The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-12-23
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
81 ZEE =. W. LINE.
Exclusively for the Journal.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
Arrival of the America
Warlike tone Of the English
papers.
Mason and Slidell demanded
by England.
Irish Sympathy for America,
Interesting Particulars Of the
English Movements.
The War fever up.
Arrival of the Arag o /.
Irish Sympathy for America.
The War fever up.
Arrival of the Arag o.
News to the 11th.

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News to the 18th.
HALIFAX, Dec. 2I.-The merios from
Liverpool 7th and Queenstown 9th put in
here this morning short Of coal. Hsr datas
are two days later.
Warlihe sentiments and preparations
were unabsted in England. a large anti.
war meeting bad however been held st
| Dublin.
The British Government sent letter ap-
proving the act of Com. Williams, mail
agent on the Trent.
Paris papers assert that tbs British Gov
ernment IN answer to petitions from the
manufacturing District had stated thst the
cotton ports of the Southern States would
be opened By February at the latest
The British Parliament had been further
prorogued till the 7th of January
1t was stated that orders for the purchase
of half million quarters of wheat had been
sent to the Black Sea ports and the Medi-
terranean within the last few days for pres
ent and future use
i The British frigate, Warrior, was taking
in seven hundred and sixty tons of coal for
service on the North America coast.
A considerable number OF additional
troops were to be sent to Canada.
| French journals say that France will re-
main neutral, in case ola war between Eng
land and the United States.
| The Hero, carrying eighty-six guns, was
/ to leave Portsmouth on the 18th, for the
| North American coast.
I The ship Silas Greenman, for New York
/ having one hundred tons of lead on board
was stopped in the river Thames-the ex-
! port of the article having been prohibited.
LIVERPOOL, December .-Manchester
/ advices represented the market fiat, ana pri-
ces unsettled.
! BREADsTUFFs
Flour quiet; wheat firm but quiet.
/ CORN easier mixed 34s. 3d(034c. Sd.
Circulars report beef firmer. Pork firm.
/ Bacon tending upward. Lard easier. Su-
/ gar tending down and 6d@1s lower. CoE-
! fee-no sales.
/ Circular reports wheat advanced IG712s;
tea declining American securities fiat and
/ nominal the market closed irmer
LATEST VIA QUEENSTOWN.
LONDON, Dec. T.-Consols closed ss4f09O
| for money. Stock of cotton on hand I42,-
4 900 bales.
Ia London, in reference to the important
question of the attitude likely to be assumed
/ by France the opinion continues to be that,
however anxious the Emperor might be to
! give some employment to his navy and to
direct public attention in France from the
state of the French finances, he is not likely
/ to do anything to cause a difference with
/ the British Government, because serious re-
/ suits might follow in France If disfrust
there should increase, and cause further
I depression in trade.
The London Globe warns its readers that
i they must take the French version of the
dispatches sent TO Lord Lyons, tor what
/ il is worth and purely as the French idea of
them.
The Shipping Gazette has an article on
+ the question of our foreign supplies. IN the
1 event of war with the United States Il
/ does not regard their future prospects with
/ feelings of alarm. The Shipping Gazette is
perfectly satisfied that our importatIons of
food during the coming year viii excel in
/ extent those of the last four or FIVE SEASONS.
4 The London Daily News correspondent
writing from Paris says that Il is the very
general opinion that the PatriS was imper-
feetly informed OF the intentions of the
French Government when ii spoke of
France joining with England IN an armed
I mediation.
A large force of engineers will be sent to
Canada Immediately.
loo-pound Armstrong guns are now
being rapidly distributed among ships pre-
pairing for sea.
The Defense, an iron-Plated frignte, is to
have a crew of $50 men. She will be
manned without the least difficulty.
The Cunard steamships Australasian and
Persia are to convey troops to Halifax and
8 number of others have been chartered
The screw steamer orpheus, car
rying Fl guns, called last evening at Ply
mouth Sound, whence she is to convoy the
screw transport Melbourne with troops to
the st. Lawrence.
The London Herald says the first Battal-
ion of the Rife Brigade stationed at Dublin
and the first Battalion ofJhe 18th Regiment,
stationed at Sheffield, received orders yester-
day to embark.
A great mass meeting was held st the
rotunda al Dublin to take into consideration
the aspect and condition of Irish national
affairs at the present crisis. The following
resolutions passed
ResoIUed, That the population of the Re-
public from the St Lawrence to the Gulf of
Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the Pa
ciic being largely composed of men of Irish
birth and blood, it would be unnatural to
| suppose that Ireland could remain an indif-
ferent spectator between England and
America.
RssoEUed, That events of the hour i'm.
peratively dictate to all Irishmen forget
ILLNESS of the past differences, and united
rally for the old cause of their country.
ReSolUed, That chairman, two secret1-
ries aud a committee of q members, each
having been duly and severally proposed
and seconded, be chosen by majority Of
/ voices at this mass meeting TO take into
consideration the advisability of an organi-
zation, in the present state of affairs al
home and abroad.
The Liverpool Post says the whole pur-
pose of the meeting was to express on every
variety of phase, sympathy with America
1t is quite natural that this should be ths
tendency of the Irish even apart from theil
hatred to England, for scarcely any Irish
family is unrepresented in the United
J States. The meeting, however, was needless
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