Weather milder after the fall of snow during the night which covered all the housetops at sunrise. The American newspapers came in after breakfast, but they contain little that is new. Only two addresses from Governor Brown of Georgia and Governor Vance of North Carolina, both of them giving indications of a wish to come to some terms of pacification. If such should be their final decision the question will be settled, for neither Virginia nor South Carolina can stand out without them. Yet from the prevailing tone I can scarcely credit they can come round all at once. My mind glows more and more uneasy about it every day. By the same papers I perceive that the Arabia arrived out about the 17th so that the government will give me notice of its action by the next arrival. I wrote a letter to Mr Underwood in reply to one from his respecting a summons to appear in court as a witness in the case of the Pompero. These troublesome cases are always coming up to disturb the harmony between the two nations. Walk towards evening, but the light now extends until nearly seven o’clock. Quietly at home, reading Sir Emerson Tennent on guns.617