Daily national Republican., 1863-05-21
AN EXTRAORDINARY LETTRR,

The newspapers have for week past been
Gllcd with surmises about changes in the Cabi-
net, and it has been positively stated that the
concerted attempt TO drive Mr.. Seward from
III" Cabinet has been renewed. In this con
nection VIC copy from the N. Y. Tribune of
Monday letter which lie alleged to be part Of
the plan Of operations, and TO have emanated
from distinguished Senator, now in this city.
From his position on the Committee of Foreign
Relations we should he slow to believe that this
ran be true, as It would show an extraordinary
attitude for him to assume towards the secre-
iary of state, who conducts those relations.
At any rate. our readers have a right TO examine
The matter for Themselves, and therefore we
give them the letter for what it is worth:
MORE OF THE PETERHoFF CASE.
correspondence OF the N. Y. Tribune.
WASHINGTON, May IL, 1858.
The City of Washington, which arrived al
Nour port early on Tuesday morning last
nrings, among other interesting foreign news,
The following very significant statement from
the London Times, of May !, to wit:
The Ministers have announced that the Peter
hnti mails will be forw arded To their destination
unopened and that the SAME COURSE will b. pur,IsJ
80 all similar casrS." ~
Now, there is a bit Of ,critten history abont
his whole affair of the pusilanlmOus and gra-
tuitous surrender Of the PeterhOff's mails, and
the rOhbng Of our gallant tars Of the crimina-
ting evidence therein contained, which ~
world knows not Of" but which, for - ,-,Ji,
ant dignity of our Government o,,,,h, 70 ha
published in full. And all , ,ror5 W". az ~ SrorO
III" TACT that copy ~ a most eytraoTdinarv
- d., Tr,,,c,t' ! Seward to SeCrtary Wellcs
L..,,, me- ~ before the American people, by
NY p oeTited 10 the English Parliament by Earl
sell, preiaCvd by an admission of the still
more extraordinary and ingenious modes of Brit
,sh diplomacy, of icOTmiHg out an advantage
which the laws of nations and her own we'll
established precedents deny her.
The London Telegraph OF April 49, reporting
Iroceedings in Parliament OF the day previous
Iaus details the Crown Officers statements:
.,Earl Russell directed Mr., Stuart 10 dacfrfdiH from
NJ, SrrIrd cheihsT The Govern Rsni 0ftr IHISd State
ADMrTTED the PRIsCIPLE thai hT MyedyS mai
b qg found on board bloc kade-runners snail METH
IN nj Searched EoR DETAINED"
Of course, no one blames the rather cute Ear
for ACCEPTING REIMBURSEMENT Of such
principle of common sense and equity (whicl
International law for oil time has affirmed, } i
rr were tlunliics enough 10 UOlmtecT the cyHcss
,tOn, which 1t would appear at least one office
Of our Government made haste 10 DO, for tn,
rrpOrt proceeds;
ON this subject MIR Seward, In a letter aI
dressed TO the secretary Of the American Navy
I,t.d tJct A. saws II IL thought ex xnadieut N =
othGrrs that, IN case of capture Of merchant yes
sells suspected or found to he vessels OF the insur
E,uts CUn'rfbAnd, the public mails OF any friend
j. OI neutral Power, duly certified and Authentl
.tf, BuCH, stdA rot be searched Oprttsd, but b
pc. az ,Tseiiiy may BE- cOHrrHieRi, on their tr1y
ir' ''r d'HgHdi'd Destination This instruction, how
''rr, wIl not he deemed to protect simulate ma
tgs, verified by forged certificates or counterfeit
Ct scale"
M such Instructions as those voluntarily
ruggeslrd ~ this note Of Secretary Seward wcr,
ever issued 10 American naval officers, as Ear
kussrh asserts, lnasmuCh as such orders wuri
regarded as contrary alike TO good policy, pre-
urdrnt and law.
BY what HurrcptitioUs means this most extra
ordinary mote, evidently intended to he private
found its way out Of the state or NAVY Denart
Inrut and into the hands OT Earl Russell il O.
question about which the " curiuus'' will bc n,
much exercised as they were to know how if
was that SIR ircehS before Gen. Butler had an,
utmutiOn Of his recall from his own C,ovrrn
IIrnt, one Of his spies dAsircd Jy Us Fr,Ury
p,d EJtgiish coHs'iLs at RicLmo1,d that it was ar
event certainly 10 HdiSpirCi The subscuurnr
publication Of the "YcllOw Book" of IN,
French Government solves the latter mystrr,
as having been based upon pledges advanced
hy the uOuld-be controlling mSmbeT Of tn
ablnot. II II possible thGt this leak may b
traced 10 the same sOurcel
Aud here is where the Hub Is, of this whOl
huluOalloO ubOut the PrterhOf's mails W
had the Law Of nations-ERgiSh lac and Ehg
u" pTttfd''hN ~ StJsidHtidfOH Of Otr right Z
hoid he captured Utuis. It was a right HGVs
disputed, aud the note 10 Mr. Weles, advising
different rours"-any one, at all familiar witt
the social amenities Of our giftcd Premier
would be led to suppose was merely a redemp
ton of some hiPpant pledge made over Lort
Lyons's whlsl-table, upon the uncorklng of
fresh bottle of green seal, ," for, within n weeI
past, Lord Lyons himseif, has been operLsard 4
DENY IN express terms THAT He EVER DEMANDED
THE SURRENDER or THE PETERHoFF's MAILS
The intelligence brought by Tucsday's stcamc
bears strongly on this point Earl Russell our
aware, Of course, that the mails had BEEN sui