The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-16


equipping them on the Canadian shores,
will fnd itself, about the 10Th Of April,
with only one vessel upon each lake to
oppose the the Federal war vessels.
AUSTRIA AND ITALY.
Reductions Of the armies arc to be
effected on a grand scale by Austria
and Italy. It is said the Italian reduc-
ton will be cightyfi thousand men.
INDIA.
An official telegram, dated Calcutta,
December 10th, announces that the for
tress of Dalimpotc Bhootan was captured
by the British, with the SMALL loss of
two officers and fifty men. The position
was very strong. Three officers and
seven men were subsequently killed by
the accidental explosion Of gunpowder.
The Daily Ne~s publishes a letter
from Professor Goodwin Smith, asserting
his conviction that The sinking Of the
Florida was entirely accidental.
The Times publishes letter from Lord
, u narncliite, in response to Mr.. Stewards
refusal to allow the Liverpool Bazaar
! Fund to be distributed to Southern pri-
soners. Wharnclifle quotes Northern
papers to disprove Mr.. Stewards state
ment, that the prisoners were not suffer
ing unusual privations. He denies that
the funds were mainly contributed by
those trading with the South, saying the
movement was almost entirely carried
out 10y Southern ladies in England, and
that the refusal will not practically affect
the distribution Of the fund.- The letter
of Mr.. Adams, communicating briefly
Mr. Stewards refusal, is published. In
it Mr.. Adams expresses regret that he
has to close the correspondence
The Times has an editorial lomplimcn-
tarv to Messrs. WharnclifIc and Adams,
and, by inference, the reverse to Mr..
Seward.
The Daily Ne'es justifes Mr.. Seward S
course, and shows that Wharncltfe de-
served rebuke.
| La france points to General Fremont
as the late Mr.. Dayton's successor.
The Russian ambassador had returned
to Rome.
The Times contrasts the temperate
language of Lincoln, in his late message,
and the proclamation of General Dix and
the resolutions offered in the Federal
Senate by Mr.. Chandler. 1t says: "In
Congress We are charged with completely
in assassination and pillage, while mill
tary commander threatens our territories
; with INVASION; but the chief of the Re-
public does justice to both Canada and
England, and we gladly receive his views
as those which time and reason will com.
mend to the American people. War be
tween America and England would be
simply the most formidable Intervention
in behalf Of the South which Mr.. Davis
could desire" The Times especially re-
commends this point to the consideration
of the Americans.
| 1t adds "lt has been long surmised
that the Confederate agents, in their va
rious operations, have been rather allured
than deferred by the prospects of inter
national embodiment arising out of their
schemes. If, besides escaping with a
cruiser and 'plundering a bank, they
could bring a powerful enemy on the
back of their foe, it would be an enor-
nous aid to them.
Perhaps some of them, now looking to
the st. Adams raid, have hopes of this
kind. 1t is much wiser to disappoint
them than to play their game. The
Federals may assure themselves that MOI
even the capture of Nashville nor thu
defeat of Sherman would crafty thu
South half as much as rupture will
this country, which certain Northern
politicians are necessarily advising.
III. an.1or Do.f co VIC %ho< po;%ho~ ~,
English nor the Federals will allow them
selves to be driven into unfriendly rela
tons by the buccaneering exploits Of
third party, whose object is sufficient,
manifest. 1t will no doubt be found nc
cessarv to the interest of both nations t
maintain an etfectual military police, bot
ON the shores and lake, With the view Q
5 preventing a recurrence of recent depre
dations. The Herald says we must tax
f care and give them no reasonable ground
= of proyocation; that if the war shoult
a commence it may be their fault, not ours
. The Star believes that the feeling il
, the United States about the release of tn
f st. Adams robbers would doubtless sub
} size as soon as the course OF the Canada
Government was known.
e The 71mes's city article says the fund
S were rather less firm yesterday, const
4 quent upon the demand for money at tn
!, close of the year, also in copnection wit
e the foreign and share settlement nov
in progress. The American news cause
t some little depression in Canadian secu
e rites, although the only Importance at
! +.ched to the fresh example of nations
= weakness furnished by the last me-
York intelligence is that the order
General Dix and wildneSs of the politics