Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part I

Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward.

Washington, January 26, 1863.

Sir: I am directed by her Majesty’s government to inform you that Mr. Frere, her Majesty’s judge in the British and United States mixed commission court established at the Cape of Good Hope, under the treaty of the 7th of April last, has completed the necessary formalities for opening the court, with a view to its being ready for the transaction of any business which may be brought before it.

I have the honor, &c., &c.,

LYONS.

Hon. W. H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.