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into direct relations with the Slave States for the
supply of cotton. Nor are they without a hope of
actual reunion springing out of a war with England,
believing in the hostility of the South to the British
rather than in their attachment to their Union.iThat,
however, is admitted as a remoter consequence of
war. It was suggested last night, that if Great Bri-
tain waived her claim to Slidell and Masou,and mag-
nanimously said to the United States, " We aro satis-
fied we have a right to demand this restoration
from you, but we do not wish to bear hardly upon
you in the time of your trouble, and to lower you
in the eyes of the world," that the whole heart of
America would respond to the chord thus struck,
and would be moved to eternal gratitude.
TUESDAY, DEC. 17.
To the great relief of President, Cabinet, States-

men, and the General, it has been determined to ad-
journ the House of Representatives over the Christ-
mas holidays. The Congress men resisted stoutly,
for they have all speeches and motions to make, and
it may be the Senate will insist on sitting. There
is nothing talked of, written, or read but the de-
spatches on their way from Halifax.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 18.
The Queen's Messenger, Captain Seymour Con-
way, telegraphed to Lord Lyons this morning that
the train had broken down between Boston and
New York, and consequently we shall have to wait
another day before the despatches are received. It
is announced that the Rinaldo at once got up steam
and proceeded round to the flagship of Admiral
Milne, on the arrival of the Europa. The mails will
not be despatched from here till to-morrow night,
and the Cunard steamer will not leave till Friday
morning. Once more suspense in the capital. In the
field there is nothing, though the rumours that there
will be an advance are revived, and are rendered
probable by the increasing necessities of Govern-
ment and by the pressure of public opinion. In East
Tennessee the Unionist uprising has been suppressed,
and the Confederates are hunting down, killing, and
capturing all who had assembled together to main-
tain the Government of President Lincoln; the
latter are hiding in caves and mountains. Parson
Brownlow is in prison, instead of being at the head
of a victorious army. Martial law has been pro-
claimed in the districts where Unionists had collected
or manifested any signs. The Government makes no
sign. Soon the people will begin to ask, " What are
you doing with our 600,000 men and our millions
of dollars ?" The hatelligencer of this morning, in
giving details of the occupation of Ship Island by
Butler's column, alludes to the strong abolition pro-
clamation of the Brigadier-General Phelps in a tone

some there are unexplained sources of wealth in a
war with Great Britain, and in order that they may
have enough to do the Senate is to take into consi-
deration in secret session to-day the affairs of Mexico,
with which there is every disposition to interfere if
there was the
power. It is proposed either to gua-
rantee her liabilities or to lend her the money to
pay them. Certain deputies and friends of Mexico
have arrived here, and have had interviews with
the leading statesmen. But there is no Midas in
the Cabinet—l mean as far as aurifying properties
are concerned.
There is a deficiency on the appropriation of last
July amounting to no less than 135,000,000 dol-
lars ! And yet those appropriations were magni-
ficent enough, exceeding as they did 310,000,000
dollars. Since that time the expense of the war has
been going on increasing—crescendo, it has got up
to some million and a half dollars a day. That is
but a guess, and may be much below the mark.
It cannot be under, because it is certain that not very
long ago the expenses were a million and a quarter.
And to hear the speeches! Last night, passing
down a street, I heard a man shouting from a win-
dow to a crowd assembled round a brass band,
and on drawing near I caught, of course, some
allusion to England, "whereat the mob shouted."
" Ho gloried," he said, that they had Mason and
Slidell ; he -would never give them up. Sooner
let every man of the North perish ! England
merely intended to test their spirit, and if England
dared to declare war, let old and young gird up
their loins to punish her insolence. She desired to
humble America, but she could not. God had a
destiny for her which," &e. This was a member of
Congress, I was informed, returning thanks to the
brass band for a serenade. This is the way in
which the American people are taught to regard
their relations with the nations of the world.
It is estimated that the whole amount of coin
in the country does not exceed, if it equals,
300 millions, and yet a loan of 900 millions is to be
raised out of it. There must be some circulating
medium, and the result will be an issue of paper
money to the extent of four times the available coin.
I place great faith in the spirit of the American
people, but I cannot see how they can hope
"to brave the world in arms," as they say,
unless they display qualities which they have
not as yet put forth in suppressing this
" rebellion." The enemy emboldened by fine
weather, are beating up their quarters along
the front of the city. The pickets were driven back
last night at Accotink, below Alexandria, with some
loss to the sth Michigan ; in our immediate front
the Confederates have appeared and given the
Federalists several alcrtes, so that the Brigadiers
have been summoned to the outposts more than
once. The Union lines have been pushed out a
little, but the moment they send out small recon-
noitring parties or patrols the enemy are upon them
and drive them back. At Falling Waters, on the
Upper Potomac, nearly opposite to Williamsport, in

