The New York Herald Newspaper, February 26, 1862, Page 4

4 "NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 186%.—TRIPLK SHEET. SL Se eee UT EAE ° “ ; sufiicient patriotism to furnish them, exist withia the 3 contains ‘Cor: interus Gonfedora'e States for that purmse. Q tignsi mcntinns ar he ee enent a vane sqayhot tise! well iormed ‘te. || enon a® Sie tome pont i spony ge Agden pe ‘THE BUITISH CONSUL AT CHARLBETON, cho Jing States ar and I. weer ie anche conflict ert tho jpou ‘No, 4 1s the correspondence respecting the withdrawal slaveholding States of the North. Inthe opinion of by the government of the United States of Mr. Bunch’s iin ities roo ea he | Seer anbar Mat oa wt itn, orrec' q relative settee chtbed tovtoeds g Powers, in re- | Rection with this affair the following extract ofa com munication from Mr, Adams to Lord Russell will be reas: 4 “has been the subject of numero:s commentaries, par- IMPORTART FROM copa r ee | ieee eee rcc rea the ae of ~ which it sums up to be (always referring to what the English press says) that ‘there isfor the three Powers @ no less imperious necessity to complete their work in assuring the future, and in constituting in that country, in accordance with the desire of the people, a strong and durable Power, with which Furope cam enjoy in the ought to be called upon to recogmize the successful revolt of ‘pose Omfoderate States. Now, what he did say was, that in his judgment the time had not arrived when her Majesty's government was called upon to recognise the independ- ence of the Southern States, and he added that although the practice of the Majesty’s government was to recognise Say de facto governmont that had succeoded in establish- ing itself, he did not think the resistance of the Southern MAILS OF THE NIAGARA, THE of sclkgpecrassens prociai iy 1776. y submitted that, so far from the principle of American alleg ance having been Significant Speech of Lord Derby Against the South. The Britieh State Papers on the American Question. Lord Lyons’ First Despatches on Secessionism. Holding the Balance Between am Alliance with Slavery and the. Profits of Free Trade. and Mexico. will consent to “swap off her Tialian possessions, which she kuows she must sooner or later loge, and which are of no value to her, for tho rich plainsand silver mountains of Mexico. future solid and peaceable relations.” The Presse, of Vienna, in an article which has just reached here, changes its tune altogether with regard to Italy. The hanghty tone it has heretofore assumed, the refusal to acknowledge that there was any Italian quos- tion, much less that it was willing to debate it, is all dropped, and it, roars us gently as any nightingale, It is useloss todeny, t says, the gravity of the Italian complications, and thinks that Austria is ready to brexk away from its old prejudices, and says that the Ministry hold in their hands the solution of all the difficulties which spring from the Ralian affairs. Depend upon it this moans Mexico. Tho yeke of the stranger is to be removed from Venice and Verona and” set upon the necks of Vera Crux Austria, after a little pretended hesitation, What think you of the prospect of having the Hapsburgs for your next door neighbors? Lord John Russell, Lord Lyons, Mr. Adems, Mr. Seward, and Messrs, Yancey, Rost and Manu, on War, Rebellion, Maritime Rights, Privateers, the Stone Blockade, Cotton, and the Slave Trade. Letter from Captain Semmes, of the Sumter. The Departure of the Tuscarora from Southampton. - The Mfonarchical Movement in Mexico and Central America. Movements of the Rebel Commissioners in Paris. WILLIAM L. YANCEY HOMEWARD BOUND JOHN SLIDELL HOUSE HUNTING. OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENCE. Napoleon Studying American Military Strategy, &e., &e. we., ‘The mails of the Niagara reached this city from Boston yesterday evening. Our European files are dated to thy Sth of February. The journals contain some highly im portant details of the news telegraphed from Halifax Earl Derby’s correction of the report of his speech in the House of Lords, at the opening of Parliament—given im the London Times—in which he was made to advocate an carly recognition of the rebel States by England wheu he expressed the conviction that her policy dic tated the very opposite course, will be read with grea, imterest, as announcing a complete change of feeling, on the part of the great aristocratic leader, ti wards the Southern bogus confederacy. Full copies of all the important papers on the Ame rican question submitted by the British Cabinet to Parliamont are also given; with letters of much Interest from our correspon‘ients in Paris on the position of Napoleon towards the Union, and tho great anxiety with which he regards the operations of our army. The London Otserver of tho 8th instaut says — Within tho last fortnight the representative of a Liverpool honse engaged & number of engravérs, litho: graphers and copper plaie printers, to proceed to the Southern States cf America. They have been engaged for theee years, and are to receive each from £3 to £5 per week. So secret was the whole affair managed that none of them knew how they were to be conveyed to their destination, nor what particular ‘business’ they were to carry out, nor who were the real omployers. All they were informed was that they were tw start on Fridwy night last, and that a certain firm in Liverpool would guarantee their wages and expenses, they having wor to break the bargain at the en: of any of the years. it is surmised that they are to be employed in # Confede Fate States government printing office. fuThe Grand Cross of Charles HI., of Spain, has boen con- ferred on General Rubalcaba, the Comm ander in-Chief of the Spanish squadron in Mexico, for his valuabie services in fitting out the expedition, and for his conduct Vera Cruz. ‘The London Times of the 7th instant says:— In respect to the cotton brought to Liverpao! in the Fanny Lewis, which, baving run tho blocvads, arrive ou Monday evening last. was iterroneously stated that six hondred bales of Sea Islands. It stv | <ly bags of Sea Islani's; the rest was Bow and of much less value. ‘The return from tho Bank of England for the week en ing Feb. 6 gives the following results when com with the previous week :— Re Increase Increase... Decrease . asec 3.08 343 lic deposits 5,753,441 Other deposits. 14,179,9 On the other side of the Government securities .11 Other securities. ...... 11. . Notes \inemployed 425 Decrease ‘The amount of notes in clrowlation is £20,734,,655, boing an inorense of £263 470, and the stock of builioi in both | departments is £16,956,00%, showing a decroase of | £823,400 when compared with the preceding retorn. Deereas Iner Oar Paris Correspondence. Pants, Feb. 7, 1862, Napoleon Congratulates the Union om Ils Victory in Ken tucky—His Majesty Follows Our army in Thought—The | Oracle Speaks—The Mexican Question—The Stideil.