In view of the effective proceedings which this Government has adopted in regard to the disturbances now so fortunately ended, these representations would have been made by me without waiting to be moved from any other quarter.

They are now made, however, with the approval of Major-Gen.
Meade, and I believe that they will receive the concurrence of the Congress and people of the United States.
I have the honor to be, sir, Your obedient servant, WILLIAM H.SEWARD.
The Hon.

Frederick W.A.Bruce.
TRIALS OF THE FENIAN PRISONERS.
The Fall Assizes of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery for the United Counties of York and Peel, opened at Toronto on October 8th, 1866, His Lordship the Hon.

Justice John Wilson being named in the commission to preside over the Court of Justice which was to decide the fate of the Fenian prisoners.

The indictments were read, and after an able and exhaustive address to the Grand Jury by Judge Wilson, in which he went fully into every phase of the case, and explained the statute under which the prisoners were to be tried, the documents were handed over to the Grand Jury for their consideration.
When the Court resumed its sitting on October 17th for the trial of the accused, the Grand Jury presented true bills against three of the most prominent prisoners in custody, viz., Robert Blosse Lynch, of Louisville, Ky.