The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING-, MAY 25, 1865.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day).

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Hazlitt.)
IN RE H. CARPENTER.-A ➢fESSENGER IN THE HOUSE OF

LORDS.

This bankrupt was described as a messenger in the
Crown-office of the House of Lords, and 'to-day he came
up for first meeting and proof of debts. A list of creditors
already filed show debts to the amount of £1,250, and the
bankrupt ascribes his failure to having become security for
a lady and gentleman in whose interests he had been ap-
pointed executor to a will.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

BURGLARY IN GROSVENOR-STREET.-Wm. Green, about
18 years of age, described as " a shoemaker, address
refused," and who has several times been charged at this
court, was brought before Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged with
burglariously breaking and entering the house of Mr.
George Lane Fox, No. 43, Grosvenor-street, and stealing a
time-piece, writing-desk, and table-cloth.
Henry Woodruff, servant to Mr. George Lane Fox, of
No. 43, Grosvenor-street, said—Last night, at 10 minutes
to :12 o'clock, I had occasion to go into the front hall, and
on looking out of the door I saw the prisoner coming up
the area steps. Directly the prisoner saw me he put down
a bundle, containing the property produced. I asked him
his business down the area, and he said that he had
dropped a sixpence down, and had gone down to look for
it. I asked him what ho had got in the bundle, but
he made no reply. The prisoner then got over
the area-gate. I held him till a constable came, and then
gave him into custody.
Louisa Tissington. housekeeper to Mr. George Lane Fox
—The articles produced—a timepiece, desk, and table-
cover—are my property, and were taken from the house-
keeper's room. 'believe the window was shut.
John Atkinson, the page—l shut the window at 8 o clock,
but could not say whether it was bolted.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the first witness said the area
gate was locked and the window found open.
Police-constable Edward Rowlett, 145 C—At 12 last
night the prisoner was given into my custody by the fit st
witness. I found a bundle in the area. I took the prisoner
into the house, and on opening the bundle I found it to
contain the articles produced. I found that the prisoner
had got over the area gate and opened the housekeeper's
room window from the outside. _ .

The prisoner—l have no questions to ask the witnesses,
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Did the prisoner give any address ?
Witness—lle refused it.

Prisoner—l wish you would settle the matter at once.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—l shall do no such thing. It is a
burglary.

inspector Bowles, who watched the case, asked for a
remand, the prisoner being known to the police, and there
having been other cases of a similar kind of late.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner.

Diplomatic Correspondence with the
United States•

Another volume of correspondence has been laid
before the Federal Congress. Mr. Adams, writing
to Lord Russell on the 6th of Sept., on the subject
of the Alabama and Kearsage, says that Captain
Winslow's proceeding, in parolling and discharging
the men of the Alabama, had been formally disap-

proved. His Government did not believe that her
Majesty's Government countenanced the actions of
Captain Semmes, the owner of the Deerhound, or of
British subjects who aided and abetted; but he

maintains that the Alabama had obtained no na-

tonal character beyond that " which may have at-

ached to it from its construction, equipment, ar-

mament, and manning by British subjects out of
British ports." He maintains that those men of the
Alabama who were rescued by the Deerhound, and
landed within the jurisdiction of Great Britain,

ought to be delivered up to the United States—and
that " the continuance of these persons to receive
from any British subject or authorities pecuniary

assistance or supplies, or the regular payment of
wages for the purpose of more effectually carrying
on hostile operations from this kingdom as a base, is
a grievance against which it is my duty to remon-
strate, and for which to ask a remedy in their convic-

tion and punishment." Mr. Adams calls upon her
Majesty's Government to prevent further expeditions.
In conclusion he says :—" President Lincoln is far
from seeking causes of offence on the part of Great

Britain," but only asks for what, " if the situation of

the parties were reversed, would have been conceded

,o any similar request based on equally cogent con-

siderations." Earl Russell, replying on the 26th Sept.

