18 JULY 1868, Page 2

Lord Stanley announced on Thursday that he was quite in

accord with the American authorities and Mr. Seward as to the general principles which ought to govern our recognition of the rights of naturalization. This is comfortable to hear, and as re- gards Lord Stanley we can quite believe that if the question had been submitted to him during the lowest ebb of the Federal fortunes, he would have come to just the same conclusions. But certainly some of his colleagues have suffered a wonderful inward change and conversion on this class of subjects. From the fall of Richmond American logic, dates most of its persuasive force.