New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-14
GREAT BRITAIN.

THE ALABAMA CLABIS-IMPORTANT COMMUNI-
CATION FROM MR.. MOTLEY.
LONDON June ia Cabinet meeting was held
yesterday, 1t is rumored though the report cannot
be authenticated, that official communication
from Mr.. Motley was presented by Lord Clarendon.
The report states that IN his communication Mr..
Motley informs Her Majestys Government of the
rejection by the United States Senate of the Alabama
Claims Treaty; he represents that the grounds for
rejection were the insuficency of the treaty as a
full settlement of the questions in dispute
between the two countries; he intimates that the
present Administration concurs in the reasons which
led the Senate to decline to ratfy the treaty and
says that he is instructed to express the earnest desire
of the American Government for a speedy and
friendly removal of the matters in difference by
treaty which viii do justice to all parties leaving no
question open for future misunderstanding or COM
plicatiOns He announces his readiness to receive
and consider with hberality any proposition Her
Majesty's Government may make for a full settle
ment of the important international questions at
issue as we'll as of the claims of individual citizens
growing out Of the action Of either Government
during the late war Of rebellion.
THE FRENCH CABLE.
The expedition for the laying Of the French cable
has commenced its work. Capt Sherard Osborn
telegaphs from Deal to-day that the steamer Great
Eastern has cleared all the dangers of navigation at
the mouth of the Thames, steaming out into the
channel admirably and viii arrive at Portland Mon
day. Her tender, the Chiltern, preceded her.
TORY DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST DIsEsTABLIsH-
MENT.
LONDON, June 12.-Tho Times reiterates that the
Lords must defer to the country in It's crisis or the
machinery of Government cannot go on. Immense
Tory demonstrations against the Church Bill have
been held in various parts of the Kingdom, and at
profactant uptitlOD has been
signed.
NJ. LOUIS BLANC ON THE ALABAMA CLAIMS.
IRON OUR owS CORRESPONDENT
LONDON June There can be few readers OF IHE
TRIBUNE to whom the name and career of NJ. Louis
Blanc IS unfamiliar; few by whom he is not respected
as one of the foremost Republicans in Europe, dis
tingushed alike by his writings and by his polti-
cal services. Many OF them know that he has been
for many years of his exile the English correspondent
of various French Journals and that his letters are
so highly esteemed in England that they have been
from time to time collected, translated and published
in four volumes. There are few living Europeans
whose opinions on question of international policy
have more weight than those of NJ Louis Blanc. On
such questions as those pending between England and
America his view has the kind of authority which
springs from sincere good will to both parties 1t is
that of a man who knows the details Of the dispute
thoroughly and who is accustomed TO historical IN
yestigatons and who is thoroughly impartial. " 1T
is" he himself says. question which l approved
with emotions Of grief, and which passonately de-
sire to see settled with view to frank reconciha-
ton Of two great free peoples-that is, with view
TO peace civilization, and humanity"
His letters on Mr.. Summers speech I'll some six
columns of lie Temps the Paris journal of which he
is the regular correspondent; and since the English
are 80 fond of appealing TO European opinionabOut
which they know little or notbing-it is worth while
for us also TO sec what European opinion is.
In the first place. then NJ Blanc regards the claim
for damages arising out of the prOlongatiOn of the
war, which the London press represent Dir. Sumner
as making as exaggerated. That England should
ever pay such claims he declares impossible The
statement Of them by Mr. Sumner has created
situation full of difficulties and seems to make all
reconciliation or settlement for the present out OF
the question. And as to English opinion in the mat
ter of recognition, NJ. Blanc says:
zone thing appears TO clear, that this recognition
viii not be- admitted here ground OF complaint on
the part of the United States Unless am greatly DC
feeling but ono voice In England, partsans Of the
North and partisans Of the South would make common
the United States should adopt the conclusions OF Mr..
Summers speech there Is not ono Engnsninan even zen
triumph OF the great American Republic, who would not
exclan, War first That rs what ought 20 be under
likely to bring ab0dt fatal consequences"
To the English, nevertheless, NJ Blanc has also his
word Of warning:
"TOo great confidence might lead them 20 refnse too
much, and what might make them believe war mPOssi
Die would risk making 10 inevitable"
Is important for the maintenance OF peace that the
Americans should exaggerate the pacific character OF
TIE actual dispOsition OF England Their mistake this
point might lead them demand too much, and the
very thing that might make them believe war impossible
would risk making IL inevitable"
On the Alabama question itself NJ. Blanc says:
$50 far AZ they relate 70 the horrible piratical war
carried on by the English against the United States, the
demands Of the American Governments are lnuispulApy
just"
Mr. Sumner has been criticised roughly for pre-