The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-04 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4.

LORD STANLEY has laid before Parliament a
despatch to Mr. FORD, at Washington, of data so
recent as the 16th ult., which shows clearly the
state of the question pending between this country
and the United States with regard to the Alabama
claims. The difficulty raised so gratuitously by
Mr. SEWARD on Lord STANLEY'S accession to office
still obstructs a settlement. Mr. Sewanu had so
framed his acceptance of Lord Swaszv's offer to
refer the American claims to arbitration as to con-
vey the impression that it is the desire of the
United States Government that any tribunal to be
agreed upon in dealing with the Alabama claims
may enter into the question whether the act of
policy of her BlaJzsrv'sGovernment in recognising
the Confederate States as a belligerent Power was
or was not suitable to the circumstances of the
time when the recognition was made. Lord
STANLEY says distinctly that the QUEEN'S Govern-
ment cannot consent to a reference of this ques-
tion. In any reference of the Alabama claims
to an arbitration, it must be assumed that
an actual state of war existed between the Govern-
ment of the United States and the Confederate
State' ; that point being conceded, it would be for
the arbiter to determine whether there had been any
such failure on the part of the British Government
in its duties as a neutral as could be deemed to
involve a moral responsibility on the part of the
British Government to make good losses of Ameri-
can citizens caused by the Alabama and other
vessels of the same class. This is the purport of
Lord STANLEY'. despatch. The public, we believe,
is by this time heartily weary of a discussion
which seems interminable, and we are not going
to multiply words upon it. There is one thing,
however, most necessary to be remembered :
Mr. SEWARD is undoubtedly the most aggravating
of correspondents, but he may have for his suc-
cessor some one who will write less and behave
worse. A great transfer of political power in the
United States is foreshadowed by the late elec-
tions, and it is all in favour of the Democratic
party—the old and bitter enemy of England, the
party, moreover, to which the American Irish
belong, and to which they are indispensable. If
it should come into office while those claims were
unsettled, and while Fenianism was rife, the conse-
quences might be such as the friends of peace
and civilization on both sides of the Atlantic would
deplore.

IT is announced that Lord DERBY has prevailed
upon the Bishop of New ZEALAND to become
Bishop of Lichfield. If we are to accept the
statements lately made by those of our con-
temporaries who make ecclesiastical subjects a
spoScialitic the duty of the PRZYIER in providing
successor to the lamented Dr. LONSDALR has
been embarrassed with peculiar difficulties. If
their reports are true--and, of course, we are
unable to vouch for their correctness--Lord Drausy
found himself anticipated in the selection of a
new bishop, and encountered wishes and expecta-
tions which he was not at liberty to disregard and
was unable to gratify. In this manner is explained
the unusual delay in making the appointment, as
well as the refusal of the vacant mitre by divines
whose objections to the Episcopal office are un-
derstood to be not absolute and irrevocable,
but who naturally object to be placed in a posi-
tion which for them would have been invidious.
If difficulties of this kind have existed, they
could be overcome in no better way than by resort-
ing to eminent merit, for before the suggestion
of Bishop SELWYN'S name all mere personal predi-
lections must disappear. The appointment will
take New Zealand by surprise. Bishop SELWYN
left his diocese only a few months ago to attend
the Pan-Anglican Synod, to the meeting of which
he attached much importance. Probably nothing
else would have brought him to England, and
his presence here during the vacancy of the See
of Lichfield undoubtedly determined his appoint.
ment, for it is hardly conceivable that we
should send to the Antipodes for a Bishop,
even if he were known to be another AUGUSTINE.
No one who has any knowledge of Bishop Smarm's
career in New Zealand during an episcopate of a
quarter of a century can doubt that it has cost
him much to resolve on relinquishing the important
work in which he has acquired so much distino-
tion ; and we may be quite sure that he has only
done so in the conviction that an opportunity of
greater usefulness is afforded to him in England.
The Pan-Anglican idea gains by this appointment.
Bishop SeLivvrt, Metropolitan of • free and un-
endowed Church, without a constitutional position
in the State, " only a Colonial," becomes an
English Bishop by mere translation. This fact
will assist the apprehensions of some worthy
Churchmen who were lately somewhat startled to
hear of Bishops who had no palaces, titles, or seats
in Parliament, sitting to deliberate at Lambeth
on an equality with spiritual peers. It might no