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surrender of Mason and Slidell to England, as well as by the report of the mode in which it was accomplished by the Lincoln Government. The London Post, the organ of Lord Palmerston, acknowledges that due reparation has been made, and intimates that the law of neutrals at sea will be reconsidered. The Paris Moniteur officially expresses the "satisfaction" felt in France in consequence of the act, while we find that the news produced an advance of one per cent. on the Bourse. The Journal de St. Petersburg, the organ of the Russian Empire, congratulates Mr. Seward on his "upright" and "intelligent" policy in the case, and states that the affair will form a starting point for a general revision of the law of neutrals. The Russian journalist demands that England should be requested to give a solemn guarantee that she will in future respect neutrals and neutral rights. The Europa has not brought out any troops or war material, and it was said that England would not forward any mor
rope. [From the Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug. 30th] Russia continues to be the friend of the United States--firm and sincere as she is powerful. Few have forgotten the generous letter of the Czar, written more than a year ago, when the other great European powers (young Italy excepted) stood afar off, or "paltered with us in a double sense." What the Emperor then said he adheres to; for we learn, through the London Morning Post, Lord Palmerston's organ, of the appearance, in the Journal de St. Petersburg, of certain articles which state that fact. These articles set forth that the policy of the Russian Cabinet with reference to the rebellion in the United States has been clearly pointed out in former declarations, which are strictly in conformity with the sympathy that Russia has always shown towards the United States, and with the feelings of humanity which revolt at a war of extermination. Russia makes an appear to the interests of the two parties, and to the remembrance of
Later European news. Dates from Liverpool to the 14th inst. have been received. A dispatch Petersburg, dated the day the Canada sailed, says that the Journal de St. Petersburg, of that date, published a dispatch, dated June 4, addressed by Gortchakoff to Mr. the Emperor's satisfaction at the reply or Mr. Seward to the proposal of France to mediate in the case of Poland, which dispatch concludes as follows: "Such facts draw closer the bonds of sympathy between Russia and America. The Emperor knows how to appreciate the firmness with which Mr. Seward maintains the principle of non intervention." In the British House of Commons, on 11th inst., Lord Palmerston said that as the United States have no relations except those of war with the Confederate States, it would be useless to apply to that Government concerning the suppression of the slave trade. The Confederate States had made that trade a penal offence, but their independence not being recognized by England, "and not