admits that the Alabama was partly fitted out in a
British port, but asserts that she fraudulently escaped,
and was equipped in a foreign port. He considers
that the owner of the Deerhound performed a praise-
worthy act in saving some of the crew of the Alaba-

ma from drowning; and that the owner of the Deer-
hound having, at the request of Captain Winslow,

rendered assistance when the Alabama foundered,

was not under any obligation to deliver up those he
rescued. He denies, on the part of the Government,
" the obligation to deliver up to a belligerent pri-

soners of war who have escaped from the power of
such belligerent, and may have taken refuge within
the territory of a neutral. Therefore, even if her

Majesty's Government had any power by law to
comply with the demand, her Majesty's Government
_ .

could not do so without being guilty of a violation
of the duties of hospitality. They have been guilty
of no offence against the laws of England, and have
committed no act which could bring them within the
provisions of the treaty for the mutual surrender of
offenders." His lordship further said "he did not
believe there was any foundation for the statement
that the British authorities offered pecuniary assist-
ance or supplies, or furnished regular payment of
wages to persons forming the crew of the Alabama.
With the pecuniary contributions of private indivi-

duals her Majesty's Government had no power to
interfere." His lordship further assured Mr. Adams
that everything would be done to prevent expedi-
tions leaving this country, and pointed to the fact

that the ironclads had been seized. In conclusion
Earl Russell says:—" I cannot refrain from observ•

in; that her Majesty's Government have been far
more successful in preventing breaches of neutrality
with regard to the fitting out of cruisers to take part
in the civil war in North America than the Govern-
ment of the United States were in preventing the
fitting out of ships of war to aid the South Ameri-
can Republic in their revolt against Spain, which
power then stood in the positiSn of a neutral autho-

rity resisting insurrection."
On the 10th November Mr. Adams again wrote

to Earl Russell, stating that Captain Semmes was
availing himself of his escape to a neutral territory
to " initiate further hostile proceedings against his
enemy, in the very place where he claimed hospi-
tality, by fitting out another vessel from this king-
dom to do the same sort of piratical work which the
Alabama did, which vessel (the Sea King or Shen-

andoah, we presume) had sailed to an agreed place
on the ocean, where the same sort of equipment
and armament which was placed on the Alabama
had been placed on board of her by another British
vessel sent from this kingdom for the purpose, and
where were transferred Captain Semmes and his
companions, the persons saved by the alleged
humanity of Mr. Lancaster, for the ultimate object
of destruction of life and property against the peo-

ple of the United States. Whether lam correct or
not in these statements, as yet founded only on in-
formation of a private character, time will not be
long in establishing ; should it prove to be so, your
lordship will perhaps pardon me if I persist in main-

taining the opinion that neither was the act of Mr.
Lancaster, in saving Capt. Semmes from capture,
humane, nor is the act of her Majesty's Govern-
ment, in protecting him, to be viewed as wholly
within the limits of that sort of hospitality which it
would value in any other nation if practised towards
the people of Great Britain." In reference to Earl
Russell's tuo quoque regarding the Spanish Republic
Mr. Adams says :—" Were it expedient at this late
day to enter upon an examination of the relative

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merits of the two Governments in the two very

widely different stages of their condition, in acquit-
ting themselves of their obligations of neutrality
under circumstances of difficulty, I am not aware
that any result which might be arrived at would
have an effect in materially varying the views that
should be taken of the shortcomings of either. Very
fortunately, I am saved the necessity for further
discussion of it by pointing out to your lordship a
circumstance which seems to have entirely escaped
your attention. Whatever may have been the defi-
ciencies of the United States in the instance alluded
to, compensation therefor has been made to Spain,
and her full and free release has been given under
the sanction of her hand to a solemn treaty. When-
ever her Majesty's Government shall acknowledge
itself prepared to perfect the parallel instance, the
example may be cited against the United States, but
not until then." In conclusion the American Minis-
ter says :—" I have now the honour to inform your
Lordship that, after a careful consideration of your
note of the 20th of September, my Government
thinks itself entitled to adhere to the several posi-
tions it has heretofore assumed in regard to the
painful transaction in question, as these have been
made known through me to her Majesty's Govern-
ment. lam further directed to express to you the
President's concern at the failure, thus far, of the
efforts that have been made to avert a misunder-
standing between the two countries upon a point
which the American people have cause to regard as
seriously affecting the national honour and dignity."
Mr. Adams having applied to Earl Russell for the
surrender of three deserters from the Federal frigate
Iriquois at Dover, Earl Russell replied that the
Government were not empowered by law to do so.
In reference to this, Secretary Welles, in a letter to
Mr. Seward, says :—" The course pursued by
the authorities at Dover, in liberating these deser-
ters, will necessarily be reciprocated, and in that
event relieve us from great and constant applications
in regard to seamen who have or may come among

