Mr. Fish to Mr. Hurlbut..
Sir: I inclose with this a transcript of a dispatch, of the 28th ultimo, from Mr. O. M. Long, United States consul at Panama, stating that his official proceedings relative to the estate of J. J. Landerer, a deceasep naturalized American citizen, had been interfered with by the judge of the civil department of Panama in contravention of the stipulations of the consular convention between the United States and New Granada. You are instructed to lay the facts as given in the dispatch of Mr. Long before the Colombian government, and remonstrate against the course pursued by the local authority in interfering with the administration of the estates of decedents, as in the case adverted to.
I am, &c.,