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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1863 , June . (search)
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 48 : Seward .—emancipation.—peace with France .—letters of marque and reprisal.—foreign mediation.—action on certain military appointments.—personal relations with foreigners at Washington .—letters to Bright, Cobden , and the Duchess of Argyll .—English opinion on the Civil War .—Earl Russell and Gladstone .—foreign relations.—1862 -1863 . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.12 (search)
The Alexandra case.
--The London correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes the latest news about the Alexandra case:
The discussion of the Alexandra case in the House of Lords, or rather before six members of it, has terminated, and their Lordships announce that their decision will be made public soon after Saster.
The discussion was wholly uninteresting, as the merits of the case itself were not touched upon.
The arguments were on the dryest of all technicalities, and really interested nobody except the lawyers themselves.
If the decision be in favor of the Government, then a new trial of the whole case will be ordered; but if otherwise, then the decision of the Court of Exchequer will stand, in favor of the Lairds, although that decision was only attained by the distinct understanding that an appeal was to be had to the higher courts.
If this latter be the result, although the Lairds may thus obtain a technical victory, it will only be on the confession, by t