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The Daily Dispatch: May 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Additional Foreign news. (search)
absence of many of the opposition members saved them, in a division, the consure they deserve. In the House of Lords, on the 29th, Earl Derby called attention to the great length of the published correspondence between the Government and Messrs. Laird, relative to the seizure of the rams built by the latter. He insinuated that the Government was, to some extent, actuated by the fact that Mr. Laird was a political opponent. He said that he could have understood the seizure of the rams witMr. Laird was a political opponent. He said that he could have understood the seizure of the rams with a view to the trial of the question of their destination, but to throw upon the owners the onus of proving their innocence was, he contended, monstrous and illegal. Earl Russell warmly defended the course taken by the Government, and submitted that it was owing to the vigilance of the Government that the Lairds had not succeeded in plunging England into a war with the United States. Earl Russell closed his speech by expressing an earnest hope that the war would result in the final destru