Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-15
From the N. Y. Evening Post.
IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE.
EnKland's sNon-Intervention Poiicy-C om-
modore wilkes .IustiAed.

n
modore wilkes Justified.
The steamship City of Baltimore arrived here
last night, from Liverpool October 29th and
Queenstown on the 3lst. Her news, four days
later than previous advices, is Important. Lord
Lyons. 1t is confidently asserted, returns to this
country with instructions TO assure our Gov
eminent of the non-interference of England in
the question of the war. The city article of the
London Times Of October 81, says;
1T Is understood that Lord Lyons, who has
sailed to-day In the Scotia. on his return to
Washington, takes out the most full assurance
that while England will be eager, in concert
with other civilized nations, to adopt any step
that may tend to promote a permanent return
of peace, either through a restoration of the
Union on the old or any new basis, or an agree
ment for friendly separation, she will, mean
while, individually refuse TO depart one hairs
breadth from her course of non-interfcrence.
The London Globe says:
There is great improbability of any cause
of political differences between the Government
at Washington and our own. As TO Captain
Wilkes, should he transgress the fair bounds of
warfare, his Government will repudiate his
transgressions as ii did before.''
The London Times contains letter from
Captain Horn, commanding the steamship
Gladiator, at Bermuda. According to his state
ment, the island of Bermuda was effectually
blockaded by the Federal squadron. The ac-
count given by Captain Horn is as follows;
"The island had been strictly blockaded by a
Federal squadron, under Commodore Wilkes.
since September "a, on which day he entered
the harbor in the Nagassit, accompanied by the
, gunbost Tioga, leaving another gunboat (the
Somora) to keep guard at the entrance of the
harbor, and under pretence Of coallng and re-
pairs, remained at anchor till the I'd of
nrtph har .t-ht oh ba Lao
+ Sonora entered and commenced coaling.
and left on the 5th of October. The three
vessels had been in sight up to the day
= Of the Gladiator leaving, October 7th,
, cruising about four miles from the land
and at night anchoring In the farway of the
channel leading to ST. Georges, so that il was
, impossible any vessel could get either in or
I ont. Captain Horn gives an account of the
mailboat Merlin having been fired at and
brought to, and Of the Gladiator having been
ordered to heave to. The only British man-of-
war at Bermuda was the Desperate. Captain
Horn is of opinion that the coaling must have
been mere pretence, as the squadron was only
four days from Fortress Monroe, and that the
e quantity of Goals taken on board by the three
e vessels was not sufficient to coal one, had it
really needed them.'
The Times editorially says:
, at is certainly not for our interest, as a ma
tion, to impeach the belligerant right of search
D their privileges. 1t would be impolite, as well
\ as unjust, TO interfere with their proceedings
. and we must say that, with the exception pos
sibly, of the case Of the Gladiator. they do not
: appear TO have materially overstepped their
right. If. then, as we should be DISPOSED 10
:. surmise, they have done little more than press
their privileges as vigorously as possible under
Z the provocatlon given them by brisk contra
C band traffic, we think we may as well make al
a lowance for their temptations. and put our
selves in their place before We pronounce upon
their conduct. We are by no means sure as
h yet, that the Federals have done in this mat
h ter, anything more than, under similar condi-
tions, we should have done without any scrr-
p al ALL
u In the city article, also, the Times refers to
= the affair, and says:
y "The idea that Commodore Wilkes NAV in
:, tend to renew his experiments in international
; law has greatly subsidized and the belief is that
Il his nomination TO the West India station was
= not intended as an affront TO the neutral pow
ers of Europe, hut merely to crafty the New
York populace, by enabling them to interpret
II IL as such. That consequently the orders to
p the commodore enjoin him TO keep within
q proper bounds, and that should he, in the face
OF them, resort 10 any outrage, 1t will be re-
pudiated like that of the Trent
: The rebel Sl'dell has been admitted TO an au
q dience with the Emperor Napoleon.
, The Morning Pod's Paris correspondent says
that NJ. DrOuyn dc L'Huys has expressed, in
very decided language, his desire 10 act with
g Engand on all threatening foreign questions,
o which, at a critical moment like the present
might further disturb the peace ef the world.
WHAT A GREAT THINKER SAYs.-John Stuart
Mill, who has given other proofs of his Just
i appreciation of the mighty issues involved in
n our national crisis, contributes very able ar
v ticle TO the Neammaer Rerie~, In which he
r. says;
o Should these conspirators succeed in making
, good their Independence, and possessing them
II selyes of part of their territories, being those
l. which are in immediate contact with Mexico,
| nothing is TO be expected but the spread of the
l. Institution by conquest (unless prevented by
some European power) over that vast country,
10 and ultimately over all Spanish America, and
/, If circumstances permit, the conquest and an
r neXaion Of the West Indies; while so vast an
q extension of the field for the employment OF
- slaves would raise up demand for more, which
C would in all probability, lead TO that reopen
II ing of the African slave trade, the Legitimacy
. and necessity of which have long been publicly
:, asserted by many organs of the South. Such
are the issues to humanity which are at stake
:, in the present contest between free and slave
!, holding America; and such is the cause to
o which a majority of English writers, and of
. Englishmen who have the ear of the public,
y have given the support of their sympathies.
If ADVICE To THE BoYs.-In the play of this
Ia evening, at Growers Theatre, on Pennsylva av-
y enue, Jack sheppard the following few
;, lines are spoken by Miss Lucille Western, In
r the death scene, and which we hope will be
4 heard and remembered by many Of the reck-
less lads that now throng the city of the capi-
> tai. They are as follows:
h 81 hope the poor city lads will take warning
>, by my fate, for the wages of sin is inevitable
!, death, moral, social, and eternal. Let guilt be
as bold and as brave as 1t may on the outside
there is nothiug but remorse and bitterness
If within"
s A RICH MAIL CARRIER.-It is stated that
l. Elias Howe, Jr., whose income Is u quarter OF
n Il million year, carries the daily mail from
:, Washington, seven miles, to the camp of the
u Seventeenth Connecticut Regiment, in which
he is private.
:, Out of sixteen hundred men who should
Il have reported at Camp Curtin, as drafted men
ID from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, 1t Is
re found that there are not sufficient present to
,r form regiment. This has caused great con
= sternation among those who had furnished sub
=, stltutes, as many, If not all, of these substi