us.,,

On the sth of December, Lord Lyons having inti-
mated his intention of leaving America on account
of severe neuralgia, Mr. Seward replied as follows :
—" My dear Lord Lyons,—l agree with you that
it is best that you go away for a time. I hope not
a long one. And yet I feel that my cares and diffi-
culties will be seriously increased by your with-
drawal. I shall be happy to see you to-morrow at
12 o'clock, and I will then attend you to the Exe-
cutive mansion, where the President will receive
you, I am sure, with sincere kindness and sym-
pathy."
On the 24th of October, 1864, Mr. Seward called
Mr. Adams's attention to the hostile proceedings
against the United States initiated in Canada, and
to the insufficiency of the British Neutrality Adt,
and the refusal to render it more stringent, and in-
structing the Minister to give notice of the treaty
with regard to naval forces on the lakes, and of his
intention to increase that force. In regard to the
neutrality of Great Britain Mr. Seward says :
" I should fail, however, to express a sincere con-
viction of this Government if I should not repeat
now, what I have hitherto so often had occasion to
say, that practically the policy of neutrality, which
her Majesty has proclaimed, has failed as Well in

the British home ports as in the British colonies,
and especially in the latter ; and that it must con-
tinue to fail more conspicuously every day, so long
as asylum is allowed there to active agents of the
enemies of the United States, and they are in any
way able, by evasion or otherwise, to use the British
ports and border as a base for felonious depreda-
tions against the citizens of the United States. Nor
are we able to conceive any remedy adequate to the
present exigency but the recognition by her Ma-
jesty's Government of the just and exclusive sove-
reignty of the United States in all waters and terri-
tories legally subject to the jurisdiction of this Go-
vernment. I use the word exigency ' with a con-
sciousness of its just effect. The welfare and pro-
sperity of the British provinces on our borders are
as seriously desired by us as they can be by the
British Government. In a practical sense these
provinces arc sources of wealth and influence for the
United States, although they are subject to a foreign
jurisdiction. We have proved that this is a sincere
conviction on our part by entering into relations of
reciprocal free trade with the British provinces,
almost as intimate as the relations of free trade,
which, under our Constitution, prevail between the
several States of the American Union. Thus far
we have been content with these relations, and
probably we should remain content, whether the
colonies adhere to their ties with Great Britain, or,
with her consent, should assume the responsibilities
of self-government, provided always that our
friendship is reciprocal, while peace and harmony
on the borders are essential to the very existence
of such friendship. On the other hand, we have
a right to expect that the dwellers within these
provinces will be content to fulfil towards us the
obligations of good neighbourhood, as we are ex-
pected to fulfil the same obligations on our part.
Even if this Government could be satisfied with less
than what I have thus indicated, it must, neverthe-

less, be admitted that, from the very force of cir-
cumstances, peace could hardly be expected to pre-
vail on a border which should afford to the commu-
nities which it divides an adequate protection
against neutral aggression and reprisal. Political
agitation is as frequent in the British American pro-
vinces as it is here. It is not easy to foresee how
soon revolutionary movements may appear there.
Every provocation now given to Americans will be
likely to be claimed as a precedent in that case for
intrusion from this side of the lakes. Would it not
be wise to establish a proper system of repression
now, which would prove a rock of safety for both
countries hereafter ?"