Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-01-05
Lnfest Foreign News.

HALIFAX, Jan. 1.-The Asia, from Liver
pool, 24th, and Queenstown, 25th ult., ar
rived this morning with three days later
news.
The Pope of Rome, in response to the
manifesto of the Confederate States, ap-
plauds the pacific sentiments expressed
therein and deplores therein the further
continuance of the bloody struggle between
the North and the South. He will not tail
to avail himself OF favorable opportunity
to urge peace.
The Shipping Gazette says that the adj
vices from Nantes confirm the report that
eX-President Juarez has issued letters of
marque to Americans against French ships,
and especially against the ships of the
transatlantic Company. One of these
steamers, having on board f200000 in
specie, was conveyed from Vera Cruz by a
French man-of-war.
The Army and Navy Gazette ridicules
the idea that Sherman was obliged to leave
Atlanta.
The London Times has an editorial on the
letter of Secretary Seward in reply to Lord
Wharncliffes application to distribute aid
among rebel prisoners. 1t says that it is no
slight testimony to the course taken by Her
Majesty's government in its dealings with
Federal America, that Seward. with an ami
the most of the opportunity offered him by
a person irresponsible as a representative
of the British nation. His letter indicates
that he is prepared to make the most of the
least official step that might be made
OH the part of the British Cabinet
or any of its representatives. Mr.. Sew
ard must be hard driven when he
finds it necessary to express so much indig-
nation on so tritling an affair. The Times
questions the wisdom and good taste of
Lord Wharncliff7s Offer but it repudiates
Mr.. Sewards's charges against the British
people, and concludes by saying that he kno
that in every one fthe questions raised by
the existing civil war we are only moving
in the lines already laid down for us by the
lawyers, statesmen, the conscience and
public opinion of the United States. We
are in the same case that they are, and
whatever abuse Mr.. Seward chooses to lavish
on us simply recoils on the heads of his own
people.
A letter published in the city article of
the Times on the trading regulations with
the South, contends that they are calculated
to impede rather than promote traffic. He
asserts the only available channel for get
ting cotton is through the blockade, and
that the difficulties of the trade have been
increased, not by the great efficiency of the
blockade, but by the regulations of the
Confederate Government tending to give
itself monopoly of the profits Of blockade
running. rsse gt4. srs esv
The weekly returns Of the bank of France
exhibits an increase of cash on hand of
nearly twelve and half millions francs.-
The bank of France has reduced its rate of
discount from to Al. .ll..|J Iitt
The Progress, of Lyons, announces that
the cotton crisis is drawing to close in the
department of the Rhine, where considera-
BILE arrivals of the raw material have re-
vived that branch of industry.
SPAIN.-The Cortes opened on the 22d
December. The Queens speech gives the |
hope of prompt solution of the Peruvian |
question, but is silent on the subject of st. |
Domingo. 1t says that Spain has not am
bilious projects upon the South American |
republics. Asrelates to Mexico, the speech |
says the official communication on Max |
milian's accession to the throne OF |
Mexico is the commencement of q new |
era in the political relations between |
Spain and Mexico, hitherto, unfortunately, |
interrupted. Another paragraph in the |
speech is as follows: ~ am bound to state |
that the general condition of the monarchy, |
considered in all its extent, is not very sat |
isfactory, and to remedy this / shall lay |
before you bill of great importance."-
This Is supposed to refer to San Domingo. |