Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-04-08
LATER FROM EUROPE.

| PORTLAND, April 1.-The steamship Hl0er-
MAN, from Liverpool March q, via London.
derry the next day, arrived here this after
noon. Annexed is summary of the news
In the house OF commons, Mr. Gregory ask
! ed if the governments attention had been call
| ed to the capture of the BrllLSh steamer Lab
| nau, in Mexican waters, by federal cruiser.
| Mr., Layard said the governments attention
had been called to the matter, and Lord Lyons
had been instructed to communicate with Mr..
Seward on the subject. He was unable 10 say
yet what course would be adopted, but the
government had thought it right to order
vessel of war to Matamoras, for the protection
of British interests in American waters
The debate on the education question had
not developed the expected strong opposition
to the ministry.
The English journals criticize the com.
mehcement of the campaign in Virginia. The
Daily News eulOgizes Gen. McClellan's tactics,
thinks crisis is approaching, and believes
the confederates, although retreating, have
prepared the field for great battle. The same
journal rejoces at the adoption by the house
of President Lincoln's emancipation project,
as an immediate step in favor OF human rights.
The Times reiteTates its belief that nothing
will be made of Mr. Lincoln proposition, but
regards it as important in admitting the prin-
cple of an accommodation between the north
and the south. The Times believes the real
defence of the coniederates will be found in
the vastness and desolation of their country,
and argues that if they are really in earnest
the north must look for bootless victories and
eXhausting conquests.
The Herald thinks peace may possibly be
conquered by one side or the other in or
around Richmond
Mr.. George Peabody's unprecedented mu-
niicence has been formally cOnsummated in
a correspondence now published, in which he
places ESQ 900 at the disposal of Mr.. Adams,
the American minister, Lord Stanley, Sir
Emmerson Tennent, and Messrs. Lampson
and Morgan, as trustees, for the purpose of
ameliOratng the condition of the poor of Lon
don.
Lord Palmerston is again suffering from
govt The king of Belgium is reported crti-
cally ill. Rumors OF ministerial changes in
France are authoritaively contradicted.
There were rumors OF ministerial modifca.
ton at Turin. Various changes are rumored,
but nothing confirmed. A ministerial circular
had been issued, maintaining the right Of Ila-
ly to recognition, asserting that Rome should
be the center of the government, aud affirm
ing that the solution OF the Venetian question
according to the wishes of Italy is necessary
to general peace.
A grand banquet had been given to Carl
badi at Milan He and others made patriotic
speeches indicative of approaching move
ments.
Prince Wmdischgratz and count Nesselrode
are dead.
The Spanish government has ordered Gen.
Prim not to negotiate with the MeXicans until
the troops shall have entered the city of Mex.
leo The United States SlOop. OF war Constel-
lation, from Portsmouth, N. H., had arrived
at Cadiz.
The steamers Sumter and Tuscarora were
still at Gibraltar, March 81.
The London Times has letter from DR..
| RUSSELL dated at Washington, March 1lth,
which says that the passage OF the federal
army over the Long Bridge was magnificent
spectacle, and most imposing display of
military power. A special eulogy is passed
J. on the ninth Massachusetts regiment, as one
of the finest in the army. DIR. Russell says
that whatever may happen, Gen. Mcclellan
can never lose the credit OF having formed
disorderly masses Of men into an army, and
OF having instied INTO them the principles OF
sOldier-like discipline. The battle SO many
were looking forward to is indefinitely post.
poned, and there is no ceiling where it aIay be
fought DIR. Russell shows the difficulty Of
any considerable advance Of the lederals, ow-
ing to the barrenuess OF the country.
The Times in an editorial, says that the
time not be far distant when the south
must either surrender their cotton and tobacco
or burn them. Ii they give up their crops to
the invaders we may consider that they in
tend 10 succumb. II they give them to the
flames, all the worst that can happen to them
will have been endured, and that task OF con
quest which never can be performed, will have
commenced.
The Daily News, in remarking on the aban-
Comment OF its important arsenal of Pensacola,
observes that they gain much in immediate
pfipiSOny Inv ba contraction nj their limo of
defense, and will probably make desperate
stand either at Richmond or Norfolk, where it
is very likely great battle may decide the
fate of the war.
1t is reported that the emperor Napoleon
does not intend visiting the great exhibition
at London.
Garibaldi left Milan on the 26th ult., amid
cheers of the people, His tour through Lom'
bardy is tor the purpose of stirring up the
young men to join the volunteer corps. 1t is
asserted that demonstrations were becoming
more frequent in Venetia. Numerous arrests
were reported at Mantua and Venice. The ru.
mors of ministerial arrests at Turin are pro-
n0unced unfounded.
The question of Austrian finances had been
debated in the lower house of the Rechsrath.
The policy OF the finance minister was attack
ed, but the house justified the increase Of mil
itary force by the political situation of 1860.
DuGlUB Tue 0eDale, tlle IOllSn anu OZeCK
members left the house. Judgment had been
given in the prosecution for offences against
the Austrian press laws. The editor OF the
Wanderer was sentenced TO eight months i'm
prisOmment, and the editor of the Press to
fourteen days.
An imperial decree orders several modifica-
tons in censorship of printed matter in Prus'
sia a commission is appointed to revise the
law OF the press. The censorship of works
published by scientific societies had been abol-
ished
Six hundred Turkish troops had been sur
rounded by the insurgents at Orinitz1, the in
surgents having previously repulsed the troops
which came to The rescue.
LIVERPOOL, March 27.-Cotton sales of four
days, IL 500 bales, including 1000. to specua
tors and exporters. The market closed firm
and unchanged.
FROM HAVANA AND MEXICO.
New YORK, April THE steamer Roam
oke, from Havana, April I'd, arrived tonight
Several small schooners had run the blockade