Litchfield enquirer., 1862-01-30

TIE RENDITION OF MASON AND SLIpELL-1Iow council, summoned for the 14th had been coun- termaned, Mir. Stewards dispatch having been considered in a council held on the 9th.
 The Times understands that an answer will be returned, expressing qualification at the disarow- al of Commodore Wilkes act, accepting the sa- tisfaction rendered, and assuming that the pre- cedent in the Trent case will rule the case of the schooner Eugenia Smith. As to the general dis cussion of the law of neutrals, the Government will decline any answer until they have had an opportunity of submitting the whole note to their law officers. There are propositions in this note which are not at all admissible, and after the delivery of the prisoners these points may be properly raised and discussed.
 The Morning Post announces that thorough understanding had been arrived at with the American Government. Notonly had they given the required reparation, but in doing so Mir. Seward will have succeeded in impressing on the English Government the notion that they have not only given present indemnity, but also no small pledge of future security.
 The Times says rumor fixes England's expen- scs, owing to the late difficulty, at e2.0o0, 900; but the Times expects that when all the bills are in, it will be double that sum. and that tho mo- ney has not been thrown away.
 The Daily Ners is eulogistic of the course pursued by the Washington Government, and bitterly denounces the policy of the Times and Post.
 The Times has a strong editorial on thereccp. ,ion due to Mason and Slidell says they are about the most orthlsss booty tt rould De possible to extract from the 5ascs cf the American lion- having long been known as blind and haLitual haters and revilers of England:
 The Times sincerely hopes that Englishmen will not give these fellows anything in the shape of an ovation. The civility due to foe in dis tress is all they can claim. England has return ed them good for evil; and even now, if they can, they will only entangle her in war with the North. EnszaHd ssosssd hare done jzst ds ssaeA to rescue tco negroes. Let Mason and slidcll, therefore, pass quietly on their way, and have their say with anybody who may have to listen to them.
 The other journals advise similar course, and allude to Mason's strong advocacy of the Fugitive Slave law, to prejudice the public against him
 SEVENTEEN rebel prisoners, from Humphrey Marshalls force, were brought down from Cat lettsburg, Va, on the steamer, and arrived at Cincinnati on the 2lst. They looked sorry enough, and might we'll be accepted as the coun- terpart of Falstaf's troops, as described by him. sel in consideration of the fact that the redoubt able Humphrey Marshall has heen dubbed the fat knight" owing to his early propensity to blow and brag: "My whole charge consists of ancients, corporals, lieutenants, gentlemen of slaves as ragged as Lazarus in the painted cloth, when the glutton's dog licked his sores A mad fellow met me on the way, and told me had unloaded all the gib- bets, and pressed the dead bodies. No eye hath seen such searecrows: I'll not march through Coventy with then,--that is flat" The similis tude holds good here, too; and the last may be the reason Humphrey concluded not to march through the United States, and lay the country waste with fire and sword afi