Affairs at Norfolk.
The following late intelligence concerning affairs at Norfolk is copied from the Petersburg Express, of yesterday:‘ The port has been opened, and the people are now receiving supplies from Baltimore and other cities of the North. Wool's determination to starve the people of that city, unless they took the oath of allegiance to the Government of Abe Lincoln, it seems did not suit the Washington dynasty. They thought Bennett's suggestion, ‘"that the old flag should carry its benefits and blessings wherever established."’ a good one--that the people should be lured into the old Union by clement measures, and not by starvation — and therefore they have annulled Wool's policy and removed Norfolk from the department of the cruel old Trojan. The city has been placed within the military jurisdiction of Gen. John A. Dix, who is instructed to let provisions come freely from all the Yankee cities. This, we hear, was attempted clandestinely, but the British Consul at Norfolk went down to the wharf and protested against the raising of the hatches of the first vessel which arrived. Her Majesty's Consul gave as his reasons for this protest, that the port of Norfolk had been declared in a state of blockade by Mr. Lincoln, and no proclamation from that quarter declaring it opened had come to his knowledge. It is stated that an other Yankee vessel, laden with provisions, was overhauled at Sewell's Point by a French frigate, and the commander sent Lincoln a message stating that if the Federal Government could not enforce the blockade France would help him. The meaning of this was, that if Norfolk was to be opened to Yankee trade it must also be opened to all neutrals the world over. Hence the revocation of Wool's authority over Norfolk, and the appointment of Dix as his successor. A proclamation, we presume, has already been issued, declaring the ports of Norfolk and Portsmouth open, along with those of Beaufort, Port Royal and New Orleans. We are glad that this real Yankee trick of Lincoln has been fooled by the watchfulness of the British and French Governments.
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