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little interest was excited thereby. Very little upon which a definite conclusion might be based was, however, developed by Mr. Hale's movement, though, after that gentleman's decided war speech, the more temperate remarks of Mr. Sumner, chairman of the committee of foreign affairs, were rather reassuring in regard to the probability of preserving peace through the negotiations yet to ensue. Lincoln's patent blockade. A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, writing from Washington Dec. 26, writes as follows: Men who are thoughtful upon public affairs see another cause of difficulty between this country and England, in the fact that the London Post declares our blockade of the Southern ports at an end, (under the law of nations,) for the reason that we have sunk stone vessels in the channels of Southern harbors. It is a fact, however, that the egress and ingress to the bay of Mobile and to the Mississippi cannot be thus stopped and therefore England may reach the South