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Later from Europe.

The stoneship City of Washington, from Liverpool on the 25th ult., has arrived at New York. --The American Consul at Vienna wrote to Garibaldi, asking him, as he had failed in his patriotic efforts in Italy, if he would offer his valiant in the American struggle for liberty and unity, and promising him as enthusiastic reception.

Garthaldi, under date of Sept. 14th, replied:

"I am a prisoner, and dangerously wounded. It is consequently impossible for me to dispose of myself.

‘"However, as soon as I am restored to liberty, and my wounds are healed, I shall take the first favorable opportunity to satisfy my desire to active the great American Republic, of which I am a citizen, and which is now fighting for universal liberty."’

The above contraband in the Wenter of Vienna. There is positive news of importance.

The condition will elapse before he can he removed. The of an army to him and his following was again rumored.

The United States stream corvetle at Louis remains at Lisbon, and would probably stay there all the winter.

The Alabama which was reported to be returning to Liverpool where the steamer, Harana left, proved not to have been the rebel prime ‘"299."’

The London Daily News is reverting to the proposed of the negroes, and the terms it a wild scheme, and says that the sooner the Federal Government leaves off talking about what it cannot effect the better it will be for its dignity and its reputation.

The London Times, in an editorial treating on the recent reverses to the Federal army, says it thinks they will have the to restore liberty of in the North, and apparently almost suspend the Government at Washington.

The Morning Port says:

‘ "this strange and may possibly terminate the war."

’ It adds that ‘"a man of ordinary firmness may establish out of the of the Union a new public,"’ and that even if left Davis assumes the of the United States, the North will accent him in order to preserve unity.

It was stated that the doctrine of the Federal Government that foreign trading vessels not carrying contraband goods shall possess permits to enter the ports of the Union, is held by France as inadmissible in its operations on commerce.

France has energetically protested against the capture of the ship La Mulatto, at New Orleans.

The substitute for cotton which attracted so much attention, consists of stores of a marine place known as the or common grass wrack.

The Manchester Cotton Supply, at its annual meeting, took a hopeful view of the capacity of India, has denounced the obstructive policy of the Indian Government.

The impeachment of Sir Charles Wood was called for.

The rioting at Belfred was of a serious character but attended by no loss of line.

Business in the manufacturing districts has not been

On the Parts Bearce an advance in had taken place, which was, however, by a reaction. .


Divisions at the North.
[from the London times, Sept. 18th.]

With the last victories of the South the flood of adversity has then above the heads of the President and his Cabinet, threatening to sweep them away; and the civil war that was commenced to force the Southern States into the Union brings, as its first political result, the probability of breathing up the Union among the Northern States themselves. The war was blindly undertaken to avert one great division, and the war itself is splitting the North into fractions. As the central power is weakened, that of the most wealthy and populous States is asserted in a spirit of independence of the Federal Government; the first stage of the rising feeling is one of antagonism to the central executive as to the manner in which it shall be helped in the present emergency. The next may be one of absolute opposition.

No State of the North now threatens to secede, but several are taking a course of action that virtually places them in revolt against the central power. The Republican party, through its official press, all but disowns and repudiates the Government it created. It declares that ‘"unless the Federal Cabinet is reinforced with new vigor and ability the Union cause will be overthrown."’ As the Ministers can only be changed by the will of the President, is he thus warned to throw over Mr. Seward as a failure? Two Secretaries of War have been already dismissed, and the only members of the Government supposed to have any power are Mr. Seward and the President himself. Which of them is to go? Or are both to be deposed? There is no precedent for the abdication of the head of the Federal Government, and it the retirement of that great officer is covertly demanded, it amounts to a political revolution.

To give force to this demonstration the New York War Committee proposes to raise two armies of fifty thousand men each, to be commanded by Generals Fremont and Mitchell, the first qualified for the post by total failures as an officer at the beginning of the war, but ‘"sound"’ and extreme as a partisan. Even in this extremity the Americans in attaching more importance to opinions than capacity. It is ‘"asserted that Abolitionists will gladly serve under three Generals who would not otherwise take part in the war."’ These two armies are to be raised under Federal authority, if the Government will accept them, of which there are power is ...

The Manchester Guardian of the same date, after reciting the same forts which are contained in the above article from the Times says:

‘ Against the dire confusion it is not surprising that private liberty should be and his regard is yet the facts we publish are still enough, and the spirit which permits them was well displayed by an actor at New York, who lately declared that. If it became necessary to send half the whole people to Fort Lafayette, to Fort Lafayette they should go. Yet, with all this readiness to encamp so despotism the Government at Washington grows weaker every day.

Under its paralyzed hands the social fabric seems to be fading into utter disintegration, and the very people who are struggling to maintain the Union are losing all among themselves.--Unless some speedy change is effected, we may expect to see Pennsylvania and other single State treating separately for peace, and leaving New York to early on the war alone. The main cause of this profound demoralization is of course to be the want of any man with the qualities necessary is committed in such a and that want is as plainly due to the possibility of the Northern population. There is no King in Israel, and the reason is that American democracy cannot tolerate even the royalty of intellect.


Mr. Disraeli on the War.

On the 17th ult., Mr. Disraeli delivered a speech at an agricultural show at Buckingham, in which he made the following allusion to the war in America:

‘ It is impossible for us to consider the condition of the manufacturing population in the North of England at a moment when so ourselves are enjoying the great blessings which we now do, without feeling the conviction that the time may come when it may become our duty to advance to assist our fellow countrymen, (Hear, hear.) It is quite unnecessary on this occasion to speculate on the causes of this unexampled distress, but it is a distress, we must which has not been occasioned at their by any jolly of their own or any visitation of Providence, but by the passions of men. I would not pressure under any circumstances, to offer any opinion on the probable duration of the terrible cause of this unexampled vicissitude, still I cannot but remember that in all times civil wars have been very long wars; that all wars in history which partake of that character — be it the thirty years war, for instance, or the struggle between Athens and Linedemon — were wars of unexampled duration, and wars that begin from indefinite causes, without any precise project, are the wars that last the longest. Hitherto manufacturing population of the north of have been sustained in their great calamity by the beneficial action of the existing law and by the named and spontaneous charity of these locally connected with them; but if this war continues, it is impossible to conceal from ourselves that there must be an appeal to a more extensive area than that inhabited by those who are connected with Lancashire and part of Yorkshire. I am sure that on that occasion — if such an occasion should arise — the great landed interest in all its classes will remember what they owe to their suffering fellow-countrymen.


Flatted ships Vs. Ordnance.

The Times, after reviewing the artillery experiments at Shoeburyness, a report of which we published on Tuesday, comes to the following conclusion:

‘ As a matter of fact, we believe that the Americans have not built a single ship which would be considered as fairly protected on this side of the Atlantic. They have gone to work with their navy, as they with their army and have thought for more of numerical show that actual efficiency. As the controversy stands of perfect, ships can protected by the armor from all but a particular kind of shell and from all shot except such as are projected under certain conditions.

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