Case of the Shenandoah; further evidence submitted.......
Statement of public debt of the United States January 1, 1866.... 56

Financial condition of the United States as viewed in Great Britain.

Jan. 18 Abolition of slavery in the United States. Opening of Parliament. The ministry. Discontent in Ireland; Fenian organizations in that island.

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57

57

Jan. 29 Reported disposal of eighty steam vessels belonging to late insurgents.

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Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward. ......do

Feb. 14
Feb. 15

Attitude of the United States respecting "Alabama claims".. Reported disposal of eighty steam vessels belonging to late insurgents.

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66

Feb. 15 Case of the Shenandoah. British view of course of Lord Russell respecting claims of United States.

67

Feb. 20 Parliament. The press of Great Britain; its tone satisfactory.
Financial and political position of the United States satisfactory.
Feb. 22 Suspension of the habeas corpus in Ireland. Its cause, Fenianism.
Its probable results. Measures suggested to meet the compli
cations likely to arise.

Mar. 10 Suspension of the habeas corpus in Ireland. Alleged Fenianism in the United States. Position of the United States on the question.

77

1718

Mr. Adams to Mr.
Seward.
Mr. Seward to Mr.
Adams

Mar. 22 Adjournment of Parliament. The ministry and reform bill

89

Mar. 23 Depredations on American commerce during the rebellion. Cabinet members in Congress. Relations of the United States and Great Britain.

89

1737 Mr. Seward to Mr. April 10 Termination of reciprocity treaty of 1854. The fishery limits Adams.

under the same.

1179 Mr. Adams to Mr. April 12 Meeting of Parliament and reform bill. Political situation in

April 12

Great Britain, Interview with Lord Clarendon on Fenian organizations. Case 102 of J. A. Commerford, an alleged Fenian,

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70

70

71

74

April 19 Diplomatic correspondence. Slave trade in island of Cuba .............

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June 12 Fenian movement against Canada. Proclamation of the President. 135

Reform bill in Parliament. Resignation of the ministry. Feeling 142 towards the United States.

July 2

Adams.
..do.

June 28 Neutrality of Great Britain in the war of Prussia and Italy against 142
Austria.

Dissolution of the German Bund. Position of Great Britain on 145
the war of Prussia and Italy against Austria.

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1227 Mr. Adams to Mr.
Seward.

July 6

July 3 Reform bill in Parliament. Suffrage and representation.......
July 5 Resignation of ministry; its effect. War between Prussia and
Austria. Interposition of other great powers probable.
Thomas Hynes and Thomas J. Hynes, alleged Fenians, arrested in
Ireland.

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145

146

Mr. Seward to Mr.
Adams.

July 30 Report of General Banks on the neutral relations of the United

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States.

Aug. 25
Aug. 27

The Simonoseki indemnity.....

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177

Enclosing summary of claims of citizens of the United States against Great Britain for damages suffered by them during the rebellion and thereafter, by means of depredations upon our commercial marine, committed on the high seas by the Sumter, the Alabama, the Florida, the Shenandoah, and other ships of war, built, armed, equipped, and fitted out in British ports. Sept. 14 Recovery of the Atlantic submarine telegraph cable. Communi- 203 cation between the two continents.

Sept. 21

Claims against Great Britain growing out of depredations on
American commerce.

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Sept. 29

Release of Patrick Hasson, an alleged Fenian. Every American 204 now released.

Sept. 29 Important meeting of the Reform League at Manchester. Suf- 205

Nov. 16

Nov. 10 The Lord Mayor's dinner at London. Claims against Great 210
Britain growing out of depredations on American commerce.
The rebel loan in Great Britain an offset to claims growing out of
depredations on American commerce.

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