The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-01-12
FIVE DAYS
LATER FROM EUROPE.
Arrival of the Steamship Jura off Cape Race

CAPE RACE, Jan. TO-
Steamship Jura, from Liverpool LIST and
Queenstown I'd, for Portland, passed this point
at noon to-day, and was boarded by the news
yacht of the Associated Press.
Steamship North America, from Portland,
arrived at Liverpool Dec. 80. Steamship
Hansa, from New York, arrived at Southamp-
ton Dec. 3lst. Steamship Kangaroo, from
New York, arrived at Queenstown Jan. 1st
The Jura experienced westerly winds
throughout the passage.
Political news unimpOrtant.
GREAT BRITAIN
A meeting of the workingmen of Manches-
ter was held in Free Trade Hall on the 31st
ult, for the purpose of passing resolutions in
support of the Federal cause, and agreeing
upon an address to President Lincoln The
Mayor presided. A letter was read from John
Stuart Mill, warmly approving of the demon
stratioR as a just rebuke to the mean feeling
of a great portion of the people, and source
OF unqualified happiness to those whose hopes
and fears in the interests of humanity are
bound up in the prospects of the working
classes. Resolutions were passed expressing
sympathy with the attempt of President Lin
coin and colleagues to coerce the South, and
their satisfaction at the proclamation of eman-
cipaton, and other measures, tending at once
to give freedom to the slaves and restore peace
ident Lincoln congratulates him on his hui
name and righteous policy of emancipation,
and beseeches him, while yet the enthusiasm
is in flame, and the tide of events runs high,
to finish the work efiectually. The Mayor
was requested, and undertook simply in
individual character, to transmit the resolu-
tons and address to President Lincoln, with
the hearty salutation OF the meeting, and with
an expression of its earnest wish that Eng
Ian tlQ " nvar Init tn
getherin the most intimate and fraternal bonds.
The revenue accounts to the end of the year
shows an increase in the total receipts of
1892, 600 sterling. The increase during the
last three months were over a million and a
quarter. The total revenue for the year was
nearly seventy-one millions sterling
The Times remarks on these figures that
the Confederate States of America will now
see that cotton is not King, and that it would
be far better worth England's while even to
keep all her cotton operatives on pensions I'M
til they were absorbed in other trades than to
vary one point in her national policy, and the
Federal North will find in these figures the
secret of calm and silent contempt with which
England pursues her steady course.
The annual stock taking of cotton in Liver
pool developed an excess of 100000 bales over
the estimated quantity. This attracted much
attention and depressed the prices to the ex-
teHt vi u udil penny, out as Tue lHdTket was
closed on the LIST the effect not fully tested.
FRANCE.
The Paris correspondent of the Times says
additional reinforcements amounting to 10000
men are declared indispensable to success in
Mexico.
The French will assuredly enter the capital
sooner or later, but not without sacrifices
greater than will ever be made known.
GREECE.
There was great popular demonstration at
Athens on the 30th the people shouting for
Prince Alfred.
A special English envoy has refused the
throne on the part of Prince Alfred, and at the
same time promising the Greeks the sympathy
and good will of England.