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23.—Dockyard Management ; Sir F. Smith's Motion—Supply, Naval Estimates. DOCKYARD MANAGEMENT. The House of Commons met on Thursday after the Whitsuntide recess, and sat late,......

Mr. Seward's Letter.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO MR. DAYTON. (No. 7.) Department of State, Washington, May 4, 1861. SIR,—The despatches of your predecessor, Nos. 117, 119, and 120, have been received.......

The Northern Argument Against Secession.

" THE body politic known for seventy years as the United States of America not a Confederacy, not a compact of Sovereign States, not a copartnership; it is a Commonwealth, of......