The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-02-01

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FOREIGN NEWS.
The stesmer Africa, brings English dates
to the 18th. Cotton dull and declarina
breadstuffs firm and tending upwards. !
1t is reported that Earl Russell, in re.
spouse to a memorial from the Liverpool
Ship Owners Association, relative to the
stone blockade of Charleston, said he sent
a dispatch in December, warning the Amer
lean government against the ill.feeling the
proceeding would engender, and that it
would lead to the opinion that the recon-
struction Of the Union was considered hope
less. After the design was carried out he
sent another dispatch expressing strong
hopes that it would not be repeated else.
where. 1t is rumored also that the French
and other governments were taking similar
steps. The Morning Post rejoices at the
general condemnation of the act, and saws it
is rousing European governments to COM
mon sentiment of indignation.
The Journal Des Debats thinks that Pal.
merston's intentions toward the United
States are not pacific. The Temps, in an
nouncing that Mason and Slidel were ex-
pected at Havre, says no obstacle will be
offered to the flu lfillment of their mission to
France and England. The plenipotentia-
ries Of the South will be allowed to plead
for the recognition OF the South. The
Presse says the French government will re.
'eive neither Mason nor Slidell, nor any 9th
" Southern Commissioners.
The British commissioners Of customs
eceived orders to permit the free exporta.
ion of oil articles against which q prohib;- /
ion was recently issued
In Earl RusselPs dispatch to Lord LYONS. !
he words he uses, in reference to the sur.
ender Of Mason and Slidell, are these:-
Her Majesty's government have arrived at
ne conclusion that the liberation of tho
risoners, the delivery of them into your
ands, and the explanations made, consti-
'te the reparation which her Majesty and
le British nation had right to expect; aud
lat it gives her Majesty's government great
'tisfacrion to be enabled to arrive at con.
usion favorable to the maintenance of the
ost frien lily relations between the two ma
ons; but it is necessary to see, that her
lajesty's government differ from Mr.. Sc ,
ard in some Of the conclusions at which he
IS arrived"
Some Of the persons charged with burn
g bridges in Missouri. have been tried by
Court Martial in the Federal Army, and G
to be executed. {
The Ericsson bomb proof battery has been
unchel in New York.
Col. Pegram was allowed to 20 Sputh on .
8 parole, on condition that he should re-.
I'm unless he could secure the exchange of
i. Wilcox, or of some other officer Of equal
nk. The exchange cannot b. eff ,cted, and
!. Corcoran will not be given up III return
Smith, the convicted privateersman.
AA"OsAS' oASAss AZ 10 I0UDCI6O. mas D0on |
de-this time through Gen. Wool-to 90.
n from the Confederate auth ,rities, per-
'sion to disinter the remains Of Gil.
neron, who fell at the battle Of B ull Run. Z
n the u S. House of Representatives,
terday, series Of resolutions. based on III
tatement in the Chicago Tribune, assert m
that one-third Of the cartrid ses fuenish- sp
the Burnside Expedition contained no s oa
ider in them, was referred to the Com. no
tee on the Conduct of the War. be
he attack made in the u. s. House of e
'resentatives up1n Gen. Mcclellan by n
Gurley, of Ohio, was answered by his
eague, Mr.. Cox, in set speech. Mr.. a
castigated Garley Numerically, and *, h;l
Heated Gen. Mcclellan.