The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-22 00:00:00

'THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1866.

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)

NEW YORK, May 7.

The New York journals publish the following
correspondence between Earl Russell and Mr.
Adams concerning the oration of Mr. Bancroft in
Congress on the 12th February last :

EARL RUSSELL TO MR. ADAMS.

" Chesham-place, Feb. 28.

" Dear Mr. Adams,—l observe in the Daily News
of yesterday extracts from a speech of Mr. Ban-
croft, delivered in the House of Representatives on
the 12th inst. In this speech Mr. Bancroft is re-
presented to have said, referring to the breaking
out of the civil war The British Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs made haste to send word
through the palaces of Europe that the great Re-
public was in its agoby ; that the Republic was no
more ; that a headstone was all that remained due
by the law of nations to the late Union.'
" As words pronounced on such an occasion, and
by so eminent a man as Mr. Bancroft, may have an
effect far beyond the injury which my personal cha-
racter might suffer, I must request you to convey
to Mr. Bancroft my denial of the truth of his alle-
gations, and to refer him to facts of a totally oppo-
site character.

" Soon after the news of the resistance in arms
of the Southern States to the Government of the
Union arrived in this country, a member of the
House of Commons stated in his place that the
bubble of Republicanism had burst. I replied in
the same debate that the bubble of Republicanism
had not burst, and that, if the curse of slavery still
hung about the United States, it was England who
had made them the gift of the poisoned garment
which was now their torment. In fact, I have never
had any doubt that, whether the United States
consented to separation or pursued the war to ex-
tremity, the great Western Republic would remain,
happily for the world, a powerful and independent
Republic.

" The authors of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, in declaring for separation from Great Bri-
tain, after enumerating their complaints of her
conduct, go on to say--' We must, therefore, ac-
quiesce in the necessity which denounces our sepa-
ration, and hold them, as we hold the rest of man-
kind, enemies in war, in peace friends.'

" That we should be enemies in war is easily
understood, but when we are at peace why should
we not be friends, as the great men of the American
revolution intended us to be ? If they, in a moment
of separation and of war, looked forward to a period
of peace and of friendship, why should we, more
than three-quarters of a century after these events,
keep up sentiments of irritation and hostility
founded on a mistaken apprehension of facts, and
tending to lay the foundation of permanent aliena-
tion, suspicion, and ill-will ?
" As Mr. Bancroft's speech is likely to have very
extensive publicity, I reserve to myself the power of
making public this letter at such time as I shall
judge fit.--I am, my dear Mr. Adams, your faith-
ful servant,

" RUSSELL.
P.S.--I subjoin an extract of my speech on the
30th of May, 1861, as reported in ' Hansard's De-
bates."

midst of the ruin, to have been. mindful of the wants of
those at a distance.

" Nothing could add to my admiration for the heroic
self-denial and Christian virtues of my countrywomen—
for the measure was full to overflowing—nor could any-
thing increase the gratitude with which I will ever recur
to their confidence and sympathy.
" It only remains to assure you and the ladies whom
you represent, that I am, most gratefully and respectfully,
your friend and obedient servant,

" JEFFERSON DAVIS.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

TRINITY TERM.
This being the first day of Trinity Term, and the cere-
mony of "breakfasting with the Lord Chancellor" having
been dispensed with, the judges of the different common
law courts took their seats on the bench between 10 and 11
o'clock at 'Westminster Hall, which as usual was crowded
by persons who have an inexplicable interest in seeing the
judges pass from their carriages to the bench.

QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Sittings in Banco before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and

Justices Blackburn, Mellor, and Shoe.)
The Lord Chief Justice was sufficiently recovered from
his recent illness to resume his seat on the bench this morn-
ing.

Some motions were disposed of, but they were of no
general interest.

GORE V. WALPOLE.

In this case the plaintiff brought an action against the
Right Hon. Mr. Walpole, the former Secretary for the
Home Department, for an alleged infringement of the
statutes relative to the prisoners who were confined in the
Queen's Bench Prison. It appeared that the plaintiff had
been imprisoned in the Queen's Bench Prison for costs
arising out of an action in which he had been engaged,
and that his conduct was of that nature that the medical
attendant at the prison believed him to be insane, and
having certified to that fact, the plaintiff was removed to
Bethlem. He brought an action against Mr. Walpole,
which he lost, and he now moved the cow. t
for a rule to set aside the verdict of the
jury on the ground that he was sane when
he was sent to Bethlem, that there should have been the
certificates of two medical men to justify his removal from
the Queen's Bench prison, that there was misdirection on
the part of the learned judge (the Lord Chief Justice)
etc., Vic.

There was nothing in the case, which has been fre
quently before the court, requiring any special notice,

BUSINESIrV,THE COURT.

The special cause and new trial list presented the usua:
array of cases, and amongst the latter is that of

TARNER V. WALKER.

In connection with the Cornhill burglary, the rule had
been obtained in the case calling on the plaintiff to show
cause why a verdiot awarding the amount of reward
which had been advertised by Mr. Walker, the watchmaker
at Cornhill, for information leading to the conviction of
the burglars who broke into his premises, and for the re-
covery of his property in whole or part, should not be
reversed.

charged themselves, and then in a day or two returned and
clamoured for readmiision.

The police proved that the defendants were drunk.
Hayes admitted that he had spent lls. since Friday,
but he could not say how.

Mr. Selfe said it was abominable that after disposing of
that sum of money, as much as many a working man had
to keep his family for a week, Hayes should apply to the
parish. The conduct of both was disgraceful, and he
should commit them for seven days. Had the disorder
been inside the workhouse he could have sent them for a
longer period,