— Northern Sevessionists in Paris—Rost, Mann and Yan cey—Preseniation of Americans at Court, dc. The Emperor gave another ball and presentation on Wednesday evening, and this time, in accordance with the broad hints to that effect which he bas received from the Tuileries, our amiable Minister wes exclueive enough. Only six persons wore presented. Such a thing was never | known before, as our countrymen aud women have usu. ally gone in dozens and scores, armetimes in hundreds. Woodman, the tailor, is excessively disgusted at the new arrangement, as he has been making @ ‘Most exceilout thing by renting uniforms to such Ameri can citizens as did not desire, like Touchstone’s slop- herd, to run the risk of damnation by not going to court, and yet he did not exactly see the force of paying five or six hundred franca for a dress which they could hire tor sixty, aud the Emperor and Empress be none the wiser for it. ‘The following gentiomen and ladies were the fortunate ones of Wednesday: — Mrs. Pearce and Miss Pearce, of Now York city. Robert Sanford. Pegbert B. Lansing. George Do Siiver, of New York, and C. Logay, of San Francisco, Colifornia. In the course of the evening the Emperor congratn!ated Mr. Dayton upon the recently arrived news of the batile in Kentucky, in which Zolliceffer was killed , tut remarked tha, the two Northern armies, the one in Kentue'y and the other im the Carolinas, were nearly five hundred mils apart, and as the roads wee bay at Pris season *, would be difficult for them to unite, if thoy wore their vijects Mr. Dayton corrected his Majesty as to the distance, and conversation ensved, ip which the Emperor showed that be followed every movement of the (woo armies with a great deal of care. The Moniteur, after remaining as silent pon the Mexi- Cu" jyestion (Which io Jost now the topic of discussion tu a! the journals of Europe) as though it had not been ® wwe of the existence of any such country upon the face ° globe, bas finally spoken. It draws it exceedingly rr wever, and, like the Lord Mayor of London, ad- « @ the citizens from the elevation of the hump. b | @ Richard, to the English throne, “urges nothing © cect? bat rather “thas saith the Duke. is ‘\yulletin Of yenterdey morning 1 prdiished aboot « atiok fall,” in which it informe tte readers, all of v! m have been eagerly devouring the artic 6 in the Prairie during the past woek, that the Moxican alfair | of Italy apom the thrones of king The trailor Stidell, who, with his associates, are responsible in a great measure for the fact tha; tho governments of Kirope are seriously discussing the prospect of absorbing the republics of North and South America into empires, has not yet succeeded in obtain- img an interview! with his Majesty, or even with the Ministor of Foreign Affairs; but has been for tho last week engaged in the undiplomatic business of house hunting Ho anit his family, which consists of his wife aud two danghtors and a mulatto ‘‘chattel,’” are still stopping at the Hotel do Rhine, ‘The white portion of the family is very exclusive and uncommunicative, keeping their rooms continually, while the “chatwl’ is exceedingly talkative and delights in telling how tho gallant “Young Missus’’ slapped the face of Lieutenant Fairfax, accord- ing to her story, ‘one, two, tree times.” She has told the story so often that probably by this time she be" Neves it. ‘There are two or three Americans in Paris, men of Northern birth and education, who, howevér, hero, if they do not openly advocate secession, hang upon the skirts of the secession party, to whom they soem to delight and consider it an honor to toady. The principal one of this tribe is Colonel Hiram Fuller, who a ehort time since took the trouble to go over to Londen and lecturo in favor of secession. Fuller stops at the Hotel de Louvre, and associates altogether with the Southern secessionists and a few English and other fo maie and female, who have become converte! to the secession gospel. To judge from his appoaraiice, how- ever, I should say his faith did uot bring him ma so.ation, He was formerly, as you know, ‘rather’ a pous, self-impertant man, b:t he goes about now locking downeast fe Rost has not yet left Faris, but is posting up his sor, and will leave in a few days for Spain, where s thgt in which he h con- por sace he is to remain in the same capacity has lived hero. What that is—un! as it be to eat good dinners at the Hotel du Louvre, and be suubbed by the «powers that be'’—I cannot imagine. Mann goes to Belgium—there to reprezent tho ‘‘con- federacy,”’ and Yancey has, it Is said, sailed for Havana, iy Cue Seine,and will tuke his chance of running the ide, or perhaps will be helped by our English frwwuds into Mexico, whence he will reach the rate Sta‘es,”’ for the purpose of taking his seat in the “Confederate” Congress. From present appearances, however, it would seem to be a little dubious whether that interesting institution will be in the land of the living by the time Mr Yancey is ready to honor it with his presence. Paris, Feb. 7, 1852. Discontent of the Working Ciasses—Dengers to the Union Cause—Good News—Napoleon’s Difiieniiics at Home— Mr. Stidell’s Mission Csclese—The Settled Policy of France Towards the Sovth, dc. The French goveanment is in a state of painful anxiety Tha working classes in all the manofecturing districts have become so excited by the suspension of empioy- mest as to utter loud and deep threats against thoir culer. They assert they will have work, and not charity; and that a govormmo st which cannot find them employ- ment is not a good ur responsible one, At Lyons and St Etienne the garrisons have been changed and augmented- They were changed because it was ascertained that the people had tampered with the soldiers. All over the country this excitement exists in a greater or lessor de, gree. Depend upon tt France will do something towards ter- minating the blockads of the Southern ports very soon, unless the North gains ®ome decisive advantage. The news of the victory in Kentucky bas been the ase of much rejoicing ere among the friends of the Union, Still they await with the deopest analoty the assurance “f some great and signal vic such as would surely deter France from interference and prevent her intrignes to that effect with the St Jams’ Cabinet : You may dep, tliitle credit. He has, it is true, forced the jer to lend him sixty millions of fra dollars. Pat what good will that do, when the immense immoviate requirements of the empi'e | are seriously considered? All the grand projects et, tributed to him, such as putting the Archduke Maximilian of Austria upon a Mexican throne, and also (he ex-Dukes mus that wid be e-vod out of the siaall republics of Centray merica, are but reports circulated to inspire tie French poopie with grand idea of the importance aad (nfvence of France, This may suecood Dlageling sor fail wh that regards of the well to do bourgeois, but it will a plan the ports are 4 a hi nt to this ing Mexico for Vor foro that Trent ho asks for aud o wishes. tool im his har Hocan et any mo cent cause her to cease any oppesition she ve chown to his former plans. The idea siding with the United States ina war | whieh war English ta a well know | | be most popular in France, is enough to make them agonce. So mech the results of that iittie | tized the surfer. place herein thy Cham ters of the a ltd timoof it, for there n who will speak out— © them, They ail fore i by the op hav rs government has get itself into no end of trouble on account of Its cccupation of Rome. It dares not withdraw its troore, however, for there are those whe assert that such & course would cost the Em ror hia throne. SU) to atlow Tre will cort him the Malian that. Since the commen y tion ho sees taat he-cannot cornt upon Spain. rd is Tealy. rs to remain a4 Luoy His only Li i# to be fea'ed that Louis Napoleon, stor trouble, may conclude to fight out of it, When | to ae re will be torrible indeed mighty in BAVy. 8 here, but he might as well be in Jericho an pew xecomplish. It has beon decided, 8 I am tll on grod