Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-05-26

FATHER POINT, May 25.-The steamship
HIbernian, from Liverpool at 3 o'clock on the
l+th inst, via Londonderry on the 18th, ar
rived off this point this morning. The dates
are five days later.
The latest American advices caused some
fall in the rebel loan. The price at one time
descended to per cent. discount but subse-
quently rallied, closing at 3 IL to 3 per cent.
discount-bein fall Of 3 per cent. as COM
pared with the previous day.
Mr.. John White Aspinal, commissioner
frC III North Carolina had issued at Manches-
ter an invitation for subscriptions to cotton
bonds of that state for the sum of three hun
dred thousand pounds sterling. The New
York correspondent of the London Times, in
his message to that journal for the Jufa, an
nounces that telegram which he wished to
send to Halifax per the Arabia on the 29th
ult., was not allowed to be transmitted from
New York, the military censor stating that his
orders from Washington were imperative, to
permit no information whatever in relation to
the army of Gen. Hooker to be given to the
public The despatch in question merely
gave the commencement of Gen. Hookers
army to cross the Rappahannock, and the
probability of an immediate battle.
AT meeting of the Liverpool town council
the mayor and Mr.. Clint, chairman of the
watch committee, referred to the statements
that the local authorities had actively exerted
themselves in hunting down the alleged con-
federate agents in the matter of the Alexan-
dra. The mayor said it was true that one de-
tective had been employed at the request of
the home secretary to make enquiries wheth-
er the foreign enlistment act was being re-
spected in Liverpool. Beyond that he was
not aware of any system of espionage by the
police. Mr.. Clint denied the insinuations
made against him. He had not in any way
assisted detectives. He believed that the re-
ports respecting the employment of the police
in tracking the supposed confederate agents
arose from the circumstance that private en-
quiry was being made by officers set to work
by federal officials in England.
The London Morning Herald, in speculat-
ing upon Gen. Rockers advance in Virginia,
expects that the conflict, if decided in favor
of the south, will go far to end the war.
The Paris journals announce that Theirs,
yielding to the opportunities of the electors,
has resolved to become a candidate for repre-
sentative for the second district of Paris, and
also for two provincial districts.
A sanguinary engagement is reported to
have taken place at Kalisch in Poland, on the
18th inst. The Russians are said to have
been victorious, but they suffered great loss.
An imperial Austrian decree states that, in
order to throw into oblivion tile events in
Pennsylvania between 1874 and 1858, the en-
peror relieves those who have passed their
term of Imprisonment for high treason from
Interior legal consequences.
The Prussan conflict between the cham
bers and the ministers is not yet adjusted.
The house had resolved to support its presi-
dent against the cabinet, and was preparing to
debate an address to the king, praying him to
set aside persons and policy which threaten to
bring ruin upon them and the country, and de.
caring that the house will use every constitu-
tional means to avert war.
LIVERPOOL, May RELATIONSHIPS Of the
four days $4,000 bales, including 22,0o0 to
spectators and exporters. The market is