The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-09-28
ENGLAND.
cocKBuRN's REFUSAL TO SION TIE aR.
NENEyA AWARD CONDEMNED.


NENEvA AWARD CONDEMNED.
LONDON, September 27.-Low, Chan
cellor OF ExChequer, in his speech at
Glasgow last night severely condemned
Sir Alex. Cockburn in not signing the
award for damages in the Alabama
claims and for publishing an argument
which opens up the question and renews
all i'll feeling. He insisted that it was the
duty OF England to accept the award.
MIR. Davis, the agent Of the United
States before the Alabama Claims Tribu.
nal, sailed from Liverpool for New York
yesterday in the steamship OCeania.
There was heavy gale yesterday on the
British coast, and several vessels, which
left the Mersey for American parts, were
driven back to Moville
Arrived, the steamship Anglia.
The vessel reported wrecked on the In.
skor Rock on the 14th Inst, was the
bark Newcastle, Captain Wilkins, which
cleared at Liverpool, Sept. 1st, for Savan.
nah. 1t has been ascertained that thirty
oil the crew were lost
The rinderpest has appeared among the
cattle in Lincolnshire.
1t said that efforts are being made,
which have not yet assumed any official
form, to require Messrs. Laird, the con.
tractors Of the Confederate privateer Ala.
bama, TO pay portion Of the sum award.
ed to the United States by the Geneva
Tribunal.
1t is expected that Lord John Russell is
preparing review Of the proceedings and
award ot the Geneva Board OF Arbitra-
tion.
The Chambers OF Commerce In several
Of the leading cities of England have
adopted resolutions congratulating Her
Majesty's government Of the happy ternli.
nation OF the Alabama Arbitration. Copies
Of the resolutions have been forwarded TO
the United States.
Right Hon. MIR. Forster, in an address
to his constituents at Bradford tonight,
said that the object Of the Geneva Tribu-
nal was not merely to preserve peace, but
to preserve the friendship between Eng
land and America. Such friendship did
not exist before the settlement of the Ala.
bama claims. Tha State feeling was such
that 1t might at any moment have caused
war. FoTbearance on both sides was
necessary to bring the dispute to settle.
ment through the slow process Of 'nego-
tiation. By forbearance alone England
got rid OF indirect claims. In con.
Clusion he said the decision at Geneva
not only gives America three million
pounds, but gives her peace; and gives
other countries new international rules
OF the highest value, besides establishing
precedent that cannot fail TO be ben
efcial to all nations.
Mr.. Lowe, in his speech at Glasgow
last night on the Geneva award, express
ed the opinion that 1t was unnecessary
and unusual for arbitrators TO give the
reasons for their award. Arbitrators had
no power to lay down principles of inter-
national law; the tribunal was not Constl.
tuted for that purpose, and he did not
believe that England was bound by the
principles which guided the arbitrators.
He thought tho necessity for the ratifica.
tiOh by tho Senate Of tho United States
of every treaty with foreign power was
q most dangerous and perplexing Diff
Guilty. lie hoped England would enter
upon new era in her relations with
America, an era in which animosities
would disappear and the two nations
would contine themselves to rivalry in tic
work of extending civilization and peace.