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rx,rrp STATES vs.. ENGLAND.

the Alabama. etc., IL p"oiisheu !"
London Gazette, of the | lth inst. IL be-
gins with letter from Minister Adams
dated April 7, in which he brings the
fact of damages before Earl Russell ana
announces that his government cannot
avoid entaillng the responsibility therefor
on Great Britain.
The reply of Earl Russell is dated
May 4. He says the duties of Treat
Britain toward the United States are not
measured by the losses wich the commerce
of the latter may have sustained. Inc
question is simply whether the queen S
government have faithfully and honestly
performed the duties which, international
laws and their own munical laws imposed
upon them.
In the reply Of Mr.. Adams, also dated
M,y 4, be says that the insurgents be-
came beligerents on the ocean solely by
reason of the facilities furnished III her
majesty's ports for them to do so. lie
complains of the secret sympathy OF her
moiesty's officers in the port of Liverpool,
and contends that, after the information
which he supplied respecting the Alabama
it was by the fagraut negligence of her
maiesty's board of customs. that this YES
sci. admitted to be intended for war pur-
poses, was suffered to depart from Liver
pool.
Three months later Earl Russell trans
mits another paper in which he notices u
letter from Mr.. Adams in 1868 as to the
Washington government being ready to
refer these disputes to arbitration. Earl
Russell declines this offer and says it is a
question in the first place whether the
queens government have acted in good
faith in maintaining their neutrality, and
in the second place. whether the law off,
GERS of the crown have correctly interpreted
a British statue. He adds:
Her majesty'5 government are the sole
guardians of their honor. They cannot
admit that they have acted with bad faith
in maintaining the neutrality they pro-
fessed. The law officers of the crown
must be held to be better interpreters of
"a British statue than any foreign govern
ment can be presumed to he, Her m"jes-
tvs government must. therefore. decline
to make rcplration and compensation for
captures made by the Alabama, or to re-
fer the question to any foreign state. Her
majesty's government are, however, ready
to consent to the appointment of COLL
mission, to which shall be referred all
claims arising during the late civil war.
which the two powers shall agree to refer
TO the commissioners.
The reply of Mr.. Adams is dated Sep
TENDER Is. ard is very serious in its tone
He considers that there is now no dispute
as to the fact that the recognition Of the
South as belligercnts was such an act as
was never done by one nation towards
another in a state Of amity. He charges
the British government with having act
ed without knowledge aud upon mere pre-
sumption in assuming that the evidence
of the blockade Of the southern ports wa'
imperfect. The blockade. he says. wa'
the consequence, not the cause, of thu
British policy. He thinks that the onl
excuse for the British government is tia
the conduct was precipitate. He then i'll
Inmates that. if the doctrines and practi
ces of the British government are allowtt
t., Jecnme the rule, the United States viii
not be the greatest losers thereby. Mr.
Adams does not appear to think that tn
proposal of Earl Russell. to refer tn
question in dispute to "a commission, vii
be accepted by the United States govern
mcnt
The London Times and the Londo
Post are silent on the correspondent.
: The London Daily News says that be
sides the magnitude of the questions al
s fecting neutrals the matters in disput
t are closely connected with the maintenance
o of friendly relations between Englan
and America.
The London Star asks: Are we to ru
the risk of rupture rather than consent
o arbitration The Star awaits the instrnt
r tons from the United States governIner
with much apprehension. and dares NJ