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Latey, John Lash (editor) : The Illustrated London News. No. 1109. Vol. XXXIX. Saturday, September 21, 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. [287-310]; several woodcuts. Regular light browning; some soiling and fingering throughout; some glue remnants to stitching; a few short tears. In the wake of the Queen's visit to Ireland, there is a lengthy article on the decline of the Irish population by around 2½ million in the space of twenty years. News in this number includes the progress of the American Civil War, with information up to the 7th of September, as reported in Canada. There is an interesting series of pictures of the production process at the Royal Enfield small arms factory (p. 298), and an American Civil War illustration with the caption "Confederates trapping a boat's crew of the Potomac fleet" (p. 303). Some excerpts: 'The Surveyor at New York has seized some forty vessels in New York harbour, under the confiscation law, which are said to be owned by the South. Similar seizures have taken place at Boston and Philadelphia. The Federal Government are active in arresting persons charged with fitting out slavers from New York. The immigration to New York this year from Europe consists chiefly of Germans, who settle on farms in the West, and are comparatively unhurt by the civil war. The Irish, who throng the cities, feel the effect of hard times more acutely, and send home discouraging accounts, which diminish the immigration. It having been discovered that vessels loaded with provisions and stores of all sorts were clearing for Metamoras, a port of Mexico bordering on Texas, the cargoes of which were doubtless intended for the enemy's use, all clearances for that port have been refused by the authorities of the seaports. The Northern journals continue their "frantic abuse," as a Boston paper calls it, of Mr. Russell.'

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