a Pnvoys shalt take plier; tha’ All that France wand to know of the Southern does know, Sha will wait a short time longer, favor to Southerners, and appear as 1 save where the unthinking zeal of mikes ther. 30 too will in fact, wait to see what ¢ todo, If be succeeds in ‘Sority that no receptions of Davis! r be ignored. Slates she in faci th lan is going & % creat biow, ail chances of: ‘eognition by F { the South are gone. If he (ails, or only partially succeels, France wi'l then, even if alone in t recognize the is government. , Until then, to Paris, Mr, Siideil will be a mere cypher, IMPORTANT SPEECH OF EARL DERBY, The Southern States not to be Recognised In the House of Lords on the 7th instant the Bar} of pemay said he was not ruch in the habit of oeeupying the time of thoir jordships with matters personal to bimseit, or with making observationa in reference (o tha reporis of his speeches or those of other noble lords in that house, Tho fact was he vory seldom road the reports either of his own speachos or of other speeches which ho heard in tho house. ut he happenet to look to the report in the Zimes nowspaper of what he addro.sed to their lordeiuos yesterday, and there was oro point iu it towhich he could not help adverting. He would wo, notion the other inacews ocies in the report, which he baliovet ‘was not #0 accurate ag reports in that journal generally wore, and he only alluded to the one he had men. tioned becanne it ai wlas fo him exactly the opporite of what he wltered. | \ocoremc9 to the recognition of the Southern Confede: the 7’ .2s reported him to say that the time hud nearly. vinrd when her Majesty's goverment ant some foar | { | hko procers o secessic ‘States had been a0 complete and so successful ag lo justify them in recognizing the inilependence of @ State which had ‘not yet shown the power of securing and matniaining tts ‘own independence, THE “ BLUE BOOK” ON AMERICA. land’s Oficial Papers on American Affairs—Cabinct and Diplomatic Opin- io on Mr, Lincoln’s Election—Scce: sion—The Rebel Commissioners—Tho Que Consul, Bunch, at Charles- tom=—The Nashville and Tuscarora, &c. {From the London Post, Feb. Ablue book, extending to 367 pages, containing ex- tracts from despatches, and including papers relating to foreign affairs laid before Congress at the opening of the session, together with a series of Parliamentary papers relating to the civil war, the international maritime law, the seizure of Messrs. Mason and Slidell, and tho with- drawal by the zoverament of Mr. Bunch’s exequatur 18 her Majesty's Consul at Charleston, and tho steamers Nashville aud Tascarora at Southampton, were issued yesterday The material portions of both the despaiches and correspondence have already appoared in our columns. No. 1 is entitled ‘Correspondence Relating to the Civil War in the United States of North Amorica.’” Tt begins with a despatch of Lord Lyons on the election of Mr. Linooln, dated November 12, 1860, following which is a despatch of Lord Russell’s, dated November 29, ox pressing the concern of her Majesty’s government on Jearoing that a secession of States from the Union was apprehended, “ Writing again on the 26:h of December, Lord Russe}! says:— If separation is to take peo, the interests of humanity and civilization demand ‘hat it should be a peaceable separa tion. But perhaps the South may be finally satisfied with a premise not to interfere with slanery tn the slave States, That the North will go beyond this, and actualty favor slavery, by new laws and new declarations, is not to be expected; nor, if they were to do so, could a poopleso free as the an people be expected to gag their press and their agscinbijea on a topic which go warmly excites religious and mora! symp.ithioes as the topic of slavery? LORD LYONS’ OPINION OF THE SOUTHERN STATES. Lora Lyons, under date of Decembor 18, thus ex- presses his opinion of the Southorn confederacy:— Tris overweening notion of their own importance may lead to very serious incony if they should sucoced in iishivg their independence. Our need of their cotton te great enongh to render it extremoly desirable we should be on good terms with them, and arage any disposition which they may show to their comme:cia! relations with us on a mu- advantago,vs footing. We might be willing to fer that a quarrel with them would give us no mens of amelion ati condition of their slaves, while it would bring a great deal of hardship and siifer- ing upon vast ninnbers of our own working prople. But still it must ever te repugnant to our feelings to te in in- timate relations with a confederation form d on the avowed principle of yerpeluating. if not of extending slavery. Un- less the seceding Sates can be induced to act with moderation upon the question of slavery,they may rouse a fecling of in- dignation and kérror in Great Britain which will overpower all ern leadin| ration of ma'erial interest. Of this many of their in the present movement do, not seem to be CS y Of reviving the 10 do this world yo themptaetually i may be supposed, beat once put down by: th mn Slates, Grent Britain, and of ¢ Eurepe. “ait to bring any of the slaycho'ding State renounce, in principle, the right of trading in negroes, or to induce them to enter into any treaty engagement onthe subject. Any such ongagomeut wout ! be regarded by thom as an adinission thet they were In the wroug on the q: estion on which their contest with the North has 0 iulamed their pavsions that they have lost sight of all r How couli they bind themselves net to ox- tend to larger numbers of “Africans the blessings of the inscitation of American slavery, which they hold to bo ordained of God for the happiness and improvement of the nogro race? Jt is tobe apprehenled that we shall have very considerable diffcut’y in placing cur rela'ions, com- mercial or political, ona satisfactory forting with a people im'med with such sentiments, immenie asi: tie importance to usof vrocuring @ cheap and abundant supply of their stagle commodity LORD RUSSELL’S INTERVIEW WITH THE SOUTIERN COMMISSIONERS, Lord Ressell, ina despatch addressed to Lord Lyous on the 11th May, gives an account of an in‘erview he had held with Me. Yancoy and bis colleagnes:— My Lonp—On Saturday last I received at my house Mr. Yancey, Mr. Maun and Judgo Rost, the three gentlemen doputed by the Southern Confederacy to cbtain thoir re- ‘cognition as un independent State. Ono of these genie men, speaking for the others, dilated on the cases which had ‘inducet the Southern States to secede from the Northern. The principal of these causes, he said, was not slavery, tnt the very high price which, for ‘the sake of yritecting the Northern ‘manufacturers, the South were chliged (to pay for the manufactured goods which they required. Ovo of the first acts of the Southern Congress was to reduce these duties, and, to prove their sincerity, he gave as an instance that Louisi- na had given up altogether that protection on her ngar which she enjoyed by tho legislation of tho United As a proof of the riches of the South, he stated that of £250,060.000 of exports of produce to foreign countries, $270,.00,000 were fr nished by the Scrithern States, T said that J covld held nooffeial emamunication with the ts of the Southern States, That, however, when the stion of recognition came to be formally discussed, were two points upen which inquiry must be made’ whe her the body vecking recognition could muintvin its posi im asan ind pendent State: seconly, in what manner