The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1862-09-02
EURoP'N NEWS BY THE HIBERNIA.
Highly Important Letter from
Earl Russell to MIR. Steward.
The Views and Declarations Of Her Majesty's Gov
ernment.
FIsnER,s PoINT, Aug. So.

FIsnER's PoISr, Aug. So.
BY the steamer Hiberiap, which passed this
point this morning, we hsye received the fol-
loving highly interesting letter, written by
Earl Russell 10 reply 60 dispatch from Mr..
Seward:
E'ear Russell to Mr.. Seward: 4
FoREIeN OFsIcE, LONDON, %. July, 1869.
-SIR-I have left heretofofF unanswered
aud unnoticed the dispatch 81 Mr.. Seward,
which Mr.. Adams delivered more than
month ago. i have done SO, partly because
the military events referred in it were, in the
opinion of her Majesty's Government, far
from being decisive, and partly because there
was no proposal in il upon which her Majesty's
Government was called upon to come to any
conclusion. Events subsequent to the date
Of Mr.. Stewards letter have sh1wn that Her
Majesty's Government in its opinion on the
first of these points was not mistaken: victo.
ries have been gained, reverses have followed,
positions have been reached IN the near neigh
lorhood of the capital Of the Confederates,
and these positions have been agian abandon
ed. These events have been accompanied by
great loss of life in battle and in the hospitals,
while such measures as the Confiscation Bill
has passed through both Houses Of Congress,
and with the proclamation of General Butler
at New Orleans bear evidence of the increas-
ing bitterness Of the strife. The approach Of
servile war, so much insisted upon by Mr..
Seward in his dispatch only forewarns us that
another element Of destruction may be added
to the loss Of property and waste Of industry
which already afflicts the country SO lately
prosperous and tranquil.
Nor on the other point to which have ad-
vertised have l anything new to say. From
the moment that intelligence first reached this
country that nine States and several million
of inhabitants of the great American Union
had seeded and had mado war on the Gov
ernment CT President Lincoln down to the
present time, her Maj sty's Government has
pursued friendly, open and consistent course.
They have been neutral between the two par
ties to civil war. Neither the loss Of raw
material for manufacture 80 necessary to q
great portion of our people, nor insult con-
stantly heaped upon the British name in
speeches and newspapers, nor vigor beyond
the usual practice of nations with which the
Queens subjects attempting to break loose
from the blockading of the Southern ports
have been treated. have induced her Majesty's
Government to abandon their impartial neu-
trality. At this moment they have nothing
more at heart than to see that consumation
which the President speaks Of in answer to
the Governors of eighteen states, namely the
bringing Of this unnecessary and injurious civil
war to speedy and satisfactory conclusion.-
AS to the course of opinion in this country,
the President is aware that pTefect freedom
to comment upon all public events is in this
country, the invariabe practice sanctioned by
law and approved by the universal sense OF
the nation. 1 am, dc.,
(SignedD RUSSELL.