The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-20 00:00:00

DU OLTAXT APDT:VIiO OF TUX LIIERICLN AXBIT4IOOI.

Imet ni; lit, a special meriting of the B ighton
Tuts u Conte it war ocld, in order to receive •Cu UMW",
rt if a fusee I.j his Eeeeiheicy the American Amebas.' lor
to a deputati, a foam the municipal body. Mr. Johnsoa
at piebald staying at Brighton as the guest of Mr.
anomie I eabody, sail a ;vantage has buou taken of his
iismice in the town to p: mod an addre,s from thscror,ie-
, istis t, and to invite him to a municipal banquet. Ths
letter wilt be held to-niorro.v, bat the audruesfrezateo cor-
fastnin ass pressen:ad ye-tei day. A sd,putstion, °malt-
ose of ILe u av or (Mr. A Is bonen Lester), the chairmen or the
Thema committees, aid the Town Cork waited, by
ointn rut, on Mr. Johnson, who re, teed them in th
peers nee of Mr. Peabody. B.r Emerson Tonnent, and M..
dolour n, jun. The &deltas" of the corporation expressed
a high Rpm eciatuai if Mr. Johnson's valuable
',Nyasa in le Jetsam, to a soti factory settlement Bo eh/-
femme, which latS unfortunately arisen between the ;p
avanes ale of Mum is: 6 mod Great Britain, and intones'
L:- es.ro. hey of the eatned desire telt by the mew
cot recd that the amicable relations now happily alien];
to tavern the two natious may Log be maintained. T.
this eddies, Mr. Johnson made the following reply:
31r. Mayor, alueimen, and burgesses of the t .wn of
Briihton, maga my beat thanks for the honour den* me
1 y your address: Price between your country and my own
a so •ac utial to the interests and prosperity of both, that
(yin the poesible hszaid of its di-Labe:we could um fail to
awaken the solicitude of all reflecting, hutaaue, and
Cleat as men. The causes, one of which date* prior y
11412, the other to 1846, and the third to the year. of oar
late civil war, owing to circumstances beyond the CO2-
tiol of Mr. Adams, wise and discreet as he was, it
aas not within his power to remove. My missiou
coon-weed under& mole favourable 'date of things. Our
uomeitic uoubles write at an end, and the inte.rrity of
our government as. plaeed upon a Arm and enduring
Iloilo. It was natural, therefure, that your goveruor ut
ileuld be anxious, as was my own, to arrauge at the
embed moment every existing difficulty. Lord Stanley
and my. elf entered upon our negotiations with a settled
purrese to adjust evelything on terms candidata with
the likbta and honour of both nations. That being oar
detest minatiom it is not at all surprising that we &ago, -
pliAed it to tie fullest extent. The first amuse of
trouble, and one of the most perilous, and of the /tsarist
duration, was the rights of our naturalised eiti-
Fens. Coeeal almost with the origin of yoarcourta, it was
held that the allegiance of nate ity was perpetual. This
was directly opposite to the view of the citizens of the
United States, and, I believe, to the general sentiments of
almost all coutiuental Europe. The constitutiou of thf
United States in this particular accords with that senti-
ment. It vests in Emmen, the power to pass laws of
natetaliration, and that power was exercised at the
eetlieat pelied. The condition, amongst others, u an
which • native of any other country could beoome a chime
f the Vida d States was that he should renounce ober
lute!y his original aller'ance. But, as I have Fail his
right to do so was unnormly denied by your Jul... fiery,
thus compelling such a citizen to violate his obli-
gat 'one to the United States, and to deprive him of his
rights as • citizen of that country. Your govenonisut
actid upon this doctrine previous to 1812 by_inspreatiug
out of our ships our naturali,ed citizens. This consti-
tuted one of the causes of the war of that year, and
alt) math the doctrine was not surrendered by the treaty
of Ghent. it was never afterwards practically acted upan.
It is now iettied by the protocol agreed to by Lard
Stanley and myself and so settled that it can-
not hereafter give 'trouble to either government ;
end I am glad to add, that it has ref:need the
approval of the executives of each. Tho natu-
ralised is placed upon the same footing in all respects
se the native citizen. The second cause was as to the
true running of one of the lines which divide. your pos-
sessions and ours, as described in the treaty between
us of 1846, This, at one time, rendered • war almost
imminent. All danger from that source is remove 1
by the second protocol agreed to by his lordship and my-
self, and which also has the approval of thetwo executives.
The third, and the only other cause of trouble, originated
("wing our late domestic war. Prom this have arisen moat
of the claims made by your citizens upon my government,
and my fellow-citizens upon yours ; the Latter kuowu by
the general name of the '• Alabama chime." The e
wawa which we have recently agreed to (and which I
have no doubt will be approved by both governments)
provides that thee* are to be settled by a board' of
four commissioners, two to be appointed by each
government. In the event of their not deeodang by
• majority for or against way claim other than au
Alabama one, the decision is to be made by an
umpire chosen by themselves. In regard to the
• claims, We arrangement is somewhat ilielerent
Before these are to be considered by the commuisioners,
the two governments are to agree upon the head of some
lot sign government as an arbitrator, by whom the dm:L-
oam as to the liability of your government for such claims
is to be made, en the contingency that the commissioisers
fail to come to a unanimous decision for or against it.
TWA arbitrator, however, is to adjudge only the yucsti mot
liability. if ho rules that euesLon against your gaysru-
ut, the amount due to each claimant is to be as kir-
tained by a majority of the commissioners. If ho rule Li_
.a\ our of your goveitiment, the china is to be perpetually
Waite. Neu v. it thus see, geutlemea. that all the so or.t.e of
tat utile 1 tile teen closed, and so completely that they can
airier apse Le opened. The thia UaLOW, iherefom, have
Istore the m nii unclouded in °vett of an euitariag p
old of all the atvaiongeo, material, social• and potitic it
oe, lain to result from it. And it is, therefore, uot to be
sodidetd at that t!:o altitoimcculach of these results
should have been hailed with satisfaction cud delight by
the, people of both 'lutetium. Fair the settle:Li eat
of lase "'mimeo and dangerous aulairoVoo66o,6 the
two count ina are mote indebted to the an-
t gbh tied him its of their respective goveruzuenta an 1 to
lord Stank y, thaw to me. All agree that it Ira. a para-
mount (Isla:idiom due to the Christian civilization of the
ere, that war between two such c widths coatd never In
tutu excused, much less justified, if to bo avoided in say
way other than I y the abandonment of national rights,
or the sw lender of leakiest honour. And may we not
hors that what bas been done in this instaime seal by an
a aimed., having a potential iuthienco in preserving the
',ewe of the world remain, gentlemen, with high
tir; aid, your obhged and grateful servant,
irighton, Nov. 19. RaVrain Tails3)X.

