Under these circumstances, the House of Lords had, of course,
*nothing to do but to adjourn, which it did, after listening to a 'rather curious outburst from Lord Russell, who called the Indirect 'Claims " these mendacious claims," and who said, speaking of the time when the United States first made its claims against vs for the acts of the Alabama and her consorts, "Let it now be added,—for I don't think it ought to be disguised any longer,—that the first demands of the American Government were couched in the most offensive terms towards the Ministry of this country. Lord Palmerston was at the head of that Govern- ment, and I was its Foreign Secretary ; and I say that no swindler or pickpocket ever had worse terms applied to him than those which were applied to us by the American Government." That was perhaps a pardonable outburst of the old English Minister's, but it was not calculated to smooth the passage of the Supplemental Treaty through the American Senate.
