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The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Christmas eve. (search)
to the English-American difficulty are contradictory. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News learns that when Mr. Slidell was taking leave of his wife on board the Trent, he placed his dispatches in her hand, told her to go to her cabin, sit at the porthole, and that if an attempt was made to take the box from her, to drop it into the sea. Mrs. Slidell obeyed his orders, was not molested, and took the dispatches safely to England. The Paris Patric learns that the San Jacinto in November last searched a French vessels. These facts, says the Patric, are of some importance, as proving that the Cabinet at Washington fancies that it has the power to exercise the right of search to its full extent. Some writers say that France will remain a quiet spectator of passing events. Others state that there is a disposition to employ the army and navy in case of war. The preponderating feeling, however, is represented to be favorable to a reconciliation between England and Am