The Mason and Slidell affair — effect of the news in England.
A telegraphic dispatch was received yesterday morning, by the President, in which it was announced that the news of the arrest of the Southern Ministers, Mason and Slidell, occasioned great excitement in England.--The people of Liverpool held a mass meeting, and passed resolutions of a strong and emphatic character, calling on the British Government to demand summary reparation for the insult offered to the flag of the country by the forcible seizure and detention of Messrs. Mason and Slidell, and their Secretaries, Messrs. Ensits and McFarland, by Captain Wilkes, of the San Jacinto.It was further reported, at the time of the departure of the European steamer which brought the foregoing news, that meetings of a similar character to that held at Liverpool, were being called in different parts of England.
The Northern accounts, received last night, show that the news of Wilkes's exploit created a good deal of excitement among the commercial men of Liverpool; but coming to us through a Federal medium, we are left to infer the extent of the impression created upon the public mind throughout England. We refer the reader to the news columns for additional details.
