very large.
The choicest officers and men of the Versailles artillery are under orders.
A division of gunboats for Mexico were being armed.
The returns of the harvest in France were very favorable.
Another correspondence between United States Minister Adams and Earl Russell was published.--Mr. Adams wrote in May, while Earl Russell's letter is dated July 28. The Times characterizes his remarks as dry and caustic.
The Times editorially endorses Mr. Roebuck's late speech at Sheffield, as far as his lecture to the North is concerned, but totally dissents from his arguments in favor of mediation, which it considers would do more harm than good.
The Daily News bitterly reproaches Mr. Roebuck, and characterizes his course as the lowest depth of moral degradation.
It says happily Mr. Roebuck's opinions have long ceased to have the smallest value or interest for anybody but himself.
The article concludes by complimenting the American Government for its friendly and st
his conduct ought not to be passed over tacitly, but called for a strong expression of opinion from Government.
Mr. R. Crawford said that at the proper time lie he was prepared to go into the case of the Peterhoff; but after the speech of the noble Lord at the head of the Government, it would be most improper and dangerous, considering the character of the subject, to continue the debate on the present occasion.
He must express his regret for the language of the honorable member from Sheffield.
Mr. Peacock said it was very inconvenient to discuss a question of such importance without having more authentic information than a newspaper correspondence.
He therefore moved an amendment for the production of all the official correspondence relating to the matter.
Mr. Newdegate denounced Mr. Roebuck's language.
Mr. Layard deprecated a continuance of the discussion, and hoped that the House had confidence enough in the Government to leave the matter in their hands.
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Greenbacks Forged in England.
--A case was tried before an examining Court in Sheffield, England, on the 17th April, of forgery of United States greenbacks.
The parties were Edwin Hides and Henry Light, copperplate printers.
The charge was that of forging $10 greenback notes, and the proof sufficiently clear to warrant the sending on of the accused.
The prosecutor stated to the Court that the American Ambassador, from information conveyed to him, was satisfied that forgeries of United States notes had been conducted in England in a wholesale manner, and to "a very alarming extent." The testimony in the case showed that some 3,000 of $10 notes had been printed and conveyed to a person whom the attorney called an American, (no doubt a Yankee,) whose name, for the time, was withheld.
intervention of England — rebel all Federal Generals Vallandigham and Lincoln's Cabinet — the Confederacy as a Rising power, &c.
The mails by the steamer Africa, with European dates of the 30th, give some additional news of interest besides that published in the telegraph summary from Halifax, printed in the United States papers.
We give some extracts from the London papers:
The intervention of England. [From the London Times, May 23.]
Mr. Roebuck has given his constitute at Sheffield, with great fidelity, what may now be considered the general opinion of ordinary Englishmen on American affairs.
It does not militate against that opinion that we have arrived at it slowly, with some vacillation and perhaps inconsistency, and that the practical result of the opinion in the case of the British public is to sit still and do nothing in the matter.
That is the point at which we are obliged to part company with Mr. Roebuck.
His fervid temperament does not allow him to wait f
e member for Sunderland, said:"Sire, we don't dread the winter, although we know that great misery must of necessity be entailed upon our manufacturing population if the cotton famine continue; but we, Sire, desire to avert from our countrymen the community that must arise from the continent on of that famine."
Mr. George Gray made the following reply to this statement:
I can only say that I am utterly unable to explain the discrepancy between the honorable and learned member for Sheffield's statement and the fact that Her Majesty's Government received no such communication It has been stated that the communication which was well known to have been made last year to Her Majesty's Government, on the part of the Emperor of the French, proposing a meditation between the contending parties in America, was transmitted by, Earl Russell to Lord Lyons, and by Lord Lyons handed to Mr. Seward, by which means Mr. Seward received information which would otherwise have been with held fro
he option of previous liquidation should the condition of the Mexican finances admit of it.
Terrible Inundation at Sheffield, England — villages Swept away and hundreds of persons drowned in their beds.
Shortly before one o'clock this mornia great number of houses on its banks, and destroying, it is feared scores of their inhabitants.
The lower part of Sheffield was submerged several feet deep, and hundred of families driven from their homes.
The flood has not yet subsided, and the damage is incalculable.
The Sheffield Telegraph gives graphic details, and says: About midnight a large reservoir connected with the water works, and extending to above a mile in length, situated about seven miles from the town, suddenldreds.
Trees were uprooted, and the debris of buildings carried down the river was immense.
In some of the streets of Sheffield the debris is piled up eight and ten feet high, and among it are found fragments of furniture and many dead bodies.
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