The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-13
How the Treaty Of Washington
May BE Rendered Migratory.
Rumors Relative to the Brit
ish Representation.
The Subject Debated i'm the
English Parliament.
Gladstone, Granville and DiSraeli on the
Case aud Counter Case.
1eLEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.

The following special despatch to the HERALD
has been received from our correspondent in
the capital of Great Britain -
LONDON, April II, 1872.
The London Times publishes in its issue this
morning an editorial ON the subject of the
Alabama Claims and the question of conse-
quential damages as they are likely to present
after the reassemblage of the Geneva Court of
Arbitration on the 18th instant.
The Times writer indicates what the Eng
lsh government will and should, in his opin-
ion, do in Geneva next Monday He assumes
that the counter cases Of the American and
British Cabinets will be exchanged, and ex-
presses an apprehension that the government
of the United States will interpret this action
as the profession of an intention on the part
of the government Of Her Majesty Queen
Victoria to continue the work of arbitration
and relinquish its opposition to the indirect
damages claims. The significance of the
presentation of the English counter case
should, therefore, he argues, be well
and carefully weighed by the Minis
tiers of the Crown. The Queens gov
eminent is bound to take care that America
shall understand that the counter case is
submitted, because the arbitration argument
and negotiations would at once lapse If it
were otherwise, and also because there is
another interval of time during which the
American Cabinet may still retain its error of
consideration of the case.
The Washington Treaty, says the London
months after the exchange of the counter
cases the written arguments on both sides
shall be presented to the Tribunal of Arbtra-
ton. At that stage of the proceedings Eng
land may and must retire from the Geneva
Court unless the American government shall
beforehand renounce its claim for consequent
tal damages. The Tines writer holds
that the Queens Ministers are bound
10 give the American government
notice Of such purpose on the
part of the Crown, and also to notify the ar
birators that the countercase is now pre-
scented without prejudice to the agumcnt
that the authority or jurisdiction OF the arbi-
traitors does not extend to the consideration
of the question of consequential damages.
In conclusion, the London Times FORE
shadows, indeed declares, in its summing
up, that England will deliver her counter
case at Geneva on the 18th inst, but will
not regard this act as prejudicing the
position her government has taken in oppo-
sition to the American claim for indirect dam
ages If the United States, the article says,
shall not, before the Tribunal is ready with its
award, have abandoned the claim for conse-
quential damages, then Great Britain will
withdraw her ratification of the Treaty of
Washington.
VIII the English Arbitrntors Go to Geneva
LONDON, April II, 1872.
Additional to the article Which the London
Times published this morning on the subject
of the Alabama Claims, the Geneva Court of
Arbitration and the matter of consequential
damages, the city journals give currency to
report which says that the Right Hon. Russell
Quincy, the English member OF the American
and British Joint Claims Commission, now
sitting at Washington, will soon return 10
England that he will go to Geneva, and that
he refuses to return to America.
The Echo newspaper announces that 1t "has
authority for stating that Lord Chief Justice
Alexander Cockburn, the representative on
the part Of in the Geneva Tri-