Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-03-06
FOREIGN NE VS..

Inc steamship Jufa, rom IiverpoOl lZth
has arrived She brings five days later news
On the lth the Confederate Commissioner
Mr.. Mason, was present at a banquet givei
by the Lord Mayor Of London, and his nam'
was mentioned in connection with a toast I,
visitors The Lord Mayor in proposing the
toast said that although he could not gree
Mr. Mason as recognized plenipotentiary
he was perfectly justified in Offering him
as gentleman who came to London on i'm
portant business, a hearty welcome to th,
Mansion House. He deplored the disastIoui
war, and hoped sovn for satisfactory termin
alton.
Mr.. Mason, responding to the earnest invi.
tstions to speak was received with loud cheets
After alluding to his difficult position from
the non-recogniton of the Confederates by
, England and his consequent hesitation in as.
sumiug to speak, he continued as follows -.
81 am a stranger in London, or, rather, was
stranger, but have learnt since came tC
London, that none of English blood from mJ
own Southern land are strangers amongst you
speak this from my heart for | have been
by every circle IN England and by every clas.
OF society a welcomed and honored guest
The day will come-it is not far ofi-wher
the relationship between that government
which is now in its infant future, and your.
will be one Of the closest intimate alliance
] say this more especially as regards the city
OF London, which Is the great market of the
world. My county ia an unnvalled produ.
Ger Of the great staples Of the world, aud
say the relations-commercal, and doubtless
political, and certainly socal-between my
countrymen and the people OF London will
before long be Of the most intimate charac-
ter"
Mr.. Mason's remarks at several points were
received with much cheering.
A somewhat stormy meeting has been held
upon the slavery question at Everton, Liver
pool. The friends OF the secessionists mus
tered 10 considerable force, but resolutions
sympathizing with the North and the eman-
cipation policy were carried by two to one.
The Times, referring to Mason's presence
at the Lord Mayors banquet, assures the
Americans on both sides OF the Potomac that
what was said or done by the Lord Mayor is
considered in London not exactly insigni6-
cant, or Indifferent, but really beginning and
ending in the Mansion House.
The steamer Sumter sailed from Gibraltar
on the 9th. There are no particulars as to
her departure
President Lincoln's reply to the Manches-
ter address is published. 1t deplores the suf-
lering from the cotton famine, and rel oices
that efforts to create sympathy for the seces-
sionists have failed. 1t eulogizes the utter
ances of the Manchester meeting as sublime
herOism, and expresses an earnest desire for
perpetual peace between the two nations.
great meeting at Balton had expressed
warm sympathy for the North
The Paris Moniteur, in noticing the cor
respondence in the intercepted Confederate
dispatches, says the so-csiled Consul Of France
in Texas is not even paid Consular Agent
of France at Galveston. He acted as a kind
OF deputy to the Consul at New Orleans.
The only instructions he has received request t
him to maintain the greatest reserve, and to
carefully abstain from every kind of interier-
ence in the political affairs Of the country.
The Frenchman alluded to at Richmond was
simply Chancellor Of the Consulate Of France.
Mr. w S. Lindsay, NJ. r., writes to the
Daily News, oontradicting certain rumors in
regard to his connection with the CoDfede-
rates He says he is not a holder Of Con
federate bonds Of any kind, and neither him
self nor any member OF his firm have en-
tered into any contracts with the COnied-
ate Government for the construction OF war
steamers, or any other kind of ships. lie
adds THAT having some knowledge Of the
country, he considered from the drst that
the attempt to subjugate the South was help
less"
SANDY Hook. Feb. 2S.
The steamship Africa, from Liverpool II b.
via Queenstown 10Th, has arrived off this
point. The dates per Africa are two days
later than those already received.
The Times ridicuIes the Lord Mayor for
bringing Mr.. Mason into prominence at the
Mansion House banquet, aud shows that the
affair was without any significance. 1t says
Mnson's remarks about an early recognition
Of the Confederates go far ahead of the real
state of affairs; The recognition is a ques-
tion Of time, Of minority or majority, but of
real existing facts. When the Federals find
themselves obliged to leave the Confederates
in quiet possession of their States, it will be
time to discuss the question Of recognition,
but not until them. As it is Mason has re-
ceived no assistance or encouragement except
from gentlemen who, like the Lord Mayor,
are under no responsibility to weigh their
words,