Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-24
Foreign News.

LIVERPOOL, I2.-Cotton opened dull at
decline Of 4@1d, and closed active anC
buOyant The sales for four days hav'
aggregated $4,000, including 1900 bales Il
spectators and exporters.
Trade report adVices from MaIchester art
not so favorable. The market was quiet anC
/ easier, but closed frmer.
Breadstutfs tending downward. Wake
| field, Nash Co., Bigland, Atheya Co. and
| others report flour fiat and no quotations.
Wheat sales small. Some qualities de
clined l@2d. Sales 9s 4d@9s 1Od for win
ter red.
Corn inactive. Sales 2ss 6d@2ss Cd fol
mixed.
Provisions steady. Gordon, Bennett & Co
and others report Beef quiet and steady.
There was fair demand for fine qualities
at previous rates
Pork quiet but firm.
Bacon inactive and steady.
Butter tirmer. Fine qualities have i'm
proved most.
Lard inactive but steady.
Tallow steady at 49s.
Sugar active.
Coffee inactive.
Linseed oil steady.
Petroleum sales small at Is 1Od for refined.
LONDON, 12.-Breadstutfs frmer.
Sugar steady.
Coffee firm.
Tea active.
Tallow steady at SIS 3d@47s Sd.
Consols SS5Gs9 for money. Illinois Cen
tral shares $40, S45; Erie shares 50; Q. S.
5-20s 684d 6Sf.
Latest via Londonderry
LIVERPOOL, October l3.-Cotton market
The Brokers Circular reports sales of the
week foot up 10000 bales, including $4,000
bales to Spectators and 10000 to exporters.
The market opened firm with an advancing
tendency, but subsequently became fiat and
closed at an advance of only Id on Ameri-
can and IA Id on India.
Breadstutis close quiet and steady.
The provision market closes steady.
LONDON, Friday evening, Oct. l3.-COnsols
close at SS3aSs5 for money.
The weekly return of the Bank of Eng
land shows a decrease in bullion of 447,O0O
pounds,
United States 5-2Os 6S2as9. Erie shares
jSajSl. Illinois Central S3aS3!.
Later.
FATHER Po1Sr, October 23.-fhe steam
ship Hibernian, from Liverpool Onthe 18th,
and Londonderry on the 18th, for Quebec,
arrived off this point at six o'clock this
She was boarded by the news
ing summary of her news was obtained,
which is five days later:
The Hibernian has AZ cabin and 344 steer
age passengers.
The steamship Helvetia left Liverpool for
New York simultaneously with the Hiber-
nian.
The steamship Kangaroo, from New York,
arrived at Queenstown on the 18th inst.
The steamship Germania, from New York,
arrived at Southampton on the 11th inst
The steamship City of Boston, from New
York, arrived at Liverpool on the 10th
instant.
The steamship Damascus, from Quebec,
arrived at Londonderry on the 18th inst.
The steamship Erin, from New York; ar
rived at Liverpool on the 18th inst
An important diplomatic correspondence
between Mr. Adams, the American Minister,
and Earl Russell is published in the London
Gazette of the llth inst.
The correspondence begins with letter
from Minister Adams, dated the 18th Of
April last, III which he calls the attertion of
Earl Russell to the official reports Ct the
rayages of the Shenandoah, and announces
that for the damages caused by such cruisers
his government cannot avoid entailing upon
Great Britain the responsibility.
The reply OF Earl Russell, dated May 4th,
says that the duties of Great Britiin to the
United States are not measured by the losses
which the commerce of the latter may have
sustained. The question is simply whether
the Queens government have faithfully and
honestly performed the duties which the in
ternational laws and their own municipal
laws imposed on them.
In the reply OF MIR. Adams, dated May 4th,
he says that the insurgents Became beliger-
ents on the ocean solely by reason of facili
ties furnished in Her Majestys ports for
them to do so. He complains OF the secret
sympathy of Her Majesty's officers in the
mort of Liverpool. and contends that after
the information which he supplied respect
ing the Alabama, it was by HagrafN riegli-
gence of Her Majesty's 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 be-
tween the above letter and Earl Russell's
reply to it. In response to it Earl Russell
proceeds to justify the course of Her Majes-
ty's government in recognizing the beiger-
ents, and reasons are given why, there was
extreme difficulty in giving orders from
British ports to vessels Of war partly fitted
up in the United Kingdom. In a very i'm
portant point referred to in this letter
Earl Russell notices a statement ia a let
Ter from Mr.. Adams in 1868, as to the gov
ernment of Washington being ready to refer
these disputes TO arbitration. Earl Rtssell
declines this offer and says it is a question
in the first place whether the Queens gov
ernment has acted in good faith in; main
tanning neutrality, ana in the second place
whether the officers of the Crown have coz
recsij rgc,siy interpreted the British statute.
Earl Russell continues The Queens gov.
ernment can refer neither of these questions
to arbitration. The words used by him are
as follows:
Her Majesty's government are sole gdGr-
dians of their own honor. They cannot
admit that they have acted with bad faith
in maintaining the neutrality they professed.
The law officers of the Crown must be held
to be the best interpreters of British
statute than any foreign court. Her Maj
esty's government must therefore decline to
make reparation and compensation for The
captures made by the Alabama or to refer
the question to any foreign state, and
her Majesty's government conceives that if
they were to act otherwise they would en-
danger the position of neutrality in all fu-
ture wars. Her Majesty's government are,
however, ready to consent to the appoint
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