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The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
he Government must let him go, as they have recognized those States as belligerents. Commissioners Mason and Slidell were expected at Southampton in the steamer La Plate, due the 30th. It is reported that the James Adger is cruising to intercept the British steamer and capture her, as having contraband of war on board. [The James Adger arrived at Baltimore several days ago.--Ed. Herald. ] It is reported that the Galway steamer Adriatic has been sold, and is fitting for the West Indies; but there is a strong impression that she is destined for the Confederate States. The underwriters were raising the war risks on American vessels. There are no tidings of to the North Briton, and the Anglo Saxon is also overdue. The insurance has been advanced — on the former thirty guineas, and on the latter fifty shillings were demanded. France. The Bank of France had reduced the rate of discount to 5 per cent. A reduction of from eighty to a hundred thousand m
The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], The expedition against Mexico. (search)
and against the accidents of our Southern blockade." It was not to be supposed that this Mexican expedition could have been organized and set on foot without exciting the suspicions of the North, and yet there is no prospect whatever that the triple alliance just concluded will be directed towards an interference between the American belligerents. If France or England, or both powers combined, have determined on raising the Southern blockade, they need only have united their forces on the West India stations, and ordered them upon that service. It was surely not necessary to take the roundabout course of concluding a Convention with Spain, and enlisting the aid of that country in an undertaking in which she could have no direct concern. The closing of the Southern ports is of no great consequence to Spain. Her commerce is but slightly affected by the blockade, and the Cabinet of Madrid would most assuredly never incur the cost and trouble of equipping an expedition to give a colori