The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-12-25

1HE MASON -0L1DELL AFRAlk-rNH
YANkEES BACH DOWN 70 ENGLAND.
THE BATTLE AT DRArNsv1LLH.
IMPORTANT FROM MISSOURI.
&c. &c. &c.

| 80 &c. &c. &c.
|
Having rec sived COPY OF the New York
Herald, OF the sist Decem 70 are enabled
| to lay before our readers this morning a snm.
mary Of the m oct important news from tic
| North:
| TER xAsox.sIIrslL APyAra-pRrr,n,x.ro nv
| ThR LIHooLs GOVERNMENT TO AccspE TO ANY
| DEMANDS ENGLAND NAY MAKE.
we copy the following from the Was hinr-
| TON telegraphic corr espondenes OF the New
York Herald. dated the Goth inst.
Lord Lyons he's had two confiden tai con
| Ierences to day with mir. Seward, but up to
O'Clock to;nish. no written lorna; com.
muhicAton has beeR had, and no demand
whatever has yet been made rpon our Gov
eminent oy the British minister.
~, me conferences between Lord Lyons and
| friendly character
capt. seymour. the Queens messenger. did
not return In the Africa, "a was In tended.
| me americas malls are anxiously looked
| Ior oy our government. as well IS by Lord
Lyons, and 1t is not unuksly that HIS Lord
| ship will withhold his demand upon our
government until the arrival.
80 = Us Is NOT true, as teleeraphed yesterday.
| 10 New York papers, that the Preeident allied
NEE hng Of the Cabinet. None whatever
has been held ON the subject Gen. SCOTS
| letter Is very highly spoken Of by English
-.
lieved to have had an excellent effect unon
| the BIRTHS mind. as an eminent British law
! yer, VINO stands near the law officers OF the
OIo*n: 80 inlicated In private letter re-.
ceived mere. 1t Is believed that Lord LYONS
/ VIII pass over the Questions of coutrNband
dispatches, and the characte of the traitors
Mason and Slidell, and rest his demand UPON
the narrow ground so clearly prasan ted nv
| General SC OFT, that we should have seized
the Trent, taken her into port and had her
condemned by prize court. in order to justi-
| ~ our seizure OF her passengers. Stated in
| other words, an offence would have been less
| II II had been greater. It is assuming the
| ground that the wrong doue to the British
dag won!d have been nlitigated, if, instead Of
| seizing the our rebels, we had seized the ship
detained all her passen gers for weeks, and
| onfiscated her cargo.
strange MS 1t may seem, have excellent of.
| fetal authority for asserting that, from pre-
| settle down upon that pretenee The President
SAID this II orning. in response - question
| by Senator, II don't think we will have a
war wit b Eng land in the next ten days.
II Is argued q high quarters that the Uni.
ted Sta tss would be benefited By war with
England, GA the ground that we should be
I'M ediately relieved OF the present enormous
| expense CT keeping mp the blockade and
| could turn our guns upon the splendid com
merce of Great Britain; that our people are
Just In lighting mood: that in a few mon tbs
| we shall have one Of the most magnificent
and we'll drilled armies the world ever saw,
with nothing else to do except to whip Johu
Bull for the third time. This kind Of reason
| ing ls not very popular among the officers CT
| ths Government, but Is really q sentiment
emanating firm 8 source entitled ~ conelde-
ration.
| IMPORTANT PROM wAsHINaroH-MAsoN AND Sill
DILL TO BIZ DELIVERED Up II DEMANDED.
