New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-17
COMMENTS OF THE BRITISH PRESS.

COMMENTS OF HE BhII1SH fkENS.
HOW THE wORKISGNEN oB GREAT BRITAIN RE-
GARD THE PRESENT AGITATION.
The London Bee Hiue, organ of the British
Workjnomen on the sd inst, gave prominence TO com
munication respecting the Alabama Claims from Mr.
LLOYD ZONES The following is an extract from this
letter
The tone Of our daily papers in relation to the Amer
can claims has in it something qnte saudonnG. im1ccu
nrnces our liable editors and Others who rule us, by
ai Te, Got into a mess which even the most truly
beovcnb0rn" Of our statesmen, or the abest OF our
and dsgraces quite frightfu to think of. To enter
prising men like :he Messrs Lalrd, the bImdmG OF
pnsse moi 10 be willing able TO prevent this vessel
from going also easy And TO able editors IKE
hnt pleasant and profitable to lit M their voices approx
ngly and triumphany, as ship after snip hronns to
nc irnfied states merchant marine was plundeed and
destroyed Now however, the reckoning has 10 be made
and paid We have entered INTO iIgaiy under td
and az a preliminary 10 tins, the Washington
Government tots up direct ana inaiect losses sH
treaty and when by the rule Of addition this sum
600 No wonder that The Times goes in for repu
diation that The Standard swaggers ana WINES III
the same paragraph. What mental conditions The
Wessrs Laird are in, it would he oicult to surnise As
for Earl Russell he is no doubt IN sufficiently happy
had 10 happen again tomorrow, he would sl write
etatesman-ike letters the onus pTobandi, that be
might md out by waiting for the issue what came OF H.
We are soemny assured by writers IN our newspapers
that the British Commissioners never intended the in
direct claim. 10 he included under the oysions Of the
Treaty II is said they forgot 10 have them excluded
and SO by sharp Yankee trick these claims are thrust
into our faces the dismay of al right thinking peope
especially of the able editors who were so Jubant 70
thoroughly English" and so pleasantly anti YANKEE
when they drawing the nation INTO thls
most abOminably' disagrecaDle ana dsgraceful posi-
tiOn Paving 92O0,00J,0O Is quite ont OIL the Iues
ton Even though Mr. Lowe threw himself back ON the
match boxes and fusees 1t could lot be done. And de
auctions even though made with willing and strong
hand cannot bring this awful bill into ans thing like
reasonable dimensions. PERHAPS tnese eItiavagaIt ln
direct have only been put III To brighten US Even
then the direct claims Will remain ample enough 10
drive an Chancellor OF the IXchcqur out OF ms
senses Ia any of the matter these claims come To
us as a national calamity as national humiliation III
fact, az a punishment Tor 1Onl wrong simulated ny
! jealousy Of commercial Tivalship and by that
| disgracclul and dishonorabc greed which nearly
always accompanies commercial speculation; aggra-
vated 10y insulting and unpncpcd rawlings OF news
paper writer's America sets forth ner claims thus; For
direct through destruction OF vessels and lose OF
their cargoes by Of these pirate cruisers; by eX
pcnditure pursuit O these by loss III having % trans
Ter IT, commercial to the British flag 10y iu
cYca payments Of Insurance, ana by lrOoDgatOn OF
extra expenses attending the Suppression OF
\ The Rebellion lu the meantime We 30 rot Inquire how
lese are made We only know they iOrN ald
under the provisions Of treaty made by IN wan Amer
ici There Is use asking now why The British Com
Gains ont They did not; and 1t j. pie sucss bow
to ray that have grievance ds"ntt Tie Americans
Or putting them III
TIE ARBITRATION CANNOT PROCEED UNLESS
HE AMERICANS KsTORI THEIR CASE.
tron ne Loaaol Tn'sGf !''.s
The feeling which las Dccn excited by the
disclosure %! he American delanGs hLtt not ie sni-
f,Jed extend beyond Tie exaggerated IIffdH'ltns
wncn Lad talle! II ioith IL jrot' Jung against i"c
psosontAton OF "a claim b.ioTf INC li'ih"i Or Hl'"
ifaors iBnToci damages, ana lu icHthg 80 90 On
with tie re- noe i il.s LAIN "a lG N'lts"Nl. VI
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