Cargo consigned to "orders." There is no question, therefore, of property.

Ship and cargo condemned.
* * * * * On the morning of the 23rd February four vessels were in sight; but on overhauling them they one and all proved to be under the protection of neutral flags.

One of them, however--a Frenchman from Buenos Ayres to Havre--relieved the Alabama of two French prisoners, an artist and his son, captured on board one of the late prizes.

One of the other vessels--the Prince of Wales, from Melbourne to England--dipped her ensign to the Yankee colours displayed from the Alabama, on which the latter, unwilling to appropriate a compliment intended for another, lowered the Stars and Stripes and hoisted her own ensign.

Hardly had the change been effected when a bustle was observed on board the English vessel, and passengers and crew crowded on deck to have a look at the renowned Confederate.