From Southern Papers

New York, Jan. 5. - The Rieïuiiond Examiner saya thai the Sentinel's proposition to claim tbe proteetion of Eughad or JFrance rrigiuated nith Jeff. Davi?, and had its birth in a panicky nünd. The Richmond Sentirte! diseredits tfie report that Sterling Price is dead. The Sentinel of the 27th says : A boat load of Maukets had been received at Varma for the Yankee prisor.ers. The Peters burg Express says that it appears that ouly 1,000 blaakets were eetit to our, prisoners, and tha Express says as there aro 3,000 Yankee prisoners there, thia supply fsllft hort two-thirds. The Petersburg Express ia informed that the cotton found by Sherruan in Savannah is owned in Great Britain, some by private individúala, and some by the rebel Government,