The correspondence on the St. Alban's and Lake Erie outrages
has been laid before Parliament. It is, on the whole, very tem- perate and conciliatory on both sides,—the only monstrous sugges- tion made by the North, and that not as a claim, but only as a means of avoiding these disputes, being that England should refuse the right of asylum to the "active enemies" of the United States. Of course Lord Russell merely declined to listen to such amiable suggestions for our good. For the rest, there does not :appear to have been as yet any violation of the arrangement of 1817, which limits the force to be employed by each country on the border lakes,—and though notice was given in October to ter- minate it in six months, it was accompanied by the cordial assur- ance from Mr. Adsons that as soon as the war was ended the Government of the United States would wish to return to the old arrangement. Mr. Seward has seldom shown so much temper as in this correspondence.
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