The Shipping Gazette says that advices from Nantes confirm the report that ex-President Juarez has issued letters of marque to Americans, against French ships, and especially against steamers of the French Trans-Atlantic Company.--One of these steamers, having on board£200,000 in specie, was convoyed 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 the Secretary of State, Mr. Seward, in reply to Lord Wharncliffe's application to distribute aid among rebel prisoners. It 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 animus he cannot conceal, is driven to make the most of an 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 slip that may be made on the part of the British Cabinet or any of its representatives. Mr. Seward must be hard driven when he finds it necessary to express so much indignation in so trifling an affair. The Times questions the wisdom and good taste of Lord Wharncliffe's offer, but it repudiates Mr. Seward's charges against the British people, and concludes by saying that he knows that in every one of the questions raised by the existing civil war we only move in lines already laid down for us by lawyers, statesmen, and the conscience and public opinion of the United States. We are in the same case as they are, and whatever abuse Mr. Seward chances to lavish on us simply recoils on the head of his own people. A letter published in the day article of the Times on trading regulations with the South, contends that they are calculated to impede, rather than promote, traffic. He asserts that the only available channel for getting cotton is through the blockade, and the difficulties of this trade have been increased, not by the great efficiency of the blockade, but by the regulations of the Confederate Government, tending to give itself a monopoly of the profits of blockade running. The weekly returns of the Bank of France exhibit an increase of cash in hand of nearly twelve and one-half million francs. The Bank of France has reduced its rate of discount from five to four and three quarters per cent. The Progress, of Lyons, announces that the cotton crisis is drawing to a close in the Department of the Rhine, where considerable arrivals of raw material have revived that branch of industry. The Paris Bourse, on the 23d, was flat. Rentes were easier, and closed at 65f. 20 The Spanish Cortes opened on the 22d of December. The Queen's speech gives hope of a prompt solution of the Peruvian question, but is silent on the subject of St. Domingo. She says that Spain has not any ambitious projects upon the South American republics. As regards Mexico, the Queen's speech says that the official communication of Maximilian's accession to the throne of Mexico is the commencement of a new era in the political relations between Spain and Mexico, hitherto interrupted. Another paragraph in the speech is as follows: "I am bound to state that the general condition of the monarchy, considered in all its extent, is not satisfactory, and, to remedy this, I shall lay before you a bill of great importance."
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The Shipping Gazette says that advices from Nantes confirm the report that ex-President Juarez has issued letters of marque to Americans, against French ships, and especially against steamers of the French Trans-Atlantic Company.--One of these steamers, having on board£200,000 in specie, was convoyed 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 the Secretary of State, Mr. Seward, in reply to Lord Wharncliffe's application to distribute aid among rebel prisoners. It 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 animus he cannot conceal, is driven to make the most of an 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 slip that may be made on the part of the British Cabinet or any of its representatives. Mr. Seward must be hard driven when he finds it necessary to express so much indignation in so trifling an affair. The Times questions the wisdom and good taste of Lord Wharncliffe's offer, but it repudiates Mr. Seward's charges against the British people, and concludes by saying that he knows that in every one of the questions raised by the existing civil war we only move in lines already laid down for us by lawyers, statesmen, and the conscience and public opinion of the United States. We are in the same case as they are, and whatever abuse Mr. Seward chances to lavish on us simply recoils on the head of his own people. A letter published in the day article of the Times on trading regulations with the South, contends that they are calculated to impede, rather than promote, traffic. He asserts that the only available channel for getting cotton is through the blockade, and the difficulties of this trade have been increased, not by the great efficiency of the blockade, but by the regulations of the Confederate Government, tending to give itself a monopoly of the profits of blockade running. The weekly returns of the Bank of France exhibit an increase of cash in hand of nearly twelve and one-half million francs. The Bank of France has reduced its rate of discount from five to four and three quarters per cent. The Progress, of Lyons, announces that the cotton crisis is drawing to a close in the Department of the Rhine, where considerable arrivals of raw material have revived that branch of industry. The Paris Bourse, on the 23d, was flat. Rentes were easier, and closed at 65f. 20 The Spanish Cortes opened on the 22d of December. The Queen's speech gives hope of a prompt solution of the Peruvian question, but is silent on the subject of St. Domingo. She says that Spain has not any ambitious projects upon the South American republics. As regards Mexico, the Queen's speech says that the official communication of Maximilian's accession to the throne of Mexico is the commencement of a new era in the political relations between Spain and Mexico, hitherto interrupted. Another paragraph in the speech is as follows: "I am bound to state that the general condition of the monarchy, considered in all its extent, is not satisfactory, and, to remedy this, I shall lay before you a bill of great importance."
The Daily Dispatch: January 11, 1865. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. January 11, 1865. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
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