy inossases, and that there is no doubt
that many will advocate this measure in the ap-
preaching session of Parliament.
Trade ut Manchester continues depressed, not
withs,anding the great reduction in manu- actur-
ing. Prices are generally unchanged, however,