From Europe.
American Affairs.
Mr. John White Aspinwall, Commissioner from North Carolina, has issued an invitation at Manchester for subscriptions to the cotton bonds of that State, for the sum of £300,000 sterling.The New York correspondent of the London Times, in his message per the Jura, announces that a telegram which he wished, to send to Halifax per the Amelia, on the 29th ult., was not allowed to be transmitted from New York.
At a meeting of the Liverpool Town Council, the Mayor and Mr. Clent, chairman of the Watch Committee, referred to the statements that the local authorities had actually exerted themselves in hunting down the alleged Confederate-agents in the matter of the Alexandria.
The Mayor said that it was true that one detective had been employed, at the request of the House Secretary, to make inquiries whether the foreign enlistment act was being respected in Liverpool. Beyond that, he was not aware of any espionage by the police.
Mr. Clent denied the insinuations made against him. He had not in any way assisted the detectives. He believed that the reports respecting the employment of the police in tracking the supposed. Confederate agents, arose from the circumstance that a private inquiry was being made, by officers set to work by Federal officials in England.
The London Herald, speculating upon Gen. Hooker's advance in Virginia, expects that the conflict, if decided in favor of the South, will go far to end the war.
The American news by the Persia was eagerly canvassed, on the 16th, and generally regarded as indecisive. It had no effect in London, but in Liverpool there was a depression in the cotton and a strengthening in the breadstuff markets.
It is reported that Capt. Bullock was to leave Liverpool, on the 16th, for the Clyde, to take command of another rebel pirate cruiser, ready for departure from that river.
The London Army and Navy Gazette says that the Federal efforts recently made in London to raise a loan have not been successful.
Jamaica letters received in England report that on the 7th of April a fight occurred between three vessels and a large war steamer, strikingly like the Alabama. The fight lasted five hours. No particulars are known.
Intervention.
The London Times, of May 12, says:‘ No recognition or mediation would have the smallest weight, unless it were backed up by the probability of more forcible arguments, and these arguments we are not disposed to apply.* * * We have nothing to do but to wait, and hope that these two unhappy maniacs may soon come to themselves and see what they are about. It is not for our interest that either should conquer the other, or both should be irreparably injured.
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Poland.
It is said that Russia has conceded to Napoleon that a European Congress shall be assembled in regard to matters affecting this country.
