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The Asia arrived at Halifax at 5 o'clock on the morning of December 31. She left Liverpool at 11 o'clock on the morning of the 21st ult., and Queenstown on the 22d, and she has on board five hundred troops, with stores, &c., and is consequently under Government orders. She has 28 passengers for New York, and £7,200 in specie. The screw steamship Etna, Capt. Kennedy, which left Liverpool at noon on the 18th, and Queenstown on the 19th of December, arrived here at 10 ½ A. M. yesterday, bringing mails and passengers. The steamship Borussis, from Hamburg via Southampton 18th ult., also arrived at this port yesterday. In England public feeling was for the moment so engrossed with the death of the Prince Consort that, although President Lincoln's message was regarded with the greatest interest, it received less attention than would have been the case under other circumstances. Warlike preparations continue unabated. Additional troops are ordered to be ready to embark; but the Army and Navy Gazette, of December 21, says that no more are likely to be placed under orders until hostilities are actually declared. In that event some of the regiments in the Mediterranean garrisons will probably be sent in the war vessels now rendezvousing at Gibinitar. The steamer Parane, with about one thousand of Scots Fusileer, Guards, left Southampton on the 20th for Britain North America. The steamer Cleopatra would leave Liverpool on the 21st for Queenstown, there to embark over five hundred men of the Seventeenth regiment. The Magdalena would embark about one thousand men at Southampton on the 21st. The mail steamers of the Peninsula and Oriental Company, numbering about fifty, were to be armed and made capable of resisting privateers, in case of War. The gun-boats in second class reserve at Portsmouth had been ordered to be fitted out immediately. Pending the news in response to the demands of the British Government in regard to the Tient affair, the English papers have little to say. The London Morning Post says the Americans cannot possibly complain of the tenor of the dispatch to Lord Lyons. Movements were taking place between the Government and the authorities or Liverpool looking to the defence of that port. The English funds on the 20th of December were firmer, and had advanced one-half percent, chiefly owing to large in vestments. Various peace rumors were also instrumental in causing the rise. It was stated in England that Parliament will meet for the dispatch of business on the 14th or the 16th of January, which is some weeks earlier than usual. The London Times, of the 19th ult., says that Lord Palmerston, who had been suffering from an attack of gout in the wrist and in one foot, had almost entirely recovered from it on the 18th. He had been confined to the house for a few days, but has never been prevented from receiving his colleagues or transacting the business which, especially at such a moment, devolves on the head of the Government. Lord Clarence Paget writes to the Shipowners' Society that the Admiralty have already sent instructions to the commanders-in-chief on the different stations, and he says that, if necessary, further reinforcements will be sent, in order that British commerce may, as far as possible, be efficiently protected. Admiral D'Acres will hoist his flag on board the Edgar, as second in command on the North American station. The Edgar will call at Lisbon for latest instructions A portion of the Mediterranean fleet was gradually accumulating at Gibraltar, to be ready, if necessary, to cross the Atlantic. The London Times has a severe article on the brutalizing signs which civil war is producing, and strongly denounce various measures of the Northern States. On the 18th ult., additional shipwrights were taken on at Portsmouth dockyards to get ready with the utmost dispatch the ships ordered for sea; the crews were held in readiness to send on board at an hour's notice, should they be required. The two battalions of guards ordered to North America left London early on the morning of December 19, to embark at Southampton the same day. The first battalion of the military train and a battery of artillery embarked at Southampton on the 18th. The troops were sandy within half an hour of their arrival in the dock. The London Post remarks that the bombardment of Grey a place under British procession, did not lead to war, nor did the seizure of San Juan and affairs; so the Washington Cabinet may expect that the likewise blow over. The December 19, publishes a the custom-house of Strasburg or the importation of woolen and cotton yarns of every kind of Belgian and English man fracture. The Paris Patris, in enumerating the five French vessels at New York, others are shortly to be The custom-houses of Bologne, Calais, Dunkirk, V lennes, and Cambery, are added to the number of those which have already been opened for direct importation and clearance for English and Belgian textures, taxed ad valorers. The Moniteur, in its bulletin, gives a categorical denial to all the reports of modification in the French ministry. Count Pourtales, Prussian Minister to the Court of the Tulleries, The Marquis Vega Armiga has been appointed Minister of Public Works in Spain.--Mr. Schurz the American Minister, has left Madrid on leave of absence. A Berne telegraphic dispatch asserts that France had issued a diplomatic circular, taking ground against the arrest of Messrs. Mason and Slidell, and had sent representatives to Washington in order to determine the American Government to make indispensable concessions. The steamships of the Canadian and New York and Philadelphia lines were stipulating with shippers for the right to call at any intermediate port, discharge cargoes, &c., should it be deemed unsafe from war or otherwise to go to their ports of destination. The Bohemian arrived off Londonderry on the 17th.
The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. January 6, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
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