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

No. 10.

Mr. Waddington to Mr. Hammond.—(Received March 1.)

Whitehall, February 29, 1864.

Sir: With reference to the previous correspondence on the same subject, I am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to transmit to you, for the information of Earl Russell, a copy of a report which has been received by the Irish government from the Dublin police respecting the embarkation of fifty-five young men by the agency of P. J. Finney.

I am, &c.,

H. WADDINGTON.

[Enclosure in No. 10.]

Report.

Dublin Metropolitan Police, Superintendent’s Office, G Division,, February 24, 1864.

Referring to my report of yesterday respecting P. J. Finney, I beg to state that fifty-five young men of the class therein described left this city on yesterday evening per steamer for Liverpool. It is said that the vessel which shall convey them to Boston shall sail from Liverpool on to-morrow.

DANIEL RYAN, Superintendent.

The Commissioners of Police, Submitted. J. L. O’Ferrall.

February 21, 1864.