it wa proper fo maintain relations with foreign States. fter spenking at some lengthon the first of these and alluding to the news of the secession o 4 other intelligence ‘avorable to the A my atte iting the slave trade, very currently that if the Could wt compete surcess they -vndd revive ishing the cnt su y had a2 @ prowl nearly excluded from te: South. », bot not of very groat M ludet by stating thet nin London for the presen the Southern confos RL the Ninth, ow Other ovserve THE APPEAL OF YANCEY, KOST AND MANN, We take the following letter, addressed by Mesars. Yancey, B n to Farl Russell, from the Ps mentary papers: No, 16 Ha ow orRRKT, LoMvoN, Ang. 14, 1861. Tho ur lersigned, a8 your Lordship has already on two # bet ¥ and anofticially informed, were ou the Toth of March last, a commiseion to nie Masesiy’s government by ‘the President of z ates of Ainorica, ‘Tho undersigned were instructed to represont to your ip that keven of the sovereign Staics of the late Aimerican Union, tor just and sufficiext reasons, aud in Tul! necorsiance with the gread principl had thrown off the authority of that formed a nfederncy, which they hui st: the “Confederate tex of America,” ‘They wore further instructed to ask her Majesty's government to recognise the fact of the oxistence f this new nd algo to in- form it that they wore fully cmpowered fo negotiate with ita treaty of friexéship, commerce aud navicatin. ‘Atan early day after the arrival of the undersigned in London, at aa i ¢hieh your lordship was pieasad to accord to thera, thay info. med your lordship gy the obiert of their mission, ind exdeavored to impress upon your lordship that the action of the seven Confederate tates had been based upon repeated attempts on tho the federal government, and of many of the mor He jaty Union, during sof yeas which exton he people of the Southern sectic by meus of the unenmstituticnal exercies of power; aud that secession from tliat Chim had been resorted to as, in the opinion of the seceding States, the best und surest mode of saving the liberties which their federal and 5 constitution® were desiguet to secure to them. The; 0 endeavored to place before your lordship satisfactory evidence that tho justice of this great movement upon the partof the cotton States was so palpable that it would dorsed by man: ot by all, of tie Southern ates which were then adhering to tho Union, which wou soouer oF fater become convinced that the security of their rights could only be maintained by pursing the rom the late federal Union, and mstitution of the government of the be ¢ accession vo the Confederate Staton vous of convineing your lord- hip, and laid bovwre your lordship reasous for their be lies, that the people of the seceding States had violated no principle of allegiance in ther act of secession, but, on the contrary, hed been true to that high duty whiet all citizons owe to that sovereignty wh is the supreme fount of power ia @ State, no matter what may be the particular form of government under which they live; they were carefal to show to your lordship, however, thet the idea of American govercignty was different frout thas euterteined in Great Britain aud Europe; that where. pe in the great Kastern hemisphere generally soverelynty deenved to exist in the government, the fourers of North American States had solemnly declarod, ant n that decaration had built up Amer dostijations, «Governments were institatod ameng men, deriy it powers ae the consent of the governed; that form ol the pursuit of alter or abolish jt, anc to justitute @ new government. The ur lorsiged assumed it to be tacontrovertible, in order to give practical vitality to this decinration, that the people who were declared to possess thi right “to Aiter of lo abolish” such oppressive government must be jlo whose right such government either agsailol orino unger provected.”Whetkerthat government should be administered by one tyrant or the more heartless and equally offectial despotism of @ sectional and tyrannical siyorty codld imake no difference in the application of the principle. When the who thus act in ‘‘abolish- ing”’ their form of ment aro not mere self%ccusti- tiled assembiagon of disaffected individuals, but the eo- vereign people Of great States, each posscssing separate violate! by the people of the seceding States, in those States alone ia that principle: whereby the actions of men claiming to be the representatives of the men of 1776 are to be guided and justified,and that the peaple and government of the States upholding Mr. Lincoln in his war upon the C nfederate States are alone the trai- tors to that great pagtical truth, and ag such must be judged by an (mpartial world. Jp counecti n with this v iow the undersigned explained to your Lordabinghe sete. ie deliberation, te moderation and regard f 7 s the abs-me of undue pepidar commtion during ‘he process of sece sion, the daily and ordinary administration of the !aws in every department of justice, all of which were distin- guishing features of this grand movement. They ex)a tinted upon the great extent of fertile country ever which the Coufederate States exercised jurisdiction, prodcing in ample ¢ gaay every variely of cereal necessary to the support of their inhabilants, the great value of the products Of coltom and trbarco grown by them, the numb 7 ter of their ¢;and they submitte! to y ehip that all of these political and material facts de- monstrated to the nations of the world that the action of the Confederate States of America was not that of rebels, subject to be dealt with as traitors and pirates by their cnomy, but the digi tied and solemn conduct of a belligerent Power, strug: gling, with wisdom and energy, to assume a placa among the great States of the civilized world, upon a broad and sust principle which commended itsolf to that world’s re- speet. Pike undersigned have witnessed with pleasure thatthe views which, i their first interview, they pressed upon your lordship as tothe undoubted right of the Confede rate States, under the law of nations, to be treatedas a belligerent Power, and the monstrovs assertion of tno gove.nmont of Washington of its right to treat their citi- zeng found in arms upon land or sea as rebels and pirate: have met with the coneurrenceof her Britannic Majesty's i ernment; and that the moral wei ht of this great and Christian pespl: has been thus thrown into che secleio prevent the barb.t- rous and inhuman spectacle of war between citizens so lately claiming @ common country, conducted upon principles which would have been @ disgrace to the age in which we tive. ‘The undersigned, however, received with some surprise and regret the avowal of hor [iritannic Majesty's govern mont that, in order to the observance of a strict neu'rali- ty, tho public and private armed vesse's of neither of the contending parties would be permitted to enter hor Majes- ty’s ports with prizes. The undersigned donot contest the right of the Britieh government tomakesuch regula- tions, but have been disposed to think that it has been unusual for her Majesty’s government to exercise such right, and that in this instance the practical operation of the ruie has been to favor the government at Washing- ton, and tocripple the exorcise of an undoubted public right of the government of tho Confederate States. This government commenced its career entirely without a havy. Owing to the high sense of duty which distin. guished the Southern cficers who were latoly in com- mission in tho