The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-27
Tho British Cabinet and tho Ala
bama Claims Arbitration.


bsma Claims Arbitration.
A HERALD special cable despatch from Lon
don reports that the Right Honorable the Chan
cellor of the English Exchequer, Mr. Lowe,
has just addressed the electors of Glasgow,
Scotland, in a lengthy and able Grafton,
during the delivery of which he expounded
the national situation Of Great Britain, and,
of course. defended the policy of Premier
Gladstone in the management of public affairs.
Mr.. Lowe made distinct reference to the Ala
bama claims arbitration settlement which has
been accomplished in Geneva. He condemned
publishing his reasons for not signing the
tribunal award, and thus theoretically defend
ing his personal dissent from the joint ruling
of ibis colaborers in the international judi
ciary Chancellor Lowe declared that the
course of Chief Justice Cockburn was calcu-
lated to reopen the subject matter of the ques-
tions in dispute between the United States
and Great Britain, and as if in anicipatory
naturalization of such an unpleasant conse-
quence the Minister proclaimed that it is
'the duty of England to accept the award of
the Geneva Court loyalty, and that the money
will be paid without murmur or delay"
This special despatch to the HERALD reveals
the anxiety with which the British Cabinet re-
CARDS the approach of the moment when the
Queens Ministers will be called on to explain
and defend the Geneva Arbitration to and be-
fore the Parliament. 1t goes to prove also our
first position in argument, that the masses Of
the British people have come to prize the good
and profits of peace with America at so high
value that they will not permit the one to be
imperilled or the other interrupted either by
the caprice of Cabinets or the crotchets or con-
ceit of individuals. Premier Gladstone has
found it officially necessary to assure the ma
ton that he is in unison with the popular
view, and he knew whey he was about to I'M
dertake the demonstration that no one other of
his fellow Ministers could accomplish the work
in q more effective manner than Chancellor
Lowe, who holds the purse strings of the ma
ton, and that at no one other point in the
Kingdom could the Chancellor's effort be at
all so successful in the proposed direction as in
Glasgow, o new and vast centre of commerce
and of ship-building, the framework of the
industries of which has been welded into one
solid mass Of mercantile and revenue profit
since tho days of the operations of the Ala
bama. Hence, perhaps, the choice of location
Of place for the utterance of the Ministerial
effort. Chief Justice Cockburn has received a
Cabinet warning before the eyes of the popu-
lace. 1t would not be at all surprising if he
should retire from the bench just previous to
the opening of Parliament, and if Sir Rounded
Palmer were elevated to the vacant ermine
ann peerage. Of the Alabama claims award,
in its cash amount, the American people care
very little With the Cabinet differences to
which tho Geneva ruling may have given rise
in Downing street they have no concern. The
grand points which the national position of
the United States has elaborated for humanity
from the case are, that the great neutral nations
must in the future keep very near to the moral
code Of courtesy and discipline towards each
other in time of war among neghboring
peoples, and that European statesmen cannot
longer afford to despise the sentiment of the
of the democracies before the sub
jects of their respective sovereigns and in the
presence of their own Legislative constituencies.
That the day of red tape is rapidly passing
away, and the era of diplomacy by the electric
telegraph and through the columns Of the in
dependent press has opened upon us, has been
made certain as fact and patent to the world.