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will spend the winter. He enjoyed the trip across very much, never missed a meal, and says he feels better now then he has for a year past. The French Post-Office authorities have given notice that, as many letters intended for the Southern States are dropped in here addressed to the care of the French Legation at Washington, or of the French Consul General at New York, such letters will not be sent during the suspension of mail communication with the Southern States. The Mason-Slidell affair in Ireland — public opinion on the boarding of the Trent.[from the Cork Constitution, (extreme Tory and Orange organ,) November 28.] A free flag does not cover free goods — a neutral bottom does not make a neutral cargo. --This is the lesson we learn from the outrage we think it must be pronounced, of the American man-of-war on the British mail steamer. Had there been a Queen's ship at hand, no one would regret had she sunk the marauder as deeply as the Nashville sunk the Harvey
The Mason-Slidell affair,comments of the European press.the outrage Denounced.&c., &, &, The European files by the "Jura," which left Liverpool on the 6th December, have been received at New York. The Herald, of the 19th instant, copies copiously from foreign journals their editorial comments on the outrage perpetrated upon te always served as a guide to its policy. In fact, it is impossible that the Americans should not understand how irregular is the arrest of Messrs. Mason and Slidell on board the Trent; how contrary it is to the law of nations, and how prejudicial the consequences of this act would be to themselves. It would be the consecing succor of any kind to their opponents of the South, this might perhaps be understood, looking into the circumstances of time and place. But Messrs. Mason and Slidell were leaving America, and it was in a neutral country that they took their passage upon a neutral vessel. If they could be arrested there, they could as well be
an American vessel-of- war — the San Jacinto — which pursued the Trent, stopped her, by force, seized the persons of Messrs. Slidell and Mason, after having claimed them as contraband of war. The pretext that Messrs. Mason and Slidell were seizSlidell were seized as "contraband of war" could only be admitted if the envoys of the South had wished to make use of the Trent to induce arms or ammunition into America; but they were, on the contrary, leaving America for Europe, and there were no arms on board th patiently await a solution which the incident of the Trent may perhaps have the effect of precipitating. The Mason-Slidell affair in Jamaica. The steamer Cleaton, from Kingston, Jamaica, arrived at New York on the 18th inst. The arrest of Mason and Slidell was occupying public attention. The Guardian, commenting on thequesion, says: It remains to be seen — and we shall wait with the greatest anxiety to learn — What course the British Government will adopt in the matter. That