Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-10-22
Corresponds between Sec
Rotary seward And k0rd
Lyons.

NAsBIsGTON, Oct, 10.
Lord Lyons several days ago addressed
letter to M. Seward, Secretary of State,
in which he says:
Her Majesty's government were much
concerned 10 fed that two British Subjects,
Ae-=rs Parich ard Rahmis, had been
subject to arbitrary arrest, and. although
they had been released, it could not but
regard the matter as ohe requiring very
serious consideration"
Lord Lyons, under instructions, there
fore, felt bound to demonstrate against such
irregular proceedings" as he designated
them, ard 20 say that tie authority d
Congress is necessary in order to Justify
an arbitrary arrest aud imprisonment OF
British subjects.
Secretary Seward, in the course of hs
reply, after detailing the facts IA regard
70 the two prisoners named in the note q.
Lord Lyons, says:
The proceedings of which the British
government complains we're taken upon
information conveyed TO the President bv
the legal police authorities of the Country.
and they were not instituted until after he
had suspended tie great writ OF freedom in
just the extent that, in view Of the perils
OF the State, he deemed necessary for the
exercise OF that discretion for which be. as
well as his chief advisers. among whom
are The Secretary of War aud the Secre,a-
~ 81 State, IL responsible hy law bel. Re
the highest triilu al If the Republic, and
amenatle also to the Judgment of HIS c0ua
Try aud the enlightened yurtiUn Of the
world
Mr. Seward, in conclusion, remarks
The safety OF the whole ;,eople has be-
come, in the present exisency, toe supreme
law and, 50 long as tie danger shall exist
ali ciarses of society, equally the denizeu
aud the citizen, must cheertuily acauiesce
IN the measures WHICH that law pre-
scribes.
The government does mt question the
learning OF the legal advisers of the British
Crown, OF the justice Of the Difference
wien her MaJesty pays to them never
theless, tue BRITISH government will hardly
expect that the President Il accept their
explanations OF the constitution Of the
United States, especially when the consti-
tutiun thus expounded would leave upon
h'm the sole executive responsibility Of
suppressiug tie Iusurrection, while it VOID
,rarsser TO Congress the mort material aud
Indispensable powers 70 be empioyed for
that puT pUse.
Moreover, these explanations find no real
support IN the letter, much less IT, tn.
-Pirit, OF the constitution lie mus. be nj
lowed, therefore. to prefer 10 be governed
ny the organic national law, which, while
1t will enable INN 10 exercise his great
trust with complete success, receives tie
sanction Of the highest authorities Of our
own country, and is sustained by the gen.
eral consent Of the people from whom alone
the constitution was established.
w. III. SEWARD.
Surprise is expressed here at the mis-
construction attempted to be put upon Sec
rotary Stewards circular by alarmists.-
The circular shows that cur relations
abroad are IN good condition, and that the
government means to keep them so. The
administration has taken measures to nut
them right within, and now turns its at
teDtion to putting them right without. Ii
asks the corporation of the loyal States 10
the latter as In the former.