United Statos Navy, the ships which oth- crwise might have been brought into Southern ports were honorably delivered up to the United States govern- ment, and tho navy, built for the protection of the people of all the States, is now used by the government at Washington to coerce the roaple and blockade the ports of one-third of the States of the late Union. ‘The people of the Confederate States aro ap agricultu- ral, no! a manufacturing or commercial people. They own but few ship. Hence there has boen not the least neces- sity for the government at Washington to issue letters of marque, The peoplo of the ConfeJerate States have but few ships, and uot much comme.ce upon which such pri- vate armel vesscis could operate. Tho commodities pro- duced in the Confederate States are such as tho world needs more than any other, and tho nations of the carth have heretofore sent ships to our wharves, and giere the merchants buy and receive our cotton and to 16C0, But it ia far othorwise with the people of the present United States. They are a manufacturing and commercicl yegle. They doa large part of the carrying trade of the world. ‘Their ships and comnerce afford them the sincws of war, and keep their industry float. To cripple this indu:- try aud commerce, to destroy their ships or cause them tobe dismantled and. (ied up to their rotting wharves, are legiti- mate objects and means of warfare. Having no navy, no commercial marine out of which to improvise public armed vessels to any considerable extent, the Confederate States were complied to resort to the issuance of Jotte:s of marque, a mode of warfare as fully and clearly recognized by the law and usage of nations as any other arm of war, and mest assuredly more humane and inore civilized in its practico than that which appears to have distinguished the march of the rorninent of the United States upon the ailages of Virginia, ‘These facts tend to show that the practical working of the rule that forbids tho entry of the public and private armed vessels of either party into British ports with Prizes operates exclusively to prevent the exercise of this legitimate mode of warfare by the Confederate States, while it is, to a great degree, a practical protec: tion to the commerce and ships of the Uulted States. In the interview alroady alluded to, as well as in one of a similar charactor h ld belween your lordship and the undersigned at a later date, the undersigned were faily aware of tho relations of’ amity existing between hor Lritannic Majesty's government and that of Washington, and of the peculiar ciilic altics into which these relations might be thrown if her Majesty should choose to recog- nize the nationality uf the Confederate States of Anieri- ca, beivre some decided exhibition Of ability on (no part of the government of these States to maintain itself had beon shown. ‘Therefore they did not deom it advisable to urge her Majesty's goverument to an immotiate deche Sion upon s0 grave a question, but contonted themselves with @ presentation of the causeof their government, and have quietly waited upon events to justify all that they had eaid, with the hop. that her Majesty's govern- ment woul soon come to the conclusion that the same sonse of justice, the same view of du'y unier the law of na- tions, which caused it to size the de facto goverrm-nt of Texas while y.t a superior Mexican army was cont ling for supremacy upon its soil, the de fae'o gwernment »f the South American republics while Spain still persisted in claiming ty be their sovereign, the de facta governments of Gree, of Bly, and aly, would’ induce it to reecgnive the government of the Confederate States of Anurica upon the haypening of events exhirting a deep seuled and abiding confidence that success witl attend their gforls. Atalt events, reconstruction of the Univn is an Fopoesibility. The brief history of the past confirms tem in this belief, siuce tho organization of the governmant of the Confe Cerace Sia'es in February last, and since Me. Lincoln ned (he reins Of government in the United States, yreparing his aggressive policy against te “tates, the moral weight of thet? position ded by (hs constitutional ection and policy esident and his Cabinet, have a four great States, viz: Virginia, North ina, Tonnes. foe and Arkansus, contataing about 4,600,000 inhabitants, and eovering as estent of vaiuabo territus of France ai s he tat m white the inhabit nts in the name cf the tion, has been so ruthlessly, and in such utier porver- sion’of tho provisions of that instru pored upon . The undersigned have also t reasons for poliof that even in the northwestern part of the State of Minvis a part of the peopie have proe: {open oppo. sition to Mr. Lincoln's unconstitutional end despotic go- vornmont, while in several other public asscmbiies and their iv, Lave cou temoed the wor as subver- Sivoeot the constitution. In addition to there strikiny evidences of the increased strength of the the Confed raie Stotes, and of great internal weakness and division in Mr. Lincola's governme.t, the undersigned can proud ty and confidently point (0 (he wnily which exists among the people of the eleven Confeerate with {ke sotitary and unimportant exception a the exireme nuriiinst corner of Virnia, lying botwoon Ohio and Peansyly ania, and set tlod almost excisive'y by Northern emivrants. What. ever differeices of opinion may eon cntertaised among the , copie of the United State: 9 the poi of socvesinn, there wes little diferenee of opinion as to the Cnoonstitutiona! causes which ied to it, and often, by a fair decision at the polls, by the majority in favor of se. cession as the means of exprossing thoir Lverties, tho great mss of the poople atone yielded a'l objectious, aud are now engaged with their wealth and their perzous in the most patriotic exertions to uphold their govern. ment in the course of indepeudence which had b:eu de- cided apon. Whatever trib:te of admiration may be yielded for tho present to the people who submit to Mr. Lincotn’s ping government, for energy displayed in raising aud orgauizing an immenge army for the purpose of im posing the yoko of that government upon a people who are strugyling for the inestimable right of governing thomse’ ves, in order to a preservation of their liberties, and impartial history will award to the poopie of the Confederate States an unmixed admiration for an effort whieh, im the the authority of the has organized a now govern. ment, based upon the principles of personal and public liberty; has put that government into operation; raised, orgaaized and armed an army suficiont to moot and defeat in a fair feild, and drive in ignominions fight from that Geld, the myriads of invaders which the ro- ated first Ganenal of the age deemed fit to crush what 6 teriaed a rebellion. ‘The undersgacd call your Lordehip’s attention to the fact that Sir. Lincoln's government , though possosned of afi the advantoges of a more numerous popula edit due to & recognized govern nt » has not been tion of whicu the themselves, but, on the contrary, out from a taignty fort-res upon the Atlantic severnl forts on the Weston frontier, by arma; that it hae not oova able to wiv five miles into thy ‘acritory of any of tho Confedera States whore there was any serious attempt to prove: it; and i# in danger of losing three great States of the ‘Union by insurrection, Even at sea, upon which the go- yernment of Mr. L.cooln possoeses undisputed sway, it has aot been able te make an offertual