Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1862-01-31
INTERESTING ER0y EERgCD.:.


DoLSGs OF SLIDELL III NAsc; THERE
By the British gunboat Racer, The New York
Express has q copy Of tce Bermuda Ro!ei
"Gazctte," Of the 18th, containing some later.
esting particulars touching tie arri9at snL:
entertainment of the Confederate I.;E:::lS-
%s;ancrs, Aessra. Siidri! and hiaSca. It's "UG
zette" anl.ourccs the arrival Of r. i2rl-!,-
rates in large tyPs. III describing the jepar-
TIRE Of tho Suatccrn ceai!e;ncn l:un eurs
Warren, the etito. says:
The Commissioners T27a b:o.;:ht is7' i'm
miserable tug STEINER. guarded 5e I: :i?*;Af
ami e party o; soldiers. TIE; aa3 bgt ;.ai'
Gil hours notice OF their intended Gcuu'a,,
and no time 10 make any pelscrci 5rgaag=-
men,s. 1t is said thas mad tho boiEtaTcus wea
Their which soon afterwards prevailed com
.cenceG before the crazy tug reached the ship,
The chsnces were that they would al! have
been drowned. The person ia charge Of Inc
tug, in coming alongside the R:naido. address
ed Commander He~ett in the following truly
down.east style, Il say, uian, are you tbs
skipper Of this ere crail = The whole man
ncr Of placing the Commissioners undo: the
protection .! tie British dag, VS. are sss;iiot,
gag quite in keeping with The tenor d The
Seward 1panifestu.
The Rinaldo Was 10 hare taken tho Commits.
siuncrs to Halifax, to enable .lrln to take pas
sage in the CunaTd steamer which left that
port for England on Friday last. She, bow
ever, having met with such exceedingly bitter
weather, ice having formed III tl;ick masses
around icr hull, on her deck, anC s0Te dis
TANGO up her rigging, "nd having mad several
OF her crew frost. bitten, the captain, though at
ore time within tfy miles Of Halifax, wei
reluctantly compelled to u:ar up for Bermuda.
On the day tho Riaalio arrived liese the
Naval CoIuinandeT.in Chief, Admiral Sir Alex
ander Milne, entertained i party at dinner,
and Com. Hewstt and TIC four Southern gen,
~tiernen, his guests, wire, SIC Understand, 10
7ited tc C!e-eaca, where they spent the even
ing.
Tee 2insido icii sga!n On Friday, hoping to
reach ST. Thomas in lime 10 place the Com
missioaSrs on board tho Roya! WestIadia Nail
steamer, which Sas ~ ies:c zee Island 70:
Gnglaud to-day.
The Gazette" prints 10 full the Seward
Lyon correspondence, aud upon II
in a carpine and nypocri.ical spirit. The
article IS worth reading, Us ioreshLdowing, il
may DC, tho line oi rgmark y: The British jour-
nails st home.
from The Bermuda Royal Gazette!
Tie res.vrati0n vf Mr. Slideii aud Ar. Nj.
son, with their Secretaries, iron their military
Imprisonment 1T Boston 10 tie protection CT
that flag Hhi>h Haptain Wilkes 80 little regard
cd on the oh November, 1851, the Cabins;
OF the United States has "ch1eriuliy" granted.
1t would perhaps hare been expecting Toe
much to suppose that it would be gracefully
accorded, and but for Mr.. Stewards statement
that the concession was cheerfully made, We
should not have drawn any such conclusion
from the laborious despatch in which be, in
professional rather than 6 stalesnanlike spirit
has argued out the questions involved. There
is too muck effort &c maintain OF paper tht
ground which he is losing So The ACT CT resti'
tutior Of the c~aptiYes, too curious az under.
current OF irony throughout the msniiesto, /.
allow it ~ be designated as i STATE parel
worthy Of au able dipiotGEtist
The British Government did not coIs;dc,
this q satisfactory settlement OF the question
but no doubt the prisoners haring boen sur
rendered, the rest c!the dioPu;c will be iorgb
out on paper. Tho doctrine Of Earl Russell
! recommends itself es being one consonaQE witt
the rights OF ~neutra!s and Of persons travelling
under neutral Tags. The French view Of tn
case, contained in ". Tho;ivenel's despatch
also seems to involve this doctrine, though i
is not stated in that broad. simple and ucsm
biguols style which rra5Ss the British de-.
patct.
On The whole, ~ conclude tbat oecf;r"e"a
ment will express is satisfaction 1t tue &C
done and its dissatisfaction at The way in which
j. has been transacted. it viii not, j! is 70 b.
! hoped, lose sight Of the Gact that This forces
restitution, though treated no% as . @:r:T;sl, o
rather us 81 agreeable circumstance, by AT
Seward, will have 2 lasting influence ~hic
will ultimately, aad probably before very long
be recorded in letters OF blood.
While in Bermuda. Mr.. Mason expressed
with great determination, the impossibllity c
. peaceful termination Of the strug gle no,
pending il the States, and declared that b
South would rot re-enter the Union if To
demand heretofore made by it should be COZ,
coded as tie price Of Fer return.