HALIFAX, March 5.
The Canada arrived here to-day with Liverpool dates of the 22d, via Queenstown 23d. The Bavaria and Africa had arrived out.
LIVERPOOL. – Breadstuffs dull. Provisions downward. Consuls 93 1-4 for money.
Lord Palmerston, in the House of Lords said that negotiations relative to the San Juan affair had been suspended, in consequence of the civil war in America, but a joint provisional occupation of the island had been arranged by both governments.
The British Government has refused to produce any information relative to British vessels running the American blockade.
It is reported Slidell has had several interviews with all the French ministers, but they were, of course, of an unofficial nature.
The Grecian insurrection continues, but is confined to Nauplia.
Washington’s birth-day was patriotically celebrated in the Freemason’s tavern, London, the Bishop of Ohio presiding. Minister Adams responded to the toast, “Memory of Washington.”
GREAT BRITIAN. – In the House of Commons on 20th inst., Mr. O’Donoghue moved for a return of the British vessels, of their captains and owners, that have succeeded in running the American blockade; also for similar returns of British vessels captured or destroyed in the attempt to break the blockade and returns of the number of British vessels that have put into Nassau and other colonial ports, with contraband of war and supplies for the Confederate States and that have been permitted to refit and supply themselves at those places, in contravention of the Queen’s proclamation of neutrality. He strongly censured the government for not having taken active steps to prevent breaches of neutrality by British ships.
My. Ledyard said that it would be scarcely convenient that he should inter into discussion of the blockade, which would come on more regularly when there was a solution of it, of which notice had been moved. He must decline therefore to consent to the returns for two reasons. In the first place government had not yet got the information sought for and in the second place if they had, it would not be their office to furnish a list of wrong doers and violators of the law.
The papers relative to the blockade would probably be laid on the table on the 24th or 25th inst., and would contain a statement of the number of vessels which had broken the blockade, and perhaps their tonnage, and he hoped the information would satisfy O’Donoghue.
The Solicitor General explained the misapprehension of O’Donoghue, and that private vessels might carry contraband of war, but at their own risk, and if detected they must abide the consequences.
In Parliament, Mr. McGuire called the attention of the House to the serious distress at present existing in Ireland.
Sir Robt. Peel in reply refuted his assertions, and in the course of his remarks said that no more remarkable proof of the absence of grievances existed that that which occurred the other day. When there was danger of a rupture with America Ireland was full of American emissaries trying to raise up the spirit of disloyalty.
Manchester advices are favorable, the demand for goods and yarns being quiet with an upward tendency.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, March 6, 1862, p. 1
