Letter

Lister to Wickham Hoffman, June 3, 1876

Author

Lister

Recipient

Wickham Hoffman

Date

June 3, 1876

Type

Letter

Language

English

[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.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.