The Portland daily press., 1863-06-10
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Portland Daily Press.
FOUR DAYS
LATER FROM EUROPE.

Arrival of the Africa at Halifax.
HALIFAX, June o.
Steamship Africa, from Liverpool Both via
Queenstown 3lst, arrived here at 3 o'clock this
afternoon.
GREAT BRITAIN.
A public meeting was to be held in Liver
pool on the Sd of June, to pay a tribute to the
memory of Stonewall Jackson.
Ship Dorcas Prince and Union Jack, from
New York for Shanghai, the Sea Turk from
Boston for San Francisco, and the Nye, whaler,
have been captured by the Alabama.
The Liverpool Daily Post gives prominence
to the following on receipt of the Australians
news:
"Vicksburg has fallen. The Mississippi is
open from its mouth to its source. The Fed
eral cause has triumphed. There can now be
the key of peace that hung up in the fortress
OF Vicksburg. Now is the time for mediation.
Instead Of giving idle sympathy or indulging
in the hopes OF the war continuing, every one
who wishes well to England and to the world
at large, should promptly unite in an appeal to
Lord Palmerston, requesting him not to lose a
moment in proposing terms not injurious to
the South, yet acceptable to the North The
important news having only arrived when we
were going to press we have only time to
express strong hopes that we are on the eve of
peace"
The London Globe remarks that the FEEDER
al commanders in the Valley of the Lower
Mississippi seem at length to have found the
right road to Vicksburg, and from their gen.
| eral operations at some otherpoints they seem
intent to be solidly securing what, when the
war ends may be lines Of frontier.
The character Of the military operations
| leads to the suppostion that the recognition
of the Southern independence is not excluded
from mediations of Washington statesmen,
and that they are preparing for the inevitable
The London Times remarks that the North
has expended three armies in trying four Gen.
erals, and the last two have most signally
failed. Against these contingent commanders
| for the selection of whom the field is almost
\ without limit, the South must stake the lives
of Generals whose abilities cannot be ques-
toned, and whose numbers, if such casualties
as that by which Jackson has fallen, may too
soon diminish, and it is by this gradual loss of
men, eminent by qualities and skill, that the
South may prove most vulnerable.
The Times city article says: "Thus far
| there is not the slightest symptoms of a will
! lingness to close the war in America. As to
its being the true policy Of England to recog-
nize the independence OF the South, we can
not recognize that which does not exist. The
| oUutu Is not VET independently, though dDpdr-
emily she is rapidly achieving her independ-
ence Hopeless as the prospects Of the North
may be, we have no right to place in its way,
any cause of encouragement"
| Roebuck gave notice that at an early day
he should move that an address be presented
TO the Crown, praying her majesty would
cause negotiations to be entered into with
European powers, with a view to the recogni-
ton of the Confederate States. Lord Monta-
nnticq that ha would IN
amendment to this.
The correspondence between the Brazilian
minister in London, and Earl Russell, termi-
mated in the rupture of their official relations.
The Brazilian minister demanded and recev-
ed his passports.
FRANCE.
Mason has reached Paris, it is reported, on
a mission to the French Government.
Signs Of political life were increasing in
France, and determined efforts are making to
elect NJ. Theirs as lesson to the Government.
PRUSSIA.
The Times fears it is the intention of those
who raised the conflict in Prussia to fling the
sword in the balance and trample on those
liberties which they have SO long been seeking
to degrade.
The submarine cable between the Crimea
and Turkey has been cut by order of the Rus
sian Government The Ottoman Cabinet sent
protest to st. Petersburg against the act.
POLAND.
On the 25th the insurgents under Oxinxski
gained an important victory over the Russians
near Kormpolingiot OF Kallischa. Oxinxski
was attacked by six companies of Russian
troops, $50 OF whom were killed and the re-
mainder put to flight. Insurgent cavalry oc-
cupied Modozigow at Dombrowa, and seized
the treasure. An engagement also took place
on the 23d between Turck and Amegow, in
which the Russians were defeated.
general levy is being organized in Podo-
liza. In several districts the peasants declared
themselves willing to fight against the insur-
gents. Bands in Volhima had been dispersed.
Czackowski's corps had been defeated by
the Russians.
Buneos Ayres, Apri 29th.-The suppress
sion of the trouble in the interior is satisiac-
torily progressing. The invasion attempted
by Flores has entirely failed.
Latest via. Queenstown.
liverpool, May 30h.-The Board of Trade
returns states that the exports for the month
of April amounted to eli 1877 600, or about
f2,O00,000 more than in April of last year.
For the first six months of the present year,
the value of exports was e39, 100000, or near
ly eI75,0O0 more than during the same period
in 1867.
London, May 3lst.-The Confederate loan
closed at from 1-2 to 1-2 discount
Lirerpoot Nay 30th, Eoening-The Paris
correspondent OF the Morning Herald says
Mason's presence in Paris strengthens the re-
port of the approaching recognition of the
South. The great stumbling block continues
to be the stubbornness of portion of the
British Cabinet. The general impression is
that France will take the lead in the recogni-
ton, and that the rest OF Europe will not be
slow to follow.
The same correspondent also reports that
fresh efforts are being made by Mason and
Slidell to obtain a recognition.
The Army and Navy Gazette looks, during
the early part of June, for a most remarkable
series of operations in various parts of Ameri-
ca. 1t says, let no one believe we are near the
end of the war, so far as the North is concern
ed. There are signs that civil conflict may
at any time break out within the borders of
either or both belligerents.
From Vicksburg.
NEW YORK, June Q.
The Tribune has letter from its correspon-
dent, saying that up to May 31st the siege was