6th aprit. Tux arbitrators in the BeringSea dispute appointed under the Treaty made for that purpose with the United States are for the British empire, Lord Hannen, brother of eir Chief Tale and Consul-General, and Sir John SD. Thompson, Canadian Minister of Justice; for the United States, Justice John Harlan, of the US. Supreme Court, and Senator John 'I'. Morgan, of Alabama, ''o them are added as neutrals, for Italy, the Marguis Visconti Venosta, formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs; for France, Baron Alphonse de Courcel, formerly Ambassador to Berlin; and for Sweden and Norway, Mr. Gram, Judge of the Supreme Court of Christiania, The Counsel for the British Government are Mr. C. Robinson of Toronto, Canada, and Sir Richard Webster, with the Hon, C. H. Tupper, Canadian Minister of: Marine and Fisheries, as special agent for the Canadian Government. The special agent for the United States is of State, and the counsel are Mr, E. the Hon. Mr. Foster, lately Secretary
Phelps, of Vermont, formerly U.S. Minister to England, and Judge H. B. W. Blodgett of Chicago. 'I'he arbitrators met at Paris on the 28th of February.
The celebrated Alabama arbitration has never ceased to be an object of scorn to jingo newspapers like the Saturday Review, but there is yo sensible person who does not recognise that though the award, as far as the sum that Great Britain was condemned to pay, bore too hardly on England, it was an act of good policy as well as justice to agree to the arbitration and fulfil the award, Ihe continued opposition in some quarters to that arbitration is partly due to its having been agreed to by a Liberal government; the present arbitration was agreed to by a Conservative government, and Lord Salisbury may justly be congratulated on having agreed to it, whatever its result may be. Even the punctilious and essentially military government of Germany announced the other day by the month of its Chancellor, General vou Caprivi, that it would submit any dispute to international arbitration, except such a grave question as that of the retention of Alsace and Lorraine, Indeed, it ought not to be necessary with nations that profess to be Christian to argue that arbitration-is better than fighting. It is sometimes objected that arbitrations always igo against. us, but that is an objection that cuts in niore ways than one.
As is well known, the claim of the United States is that the Bering Sea is not part of the ocean, and that therefore limited to a distance of a marine longue their proprietorship of the sea is not
from the land. This was ori; claim of Russia, and when Rus: the claim, the United States joined us in repudiating it most firmly. But when the United States bought Alaska from Russia, the purchase included the eastern half of the Bering Sea, and the
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