The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1861-12-31

Will JOlu LuSldHu he says ETdnCe Will OIcI ucI
mediation, but if war begins she will act against
the United States.
Gen. Scott, Archbishop Hughes Dayton and
Weed had arranged the I'd December for an
interview with the Emperor, and it was supposnd
the interview would be attended with important
results.
The attitude of the French press is decidedly
hostile to the United States. The Paris Const
tutionel says there is strong necessity for an
Anglo French alliance, which would not be
dangered by between England and the
United States
There has been no decision as yet in Lincoln's
Cabinet about the Slide- Mason affair.
Gen. Scott returned to New York in the Arago.
FURTHER FROM EUROPE.
Death Of Prince Albert Warlike Preparations.
RICHMOND, Dec 26-Warlike preparations con-
tinue in England. The English ship-owners have
sent an agent to this country with orders to hurry
home all British bottoms Immediately.
There is said to be sympathy whatever in
France for the United States and if there is war
with England, France certainly will side with
England.
The steamers Persia ard Australian passed
Cape Race, loaded with troops, &C., for Canada.
The Baltimore Clipper, of the 24th, says it is
asserted in Washington that the English affair
growing out of the Mason and Slidell arrest will
be peaceably arranged in few days. Per contra,
| a gentleman who has just reached Richmond from
Washington announces that it is reported In
official quarters that Lord Lyons made demand
for the restitution of Mason and Slidell on Mon
| day. and that the Lincoln Government positively
refused.
| Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, died
suddenly, on the 18th, of gastric fever.
The n Y Herald says they work at nights and
on Sundays in the Tower of London, preparing
arms to be used against the United States, and
thinks the Northern foundries require double
labor. 1t urges the reorganization in the navy
| for the building of new ships, iron clad, and
large number of batteries
| Paris correspondent of the Herald says that
the French Government has signifed to Great
Britain her willingness to recognize the Rebel
Government Immediately.
The Confederate steamer Nashville is in the
| Dry Dock at Southampton, undergoing repairs.
! \ 49, 1880 -erom Halifax says that Messrs
Hunter and Breckenridge have been appointed
Commissioners in the place of Mason and Slldell,
and have left for Europe.
The war feeling is fully aroused all over Canada
The colt on market in New York unchanged
prices ranging from 81 to 40 cents Stocks dull.
ENGLAND and the Mason ,SlideH ofair-Gen
Scott lin letter published in Europe) denies that
it in direct obedience to Instructions from the
Government at Washington that Capt. Wilkes per-
petrated the outrage upon our fag. SO tar so
| well. Gen, Scott, however, has only denied what
no one ever believed. Our special correspondent
at Washington had by anticipation, fortified us
against giving credence to any such fabrication.
He had already told that the act of the captain
Of the San Jacnto was his own, and that he had
undertaken this enterprise as means OF distinguish
ing himself. 1t is not, however, very assuring
to find that General Scott, like his counrymen, is
rather inclined to disavow the conception of this
act than to repudiate it hat 1t has been done.
l. L - oil .1nIr
and he does not seem to be able to see that
the question of hat is contraband of cannot
be as lawfully determined by naval officer at sea
as by an international prize court. lie thinks
thai, after public insult has been offered by the
officer of one country to the flag of another the
first thing to follow is, not complete restitution,
but an argument between the ministers OF the two
countries, whether what has been done In violence
might not have been legally effected In a peaceful
manner General Scott grevously mistakes the
feeling of the country if he believes that good re-
lations between America and England are to be
preserved by any such suggestions as these. We
have sent to Washington, not to open controUer-
sv but to demand a restitution. When that Is
done We shall be happy to discuss the other ques-
tions at issue, at any length the Americans may
pease-L9ndOn Times.
We DO no not know in what fashion the Fede-
raj Government will explain this unqualified act
committed by the San JaclntO, put we DelleVe we
are able to assign as the first the exaggera-
ted genthness which England has always mani
8 tested towards the United States Of America.
On all occasions this England, so proud, so
naughty before the constit utonal powers, trembes
and becomes small before her trans atlantic breth
rem. There is no sort of insult which the Federal
Government has not inflicted on her, and yet these
insults have always been accepted by her with
b, perfect resignation.
This conduct has exalted the pride of the Cabi
net at Washington, which has come to believe that
it can dare everything.
But the United States are mistaken. Ii Eng
land has undergone so much humiliation 1t was
5 because she dreaded war which would close the
American ports against the expectation of cotton
it was because she feared the dist urbances and In
l terror revolutions which would be the fatal con
5 sequences of prolonged stoppage OF her manu-
factories it was because she feared the ruin OF bel
commerce.
But now the question has changed its face
=. The North has nothing more to give; but, on the
2 contrary, everything to receive. 1t is the South
that will have the right of debating conditions tt
t England and the United States will do we'll to
correct their error if they have believed for ont
: moment that their military force and naval powe
: could frighten Europe.
= In outragingthe British flag, the Federals have
perhaps not effected this-that the ma
tr;ol interests f Enoland impe her to allan CT