We should have done just as much to rescue two of their own Negroes, and, had that been the object of the rescue, the swarthy Pompey and Caesar would have had just the same right to triumphal arches and municipal addresses as Messrs.

Mason and Slidell.

So, please, British public, let's have none of these things.

Let the Commissioners come up quietly to town, and have their say with anybody who may have time to listen to them.

For our part, we cannot see how anything they have to tell can turn the scale of British duty and deliberation." This complete reversal, not to say somersault, by the leading British newspaper, was in line with public expressions from all sections save the extreme pro-Southern.