tions. The President has, in fact, thrown the
whole responsibility of dealing with the Mexican
question upon the Congress. The whole of the
papers and correspondence connected with it are
before them, and there is no doubt the United
States would in other days have been disposed to
take part with the Mexicans in vindication of the
Monroe doctrine, and would make a show of resist-
ing the allied Powers in their endeavours to obtain
redress and satisfaction. It is now assumed that
the allies must have their own way, unless the
Congress can devise some means of obviating what
are called Spanish designs upon Mexico. There
are some who affect to think that this is a more
important matter than the Mason and Slidell affair.
Indeed, I was informed to-day that the English
Government had not made any demand for the
restitution of those gentlemen, but had contented
itself with a request that " reparation" should
be made. It is probable my informant was very
much mistaken, and the New York papers are
beginning to evince a most remarkable mode-
ration. There is no more writing about the
" sensational exaggerations" of the English Press,
" Et tu, Brute !"—no more hurling of defiances—no
more invitations to Ireland to rebel immediately,
and to rely on the United States, which cannot quite
readily deal with its own rebellion, to aid her—no
more solicitations to the whole of the Irish people to
come over here and fight the battles of the Know-
nothings and Native Americans—no more affront-
ing words about the bluster and swagger of John
Bull. There are some papers here which are always
very much affected by " the miserable state of the
Irish people." How far their sympathy goes may
be learned from the magnificent list of subscriptions
for their present relief from a desolating famine
brought on by the British aristocracy which I sent
by last mail—a list of two and a subscription of
£25! The contrast, however, between the tone of
the papers now and that which prevailed even as
recently as the beginning of the week is gratify-
ing. It begins to be feared that England is really
in earnest, and New York is [apprehensive of
trouble. The financial capital trembles, and the
Press, finding itself opposed to the public senti-
ment, suddenly drops a few octaves—almost its
full range from the war pitch and Jefferson Brick
key. And, indeed, it is enough to induce any Ame-
rican who seeks the perpetuity of the Union, or
even the success of Northern arms over the South
so as to be able to dictate peace, to take every means
short of those dishonourable and degrading to avert a
war with another enemy when he perceives how
little progress has been made in subjugating the
old antagonist. There is much insubordination in
the army, and Gen. M'Clellan is so well aware of
the defects of his organization that he will defer
aggressive movements to the last. Meantime,the Con-
federacy is drifting towards acknowledgment here.
Already her prisoners are clamoured for by the North
in exchange for Southern troops, and an exchange
of 282 of the Hatteras captives have been sanctioned
by the Government for an equal number of men on
the other side. Officers on parole are permitted to
come from one side to the other to effect exchanges.
There are courts-martial on high officers, which are
almost as bad in a military sense, as the Van Eyck
report shows the civil affairs in contracts and the
like to have been. To-day, while I was at the Senate
there was a Skirmish at Drancsville, on the right of
M'Call's division, between his men and the Confede-
rates, who were greatly outnumbered.
The brigade engaged was under the command of
General E. 0. C. Orde, and consisted of the Gth
Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, Colonel
W. W. Ricketts ; 9th, Colonel F. Jackson ; 10th,
Colonel John C. ITCalmont ; 12th, Colonel John IL
Taggart ; the Bucktail Rifles, Lieutenant-Colonel
Kane ; Easton's battery of two 24-pounders and
two 12-pound howitzers, and a detachment of artil-

