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Charles Francis Adams, Legation of the United States in London, writes SECSTATE "I feel it my duty at once to transmit to you a copy of a paper issued from the foreign office, directing that all restrictions on vessels of war of the United States be taken off in British ports. This was sent to me last night, with a note from his lordship, marked private in which he also lets me know that the Government has decided to send orders to Admiral Denman to detain the Shenandoah if she comes into any British port, and to capture her if found on the high seas.
    I seize this opportunity to send you also a copy of the Times, which contains what is clearly an official correction of the version made in the leading article of the day before of Lord Russell's proposal of a commission. It now appears as if this Government gravely proposes this commission should be raised to deliberate upon trifling British claims, while it excludes beforehand the only important ones on the part of the United States to which the war has given rise. The only suitable answer to such a proposition would seem to be, All or none.
    The newspapers are filled with discussions of the correspondence. The argument which has evidently made the deepest impression is that drawn from the possible consequences to British commerce of the establishment of this precedent."