blockade of a sin- gle port but those which find ap ontiet through the mouth of the Chesapeake buy; vessels of every class, public and private, armed vevsols belonging to the Confederate os, and trai having found their wey in and out of every otlet port at which the atvempt has boon rad In everything that constitutes the material of war, thus far the Confederate State? supplied themselves from their own resources, syntied by thet free luter- course with the world which has beea open to the United States, Men, arms, munitions of war of overy descriptisn, have been supplied in ample abondance to qofeat all attempts 9 succossfally invade our borders. Money has been objained in the Confederate Sta‘cs in suificfent quantity. Every loan that has boon put upon the market has been taken at and above par, Rha iho undersigned bul stato the uni versal impression and be'lef of their government and thoir follow citizens in The. Coute-lorave Suave that, mo matter what may bs the demand for means to do’ond their country against invasion, sufficient reeourcer of every character, and | solving the question of the ubility of the So:th to main- tain its | osition, your lord> hip will pardon a reference to the statistical tables of 1350, the last aithentio exposi- tion of the resources of the United States which has yet bee published, and which is appended to this communi. | cation, ‘The incontestable trurhs exhibited in that tablo prove that the Confederate St.tes the eiements of | @ great and yowerfii nation, ¢ vable of not ol ie feeding and dfending th mscives, but also of clothing all nations of Burove, under the benign injluence of peace and Free trade. ‘Tho undersigne! are also aware that the anti-slaver: sentiment so universally prevai: at in England has shrut from the idea of forming friendly public reialions with & goverment recognizing the slavery ofa part of the human race. The quest of the morality of slavery it isnt for the sindersiomet. to dis uss with any foreign Powsr authors of the American Declaration of Independence found the African race in the colonies tobe slaves, both by colonial and Fng! sh law, and by the law of nations, Those great and good meu left that fact and the respon sibility for its existence where they found it; und thus finding that there were two distinct races in the colonies, ‘one tree and capable of maintaining their freedom, and the other siave, and, in their opinion, unfitted to enter upon that coutest and to govern themeelves, they made their famous decaration of freedom for the white race alone. They eventually plinned and put in operation, in the course of afew yeara, two plaus of goverment, both resting upon that g eat and recog size distinction be- tween the whito and the back min, and perpetuating that distinction as the fundamental law of the govern ment they framed, which they declare | te be framed for the beneilt of thomselves aud their posterity. In Cicir own language, !) secure the }iessings of liberty to our solves and our posterity.”* ‘The wisdom of that course is not a matter for discus- sion with foreign nations Suflice it t that thus ‘Were tho groat Amorican institutions fra 4, and thus have they rema.ned unchanged to this day. {t was from no fear that the siaves would be liberated that secession took place. The very party in power has yropo ed to quae rantee avery for ever in the States of the South would but remain in the Union. Mr. i freedom to the slave, but ownar to the will of the North Even after the battle of Bull rua both branches of the Congress at Washington p.ssod rosvlutions that the war is caly wago! in order tu ioid that (pro slavery) constitution, aud to enforce [ic :aws (many of them pro-slavery), and out of one hunde?t and Seventy-two votes in the lower House they received all but Lwe, and in the Senate all but one vole. As the army commenced its march the Commanding General issued an corde: tha! no slaves should be rececved into, ur allowed to fol- aasnee ‘The great object uf the wur, *! now oflictaily announced, ts mot to free the custo ke-p jim im suby to ms owner, and to control is labor through the which the Lincoin gwern- ment designs to force wy the master. The wodersigned, thoreforo, submit ‘with confidence that as far as te aut slavery sentiment of England is conce: ned, it cau have 00 sympathy with tho North; nay, it will probably. by disgusted with @ canting hypocrisy which would enlist 0 sympathics on false pretences. The uadersignod ar, however, not insenaible to the surmise that the Lin- colu government may, under stress of ci-cumstances, change its policy—a policy bazed at p eseut more upon & wily view of what is te be its oifect in roaring up an ele- ment in the Confederate States faverab'y to tho recon- struction of the Union than upon auy honest desire to up- hold a constitution, the main provisions of which it has most shamoiessly violated. But they confidently submit to your lordship’s evusideration, that success ia produce ing 80 abrupt and violent u desiruciion of a system of tubor which hag reured up g0 vast # commerce betwoon America aud the great States of Europe, which, it is sup- posed, now gives bread Lo 10,000,000 of ‘the population of those States, which it may be sufely assimed 1s intimate- ty blended with the basis of tho groxt manufacturing and navigating prosperity’that distinguishes the age,and pro- dubly not the least of the elements of this prosperity, wonild be visited with results disastrous to the world, as well as to the mastor and slave. Resort to servile war has, it is true, as wo have horo- tofore stated, not been prociaimed, but officially aban- doned. It hus boon, however, recommended by persons of influence in the United States, and when all other moans shall fail, as the undersigned assure your lordship they will, to bring the Confederate States into subjection U6 the power of bir. Lincoln’s government, it is by no means improbable thyt it may be inaugurated. When ever it shull be done, however, the motive, it is now rentered clear, wil not b> that high philanthopic con sideration which undoubted!s beats in the hearts of many in Engian, but tho base feeling of selfish aggrandizoment, not iminxed with a cowacd y spirit of reveuge. ‘Tho undersigned cali your lordship’s attention to what is now so publicly kuown ag a fact—-to the great bittle of Bull run, three miice in front of Manas a3 Junction, in which a well appoinied ariny of 55,000 federal solsiors gave battle to the Covfederace States army of interior force. After nine hours’ Lard tighting the fede-uitsts were dofeatod and drive: from the field in open flight, aut were pursued by the Confederate States army to Centreville, the position of the feicral reserve. The enemy fost honor, ad noarly all tho arms and munitions of war which ha! been so iudus trlously gathered tegether for mouths for an offensive campaign in Viripia; aud thoy did not cease their flight until, under cover of a stormy night, they bad re- gained the shelter of their ixtrenchwents in front of Washington. The Confoderate States’ forces have com- meneed offensive movemsnts, and have driven the vaunt- ing hosts of the United States behind intrench:nents upon the borders of Virginia, aud so far from threatening tho integrity of the territory and tho existence of the government of the Confederate Siates, the government at Washington seems content at prescnt, ond will be re Joiced, if it cam maintaiu a sucecssful defence of its capi- rve the remnaut of its defeated and