The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-19 00:00:00

OF NIL SHAYS:R.

ield II.N VON can) atleatioa to the erten of
Mr. Shaver, • Belie& subject. b 7 the Amnion govorament
mei his Fort Marna. As Mr. dhaver had
selferel wan is he ilth, and ben is immineat peril of his
Me, Loyd thinarrun canelered Mat this was asposeay a
Owe for menpemenen, asenstasied mai ammeter of
esgret on the part of the . merican goverment He
mined, thefeferv, to know whether any claim for compee-
sten bed Mee made by her Majesty's goverment, ited
whether then would be any objection 10 lay the conimme.
deuce imperiled it coo the table of the Lou...
Earl ItIn4LLL nal that be should, u the last plan
was hie *obis, friend's OIiNALWO respeined the eseemesse
Ina of Mr. Shaver. Ile had sot -kid for ompipmessisa
to, the imprienameet of that geotleman, slimly became, MI
Urine recrlt,..l Any claim for c.,,npeagatioa from him. be
bed not felt piddled imietnamling sub cumpeosstiosfrom
the Amer. as DDDDD meet lii. noble frissd had spoken
of • as.. la which conipeneatimi should be dc-
melded for imprisonment and said that it would act M
proper to Alm imprimonseen without sone reelelenninal
Nw port o.r tho Hntislt government But it nay seemed
to him 'Litt Resell) that me men be imerset of the
whole .rate affairs to pot forth as arganseet of that kind.
heraise toe I.* mated !Mtn government had sot merely to
deal with a smolt, but with • greet civil env in their country.
and there were away person acting together in the Northers
Vette. who had great sympathy with the Southern,
stile there were may persons is the Southern
aliales who sympathised with the people in the Northern.
and tenses for say goverment, whether it was called of
Me United States or the Coafederste Stem, a poeitioa of
danger which at all mei& bad made it usual for the gams-
wet to revert to what =Wit he called as sztraordisary
Hate of things. If the noble earl would refer to the history
el this country during the revolutimery war he would find
Mat the Halm. Corpus Act was frequeatly suspended, and
be would owl in Ireland that it was suspended year after
year. Now, were they shim to say that in every one of
those cases when persons were suspected and taken up,
that there ea. proof mough to convict them They could
my no such thing. But if it was necessary to saniend
the Belem Corpus Act io this country la the
eirenronences which were occurring during the ',reach war,
es
one would wonder that, in the present state of North
America, the g merriment shoukl mein, to the moat eats-
ordinary lIHWItUaIII, although they sometimes worked an in-
justice. Ile confessed that he lamented the nineties of
Met goyeronient • be lamented the situation of those who
were in tams strut it. He thought it was a great cala-
mity for that military that ouch a civil war should have •
taken place, and therefore be was disposed to view with
mem degree of forbearance the Acta which that goirernmeut
might do, awl which in other CITCUMIASOCAS under other
deveroniesta would tall foe ramoostrance and ialiprolos as
Me part of the government of this country, The sable
earl asked whether h. iEarl Russell) had mince any other
dmiateh than those laid on the table to Lord Lyme.
He had sot ennui to Lord Lyons with respect to Mr.
thilVer. Manes be saw that Lord Ls eas wen taking all tho
steps which were comment with his duty. It insight be
that Mr. Sharer was entirely Moment of the charge* which
bad been brought whist him, or it might be that be had
Mee taken io arms against the government If the former
were the correct state of the am, he should iostruct Lord
Lyon. 4. uhLin his release from confloement ; but as the
OW at present stood ho certainly could not give any ie.
stractious to that effect. He could not tell whether Yr.
Shaver was or not espied with the Southern Confederates,
sari until some proof that he wee not bad been readered. be
asuld sot take any Mega la the matter GI iniummatiom