Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-02-24
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HALIFAX, Feb % The steamship Niagara,
from Liverpool Feb 9Th, via Queenstown the
9Th, has arrived. Her dates are two days later.
She has forty passengers for Boston.
Six sets OF parliamentary papers concerning
the civil war in America, had been laid before
the British parliament. Not less than forty.
five official communications have passed about
the federal gunboat Tuscorara and the rebel
steamer Nashville.
Among the interesting official correspond
ence laid before parliament was the decara-
tl0n of earl Russell to the southern commits
siOners, that England could not acknowledge
the confederate states until the wal, or further
negotiations more clearly determined their
position. Mr. Gregory, in the house of com
mons, had denounced the blockade OF the
southern ports as paper one.
The Sumter was detained at Gibraltar from
a difficulty in obtaining coal.
Cotton was buoyant and firmer. Bread
stufs had a downward tendency. Provisions
were still declining. Consols 92sa a SO for
money.
In January, 1861, Earl Russell instructed
Lord Lyons that in case advice should be
asked by President Lincoln's cabinet, he must
reply, that her majesty's government will de
cline, unless both parties apply for counsel.
The policy of the British government, in Feb.
ruary, 1861, in the event of President Lincoln
raising the question with Great Britain, is laid
down in the following terms :-"Her majesty's
government would in the first place be very
tOrbearng. They would show by their acts
how highly they valued the relations of peace
and county with the United States, but would
take care to let the government, which multi
piled proyocations and sought for quarrels,
understand that their foTbearance splang from
consciousness of strength, and not from tim.
idity and weakness"
Lord Russell reports the substance of con.
versation he had with Yancey, Rost and
Mann, the delegates who waited upon him TO
urge the recognition of the c0ntederates His
answer to these gentlemen was, that England
would observe strict neutrality. Earl Russell
said, "Her majesty can not acknowledge the
independence of the nine states, until the fer
tune of arms or more peaceful mode OF ne
gotiation shall have more clearly determined
the respective positions of the two beliger-
ents"
There is a short note, written as late as De-
cember 10th, which shows that even then the
British ministry believed in the probability Of
war with the United States. Lord Lyons ia
directed to speak with Mr. Seward upon the
subject of letters of marque, and to say that,
in case of war, Great Britain is willing TO
abolish privateering as between the two ma
tons, If the president will make similar en-.
gagement on the part of the United States
In TIE house of lords, Earl Caernarron
brought up the case of Shepard, Canadian,
arrested by order of Mr.. Seward.
Late Gibraller advices received at Liverpool
represent the prirateer Sumter as detained at
Gibralter by difficulty in obtaining coal. A
meeting of parties connected with the coaling
business there resolved not to supply coal to
the Sumter except for cash, the paper offered
in payment, although on good houses, not be-
ing deemed eligible. The same advices rep.
resent the crew of the Sumter as fine fellows
but nautical men say there is no fight in her.
The official Gazette publishes an order of
the privy council, removing the prohibition
against the export of saltpetre, arms, NUM-
tonS. and all other articles lately prohibited.
Warsaw advices announce that the catholic
priests imprisoned in the citadel, have been
condemned TO transportation to Siberia, one
to imDrisOnmenI in the fortress