disor- ‘signed would also ack your lorJehip's attention fo the fact (hat the cotton picking seaso:. in the cot n growing States of the Confeleracy hrs cuminenc.d. The crop b.ds fair to beat least an average 0.1 will be prejared for market and delivered by oir planters and mer chants as us:al, on the wharves of the pots of those States, when there shall be a prospect of the block: ade boing raised, and uot before. AS 4 Cefersive moa. sure, an embargo has beon laid by thy government of the Confederate States upon the passage of cotto: by inland couveyaneo to tho Uniled States. To be obtained, it must bo Sought for in the At- lantic and Gulf ports of those States They submit to your lordship the consideration of the fact that the blockade of ail the ports of t 2 ot to Lave commenced by the blockading pp, When, in truth, at that time, and fo was no pretence of 4 bloc They submit for consiier end of the blockade thor vesse’s bronking it at ¥ i inington, Ch it will t for ‘ has boen $0 serious. ow loug euct a blockacte shi il iy d be po: In cloeing thi to urge cpon her Britannic sa claim whieh, ir opinion, the governn derate Stotcs has at this tine toa re ment de Jzc'o, whethor its internal its 0 ses Fur bth domestic and Foreign commerce, and W's ) ower ty maaintun i'seif, are cn sidered; or wheher your lordship shall take inte tim the necessity of comme cial w it, with 0. ersigned desire government the just tof the Con- as a govern ce oF 1s territory the earth, hat while such rprise by the snent they repre nt, aud while that govornin to be left to contend for interests which, it thinks, are as important to. com inorcial Europe as to itsell, without even @ friendly count natee {rom ober nations, ite citizens will buckle themselves to tha great task before them with a vigor and deveymiaation that will justify the underelgned in pressed the question upon her Britabnic Majosty's oat; and whov perce sheil have boev made ther ee out wil at least fool that it will Lot bo justly rosponsible for tha vast quantity of blood which’ shail have been shed, nor for the great and wide spread suffer. ing which so proluuged a confict will have entailed upon millions of the hainan race, both ia the Eastern as well as upon the North American continon'. W. L. YANCEY. P. A. ROS, A. DUDLEY MANN, Forsiay Orvs 24, 1961. The uadersigued has ha | thy honor to receive the iotior, of the 14. tust., addressed to him by Mossrs. Yancey, Rost av | Mann, on behalf of the so-styled Confederale States of North Amertca. ‘Tho British government do not prevent in any way to pronounce a judgmonut uyon the q .estious in debate be- tween the Valied States and their adversacies iu North America ; tho British government ean only rogret that those differences haye uncort: ately Leow subinitte! to the arbitramont of w Hor Meesty has coust lored this contest as constituting a civil war, and her Majesty has, by hor royal pooclamat'on, d-clorel her invention to preservo a strict poutra’ petween tha contending par- ties in thet war, Hor Majesty will atrictly 7 Jong ton noutral, Hor Majesty ea termine by anticipation what may be the © test, nor can she ucknowlelge te independei Bales whieh are now corvined against th Presiven! and Congres of tht United State: vntit the fortune of aim or the ‘wore peaceful mole of sgotianon shall haor mare clearly determined the reapective povitions of the Lio bel- ligercn's. Mier Majoaty can, in the meantins, oaly express a hope that somo adjustment satisfactory to both parties may be como to, without the cal wmities which mu the evant of ap einbi:vered and protracted Gon Ps ‘THE REDKL AGENTS ON THE BLOCKADE. On the inst day of November Messrs. Yaucoy, Rost and Mann, according to instractions (rom the Prosidens of the Confederate States, again r:ge upon her Majosty’s gov- ornmont the ineffective nature of the blockade, and the paramount intorests acectod by the blockade. ‘To this appeal the following is the brief reply: — RARL RUMBELL TO MESSRS. YANCKY, ROWT AND MANN. Fomein OFrice, Dec. 7, 1861. Lord Russell presents lis complinents to Mr. Yancey, Mr. Rost and Mr. Mann. io has had the honor to receive their letters and {closures of the ath and g0th of No- vember; but, u tho present stato of affairs, ¢ must de cline to enter into ary ofivial communication with them. Paper No 2 is entitied ‘An Extract of n lem] from her grt | in stor at Wash oy yt cember 20, 1 erclosing pers relating atiairs, Inid befor tho © ngress of the United States at the opening of the seesion 1 1861..”” ‘Tho most importent of thesg despatehos have already in our columns. mnent will be RARL RUS TLL’ h duties which be- nt undertake to de we of the con of the nine ‘with interest:— : My Lonp—In obedience to instructions, I now have honor to submit to your lordshiy’s consideration answer of tl of the United note addressed by your to mo September Jast, in reply to a previous touching the diversion made from its o Lyin: the sealed bag of ches of Mr. Majesty's Consul at Charleston, a copy of mediately forwarded by me for their faformsation. 1am directed to say to your lordship that the tions made im that note with unquestioned freedom, touching the contents of that are satisfactory upoa the main pint involved siggestion I had been instructed to make, therefore,® pleasant duty imposed upon me to express the regect felt by my government at the ta , ut the }assage of the consular despatches which has «e- curred in consequence of a mistaken suspicion that the agent who transmitted them was abusing the confid:mee of the two governments. It is hoped that no serious convenience resulted trom tho delay. In announcing to Lord Russell the withdrawal of Mr, Bunch’s exequatur, Mr. Adams, under date of 2Ist No- vembor, says ; Loust of all will tho undersigned be permitted to admit thatcommanication with Mr. Basch, while exercisi cc msuiar privileges granted to bim with the consent (he United States, with insurgents endeavoring te row the government, can be justified by the aration of her Majesty's Ministers that they have already recognized the belligerent chivacter of those insu gents, and will continuo so to consiler them. It is, inde d, truo that her Majesty's proclamation has been issued for the regulation of all her own subjects, and that it has beon interpreted by her government as re- cognizing the insurgents as a Velligerent; but it is equally true that the government of the Uniled States declines t@ ceept any such int jon as modifying in the least a its own rights «nd powers, or tho obligations of all friendly nations towards it. ‘Stilt adhering to this position, the undersigned is m- structed to annonnes, as the result of the most calm and impartial deliberation upon the question thus submitted for its decision, the nocessity which his government feels itself under to revoke the exequatur of Mr. Buoch. Neither hag this stop been taken without the pressure of & strong conviction that, independently of the fete alroady alleged, his personal conduct, even down to the thine this correspondence has been going ou, ae well ag be‘ore it commenced, has been that not of n frieud to the government nor evea of a noutral, but of a part san of bizar we 4 z a i Fa BE ait have not space. THE AFFAIR OF THE TRENT. ‘The Ofth paper contains the correspondence on this subiect, nearly the whole of which has been published, ‘The following despatcles, however, are new:— . BAKL RUSSELL TO LORD LYONS. oRKIGN OFFic#, Nov. 30, 1861. Tn my previous despatch of this date] havo instructed by