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From the North.

arrival of released prisoners.--more Resignations, &c.



[Special Dispatch to Richmond Dispatch.]

Norfolk, Jan. 17.--Drs. Jeffry, Page, and Lindsay, formerly of the United States Navy; Colonel Pegram; Captains Johnson and Sutton; Adjutant Pool; and Lieutenant is Lassell and Ball, or the North Carolina Seventh Regiment, who have been imprisoned in Fort Warren, arrived here this evening, under a flag of truce, from Fortress Monroe. They state that it was currently reported and believed in Baltimore, when they passed through that city, that Welles, the Secretary of the Navy, and Smith, Secretary of the Interior, had resigned.

Expectations were high at the North relative to the success of the Burnside Expedition.

A French steamer is reported to have arrived in Hampton Roads. F.

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