Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-12-23
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E0REIGN NEWS.
Napoleon Does Not Care to 90
to War.
THE WAR JOURNALS NOT POSTED.
English Preparations for War.
THE VOICE OF IRELAND.
Irish Sympathy With America.
Moderation of the London
Press.
FRENCH REPORTS OF THE DES-
PATCHES TO LORD LYONS.
Fort PIckens opened Fire Again
THE STONE z AT
Saturday Nights Report.
Moderation Of the London
Press.
FRENCH REPORTS OF THE DES-
PATCHES TO LORD LYONS.
Fort PIckens opened Fire Again
q STONE FLEET AT
Saturday Nights Report.
ruRrHRR DE- re :AMERIOA.

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question of the attitude likely to be assume
by France, the opinion continues to D
that however DESTROYS the Empero
might be to give some employment to hi
navy. and to devote public attention il
France from the state of the French finances
he il not likely to do anything to cause
difference with the British Government be
cause serious results might follow in Franc
If distrust there should increase and cause
further depression Of trade.
The London Globe warns is readers tina
thew must take the French version of thu
dispatches sent to Lord Lyons, for what j
Is worth and purely as the French idea o
them.
The shipping Gazette has an article on thu
question of our corn supplies in the event O
q war with North America. 1t does not re
gard their future prospects with feelings o
alarm. The Shipping Gazette Is perfectly
satisfied that our lmportations OF food dur
ing the coming year will excel In extent thos'
of the last four or five seasons.
The London Daily News correspondent
writing from Paris says that 1t is the very
general opinion that the Pstrie was imper-
fectly informed of the intentions Of the
French Government when it spoke Of France
Joining with England in an armed media
ton.
A large force Of engineers, it Is stated,
will he Immediately sent to Canada. Ole
hundred pound Armstrong Cons are now be-
ing rapidly distributed among the ships pre-
pairing for SEES.
The Defence, an iroR plated Frigate, is to
have a crew of 450 men. She VIII be manned
without the least difficulty.
The Ounard steamships Australasia and
Persia are to convey troops to Halifax, and a
number of others have been chartered.
The screw steamer 0rpheus, carrying q
puns. called last evening at Plymouth SOUND
whence she is to convey the screw transport
Melbourne with troops, arms and stores to
the St. Lawrence OF Halifax.
The Loudon Herald says that the First
Battalion OF the Rifle Brigade now stationed
at Dublin, and the First Battalion Of the
18th regiment stationed at Sheheld, received
orders yesterday to embark.
A great mass meeting was held in the
Rotunda at Dublin, to take into considera-
ton the aspect and position Of British Ma
tional affairs at the present. crisis.
The following resolutions were passed:
Resolved That the population Of the Re
public. from the st. Lawrence 10 the Gulf Of
Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific
ocaan. being largely composed Of men OF
Irish birth and Irish blood, it would be IN
natural to . that Ireland could remain
an Indifferent spectator between England
and America.
ResolUed, That the events Of the hour i'm
perstiYely dictate to all Irishmen a forgetful-
ness Of the past differences, and a united rally
for the old czuss Of thsIf country.
RssolUsd That a Chairman, tive Secreta-
ries. and a Committee of tTenty-cne mem
bers, each having been duly and separately
proposed and seconded, be chosen by a ma
iority Of voices Of this meeting, to take into
consideration the ACCESSIBILITY ofsn o~rganiza-
ton in the present sssts Of affairs al home
and abroad.
The Liverpool Post says the whole pur-
pose of the meeting was to express, In every
variety Of phase, sympathy with America
1t Is quite natural that this should be the ten
dency of the Irish, even apart from their ha-
tired to England, for scarcely any Irish family
is unrepreseRted in the United States. The
meeting, however, was useless and needless.
The Liverpool Mercury says that the only
item Of importance in the latest news from
the United States is the brief abstract Of the
address Of President Davis to the Confederate
Congress. The address, 1t adds, is hopeful
and determined In tone, and shows that 8
war 50 stupidity persisted in by the North
cannot possibly effect the subjugation of the
South.
1t is stated that evidence will be laid be-
fore the European Governments to prove that
the blockade of the Southern ports is inehect-
ual, and consequently illegal.
Iii also stated thai the State Legislature
Of Missouri has passed a secession ordinance.
The London Times city article says It
must be kept in view that the designs Of Mr..
Seward are reported for sometime to have
been the cause of disagreement in the Wash
ingtOn Cabinet and that the decision of the
present question therefore is not entirely in
the hands Of that parsonage. Later advices
are awaited for with great anxiety, as it is
seen that the course Of circumstances may
be much modified BY anything that may take
place between the opposing armies in the
interval from now to the arrival of the
British demands. A victory by the Fede-
ralists might perhaps, 80 satisfy the mob Is
to enable the Government to act indepen-
IDENTIFY, and on the other hand q defeat might
be equally productive of a pacific tone. At
the same time, however, there Il danger that
the bad features Of the situation may be ag-
ravated by intelligence of some new offence
on the part Of the Federal Commissioners.
London, Friday sVening-OonsOls opened
weaker to-day, and went lower, owing 70
sales, and the news from America coupled
with q general and uneasy feeling.
Railways were heavy in the morning with
Oonsols, but a reaction Of or per cent
from the lowest point took place.
Foreign stocks were heavy in the morn
ing; Mexican became rather better than their
worst. Consols closed after official hours at
9O4, being q shade 6rmer.
Foreign exchanges were again higher.
FRANCE.