The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1865-11-01
FOREIGN NEWS.

l'Nou oh tHio polUt, oH IouIo w NHueueC
at 6 O'Clock this morning. She wa
: boarded by the news. boat OF the Associ
! ated Press. and the following summary
f of her news obtained, which is five day
later: The Hibern'an has forty-seve'
cabin and 327 steerage passengers
Steamship tIeIvetia left Liverpool 70
New York simultaneously with the Hi
bernian. Steamship Kangaroo, from
New York arrived al Queenstown on TIL
lllh instant. Steamship Germania
from New York, arrived at Southampton
on the llth instant. The steamship
City of Boston, from New York, arrived
at Liverpool on the l0th instant. The
steamship Damascus, from Quebec, arr
we'd at Londonderry on the 18th. The
steamship Erie, from New York, arrived
at Liverpool on the l9th.
Important diplomatic correspondence
between Mr.. Adams, the American
Minister and Earl Russell, is published
in the London Gazette, Of the lth inst
The correspondence begins with letter
from Minister Adams, 7th of April last,
in which he calls the attention oil Earl Rus
sell TO official reports respecting the rava-
ges ol the Shenandoah, aud announces that,
Tor damages caused by such curisers
his government can not avoid entaiing
the responsibility upon Great Britain.
The reply Of Earl Russell is dated
May 4. He says the duties Of Great
Britain to the United States are not
measured by the losses which the com
merce OF the latter may have sustained.
The question is, simply, whether the
Queens Government faithfully and hon
eslly performed the duties which inter
national and their own municipal laws
imposed upon them.
The reply of Mr.. Adams is dated May
4. He says that the insurgents became
belligerents on the ocean solely by reason
OF facilities furnished in Her Majesty's
ports for them 10 do SO. lie complains
81 the secret sympathy Of Her MajeSty's
officers in the port Of Liverpool, and
contends, after Information which he
supplied respecting the Alabama, it was
by the hagrant negligence of Her Majes
TVS Board of Customs that this vessel,
admitted to be intended for war purposes,
was suffered to depart from Liverpool.
An interval of three months elapsed
between the above letter and Earl Rus
sell reply to it. In the response Earl
Russell proceeds to justify the curse OF
Her Majesty's Government in recognizing
the belligerens, and reasons are given
why there was extreme difficulty in giving
orders TO exclude from British ports
vessels. of war partly fitted up in the
United Kingdom. A very important
point referred to in this letter Is Ea'l
kusselPs notice Of statement in letter
from Mr., Adams in 1869, AS to the Gov
ernment at Washington being ready to
reer these disputes to arbitration.
Earl Russell declines this offer, and
says it is question, in the first place,
whether the Queens Government have
acted in good faith in maintaining neu
trality, and, in the second place, whether
the law officers OF the Crown have cor
rectly interpreted British statute. Earl
Russell continues that the Queens Gov
ernment can refer neither OF these ques
tions TO arbiuation. The words used by
him are as follows:
Her Majesty's Government are the
sole guardians of their own honor They |
can not admit they have acted with bad
faith in maintaining The neutrality they |
pl ofessed. The law officers of the Crown
must be held to be better Interpreters OF
a British statute, than any foreign Coy
eminent can be presumed to be.
Her Majesty's Government must,
therefore, decline to make reparation and |
compensation COR the captures made by
the Alabama. or to refer the question to
any foreign State. Her Majesty's Gov
ernment conceive If they were to act
otherwise, they would endanger the po'
sition Of neutlals in all future wars,
Her Majesty's Government ale, however,
ready to consent TO the appointment of
to which shall be referred all
ella ms rising during the late civil war,
which the two powers shall agree to refer
TO the commissioners. s.
The reply Of Mr. Adams is dated 18Th
Of September, and is very serious in its
tone. Mr. A ans says recognition Of the
South as beligerents was such an act as
was never done by one nation toward an
other in a state OF amity.
He charges the British Government
with having acted without knowledge
and on mere presumption, in assuming
that the evidence Of the blockade OF the
Southern ports was imperfect, The
blockade, he says was the consequence,
not the cause, Of the British policy, and |
thinks the only excuse for the British |
Government is that its conduct was pre-
cipitate. He then intimates that if the i
doctrines and practices of the British |
Government are allowed to become the
rule, the United States will not be the
greatest looser thereby.
MIR. Adams appears to think that the
nronosal of Earl Russell. to refer the |