No. 143.
Mr. Hoffman to Mr. Fish.
Legation of the United States,
London, June 9, 1876.
(Received June 22.)
No. 104.]Sir: I have the honor to forward to you
herewith copies of the only notes of any importance which have passed
between Lord Derby and myself upon the Winslow matter since my last
dispatch upon this subject.
I have, &c.,
[Inclosure 1 in No.
104.]
Lord Derby to
Mr. Hoffman.
Foreign Office, May 31, 1876.
Sir: With reference to my note of the 24th
instant, I have the honor to inform you that the hearing of the
application for the release of Winslow has been finally adjourned
until the 15th proximo.
I have, &c.,
[Inclosure 2 in No.
104.]
Mr. Hoffman to
Lord Derby.
Legation of the United States,
London, June 9, 1876.
My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of a copy of “correspondence respecting extradition,”
which your lordship has had the goodness to send me.
Referring to Lord Tenterden’s note to Mr. Tiddell, (No. 229,) I beg
to correct a misapprehension as to the suggestion therein referred
to as made by me.
Speaking of the chances of making a new treaty and the difficulties
in the way, I ventured to suggest that, if we should find it
impossible to agree upon all the articles of a new treaty, we might
amend the old one by adding to it such articles as we were agreed
upon. I had no intention to suggest a particular amendment as the
means of meeting the present difficulty.
I have, &c.,
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[Inclosure 3 in No.
104.]
Mr. Lister to
Mr. Hoffman.
Foreign Office, June 3, 1876.
Sir: With reference to my letter of the
29th March, I have the honor to acquaint you that a letter has been
received from Her Majesty’s secretary of state for the home
department, stating that the solicitors of Charles Innes Brent, who
stands committed to Middlesex house of detention for the crimes of
forgery and uttering forged paper, with a view to his surrender to
the United States as an extradition-prisoner, have given notice to
Mr. Cross that they intend to apply on the 9th instant to a judge in
chambers for Brent’s release out of custody, under the provisions of
the twelfth section of the 33d and 34th Vic., Cap. 52, or for a writ
of habeas corpus.
Her Majesty’s attorney-general will be instructed to appear and move
that the application be postponed to the same day to which Winslow’s
case is adjourned.
I have, &c.,
T. V. LISTER
,
In the
absence of the Earl of Derby.
