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e the confidence of the American tone in their prognostications. Considering that we should have to operate at the distance of several thousand miles, that Ironsides are a novelty, and that we do not know so much of the American waters as they do themselves, we are not so sure that we should raise the blockade as speedily as Mr. Roebuck expects. This, however, would not be the whole of our work. We should have to protect our ports, our rivers, and our shipping, not only at home and in North America, but all over the world. If we once began such a war, our own experience suggests that we should persist in it a long time, even though beaten the first three or four years. So, having regard to the want of call, the difficulty, the chance of defeat, and the probable length of the enterprise, we should be very sorry indeed to throw ourselves into this struggle. Mason and Slidell Negotiating in Paris. [Ports (May 20) correspondence of London Port.] Some fresh efforts are said to