The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-10-24

city In this regard, with the symptoms 80 tar
as developed and remedies used. We publish
also number of communications from per-
SONS experienced in the veterinary art
Emperor williams Decision In Our
Favor OF the boundary Question.
west boundary, which was submitted to the
Emperor of Germany under the thirty-fourth
article of the Treaty Of Washington, has been
completed In despatch from Mr. Bancroft,
our Minister at Berlin, to the Secretary of
State, the decision of the Emperor is an
nounced as in every way favorable to the claim
put forward by the United States. The entire
subject was treated by US at great length in
yesterdays HERALD, and the details will
therefore be fresh in the minds Of our readers.
It will be sufficient to recall the main facts
of the dispute which arose as TO the true intent
and meaning of . certain portion of the
Boundary Treaty of 1848- The forty-ninth
parallel was the line Of demarcation agreed on
between the two countries. In order to accom-
modats Great Britain. which set up claim
to vancodver's Island, on the ground of it's
settlement by English subjects, the line along
the parallel was DETECTED sufficiently south
ward to secure this compromise. There
was, unfortunately no map drawn
of the exact boundary, and England,
with true ''get an inch and claim a
yard" modestly insisted that this detection
gave her all the islands between vancouver's
Island and the Continent. For this purpose
she claimed that Rosario Strait was the con-
templated channel. America insisted, in re-
spouse, that the Canal de Haro was
the channel. This would secure us the
important island Of San Juan and others less
important. The decision of the German EN-
peror states that the Canal dc Haro is the line
''most in accordance with the Treaty Of 18th
June, 1886, thus settling the matter defni-
lively and restoring to us valuable territory,
out of which England attempted years ago to
browbeat us.
1t is gratifying to observe that this award
has been declared only after most rigid and
searching inquiry had been made by three of
the most eminent jurisconsults of the German
Empire, and after the imperial arbitrator
himself had devoted his careful attention
to the subject The most exhaustive
arguments had been presented on both sides,
and Great Britain had left no stone unturned
to defeat u.s. The decision, in the gravity of
it's delivery and the time and trouble taken
in its formation, is a complete answer to all
these attempts, and is proof absolute of the
justice of our case. We have reason, then, to
be thankful to Emperor William, not merely
for the award, but for the solemnity and ear
nestness with which he has invested it.
From the information which reached us yes
terday from Berlin we were enabled to antici-
pate this official announcement. We were OF
the same time informed of certain endeavors
on the part of the English Embassy
at the Imperial Court to induce the Emperor
either to reverse or, at least, modify his
opinion at the last moment. We felt assured
that any such unworthy efforts would be
secuted by the Emperor, and the event
has justified our reliance on his high impair
TALLY. These reported intrigues may or may
not have existed, and possibly not in the exact
form described; but the publication of the de-
cision Immediately upon these reports obtain
ing currency is not without its significance
The machinery in Europe, by which reports of
this kind are carried to the ears of diplomatists
Cabinet Ministers and to royalty itself, is
very extensive indeed; and there is little
doubt that the motives of untimeliness
or prudence which might have held
back the imperial announcement hitherto,
would at once be cast aside as sweeping
contradiction to the rumor. The grumbling
tone adopted by the English journals is q
pure evidence that the certainty of an ad-
verse decision was known to them; and
as John Bull can never accept defeat, how
ever bloodless, with equanimity, we can ap-
preciate the uneasiness that would lead to
small court intrigues, properly belonging to
the last century, as a dernier resort.
In the vindication Of American right to her
territory and as tribute to the peaceful set
Element of international troubles we accept
this crumb of comfort from the table laden
with Dead Sea fruit, called the Treaty of
Washington.
The "Ring'' System I'm England.
The merchants and capitalists Of Great
Britain have for many years been in the habit
of thanking God, like the proud Pharisee of
old, that they are not so bad as other men
are, and particularly not SO bad as the 'pub-
licans and sinners of Wall street" ''Rings'
and corners" we had been taught to believe
did not exist on the other side of the Atlantic.
Happily London had no Fisks of unhappy