New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-17
DISCUS EaN or TIE SUPPLEMENTAL ARTI
GLE IN ENGLAND.

Gle IN ENGLAND.
uoPGs ESPREGSED FOR ITS ADOPTION BY TIE
s. sorE-lEFLUENCE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL
~ JITION. SOFA
The tSupplericntal Article TO the Treaty OF Wash
ingt a. nroyiding for the settlement of the indirect
cai' rvrontr0Sersy, is the most prominent topic OF
dis, a. ION throughout this city. The London morn
ing lfrunals in ther articles the subject express
Tn stope tnat the American Senate will approve OF
Il s.aggestiOns embodied in Earl Granyilles drait
OF Ethe ert,cle and thereby remove the differences
~ existing between England and America, but
har that the exgenoies of the approaching Presi-
rehabilitation may cause its disapproval' IL IS
sso hl ted in the papers chat when the politicians
IN both sides shall have finished with the Treaty,
be u oples of the two nations will take it into COLI
sidtsatiOn and effect satisfactory settlement OF the
poial9 at ISSUE
~ Losdoa Globe in It's issue to-day, has article
showing shat the claim Of the American Government
dsr damages incurred by the destruction of vessels
Il .he privateer Shenandoah, amounts to S6,5OOoo'
" e he prize money claimed by the officers OF tho
shenandoah amounts to S1,lOO,OC0. The Globe also
sy,ubshes detailed log Of the Shenandoah, giving
>she name and value of every prize captured by that
vessel.
WHAT ENGLAND DEMANDS OF AMERICA.
SHE POSITION OF TIE GOVERNMENT AND THE
Pi ELIC IEISS-ATIEMEI Or HE NOroLisN a
TIvES TO MAKE CAPITAL OUT OF THE BLUM
DERs or THE MINISTRY.
lFGOM THB RRGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TIE TR1BUNEl
, LONDON May THE vicissitudes of the Alabama
negotiations era numerous and abrupt as those of
ve-act play. and to-day we are in almost as much
doubt as last week what sort Of d<aOaeaacat the
curtain is t. fall When last wrote. three or four
DAYS ago, we thought here that the whole
diculty was as good as settled. To-day there
60 be not merely a diplomatic bitch-Of
chat no great account need be made-but
q sudden hardening of aHtagonistic opinion both
sides. Tbs Times and The Standard THE latter having
10 be quoted as the leading Tory paper simply be-
cause thcyo is no other have both changed front
within three days. l do not mean to say there is
auythingextraOrdinaTy in that but it is Significant
A. for The lines 1T is quite conceivable that Lord
Granville - using it a convenient means of put
ting little extra pressure on orr Government at
Washington to secure the concession of form which
seems to be all that now divides the Cab
inets. qeOted in ny last letter the language in
which 7kt Times accepted, and accepted with ap-
parent franz ness, the new solution On Wednesday,
that psper perfectly content with q diplomatic
agTeemenf snderng it needless for the United States
Government to withdraw amend it's Case yet
placing Great Britain an the same position az if none
but Direct Claims had been prcfeIred.o But on
Thursday, 1T had discovered that the offer of
pledge nG t. press for Consequential Damages would
be quite insufficient; and that the essential
dtion OF ttlene ut ia JOINT instruction to be adj
3dressed by the two Governments to the ArratOrs"
= This morning (SatuT iayltle same condition is in
SISTED upon with still more pOsitiveness and we
told squarely that Pi tEdent Grant "caanotsucceed
cin uphOlding the Arb t1rafiOn at Geneva unless he
goes further tlan he has yet zone" What is wanted
4s specifically, an Ii StTuctiCn from the American
Government to the AU.hitIators directing them to
Rota aside of FINAL Gaze 81 aima
Consequential DamaQt ~" OIL erwise England "re-
mains the record liza Eae to item, and we could
not complain If en- djitSicatiOL was made against
us calculated on the ass nlpption of liability
There can be little ,oubt thu these latest utter
apoes represent {ho Ia, saSi ofIsal determination.
The relations betSeen Tk GinfsGnd Lord Granville
are understood to be clio se-Dot say confidential
We must assume, thereto W. that We have net yet
bowed the head lo@ enou. u to e)nciliate English
opinion. Concessions which, seem 90 the principal
journals of New-Hork, asH we learn by the
Gable, discreditable. undiknifed, and humih-
ating to the nathn, hsT9 been made IN
vain; on if not in En- can only scare
their object by being ex teIded still further
For my part see objection 90 granting what is
now demanded except technical one. All the e
proach that fall on IIs we have alraady incurred
We have surrendered the position we held under the
Treaty. Tho terms of the capitlkption may he a
little mon less oDorous at theGscretion If the
victor, but the judgment Of the world will not be
affected by details Ii il the hauling dO%n The flag
which the world sees. That done, the sQuabbn2
ebOHt forms AVID phrases shows nothing nt tic obsti-
macy Of q weak mind. What DC we care whetbor the
agreement to abandOn the in,lirect CLAIMS taxes
shape il a diplomatic note betweon the tvs COyeAl-
meats or whether Joint Instruction covering
that agreement IL presented to the TribhDpl at
GeneVai Tie 1iass discusses our objections in
tone alteypately Of contempt and snenace. Lord
Granville istOo well bred 10 aeopt either hot lac is
quite capable 81 insisting on his wa.y when once
lie finds biA adversary ia a eoncedjug InOel.
do not slf3poS,, however. that either Lord Gran
FBe or Mr.. Gha'lsione ottsohes great impcgelce T.
the question Of form for its own sake. They arc 4
both aware that our Government is seclinga way /
ont Of iis diicuie5 quite anxiously rs they aye,
and that fOr all pracheal purposes The Atnerica9
proposal Is a. good rs the English. Two Thing.
render them Percmptery-tbey made "a mistake Ia
ih, original Treaty., and they are tiIuid about eatel
inH op ts-i agrcomcnts Which might leave open