Litchfield enquirer., 1865-03-16

FuRElGS NEWS.--1he City of Baltimore has
 reached New York with European dates to
 Feb 3, four days later. ...;,.,.- ec 55 1a News confirming the tailafs ot psaes aego. tia,ions at Fortress Monroe caused g slight de- pressiou in American securities and improve ment was afterwards lost .isgsy g.Gissfs; Iai E, An exciting debate had taken place iu the British House of Lords upon the, defences ot Canada, winch caus d a fall in consols.y v Lord Lyyeden called attention to the matter, pointed to the hostile feelings of Americans, and urged immediate measures for the defense ot that province. flaw syssiG anq 1 .; sfl V
 Earl DeGrey admitted ile importanca of
 the question, but regretted ythat sany doubt
 should be expressed of the conciliatory inten tions of thu American government. qHeexS
 plained that the measures proposed would re.
 auire- g50 ,OQQ for the defensesof Quebec;while
 the Canadians would ander,akes the defsases
 of Montreal. ssdssm 49d eJai ,ts2nsr.s agi.., 7. .
 if Earl Derby thought the position af; the gov
 ernmeut was huuiliating when the question of
 peace or war depended on an sexciteable popu-
 lace with strong preiudicesv againsta England,
 and strongly censured the goyernmentfoe hay
 ing so long delayed the deiences, .and ridicnied the smallness of the appropriation askedfor
 Other lords complained of the ssmallness of the sum asked for,y9as ,siai o93 wee Raw < Earl Russell regretted the discussion and sta,
 ted that the government declined to make any
 movement. while Bthei Canadians declined to-
 take, measures themselves bat as, theFwnow
 showed different positions the government
 had come forward to assist. h reply to Earl
 Derby, Lord Russell said the subject of naval forces. for the lakes, owing o'the termination
 of the convention, was under considerations q Field Marshal Lord Cambermere jssdeads : ;. The U. s. steamers Niagara and Sacralaento were at Ferrol, orAcrpising off there, watching for the new rebel steam ram StoneWail which was alleged ito be innseaworthy .ss The state
 ment is, denied that the French government sent any vessels in pursuit of the Stonewalt- - The cabinet of the Enilleries does not conside CT it possesses tlie right to pursue any ram of the slave States,e though by completing her fitting out in French waters she zcommittedsan auda cious violation of French mentality The 1 matter is to be investigated. sa&Ig evsa 3llW
 There are only five 0laisrs a the Rsv0la,,al tionary War now hvlng; They gre LenpeiI I shout go years of age, and resides in ,ClaEan-
 snlisted in Carroll count, N. H5 now. ahout | burg, Saratoga county, N. Ys;s Wm.I Hptch-i' ngs, enlisted st Newcastle, Maine, then Mas-Is ,achusetts,l nov one hundred years eld, and .esides in Penobscott, Hancock county, Ne.
 Alexander Maroney, enlisted d. .druMmer-boy,d It Lake George, N 4..vnows abolt ninety -four ,ears old, his residence is Yates, Orleans conn. Y, N. Y, James .Rarham, substitute. for q irafted man in Southampton county, N ireinia, x ives ih Missouri, and is in his one hundred and !fss yFas s sisas tysws g1sv < a5i# ,bsss s1s t,
 The United Statss owns gl a upwards of i,ooot 100 acres of public lands susceptible of cplti- 1 'ation. They own at least 2 Oo0, ,000s acres of I old and silver-bearing. lands. Tue aFrahle 1e andis are worth at, least &I 200, ,000, 900, and he mineral lands $500, ,OoO, 00O~-making to- ether q total of s, 200. ooo. .0oOasd.9es sW F