The New York herald., 1863-07-14

| his checkered career the French Emperor has,
| from time to time, been brought before the
public in Company with some queer associates
Jew bill discounters, chevaIers d'indussric fast
women and fortu1etelers constantly figured
| in his escapades before be became President OF
the republic. Fur time he affected decent
company; but during the last few years bis
habits are said to have again become shock
ingly loose. Horse jockeys, ladies Of the demi
monde and broken down secesh are the society
that he most frequents. The worst feature of
this moral relapse is, however, the renewal of
his intimacy with Roebuck No one can posi-.
bly, come in contact with that physically and
mentally perverted specimen of humanity
without getting befouled in some way. Ac-
cordingly the world is treated to the spectacle
of the Emperor and his once radical and now
tory friend giving each other the lie on ques-
ton of fact before the British Parliament. The
disadvantage of such companionship is that no
one knows which to believe.
BRITISH TRADE WITH MArAMoROs. Amongst
the papers recently laid before the British
Parliament is the correspondence which has
taken place between Lord Lyons and Mr..
Seward in regard to the obstacles opposed by
our cruisers to the trade between Liverpool
and other English ports and Matamoros. In
reply to the representations made by the
British Minister, that this trade was per-
fectly legitimate one, and that there was
widely spread impression that it was the inten-
tion Of the American government, by captures
without cause, by delays Of adjudication, and
by the wanton imprisonment Of the masters and
crews Of captured vessels, to put a stop to it
altogether, Mr. Seward repudiates all such de-
signs and dispositions on the part Of the United
States, and states that every seizure that has
been made since last autumn has been made
under the legal instructions of the Secretary Of
the Navy, announced in his note to the. British
Minister of the 9th Of August last. II will be
remembered that Lord Palmerston, in the
House of Commons, expressed his satisfaction
at the perfectly fair and just character of those
instructions. Mr.. Seward exposes the object
for which the complaints on which Lord Lyons
note is founded are got up, and very properly
adds that, as it cannot be assumed by the United
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the vessels ostensibly trading between British
port and Matamoros are unlawfully engaged, 80
it cannot be claimed by Great Britain nor con-
ceded by us that some British vessels may not
be fraudulently engaged in that ostensible
trade in conveying supplies to the insurgents of
the United States. All that the American gov
ernment can do is to refer the trial of every fact
and question of law to a court recognized by
the law of nations, no one Of whose judgments
has as yet been complained Of by the British
government, and which, therefore, justly lies
under no suspicion Of either want Of intelli-
gencs or want Of impartality. Happily"
concludes Mr.. Seward, "the operations Of the
army and navy on the Mississippi seem now
likely to break up the inland communication
over which the unlawful trade in question was
intended to be carried, and to remove the re-
munerative temptations to continuance Of that
injurious and forbidden commerce. predic-
ton that has been since gloriously fulfilled.