Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-10-29
AMERICAN AFFAIRS IN ENGLAND.

The following additional by the steamship Canada,
which left Liverpool the 18th and Queenstown on the
18th instant, is forwarded from. Cape Race:
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered bis promised
lecture on America at the Philharmonic Hail. Liverpool
the 10th instant He had densely crowded audience
and on the whole was enthusiastically received although
Southern sympahizes tried to break up the meeting
Ga the same day address delivered before the
Liverpool Southern Club by Mr.. Beresford Hope who
reiterated his oftexpressed ultra views in favor Of the
South
Col Lamar of the rsbe army had spoken at an sRricu.
tura banquet. presided over by Hon. W. s. Lindsay He
drew picture between the present position of the North
and that of the South Of much to the dsparaQe
ment of the former He defended Southern institutions
aud bespoke for the South the sympathy of England.
Sir Randel Palmer Attorney General had been address,
ing his constituents at considerable length on American
affairs He showed that England could not recognise the
South until her Independence was fully settled He con-
tended that England bound to extend beigerent
rights to the Conederates and strongly emonstratd the
obligation resting upon England for continued neutrality
The London Times, in an editorial on that part of Mr.
Pamer speech which shows that there doubt about
the prt and lesgn Of the laws respecting the cads
seized in the Mers-y, says:
The Ministers have not been doubling whether these
steamers designed for he service the Aaba
ma, Dor Wnttner they cud Dc lawfully dispatched but
whether their suspected destination be concuslvey
proved against them The intent of the law is however
to make the perfectly clear Few will be found to
deny there suspicion enough to justify the resolution
the part of the Government to the for trial
The doubts that arise principally from the difficulty
f obtaining concusye evidence the admitting of
finite evasion.
The Attorney General tells us that the Americans
have done much Tor others they expecting
W III be done for them; that they never showed unwilling
to act when urged but that they found difficulties
the way of such precesdings"
The Times says, in conclusion;
Ii this is the state of the law il s In the
extreme and both countries have found utmost
difficulty Ia bring ng the law to bear, the the
chinery is improved the better
Russia has commenced detachng certain parts of Poland
from Poland. Russian Imperial decree detaches tie
Government Of Augustowo and the District of Lomza
from Poland and incorporates them In The Russian EN-
pre-
The English CABINET have postponed their decision in
regard to the demand Of the Poles be considered bel
lgerents
The Danish Government has ordered large body Of
troops to be massed the southern frontier Scheswa
There serious troubles in India The Pupjaub has
been invaded by the Of Dost Mbammed at head
of thousand men, who supposed merely the
vanguard of very large force British troops have been
sent againt them. There Is also in New Zealand All
the British troops in Australia have been hither and
it expected that the nsurgent natives will be put down
The Liverpool cotton market was buoya on the I7th
and holders demanded advance Provisions and bread
stus were steady Consols closed 90 935 for money