The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-03 00:00:00

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At Devonport to-day 50 additional shipwrights
are to be entered in the dockyard. The Orlando,
51, is ordered to be put in commission, and to take
her place the Phcebe, 50, is to be brought forward
immediately from the second to the first division of
the steam reserve.

PRICE..... ...4d.
STAMPED

talk and no little anxiety among those who are
little versed in that most important of all laws, in-
ternational law. The daily prey have not been
slow in finding a precedent in the 'history of Great
Britain, however, from which it would seem that
our British cousins cannot take umbrage at the ac-
tion of Captain Wilkes with any show of reason.
It is needless to inform our readers
that we can discover no just cause for apprehension,
for, though the seizure of Messrs. Mason and Slidell,
in the manner above stated, may, and doubtless
will, occasion some little stir among the advisers of
Qaeen Victoria, and call forth a fresh volley of vi-
tuperation from a portion of the British press, we
do not believe but that any trouble ',which may
arise therefrom may be readily adjusted by a little
skilful diplomacy. That the two most enlightened
and powerful countries in the world, which Great
Britain and the United States are universally accre-
dited, which are so closely united by fraternisation
and commercial intercourse, can be so readily
plunged into war with each other, seems altogether
incredible. 'We therefore incline to the belief that
despite the herculean efforts which a portion of the
so-called leading press of both countries is making
to bring about a war, the intercourse between Great
Britain and the United States will continue friendly,
and business continue to be prosecuted under the
same favourable circumstances as in years gone by."-
Some of the New York journals ridicule the con-
duct of the Admiralty agent on board the Trent,
end. assert that he went storming about the deck
with a pistol in his hand, breathing vengeance, until
the American lieutenant ordered Captain Moir to
keep him quiet or remove him. It is also stated
that after their ;transfer to the San Jacinto the pri-
soners united in drawing up a statement of the facts
connected with their arrest, which they addressed to
Commodore Wilkes, and accompanied by a request
that it might be forwarded to the United States' Go-
vernment. Another statement is to the effect that
the New York detectives had seized a large number
of private letters, despatches, bills of exchange,
draughts, &c., which had been sent after Messrs.
Mason and Slidell, from Havannah to New York,
to follow them to Europe.
Among other gossip from Washington, published
in the Tribune, we find the following :
" Lord Lyons has not behaved like a diplomatist
since the news that Mason and Slidell were on their
way to Fort Warren. Although necessarily silent
in his official capacity, unofficially he is almost im-
pertinent in his conversation. He assumes that
there can be no question between his Government
and ours, for the reason that the United States must
yield the point in controversy, will disavow the act
of Captain Wilkes, and must return Mason and Sli-
dell to the bosom of the only Power which seems
heartily to desire the dismemberment of this great
Republic. Edward Everett, Edward M. Stanton,
and Reverdy Johnson have expressed the opinion
that our right to take and keep Mason and Slidell
was unquestionable."
The Secretaries of War and State had agreed to
the demand of Lord Lyons, that British minors en-
listed in the American army should be returned to
their homes.

Instructions were yesterday received at Sheerness
from the Lords of the Admiralty to enter 60 ship-
wrights, with a proportionate number of joiners
and caulkers in her Majesty's dockyard, and to hold
in readiness for commission the Severn, 51 guns,
500-horse power, and the Barossa, 21 guns, screw
steam corvette, 400 horse power; also to bring for-
ward for commission two first-class vessels.
A further supply of the large rolled iron slabs,
each weighing about four tons, and 41 inches in
thickness, was landed at Chatham Dockyard yester-
day, for the armour plates for the Royal Oak, 51,
iron-cased frigate, building. The plates were for-
warded from the Parkgate Ironworks, Yorkshire.
The crew of the screw steamship Centurion, 80,
Capt. Rogers, C. 8., at Devonport, were paid off on
Saturday.

In consequence of the deranged state of affairs at
Messrs. Westwood, Baillie, and Co.'s establishment
at Millwall, the Lords of the Admiralty directed
Mr. Thornton, assist.-master:shipwright at Wool-
wich, to take possession last week of the plant
and property on the premises intended for the con-
struction of the armour-clad ship Valiant, contracted
to be built by that firm. The ship will not be com-
pleted for 12 months. The whole of the hands em-
ployed on Saturday received their pay from the
Accountant at Woolwich, amounting to £7OO.

Messrs. Gwin, Benham, and Brant had been re-
arrested and sent to Fort Lafayette.
General Hunter had surrendered the command of
the Western Department to General Halleck, ac-
cording to the new arrangement of departments.
The large British steamer alleged to hare been
taken into Key West was the Confederate steamer
Salvor.

Er-President Buchanan was reported to be
writing a history of his political life and a vindica-
tion of his Administration, in which he was assisted
by ex-Attorney-General Black and his late private
secretary, Adam J. Glossbrenner.
A Spanish bark, in ballast, had been captured off
Charleston.

A vessel named the Augusta had been seized
near New York on suspicion of being intended for
the slave trade.

Preparations were being made for a regular ex-
change of prisoners.

The Confederates had assembled in considerable
force at Great Bethel, and an attack upon Newport
News was somewhat probable. Fifty waggons and
500 oxen, which were on their way to Sedalia, had
been captured by the Confederates, near Pleasant-
hill, Cass county, Mobile. The armies of General
Price and Ben M'Culloch had retreated into Arkan-
sas. From General Rosecrans' head-quarters we
learn that on the 10th the Confederates in Western
Virginia were driven back from their positions by
Generals Cox and Benham's brigades. An expedi-
tion under General Butler, destined for some
Southern port, was fitting out at Boston. General
Dix had issued an address to the people of Acro
mac and Northampton counties, Virginia, announ-
cing that the military forces of the United States
were about to enter those counties as parts of the
Union. Those who did not recognise the autho-
rity of the Government and were found in arms
against it were warned that they would be visited
with the severest punishments warranted by the
laws of war. Those who remained in the quiet
pursuit of their domestic occupations were guaran-
teed all their constitutional and legal rights. From
St. Louis we learn, under date November 18, that
General Hunter had sent a letter to General Price
by a flag of truce, repudiating the treaty between
Generals Fremont and Price entered into on No-
vember 1, and addressed a letter to Adjutant-Gene-
ral Thomas, setting forth his reasons therefor.

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