European affairs.
Renewal of the American question — secession speech in Essex — Russell's last letter, &c.
The Royal Mail Steamship Europa, from Liverpool, on the 19th inst., via Queenstown on the 20th, bound for Boston, arrived at Halifax at half-past 3 o'clock the afternoon on the 30th.
The Europa has 89 passengers and £650 in treasure.
The steamship Saxonio, from New York arrived out on the 17th.
Great Britain
The Paris correspondent of the London Times writes that the discussion as to the common line of policy to be adopted by France and England on the American question has been again renewed. The subject has been mooted before but was again postponed. Probably information brought over by the Prince Napoleon may have contributed to make the Emperor inclined to listen to proposals which might be made by England in this respect.The London Globe gives prominence to the following paragraph: "We learn from an authentic source that a notification has been issued affecting the trade with the Southern States. It would appear, from the letter of instructions issued by Mr. Memminger from Richmond, on the 22d of August, that the Confederate Government authorizes vessels coming from foreign countries to enter any port on the Southern coast, declaring that such port shall be considered a proper port of entry for such vessel. If the master or owner shall, without delay, dispatch a messenger to the nearest collect on district, in order that the revenue officer may be sent by the collector to take charge of the cargo, and execute the formalities required in connection with the entry of the goods."
At a conservative demonstration in Essex, Captain Jarvis, a member of Parliament, expatiated on the war in America and its effect in England. He argued in favor of the right of secession, and urged that the people of England should give such a strong expression of their sentiments as would induce the Government to act in accordance therewith.
The London Times, in an editorial on the Day of Humiliation in American, says that amid all the turmoil of war a change in the morals of communities can be described, and that there is a faint glimmering of a new dawn, and says that intelligent Americans are inclined to believe that a return of peace, though it will show a mutilation and give no security against more secession in future, will be the era of a better and more orderly government in the Northern States generally.
Dr. Russell's last letter to the Times is dated Washington, October 9th. In it he alludes to the great expedition to sail at the end of October, and says the Government is determined to open a cotton port; and it does not believe in the oaths of the Southerners, that they will never give a bale of cotton to the Yankees, but thinks that the temptation of the high prices prevailing will attract large supplies of cotton to the port for exportation. Thus a Government monopoly may be created in cotton, and the strong protectionists will scarcely fail to put on the screws with foreign customers.--The writer thinks that for the present the large ports of the South are tolerably safe.
The owner of the ship Boyne has brought forward grievances against the United States Government for the prohibition of that vessel from entering Savannah before the blockade was established, and claims compensation for losses.
The official trial of speed of the iron-clad steamer Warrior averaged nearly 14½ knots per hour, and her highest speed was 16½ knots.
