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circumstances of the present case than that the act was indefensible, and that the prisoners must be restored, the obvious course was to accept the fact of the reparation and to disregard the comment. Such, we believe, has been the course adopted by our Government. A cabinet council was held yesterday, at which this very elaborate document was considered. An answer will, we understand, be returned, expressing the gratification of her Majesty's Government at the disavowal of the act of Captain Wilkes, accepting the satisfaction rendered, and assuming that the precedent in the case of the Trent will rule the more recent case of the seizure made by the captain of the Santiago de Cuba on board the British schooner Eugenia Smith. As to the general discussion of the law into which Mr. S. enters at so much length, the Government will decline any answer until they have had an opportunity of submitting the whole note to their law officers. There are propositions laid down in this note whic