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Latey, John Lash (editor) : The Illustrated London News. No. 1120. Vol. XXXIX. Saturday, December 7, 1861. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

(London: George C. Leighton, 1861)

400 x 280 mm; magazine, disbound from volume XXXIX, without wraps (as issued), and contained within a film fronted bag; pp. [567-590]; several woodcuts. Regular light browning; some soiling and fingering throughout; some glue remnants to stitching. News in this issue includes the progress of construction for the 1862 International Exhibition (with illustrations), and the continuing American Civil War with particular focus on the boarding of the British vessel Trent and capture of Confederate commissioners by crew of the Union vessel San Jacinto. Information on the War is brought up to the 20th of November, as reported in New York. The front page illustration shows a "Federal picket on the Potomac, in front of the Confederate batteries." Further American Civil War illustrations: "My reconnaissance with General Sickles in the Potomac" (p. 570), "The Confederate batteries on the Lower Potomac, Virginia shore, opposite Budd's Ferry - Government store-schooners running the blockade" and "The ten-pounder gun battery (Federalist) at Budd's Ferry, Lower Potomac, opposite the Confederate batteries on the Virginia shore" (p. 571), "The seizure by Captain Wilks, of the United States' war-ship San Jacinto, of Messrs. Slidell and Mason, Confederate commissioners, on board the British mail-steamer Trent (p. 583, full-page). Excerpts: 'THE TRENT AND THE SAN JACINTO … These fact have been laid before the law officers of the Crown, who have decided that the captain of the San Jacinto has committed a breach of international law, and a despatch from the British Government is already on its way to Lord Lyons, instructing him, it has been said, to demand the restoration of the captured gentlemen to the protection from which they have been illegally taken, and a disavowal and apology on the part of the Federal Government for the act of their own officer. If this demand is not complied with, it is rumoured that our Minister at Washington will forthwith return home; Mr. Adams, the American Minister at London, will be furnished with his passports; and diplomatic relations between the two countries will be broken off, in anticipation of war. … Colonel Cochrane, a lifelong pro-slavery Democrat, in an address to his regiment, proclaimed "the military necessity of the emancipation of the slaves." The Secretary of War (Mr. Cameron), who was present, followed with a short but significant speech … "'

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