The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-10-28
Important from England-Our Claims
ON The RriIish tournament

BY the steamship Hiberuiau which AZ
rived at Farther Point yesterday we have
received important information affecting
our inture relations With Great Britain. on
the 9Th Of April last Mr. Adams, our Minis
ter in London, wrote 90 Earl ell init
mating in diplomatic language that the
Washington Cabinet held England response
Bile for the damage done by the Alabama
and her pratical companions. on Nav the
sth, nearly month afterwards Earl Rus
sell CURLY replied that British liability
could not be measured by United States loss
and that the real and only quuestion was
whether tho British Government hsd faith
iully aDd honestly performed their duty ss
neptrals The same. day Mr. Adams re-
joined that the insurgent States became bel
hgerenis 90 sea solely ny reason Of vessels
furnished them by Eugand, and he charged
peNustom House officials OF Liyerpo,l with
hagfant negligence an permitting The Ala
Three months passed uwsv without any
reply from the British Foreign Office At
the end OF thar time Earl Russell addressed
10 Mr. Adams despatch iustifyiug the con
duct OF his government and declin-
lng the oiIer. 81 arbitraticuwhich had,
previously been made BY NJ. Seward
T#T. H..H Ahe Law oiheers Of the crown isaid|
lord RussellI must be held 70 De lei
tsr interpreters 81 British stsiutes thsn any
iofelgn government can be presumed 20 he
hef n sleaiy's Government must therefore
decline - make PREPARATION or compensation
Tor captures made by the Alabama or 20 re
Ter TIE question 20 any foreign State"
In place Of the arbitration thus rejected
the British Foreign Secretary propdsed
commission Of inquiry. Our Munster his
backbone silhenlng the ncrocistious
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NOT believe this alternative would H. sc-
ceptable 10 his government. and he added
that the recognition % the South As bsIlir-
-fents by England "was such an act As was
never before done by one nation 90 another
~ state Of amty.' and that the blockade
Of Southern ports was athet,1ps,lusp,s nj
the cause, Of British policy"
~ nus Stage The correspondence stops
- ,.-i' NAel ieinarkabic circumstance
nov cones 60 light. Il was exactly AZ ~
pe,loe mat London journal, supposed 10
have exclusive sources of In G,,,,att,r -
H.
the elaDaina claims had reached a critical |
ana UNPLEASANT stage. The ruvetu-ne,l he
Tag questioned on the subject utterly a.
med that such was the case. Lord Paimsr
ston assured the House Of Commoas that The
question was being discussed ZEN the
most friendly and amicsb.c terms > |
. aad Mr. LAyard, he Under Secretary
Tor Foreign Affairs, went further. ana -
that no new claim bad been made since
President yohnson's secession 10 mower
@ How tar these assertions were sincere may
be Judged from the fact that the publicstioa
Of ths correspondence has called forth OMEN |
" expressed fears from portion Of the !
British press Of hostile rupture with this |
l..#- The latest phase which the difficulty has |
assumed may be gathered from Mr. Sew
H.I aras recent speech Ct Auburn, in which he 1
ia-''Ihe discussion Of these claims IN I
wolves principles essential O. she. indensnd- i
80 o. s'7lss and h0rmony among the ma L
eos Il believe that The President VIII /
-,-Not Nls part Of our iIhirs ia such \
manner as 10 yield and rccover indempi-
- 5-s.Ay que without any ecmpromiso Of Il
ne national dignity aud honor y 49, Il
-s...H fang - this Mr., Seward evisertl, -. =
lnsist upon arbitration. As the ,noftsr "a |
present STANDS, portion OF Inc P-ifisb - I
49,. y, 49, 'Neii Tears OF hostile ma
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