December (Sunday) 22nd.–Lord Lyons saw Mr. Seward again, but it does not appear that any answer can be expected before Wednesday. All kinds of rumours circulate through the city, and are repeated in an authoritative manner in the New York papers.
Rumours—William Howard Russell’s Diary.
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