The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-25 00:00:00

CONVENTION DE tWERN HER MAJEWIT
AND TIM UNI'l El) STATES OV AMERICA, FOIL
'IIIE SETTLEMENT OF OU rSTANDIIiti CLAIMS
by A NIXED COMMISSION.

A Contention, of which the following is the first
anode, signed on the ird of February, and ratified in Lon-
don on the 26th of July in the current year, we/ pre-
eante4 to parliament a few dens before the session tertian
sated. We cannot eonsph-nent its negotiators en the idea
of allowing each COMM/Alollef to name his at biter, and
determine in every ease by lot to which of them it is to
be referred. Bach might nominate a notorious partisan,
and it would thus depend on • throw of the dice which
wa the decision was to go :
the high contracting parties agree that all claims on
tit, part of eirporations, companies, or private indivi-
duals, 'ejecta of her Britannic Majesty, upon tin
Uovernment cf the United &ate., and ell claims on th.
part of corporations, companies, or private indisiduals,
eitisuia of the United States, upen the goys rement of h. r
Britannic Majesty, which may have been presented to
either government for its interposition with the other since
the signature of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship eon
eluded between terent Britain and the United States of
America at Cinent, on the 24th of December, 1814, and
itch yet reeiainisl unsettled, as well as any other such
claims which may he presented wi.hin the time specified in
Article Il 1. hereinafter, shall be referred to two commis-
sioners, to be appointed in the following , that is to
any . on. commissioner shall be named by her Britannic
Majesty, and one by the President of tho United States.
In case of the death, absence. or incapacity of cit. er corn.
missioner, or in the event of either commissioner omitting
or teasing to act a. such, her Britannic Majesty, or the
President of the United States, respectively, shall forth-
with name another person to act as commissioner in the
place or wail of the commi-sioner originally named.
I to commissioners so named shall meet at London at the
earliest convenient period after they shall have been re-
spectively named, and chat', before proceeding to any busi-
ness, make and subscribe a solemn declaration that they
will impartially and carefully ezarnifie and decide, to the
brat of their judgment, and according to justice and
equity, without fear, favour, or affection to their own
country, upon all such claims as shall be laid before them
on the part of the governments of her Britannic Majesty
and of the United States respectively ; and such decline;
Lon shall he entered on the record of their proceedings.
The commissioner, shell thee, and before proceeding to
any other business, name some third person to act as an'
arbitrator or umpire in any case or MIN on which they
may themselves differ in opinion. If they should nut be
able to agree upon the name of such third person, they
shall each name • person ; end in each and every case
111 which the commissioners may differ in opinion as
to the decision which they ought to give, it shall be de-
termined by lot which of the two persons so named
shall be the arbitrator or umpire in that particular case.
The person or persons so to be chosen to be arbitrator or
umpire shall, before proceeding to act as such in any case,
make and subscribe a solemn declaration, in a form similar
to that which shall already have been made and subscribed
by the commissioners, which shall be entered on the record
of their proceedings. In the event of the dea•li, absence,
or incapcity of such person or persons, or of his or their
omitting, or declining, or ceasing to act as such arbitrator
or umpire, another and different person shall be named as
aforesaid to act as such arbitrator it umpire in the place
and stead of the person so originally named as aforesaid,
and shall make and subscribe such declaration as afore-
said.