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y early day. If the Republican is accepted as authority our relations with England are certainly threatening. The inquiry into the surrender of Winchester. The Court of Investigation into the facts and circumstances connected with the evacuation of Winchester and Martinsburg is in session in Washington. They had before them Col. McReynolds, of the First New York cavalry, commanding a brigade under Gen. Milroy at the time of the evacuation of Winchester and during the retreat to Harper's Ferry. He testified that Gen. Milroy called a council of his brigade officers--Gen. Elliott, Col. Ely and himself — in which it was decided to retreat. Col. McReynolds could not say upon whom the responsibility rested for the disaster at Winchester, though evidently some one was to blame. He corroborated the evidence of Capt. Alexander, of the Baltimore battery, given on Wednesday, as to the destruction of all the artillery ammunition of his brigade, by throwing it into the cistern of the f