Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-11-21

Ths AnglO-aobel Eavy.


Of iron-cled vessels OF war, said TO be rapidly
completing 10 England on rebel account, aud
intended both 10 open lbe blockade Of South
ern Iarbors ard TO operate against Northern
seapor:s. We have been favored By gentle
maa j,sr from England with some further IN
formation on tie same point, Whieh is both
ruthenic and minute. Il may tend to quiet
whatever alacm is felt about immediate
descent upon cur coast batlt Is by no means
0f such character as ought 10 lessen any Efforts
the Navy Department may haPPea TO be
making.
According to Mr.. Cameron, three immense
iron sleam-rams tie nust powerful ever coa-
s,ructcd, are building fer the rcbe!s, Ii is not
certain that the statement Is true I've are
On the stocks at Liverpool, IN The hands 81
james Laird, A. P, WHO built the pirate a a.
bama, and is pushing ihom rapidly TO eomp.e- +
tion. The third is building, if any where, on
the Clyde at Glasgow. Our Informant has
little knowledge of the Liverpool rams, their
size, or how nearly finished they are at present
Ills account relates especially 10 Glasgow
In the great shipyard OF that pert three iren-
elads are baiidiag. One Of them the Hector,
iusI launched is for the British Govornnleiit
another for Denmark, both in the gard OF
Nessrs. Napier & Sons The third is screw
steamer, Eslder contract by Messvs George 4
james Thompson, Of $500 tuns and 500 horse
poger, of model so fiat that she is calculated
10 draw but fifteen feet OF water; built wholly
OF iron, her frame included; and with
plating tNenty-two inches thick, Of which
ieur inches and a-half are iron and tAe rest
solid teak.
This vessel is said to be for seme foreign
government not named, though if for any re
cogniz d Government there is no reason Why
there should be any mystery about her. But
although 30 effort is made to hide the iacis
about any other vessel, little is generally
known OF this one, and information like shat
We give vas obtained with difficulty. a man
of-war is commonly named when her keel IS
laid This has no name, bat i2 known only By
her number in the Yard Her frame is about
half raised, and work is going on slowly. The
contract requires her to be completed 10 twen-
ty months from last Jsly. II any vessel is
now building for the rebels on the Clyde, 1t is
this. But il is quite Obvious. nom the rate at
which work ca hsr progresses, and from The
period fixed 10y the contract, that she is net re
lied on for Immediate service. And concern
Jag both this aud the Liverpool rams, eur Gov
ernrneHt is and has censtansl been fally ia.
forned.
Whatever doubt there may be about this
ironcIad, there Is none at al that ether steam
crs for different service are bought aud built
Tor the rebels at Glasgow. The Columbia,
AdeIa, ard Leopard. oil sailed last Summer
from this pert, the Columbia TO Hamburg fol
n cargo, tue Adeln TO Liverpool, The Leopard
90 CardiG The Two former we're captured en-
deavoring 10 run The blockade the Leopard
got through.
The rebels are preparing, apparently, not to
break the blockade this winter by force, but it
evade it by vessels Of unusual speed, Wi,h
this view they have bought ana are Fitting GU;
steamers at Glasgow, which port seems tc
share with livcrP0ol the bofoT Oh being Q
rendezvous for pirates. There is great actlvi-
ty 10 AL the yards, especially in that OF Messrs
George and james Thompson, above mention
ed, in which six iron-but not irnnelad-ves
sells are on the ways for construction or repair
all owned by rebels or in rebel interest. Tue
Iona, Pearl, Eagle, and Ruby, were selected
especially fer the work Of CARRYING arms and
ammunition into blockaded rebel ports The
Iona was the first to attempt the voyage, and
was sunk by collision six weeks ago be
other three, like the Iona, are long, narrow
swift, smooth water side wheel steamers, built
to run fifteen miles en- hour on the Clyde, and
fren $50 TO 200 tens burden. The Pearl was
lying at Queenstown, taking in powder, when
the city of Baltimore, on her last voyage out
touched at that port. It is proposed to send
her and the rest-al OF them being unfit for
an Atlantic yoyage-hy way of MADEIRA &c
Nassau, there to load and thence 10 attempt
the blockade. There are immense stores al
Nassau waiting the opportunity TO find eut.
rance into rebel ports, aud the rebel necessities
are so great that they will leave no means uA-
tried to obtain them.
BESIDES these, there are steamers Of another
.class-tEe Thistle, Giraffe, and Columbia
three screws built for sea voyages. destined
for similar service, but Of much larger tuu
hage. The Giraffe cost 600, the This
tie $4,000, and the seven together not le
than 9IGO OCO. 1t appears from an exunlin
alton of their castomhouse register that all
except the Girage, are owned in the name c
George Wigg, Liverpool merchant, activ
in tbs rebel cause, and were bought by Henr
Lafone, agent Both Wigg and T.afone hav
been in Glasgow on business connected wit
tie vessels, Messrs. Bsgby and Co., OF LoI
don, who were concerned in fitting ont th
Gladiator, Of recent notority, havs also thre
iron steamers Of 500 or COO tuns, building O
the Clyde, probably Intended to r,la the b,ocl
ade. From the fact chat Capt, Rcasens VIII
went TO Glasgow 10 take chargh of the Colan
b;a, was transferred to the supern:endeuce
the whole rebel feet, it is supposed that III
firm may also be interested in the Columbia
The names Of AIessrs. Begby c Co
George Wigg, Of Henry I4afone, Of Georg
and James Thompson, aud especially Of Jam,
Laird, NJ. P. and rebel merchants agents al
ship-builders, deserve TO be faithfully remeH
berGd by loyal Americans Till a possible Is
Of future reckoning.
1t IS evident from such facts as the abov
which are Important and come 10 US we'll al
thenticated, that the rebels have 20 lack
money Or credit in England. Probably cot
siderable part Of the cotton hypothecated t
the rebel govcrumentis is pleged in some way
to English capitalists as security for advaac
and they in turn are secured by iasurauceS a
no extravagant premium, but with marg;
enough to make themselves good
Bat it is TO the Liverpool Southern Ass
ciaticn that The rebels most largely owe wha
ever Of credit and resources they possess
England. Liverpool is bitterly and alme
unanimously rebel in its sympaihies, 81
throughout Great Britain this pestilent seapo
has exerted wide and earnest iufueHce again
We arc not likely to forget it.
a fact concerning the Alabama deserv
to be stated. The American Consul at Ilj7
erPool seems to have made every eff lrt TO pc
saade the British auihorites to prevent h
from leaving port on a era ise which all 70