§ EARL RUSSELL, having laid on the table further correspondence with respect to the war in America, took occasion to read the following extract from a letter from Mr. Seward to Sir Frederic Bruce, dated June 19, 1865:—
Notwithstanding, however, the exceptions and reservations which have been made by Her Majesty's Government, and which have been herein considered, the undersigned accepts with pleasure the declaration by which Her Majesty's Government have withdrawn their former concession of a belligerent character to the insurgents, and this Government further freely admits that the normal relation between the two countries being practically restored to the condition in which they stood before the civil war, the right to search British vessels has come to an end by an arrangement satisfactory in every material respect between the two nations.