Posted on 12/22/2021 5:57:08 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
HALIFAX, Saturday, Dec. 21.
The R.M. steamship America, from Liverpool on Saturday, Dec. 7, via Queenstown on the 8th, put in here at 6 o'clock this morning short of coal. She has forty-five passengers for New-York, for which port she sailed at 10 o'clock, and where she will be due on Monday.
It is reported that she called at Halifax for the purpose of delivering Government dispatches, as well as to get a supply of coal.
The America passed the Niagara, from Boston via Halifax, going into Queenstown.
The dates per the America are two days later than those already received.
Warlike sentiments and preparations were unabated in England.
A large anti-war meeting had, however, been held at Dublin.
The British Government had sent a letter approving the course of Commander WILLIAMS, the Mail Agent, on board the steamer Trent.
The Paris papers assert that the British Government, in answer to petitions from the manufacturing districts, had stated that the cotton ports of the Southern States would be opened by February at the latest.
Countess CANNING, wife of the Governor-General of India, died at Calcutta on the 18th of November.
The British Parliament had been further prorogued till the 7th of January.
It was stated that orders for the purchase of half a million quarters of wheat had been sent to the Black Sea ports from London, within the last few days, for present and future use.
The British frigate Warrior was taking in 760 tons of coal, preparatory to service on the North American coast.
A considerable number of additional English troops were to be sent to Canada.
The Constitutionnel, Patrie, Debats, and several other French journals, say that France will remain neutral in the event of war between England and the United States.
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