7 DECEMBER 1861, Page 6

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(By Telegram through M. Reuter's Office.) THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. •

(PER THE EDINBURGH, Oki QUEENSTOWN.)

NEW YORK, Nov. 22 (Evening). EDWARD EVERET, George Sumner, and other leading American legal authorities, declare the capture of Messrs. Mason and Slidell to be in accordance with international law. The subject, nevertheless, causes a universally uneasy feeling in the public mind in respect to the relations of America with England. The Secretary of War has notified to the Governor of Maine that an officer will immediately be appointed to report on the sea-coast defences of that State.

The Federal troops are reported to be in full possession of Acco- mac, Northampton County, on the eastern shore of Virginia. Governor Jackson and the State Legislature of Missouri have passed a Secession ordinance. Mr. Smith, Federal Secretary of the Interior, has disavowed the policy endorsed by Mr. Cameron, Secretary of War, of putting arms into the hands of the slaves, declaring that such is not the policy of the Federal Administration.

Twenty-five vessels, which are to be sunk at the entrance of a Southern harbour, have sailed laden with stones.

The Union men of North Carolina have established a provisional State Government at Hatteras.

The Confederates have burnt Warsaw, Missouri, in order to pre- vent the Federals making winter quarters there. General M'Clellan reviewed 70,000 men at Washington, on the 20th inst., being the largest body of troops ever reviewed on the American continent.

General Halleck has issued a proclamation notifying that no more fugitive slaves will be allowed to enter the Federal camp, as they have carried valuable information to the enemy.

The steamers Asia and City of Manchester have arrived out. The French frigate Bellona arrived at New York on the 21st inst.