No. 30.
Mr. Lowell
to Earl Granville.
London, March 27, 1882. (Received March 27.)
My Lord: I have just received a telegram from Mr. Frelinghuysen, in which he desires me to communicate to your lordship the action he has taken in the case of one William Lane, a British subject, who is held for trial in the prison of Detroit, in the State of Michigan. Mr. West has asked Mr. Frelinghuysen to use his good offices to secure for Lane the trial which Lane asserts he is unable to obtain. The Secretary of State has accordingly telegraphed to the attorney-general of Michigan to inquire into the facts, in order that they may be fully reported to Mr. West, and has also said that the President desires the Attorney-General to use his best endeavors to procure for Lane an early trial.
In acquainting your lordship with this, I am instructed to say that my government are still without the information respecting the trials in the Irish cases, in relation to which your lordship was kind enough to lead me to expect a speedy reply, as I telegraphed to Washington on the 17th instant, and in regard to which the President hopes Her Majesty’s Government will see its way to an early and favorable answer.
I have, &c.,