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Two days later from Europe.
the news of the Maryland campaign in England — Comments of the London press — the Confederate steamer "290" in work--five Yankee merchant ships destroyed. &c., &c
The steamship Persia, with Liverpool advices to the 28th ult., arrived at New York Thursday evening. The summary of her news as published in the New York papers says that the "news of McClellan's victory over the Confederates at Antietam was received with great delight by the friends of the North, and caused a rises in American securities in London and cotton at Liverpool." The following is the summary:
Highly important gun experiments had again been fried at Shoeburyness.
The new Whitworth shell, weighing 182 pounds, had proved itself most destructive.
At six hundred yards it passed clean through a formidable iron and wood to get as if it were a punch, and afterwards exploded with terrific force.
The charge of powder was twenty-five pounds. Mr. Whitworth was warmly congra