The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1864., [Electronic resource]

The latest arrival brings European news to the 9th instant.

The financial crisis still pressed heavily on the trading interests of England. Many new failures are reported. A Liverpool merchant was bankrupted by his dealings in the rebel cotton loan. The Bank of England maintained the rate of discount at nine per cent, and was likely to advance it.

The London Times again expresses the opinion that Mr. Lincoln's chance of re-election to the Presidency is greatly improved by the successes of the Union generals.

A new French Minister has been appointed to Washington in place of M. Mereier. It was said in Paris that M. Mereier will go to Madrid as successor to M. Adolphe Barrot.

The Slidell-Erlariger wedding party set out from Paris for London, where the newly-married pair will spend the honeymoon. A series of most brilliant Southern American fetes were to be given by M. Erlanger in the English capital.

The International Congress for the Promotion of Social Science has been in session at Amsterdam.--An address was signed by one hundred and sixty members of the Congress to President Lincoln, congratulating him upon the success of the emancipation policy, and expressing a wish for the preservation of the Union.

The text of the convention recently concluded by the French and Italian Governments has been published along with a subsequent protocol. This protocol provides that the period of six months, within which the Italian capital is to be transferred from Turin to Florence, and also the term of two years, within which the French troops are to be withdrawn from Rome, are be reckoned from the date of the royal assent to the bill which King Victor Emanuel's Ministers will submit to the Italian Parliament.

In the Peace Conference of Vienna, on October 5, the Danish Representatives made some concessions of the German demands, but persisted in rejecting the claim of Schleswig-Holstein to a portion of the indemnity for the Sound dues. They made."a fresh proposition for the settlement of the question," but it does not seem that any progress was made in the negotiations.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, who have been entertained with much distinction at the Swedish Court, left Stockholm on October 4, and arrived at Elsinore on the following day.

Captain Ericsson has been testing a new thirteen inch gun, which has proved eminently successful, and which, it is supposed, will exert a great change in naval ship-building.