commend of her net. f to make certain de- of the government of the United States. id Mr. Seward ask for delay in order that this grave and painful matter should be deliberately const- dered, you will consent to a delay not exceeding seven days. if, xt tho end of that time, no answer is given, or if any other answer is given except that of a compliance with) the demands of hor Majesty’s government, your lo-dship is instructed to leave Washingion with alt the mem- ders of wnur legation, with you the archives of the lecation, and fo repair in ly to hendin, If, however, you should be of opinion that the require- mente of her Majesty’s government are substanti: complied with, you may report the facts to hor Majesty’ government for their consideration, aud remain at your post till you receive further orders. You will communicate with Vico Admiral Sir A. Milne immediateley upon reciving the answer of the Amert- can government, and you will send him a copy of that wer, together with such observations as you may ‘You will alan give all tbe information in your power to ‘ou will also give all U at in tha Governors of Canala, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Jamaica, 8-rmada, and such other of her Majesty's pos- Sessions as may be within your reach. LUKD LYONS TO RARL RUSSEL. ‘Wasunctox, Nov. 19, 1862. Ihave already inf-rmed your locdship by teegraph that Mr. Mason and Mr. Sivieil, wh» are betieved \o have been on their way to France as commis- sicnors from tho so-called Confederate government, were taken by force out of the British mail ‘ket Trent by the United States ship San.’acinto, in the Babama Chan- , and brought to this country as prisoners. rom American ne ose, Will make yor quainted with such particulars concerning this unforta- nate affair as have transpired here. They will also eon- vey to you a tolerably correct ivea of the : which it bas made upon the American public. The evidence of the English witnesses on board the ‘Trent will probably reach bout the as the prosont despatch; without ‘evidence it is impossible for me to form coealthadammanae ight wry sora a cordin right most complete: reserve on the subject. To conceal the a! T:ee! would be impossible, nor would it, if possible, be desirable; bat I have expressed no he no a tions of international law involved; J have DO conjecture aa to the course which wil bo taken by her Majesty's gove . On the ove hand, I dare not run the 78x of comy ing the honor and inviolability of the i British flag by asking for & measure of reparation m.y prove to bo inadequate ;on the other hand, Iam scarce- Ly Tews unwilling to incur the danger of rendering a satisfac- tory settlement of the question moze difficult by making a.dcmand wiich may ture out to be unnecossarily great, Ju the present imperfect state of my information I ‘eal Uist the only proper and prudent course is to wait for the oree whieh your lo: dvhip will g.vo-—with a complete knowledge of the whole case. 7» lam vnwilling, moreover, to deprive any explanation or roparation which the United States government think it right to offer, of the grace of being made sponte- newwsly. 1 know, too, that a demand m me would very much jocrenso the main difficulty which the govern- ment would feel in yielding to avy disposition which t may have to make smenda to great Pritain. The Ameri- cn people would more easily tolerate 4 spontaneous offer of reparation made by its government fiom a sense of justice than a compliance with a demand for satisfaction fromm a foroign minister. ENGLAND TAKES ME® WAR POSITION. Iu February, 1361, tho polisy of hor Majesty's govern- ment, “ia the event of Mr. Ligcoln raising questions with: Great Britain,’ is laid down im tue foltowing clear and emphatic terms :— LORD J. RUSSELL 70 LORD LYON. Forman Ovtce, Fob. 20, 1861. The saccess or failure of Mr. Seward’s plans ‘ ’ prevent the disruption of the North Americ:n Union ss & matter of deep interest to her Majesty's government. Bat they can only expect and hope. y are not called upon, nor would they be acting prudently were they to obtrude their advice on the dissentiont parties in the United States, Supposing, however, that Mr. Lincoin, att under bad advice, should endexvor to ide oxel for the pudlic mind Ly raising question: ith Greag Kieitain, her Majosty’s government feel no hesitation as to the’ policy they would pursue, ‘They would, tw the fret place, te very forbearing. Thoy would show by their acts how highly they value tho relations of peace and amity with the United States. But thoy would take care to lst the government which multl- pli} provocations and songht for quarrels understand that their forbearance sprung from the consciousness of sirength, and not from the timidity of weakness. w wld warn a government which was making political tal out of blusteriny dem m trations that our patience might be tried too for. Vf this tone is taken when n and only when necessary, bave uo fears that the Ai r.can republic will seek a quarrel with a nation apr from the same paren’ nd united by language hy | as by ties of kindred and a long period of friendly inter- course. : A UNION OPTNION OF ENGLAND, LORD J, RUSSELL TO LORD LYONS. Forsra Ovrick, March 2, 1861. My Lono—Tho American Minister calied upon me yesterday afternoon, avd read to me a despatch of Judge Bluck, dated the 2°th of February. In this de- spatch Judge viction that States which have separated from the United States without any legal or constitutional right to do go will not bo acknowledged as independent states by Great Britain, Her Majesty's goverumeut have shown, ho said, #0 frieudly au haterert in the welfare -of tho United States, that it iz due to them to state that the United States have nut neknowledged tho right of the soceding States to claim iadependenco, an? do mot design to dogo, Troplivd to Mr. Dalles shortly ond verbally, stating that, even if the goveramont of the United Svates: het boon willing to acknowledge the sep of the receding Slates aa founded in right, Aer Majesty's govern. mon wooull ave sen with grew cmesn the dissolution of the Union which bound toget ver the members of the Americon republic. That the opposition o€ the government of United States to any such separation, and the denial by ment cvurnge or ganction the Reparation. was fraps ible to alate, at the present moment, shape the question might present itself; nor was it in my power to bind the British government to any par- ticular course of condvet in cringed gh ner — ° jt 1d tho signs were sont unknowa — 10 signtJeance at eer MR. SEWARD ON AN ANGLO-FRENCH ALLIANO®, ‘Two despatches more particuiarly indicate the con. atantly recurring questions between America and Eng- land LORD LYONS TO RARL RUSSELL. ano wher Armmnvtom, Nov, 4.1861, ir. Seward asked mo whether any special commun! en concerning American agirs had recenily taken betweenthe Briiish and French governments. I that the two ove nments were constently in cor ‘commu- nication on the prevent state of skis country, but that T did not kuow of Fm Ana of a @pocial character which had lately passed between them on the subject. Mr. Soward thon sald that I mast have seen tho reports in the nows. pore about the proceedings of the French Chambers of with regard to the cotton supply. Had any- thing passed lately on that subject botwoen the British h governments? I replied, not to my know- * PRIVATRERS AND LETTERS OF MANQUY ve FARL RUBERLL TO LORD LYORR. Orrice, Nov. 23, be Me Loun—t have reesivod your Aenpaten of "Why th