Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-12-20
WAR WITH ENGLAND.
LATER FROM EUROPE

land Var wih the United States
Threatened IN the event Of our Re
ftSaL to release tie Rebel Commission
erS.-Rumored order to Lord Lyons
to demand apology and reStitutiOn,-
Great Navat Preparations for War.
THE English Government strengthen
ing its force IN Canada.-EIpOrt Of
WarHke Stores to the United States
Stopped - General Excitement among
the People.
THE MASON AND sLIDEL AFFAIR IN
ENGLAND.
LONDON, Dec. /. The Observer, the
ministerial journal, insists upon demand
for an apology from the Federal govern
ment, and also upon a restitution to the
protection of the British flag of Mason
and Sldell, who were violently and lille
gal!y torn from that sacred asylum
Nearly all the London weekly papers
treat the question of the San Jacinto in
the same energetic spirit as the daily pa
pers.
The agitation increases.
QUEENSTOWN, Dec. l. The Observer
states that the government demands from
President Lincoln and his cabinet the
restoration of the persons of the South
ern ENJOYS to the British Government
Yesterday afternoon, after 5 o'clock,
Her Majesty held a privy council at
Windsor Castle. Three of the minis
tiers, including the first Lord of the Ad-
miralty and the secretaries of state and
of war, travelled from London to Wind
sor by special train, to be present. Pre-
vous to leaving town, the three ministers
bad attended a cabinet council at Lord
Palmerston's official residence.
The Observer says a special messenger
of the Foreign office has been ordered
to carry our demands to Lord Lyons,
and will proceed by the packet from
Queenstown to-day. The public will be
satisfied to know that these demands are
for an apology and the restitution to the
protection of the British flag Of those
who were violently and Illegally torn
from that sacred asylum.
The Observer adds that there is no
reason why they should not be restored
to the quarterback of a British Admiral
at New York, or Washington itself, in
the face of some ten or twelve British
men-of-war, whose presence in the Po-
tomac would render the clustering cabi-
net at Washington as helpless as the
Trent was before the guns and cutlasses
of the San Jacinto. 1t is no fault of
| ours if it should come even to this. Tie
arrangements for increasing the force in
Canada are not yet completed, but ia a
very few hours everything will be settled.
In the meantime a large ship, the Mel
bourne, has been taken up, and Is now
being loaded at Woolwich with Arm
strong guns, some $4,000 Enfield rifles,
ammunition and other stores. 1t is not
impossible that the vessel will be escorted
by one or two ships of war. The rifles
are intended for the Canadian militia,
A strong reinforcement OF field artillery
will be dispatched forthwith.
The Queens Advocate, Sir John Har-
ding, Attorney General Sir WIN. Ather-
stone, and the Solicitor General, Mr..
Rowndell Palmer, have been in frequent
personal communication with the govern
ment during the last few DAYS.
QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 2. The Times
city article of the Both November. shows
that the fall of two per cent in consols,
and fopr TO five per cent in shares. while
the question of actual war is altogether
,rdecided l. not irsti1ed IN the nature
Of tbinos. Botween Januarv and March
1874 when the war was declared AGAINST
Russia consols went from % IA 70.