The Irish organs are shouting out very defiantly,
and there are pleasant hopes of a Hibernian insur-
rection, just as the Northerners rely on a Negro in-
surrection in the South, of which as yet we see no
signs, notwithstanding the rumours of a great upris-
in Mississippi.
And so, while the men of war at Willard's are
waging fierce battle in words, and killing many
Philistines with the weapon of Samson, the journals
come in from New York, which, being the city of
dollars, has more influence than its rivals like to
admit on the politics, or, at all events, the poli-
ticians of the country; and what do they say?
Mark the eager rush at the fluttering sheets as
the newsboys bear the moistened bundles into the
crowd. AniAmerican journal is certainly not a thing
for eternity. It is read and flung away at once—
luckily for it. See how the leaders are read and the
news is scanned, and the rag is thrown on the
ground, and the angry look of the captains. There
is a sound of peace when there is no peace but that
which comes from the iron club of necessity. She is
breaking the men of war in sunder. Let us take the
New York Times, a decent An glophobiac. It tells the
world there is an under current of popular feeling
in England adverse to the national passion, which is
a current we, being so long in America, do not be-
lieve to have much " go" or force in it, and then it
gets on to the probable solution of the English ques-
tion. What that is we might not understand; but
we can understand what the American question in
re Mason and Slidell is, and on reading we find the
New York Times argues that, as Captain Wilkes
"unfortunately allowed the subject matter of adju-
dication and the proofs to escape, the United States
Government is bound to restore the rebel Ministers
to their original status." A very sound and very
peaceable conclusion. But think of another view
presented to us a few hours ago. Lord Lyons has
now obtained an appointment from Mr. Seward for
Monday, when the British Minister will present his
ultimatum. The facts will soon be known. Yester-
day it loomed in New York that some very positive
demand would be made, and all men's brows were
clouded. Since I wrote there has been little altera-
tion in the aspect of affairs. Missouri is very much
in the state of Burgundy or Lorraine during the
wars of the Middle Ages; marauding bands plun-
der on both sides, burning towns and villages, the
resorts of rebel guerilla bands, or of " Black Repub-
licans and Lincolnites." The recent news would, if
true, indicate that the Federalists are getting the
best of it in their struggle, and the capture of 1,300
Confederates and 1,000 horses with stores, &c., just
reported, must prove a severe blow to the enemy.
Nevertheless, General Price is advancing from
the South once more to cross the Osage river,

try to us. On the 18th or 19th of this month
Charleston was closed by .the sinking of large
vessels laden with steßfstkimiknutsisle, the bar, and .
that operation will be ref*ifod afether Writ whew:-
the Federal forces may fail to secure a foci4nk:' The
blockading of the American coast will be art Mit im-
possible for several months ; even the blockading of
the principal ports will be difficult, because a great
consumption of coals will be needed in bad weather,
and the ships will be compelled to retire from time
to time to the coaling stations, so that not more
than half the blockading squadrons can be available
at a time. The weather in the early part of the
year is thick and tempestuous. These are a few
remarks which occur to me as I write in haste in
reference to this prospect of war, but I heartily
pray and hope that it may be averted by the exercise
of good feeling, of honourable concession, of the
spirit of equity, and above all by a sincere desire to
avert that horrible evil, of which no one who has
seen its ravages once can seek a repetition, and
which should, indeed, be the ultima ratio when rea-
son, and humanity, and Christianity, and justice
have been appealed to in vain.
The reports that General M'Cleilan will be com-
pelled to advance by the pressure which is brought
to bear against him are now entitled to credit. In
the event of war with England the Federalists will
be forced to strike a blow before the pawerful di-
version they may well dread is made on their flanks.
Last night it rained in torrents, to-day it is dark
and stormy, and showers of sleet alternate with
torrents of rain from a leaden sky. In such wea-
ther it is impossible to execute extensive movements
in a heavy wooded country, full of hills and rivu-
lets, like Virginia. General M'Dowell, however,
who is, after all, the moving spirit in all questions
of massing, manoeuvring, or quartermastering, does
not see much difficulty in the way of the advance,
so far as the weather and roads are concerned.
He is persuaded that corduroy roads can be
made with ease in all directions, and that they
will answer perfectly for the passage of infantry,
artillery, and horse. Certainly timber is abundant
by the roadside, and there are armies of lum-
berers and men handy with the axe in the camps ;
but, at the same time, "eorduroying it" up to
an enemy is tedious work, and when it comes
close to the front it is liable to interruption.
Besides, the process as it goes on shows the enem,7
where he may expect to be attacked. It is true his
front extends for nearly 30 miles, from Occognan to
the left of Centreville, with an outlying corps at
Leesburg, and his line may be pierced at some
place or other, but it will not be forced at any point
where he can concentrate. The Federalists have
two railroads in their service running towards the
same point, and close to their base of operations ;
and it is clear that the Confederates will meet the
same difficulties in moving which the Federalists
will encounter—se that, if attacked, they must stand
their ground, as they are without much chance of
manoeuvring or changing their guns and cavalry
from one place to another. Every consideration,
however, points out the necessity of shaking the
Confederates from their hold of the Potomac, and
making a vigorous effort to gain a decided advan-
tage over the enemy before a new adversary appears
on the scene, who, in effect, will be the ally of the
Southern Confederates. Let us still hope that Great
Britain may be enabled to preserve her neutrality
and to preserve peace. This week will probably
determine the question one way or another, and in
all probability the steamer which leaves on Satur
day will carry the solution to your shores.

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