The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-17
The Legal Tilt and Constitutional
Points at Issue.
Decision on the English Applica-
ton To Be Delivered TO-DAY.
Ministerial Caution, with the
Americans Well Posted.
John Bull Drifting and AimIess in His Effort
Against the Reflux Of the Tide.
THE QUESTION OF INDIRECT DAMAGES.
TELEGRAM TO the new YORK HERALD.

TELEGRAM 10 the NEW YORK HERALD.
The following special despatch to the
HERALD has been received from our CORE
spondent serving at the seat Of the Alabama
claims arbitration, in Geneva, Switzerland =
GENEVA June 16, 1872
The morning opened with charming feather
to-day.
Lord Tenterden and Sir Rounded Palmer,
the agents who have charge of Queen Vic
toria's case before the Alabama Claims Arbi-
tration Court, attended service in church.
Returning to their hotel they had lunch, after
which the English gentlemen now in the city
proceeded, very generally, out of doors for the
purpose of enjoyment on the many drives
which surround the ancient town.
The Americans remained at their hotel dur
ing the morning. In the afternoon hours of
the day they visited several friends.
THE ENGLISH APPLICATION FOR ADJOURNMENT.
The proposition for adjournment is the sub
ject now before the tribunal. The considera-
ton of it will occupy the attention of the arbi-
traitors during Monday, perhaps longer AS
the Cabinet purpose of the session of Monday
is to hear argument this adjournment point
Of the argument on both sides may be ex-
tended; for nothing connected with the
Alabama claims settlement negotiations has
has yet been distinguished for brevity. Many
delicate issues will also be raised for the
judges, who will not determine hastily topics
which in their very essential nature require
deliberate consideration at their hands Pos
sibly this single subject of adjournment may
occupy several days before decisive ruling is
had upon it.
THE ENGLISH PAPERS NOT PRESENTED IN COURT.
You may rely upon the unqualified accuracy
of my former special telegram to the HERALD
reporting that the English argument in the
case was not presented on Saturday last, the
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made at hap-hazard, which alleges that sum-
mary of the British case was laid before the
arbitrator. Doubtless this statement was
fabricated upon the basis of one of the utter
ances attributed to Earl Granville which
said that the English agents presented no pa
pers, and came unprepared to present any, but
furnished only with papers that may be re-
garded as setting forth his personal part of the
apparatus, or arrangement of the discussion
WHAT WAS DONE ON THE 18TH OF JUNE.
The proceedings of Saturday, the 18th inst,
however possibly pregnant with great results
as they may have been, were meagre in point
of detail
The assembled Judges of the Arbitration
Court sat within the council room in a semi
circular order of arrangement The desk of
His Excellency Count Sclopis, representative
of the King of Italy, and President of the tri-
bunal, was placed in the middle On his left
were His Excellency Baron d Itajuba, serving
on behalf Of His Majesty Dom Pedro, Empe-
ror of Brazil and the Right Honorable Sir
Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, Chief
Justice of England, duly commissioned to
speak in the name of Her Majesty Victoria,
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. On the
right of the President we're the citizens Jacob
Staempfi, representative Of the President and
people Of the republic Of Switzerland, and
Charles Francis Adams, representative and ar
bitrator acting on behalf of His Excellency
the President and the people of the United
States of America
The counsel engaged in the case sat at q