Tllg EMTREES CHARiorrs's HEALTII.—A ern-
tilde anmehoiatiou has taken plane in the health of the
I union of Mexico. Since the groat beat of last sdnimer
I,as disappeared, her Majesty has gradually recovered her
sleep, the beneficial influence of which has not been slow
in blowing its sleets. Restlecenees having ceased, a
general mut of mind has followed. At this in 3-.
meet her anisty has resumed her letter-writing and de-
votes her leisure also to music, Tainting, sad reading ;
she has even iced the project of composing a history
of the rie of the Maxima empire; for thee
purpose she has begged the persons who were in intimate
relationa with her soaped to confide to her all the dom-
inants which have any connesion with the Beeparce Maxi-
milian."
THE RELIGIOUS QUESTION IN ReArlt.—The
Diet* of Madrid, in an article entitled "The Religious
Questioed; takes up the defense of the government
of both eathielies and revolutionist.
Itaelaissini=fr ies
joermil ht geese= limbos them both to
an ehnsisasse if Wcwanse,.and adecteatei liberty for all
sesenests...ker th•
sea erpensem Ste pre-
ienisit-a—Bilier-igg-i. The sianneeten el the Roguish
*WOO tee Bees *red Semosage to the emq-ciliei
pa:aois.%E:Zes the seat
1 and Sargon