Under the above caption the New York
Herald, OF the 2lst instant, has the following
double loaded editorial comments:
| According to our latest advices from Wash
/ II. IF n ySxh
| England upon the late affair Of the Treut may
! Dc dismissed. Our Cabinet, we are informed,
looking 70 the absorbing and paramount
| lion-Wtll yield to the present demands of
| England as the conditions of her neutrality,
even II these demands involve the restora-
| ion OF mason and Siidell to the protection OF
| me BRUSH nag, and a disavowal of and an
apoioS y Tor thelr seizure by Capt. Wilkes
Ia adopting fhis alternative of submission
to these perempiory demands, the Admins
| trahon runs the hazard OF disappoin ting the
| popular sentiment OF cur loyal States Hut
| little reflection Will SATISFY every inteIIi.
| gent mind OF the wisdom of deferring Il Il nal
settlement with England until we shall have
| made an end OF this Southern Hbellfon.-
| There have been some conjectures that arbt-
| tration may be resorted TO; but it IL batter
gracefully to yield to the exigencies of the
crisis, and promptly relieve England of her
| convenient prete1t for quarrel, without the
| interv 'ntiou OF any third party.
Let our Government, then, meet the requi.
! sitions OF Lord Lyons, In the restitution OF
| Mason and Slideli to British protection and
| in acknowledging that " htle Captain Wilkes
would have been riShs in selling the Trent
| steamer and In bringing her before a prize
| court for adjudication, he WIS wrong in lin,
| iting his proceeding to the seizure Of his
prisoners; and that we regret that his con
| trolling considerations Of intern attonal cour-
| tesy and leniency should have resulted In the
very offence which 1t was his particular OBJ
ject TO avoid.
An explanation Of this character. we prs.
sumo, will pc considered amply satisfactory
as an atonefnent to the insulted flag of Eng.
| land. 1t may be painful and humiIiatiug to
us. But who will reproach tbs sur prised
traveller for yielding to the dsmaud of !. our
money or your life, with the highwayman,s
pistol at his neadf Onr Government will be
amply justified in this repara ton BY the
| public opinion Of our loyal States consider.
ing the reJoicin gs OF our rebellious States 4,
the prospect of securing the aid OF England's
fleets aud armies In the enterprise Of the &C.
| We are called upon now to exhibit the v1r
| toes OF patience and moderation towards a
domiresring foreign Power, and to submit,
| to its arrogant demands and pretensions, in
| order to grapple the more effectively with
an insolent domestic enemy beIeagu LIE
our National Capital. But as Rome remem
bered Carthage from the in vasion OF Hanni-
bal, and as France remembers st. Helena, sc
| will the people Of the Unitet States remem.
Der and treasure up for the future this little
affair Of the Trent.
l
of this difficulty, upon the basis of En- gland i
| offensive ultim alum, will be without equiv
| alent or compensation. We expect that I,
will secure more decent regard hereafter fol
| England professions Of neutrality than she
| has heretofore exhibited that such scsnda
lous neutral hospitaiities as those lately ex
| tended to the piratical steamer Nashville, a
, | So utham ptOn, will not be repeated and tina
such commercial ventures as that of tn.
| steamer Bermuda to Savannah will cease tc
| be made by British subjects from Engiish
ports, under the conniyance OF her Majesty,
| government.
| Granted that these demands Of England II
this tier Of Mason and Slidell were framed
| for WAT and not for peace, We have the right Il
| call for faithful adherence TO this peace which
| has been conceded where war was expected
| and designed. But we are asked why these
humiilaupg concessions upon a gull bible ant
a pretext? II Eugland's purpose is war, will
she not find some other pretext upon which
| there can be no concession We answer, tina
| by yielding to the arrogant demands of Eng
| land upon this pretsxt Of to-day we shat
have red uced her to bonds of peace from
which she cannot escape except as a reckless
| hlibuster, liable to be outlawed By every
other European Power.
Mean time, with the re establishment O
our peaceable relations with England, W,
| shan be at liberty to bring our whole mill
tary power to bear by land and sea upoI
admon ished by the restless impotence o.
England and France for cotton, Presiden
Lincoln and lis Cabinet will vigorously pusf
forward the movements Of our fleets an(
| armies, and put an end to all European no
tons Of an inevitable Sou thern Confederacy
by the speedy overthrow of the spurious rev
dictionary leo que OF Davis and his confed
crates.
Then, with this rebellion suppressed, with
our revolted States restored, with an army
OF million of men in the field, with n pow.
erful navy, including a good proportion o.
iron plated ships and with our ssacoast and
frontier defences upon war footing, W,