Posted on 12/21/2021 7:47:53 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Friday, Dec. 20.
If any correspondence has taken place between Lord Lyons and Secretary SEWARD, it has been of an informal and confidential character, as no official communications have passed between them with reference to the Trent affair.
LATER. -- Lord LYONS had an interview with our Government to-day, in which the Trent affair was informally talked over. The official dispatches of her Majesty's Government have not yet been presented, but the impression so generally prevails that there is no danger of war with England, that the interest in the subject has in a great degree subsided.
The dispatches received from Mr. ADAMS are based upon the tone of the English Press and the feeling of the people, which he represents as extremely excited and hostile toward the United States. Private letters received generally are of the same tenor, though some, coming from very intelligent parties, state that there is an under-current of popular feeling adverse to the National passion which was so offensively exhibiting itself in the Press and other mediums of popular opinion.
No unusual dispatches have been forwarded by the Government to our Ministers in England and France Events must await the slow course of diplomacy.
This morning at 6 o'clock a portion of Gen. MCCALL's Division proceeded in the direction of Drainesville on a foraging expedition, and for the purpose of making a reconnoissance in the locality. Drainesville is about midway between Gen. MCCALL's Headquarters and Leesburgh. On arriving in that vicinity they encountered the enemy, who had four regiments of infantry -- South Carolinians, Alabamians and Kentuckians -- with a battery of six pieces and a regiment of cavalry, under command of Gen. STEWART.
The only troops on our side that engaged in the affair were Gen. ORDS' Brigade, the First Rifles,
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