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the question of Intervention — the Queen's speech, &c.

The steamer Glasgow, from Liverpool on the 7th inst., has arrived at Boston.

The new Confederate steamer bed made good here escape from Liverpool. The U. S. gunboat Tuscarora left Liverpool on the 7th, in search of her.

The London Times says, editorially, that if England wishes to give the Federal a new impulse she has but to take some step which can be represented as interference, and Lincoln will soon get his 300,000 men, and the chances of peace will be indefinitely postponed.

The Daily News anticipates that if the cotton dearth lasts till Christmas, the parliamentary scheme for the relief of the distress will not suffice to meet the exigencies.

The Jaurnat de St. Petersburg denies the rumors that Russia had joined France in the proposition from England for a recognition of the South.

In the House of Lords, Lord Stratheden moved for the correspondence with Mason relative to an acknowledgment of the Southern States. Lord Russell said it was not expedient to produce them. The agent of the Confederate States was not recognized, and all the communications were unofficial. Correspondence had taken place with Mr. Seward and Mr. Adams, but the British Government had replied as before. He would state that no communications had been received from any foreign power relative to a recognition of the Southern States.

Eatl Malmsbury suggested that the Government should communicate with other powers with a view of offering mediation if a favorable opportunity arises.

Lord Russell agreed that it was desirable, if me offered, that all the powers should join in it.

The motion was finally withdrawn.

It is reported that Napoleon is trying to devise means to render France independent of America for cotton.

Garibaldi has issued a proclamation calling the young men of Italy to arms to free Rome. Victor Emanus! has issued a counter proclamation, threatening the rigor of the law on all who should obey it. The English papers deprecate Garibaldi's course.

The Queen in her speech proroguing Parliament, said:

‘ The civil war which for some time has been raging in America has, unfortunately, continued with unabated intensity, and the evils with which it has been attended have not been confined to the American continent; but Her Majesty having from the outset determined to take no part in the contest, has seen no reason to depart from the neutrality which she has steadily adhered to.

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