Latest Northern news.
McClellan's plan and the Washington Star--no Northern accounts of the Roanoke Island fight — arrival of Mason and Slidell in England — England satisfied with Cameron's resignation, &c. Norfolk, Feb. 13.
--(Received at Richmond at 9½ o'clock)--Northern papers to the 12th inst. were received to-day by the flag of truce boat from Fortress Monroe.
The House of Congress decided on Tuesday that Mr. Segar was not entitled to a seat as Representative.
The vote was — yeas 40, to nays 85.
Mr. Stanton, the Federal Secretary of War, calls for proposals for establishing a daily communication between Fortress Monroe and Port Royal, Hatteras, and Roanoke Island.
The Washington Star articles, published by authority, says that the aim of General McClellan in his military combinations, is to restore the Union just as it existed before the rebellion.
No news of the result of the battle of Roanoke Island had been received at the North, except meagre reports from Southern papers.
The New York papers say it is quite certain that the Federal troops will take Roanoke Island after two or three days hard fighting, and will capture or destroy all Confederate gunboats; and further, that it was certain that a direful panic would seize the people of Norfolk.
Their papers contain a full account of the position and different routes to Norfolk.
Intelligence received from Paris, to Jan. 30th, states that the Moniteur says the dismissal of Secretary Cameron gives England great satisfaction.
Mason and Slidell had left England for Paris.
O'Donnell declares that France has made no separate engagement with Spain.
The latest advices from Rome state that preparations have been made to land on the Neapolitan coast to incite insurrections.
The sales of cotton in Liverpool for the week reach 46,000 bales, including 14,500 to exporters.
The market was firmer, and had advanced , Fair Orleans quoted at 146, and Middling 186.
The total stock in port is $40,000 bales, of which $16,820 were American, assessment and provision were sort and declining.
At London consols were quoted at 92¾.
The Emperor Napoleon, in his speech to the French Chambers, on the 27th ult., said that the war in America had greatly compromised the commercial interests of France.
The Committee of Ways and Means in the House of Congress has reported the appropriation bill, and it has passed that body.--The aggregate amount, excepting the appropriations for the Post-Office and for Indian tribes, amount to $550,000,000. This is independent of the sums reported by other committees.
Advices from Venezuela state that the whole country is in a condition of civil war.
In New York the cotton market is firm, and middling uplands were quoted at from 29 to 30 cents.
There is a large falling off in the foreign importations at New York in the articles of luxury.
The prisoners captured at Roanoke Island are expected to arrive at Fortress Monroe to-morrow.
In the Federal Senate Mr. King, of New York, presented a petition on Tuesday in favor of the immediate passage of the Treasury note bill, and pledging that the merchants of New York will support the Government.
A resolution has been adopted to the effect that Congress will assemble in the Representative chamber on the 22d of February. The President, Cabinet, foreign representatives, and officers of the army and navy have been invited to attend.
Washington's Farewell Address will be read on that occasion.
Mr. Hale, of New Hampshire, said that Congress had better hang some of the public robbers, and shoot some of the cowardly officers, than indulge in formal ceremonies commemorative of any event.
The late news from Europe announces that Mason and Slidell arrived at Southampton on the 29th of January. The Rinaldo, on which these Commissioners took passage, could not reach Halifax on account of the prevailing gale, and they proceeded to Bermuda.
Our Commissioners met with a public reception on their arrival there.
On their arrival in England, a large crowd had assembled on the dock.
They were cordially received by the officers of the Confederate steamer Nashville, as well as by many prominent gentlemen of England.
The Yankee war steamer Tuscarora had left Southampton.
M. Clenfia, the President of the Civil Tribunal of Rome, has been assassinated.
The stock of coffee at Rio, on the 8th of January, was 320,000 bags.
A dispatch dated St. Louis, 11th inst., say the Confederates are being rapidly reinforced and appear confident that they can maintain their position.
The French sloop-of-war Gassen arrived in Hampton Roads on the 10th.
The commander of the Gautier, and two of the officers, arrived here to-day.
Napoleon, in his speech to the French Legislature, says that the civil war which desolates America seriously compromises the commercial interests of France, but, nevertheless, so long as the rights of neutrality are respected, he must confine himself merely to the utterance of his wishes, that these dissections will soon be terminated.
A Federal force took possession of Edenton on yesterday morning.
The inhabitants had nearly all left.
It is reported that they proceeded up the Roanoke to Plymouth. 