The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-04 00:00:00

iVIONDAY EVENING, NOVEVII3ER 11861.

Mr. Woolrych said the defendant engaged in a row, and
in a most reckless manner struck at the policeman. He
sentenced the prisoner to one month's imprisonment.
ASSAULT ON A TRADESMAN.—CorneIius Driscoll, a
respectable-looking man, was brought before Mr. Wool-
rych charged with assaulting George Baddy, a builder of
High .street, Shadwell.

The complainant began by stating that the prisoner com-
mitted a most gross, fearful, and savage assault upon him
and then proceeded to state that he had dealt with the pri-
soner for colours, and there was an account between them.
He believe he owed the prisoner about £G. On Saturday
evening he was paying his men, and the prisoner demanded
payment of debt owing to him. He requested the defend-
ant to seek his legal remedy which any respectable man
ought to do in a disputed account. The prisoner then struck
him on the jaw with his fist, and dislodged one of his teeth.
He believed that the prisoner had a sharp instrument in his
hand when he struck him, for he bled copiously after he re-
ceived the blow. The complainant then produced the shirt
he was wearing at time he was assaulted. It was covered
with blood which flowed from a cut lip.
The prisoner said Mr. Boddy abused him most grossly
when he asked for his debt, and called him an Irish
vagabond.

Mr. Woolrych asked the complainant if he applied the
offensive term Irish vagabond to the complainant, and he
said he might have done so.

➢Tr. liroolrych fined the prisoner 155., which he paid.

LORD LYONS AND MR. SEWARD.

The correspondence between Lord Lyons and Mr.
Seward referred to in the telegram is as follows :

14, 1861*
LORD LYONS
wTOAsMHIRN.QSTOENNAORctD. .

Sir,—Her Majesty's Government were much concerned
to find that two British subjects, Messrs. Patrick and Rah-
ming, had been subjected to arbitrary arrest; and although
they had learnt from a telegraphic despatch from me that
Mr, Patrick had been released, they could not but regard
the matter as one requiring their very serious consideration.
Her Majesty's Government perceive that when British
subjects as well as American citizens are arrested, they are
immediately transferred to a military prison, and that the
military authorities refuse to pay obedience to a writ of
habeas earpus.
Her Majesty's Government conceive that this practice is
directly opposed to the maxim of the constitution of the
United States, " that no person shall be deprived of life,
liberty, or property without due process of law."
Her Majesty's Government are willing, however, to make
every allowance for the hard necessities of a time of internal
trouble ; and they would not have surprised if the ordinary
eecurities of personal liberty had been temporarily suspended,
nor would they have complained if British subjects falling
under suspicion had suffered from the consequences of that
suspension.

But it does not appear that Congress has sanctioned in
this respect any departure from the due course of law ; and
it is in these circumstances that the law officers of the
Crown have advised her Majesty's Government that the
arbitrary arrests of British subjects are illegal.
So far as appears to her Majesty's Government, the Sec-
retary of State of the United States exercises, upon the re
ports of spies and informers, the power of depriving British
subjects of their liberty, of retaining them in prison, or
liberating them, by his own will and pleasure.
Her Majesty's Government cannot but regard this despotic
and arbitrary power as inconsistent with the constitutiod of
the United States, as a variance with the treaty of amity
subsisting between the two nations, and as tending to pre-
vent the resort of British subjects to the United States for
purposes of trade and industry.
Her Majesty's Government have therefore felt bound to
instruct me to remonstrate against such irregular proceed-
ings, and to say that, in their opinion, the authority of
Congress is necessary in order to justify the arbitrary ar-
rest and imprisonment of British subjects.
I have the honour to be, air, with the highest considera-
tion, your most humble servant, LYONS,
The Hon. William H. Seward, &c.