, 1875-12-11
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From tie Spectator

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The nrst Cabinet meeting of che season was
held on Thursday, and the result appeared, We
suppose, in the official announcement made on
Friday morning that the Fugitive Slave Circu-
lar is not only suspended, but withdrawn.
Probably, therefore, Lord Cairns agrees in
opinion With the unanimous verdict of the
Liberal lawyers, that, on all The legal points
involved, this notable Circular took precisely
the wrong view. Mr.. Hersobell, &C. speak
ing last week to bis constituents at Durham,
bore out entirely the lucid explanation of Sir
Henry james; and "Historious," in two long
letters to the Times, the second Of which ap.
peared oontemporane0usly With the confession
Of the Ministerial mistake, has shown how
strongly foreign authorities, and English deci.
sioDs made against ourselves, confirmed this
view. Ortolan, for Instance, expressly guards
his readers against the. notion that the com
marder's right Of e~xpelling any one he chooses
from his ship is to 8 . COMPOUNDED in any way
With the right of extradition to The local authori.
ties Of the country within whose jurisdiction be
may be. And in q case in 1920, when there
was an attempt made to make a foreign ship.
of.war lying in q British port amenable to the
process of the Court Of Admiralty in q cause of
salvage, the counsel for the Crown himself
urged the want of. jurisdiction of an English
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1t was clearly well for h Cabinet to tn.
draw an elaborate staten Mt Of principles f
which not a single eminent lawyer has as yet
ofrr4d q defence.
The day before thu American Elections in
formation was allowed to ooze outat Washington
that the President had addressed a despatch
20 Caleb Gushing, Minister 81 Madrid, stating
that affairs 10 Cuba we're becoming iatolerabls
80 the Union that slavery and Spanish domina.
ton ought both TO cease and that the Unit.
ed States desired the Independence of Cuba.
The telegram excited soma attention in this
country, and rumourS were spread about pre-.
p~arations in the American dockyards, but as
soon as the elections were over it was ex.
planned that General Grant had only called
Mr.. Oushing's attention to a despatch written
two years ago. and oouched in those severe
terms. As matters in Cuba have gone
from bad to worse ever since the despatch,
there seems no reason to believe that a
mere reference to it will have any great
effect, or elliott any declaration of war from he
overburdened Court Of Madrid. General Grant
can provoke a war with Spain if be likes. but
his a~rsenals are not ready, and the ablest
American politicians dislike the idea of adding
two more Southern States with a majority Of
blacks to the Union.
It Is STAGED that a severe crisis is coming on
in the Iron hade, which will again affect the
miners. According to the Telegraph. all iron
work will shortly cease, and one great Compa-
ny 10 the North has closed all contracts and
dismissed all hands. One.half the pudding
works in the North of England have stopped or
given notice. and the remainder are working
without profit. The o~oalowners feel the sus.
pension of the demand, and are threatening
svery where a reduction of twenty per cent. in
miners wages. which the men, on the other
hand, intend to resist by a general strike.
This is pleasant news, at a beginning of q
winter which, according to the weather.pro.
phets, will be unusually long and severe.
Such q winter. they say. always follows a food
ed autumn, such as we have just passed
through. 1t is possible, however, that the
men, remembering their long strike against
Companies which Immediately afterwards
failed. may be willing to arrange some COM
. promise.
The effect of King Ludwig recent action in
Bavaria will, it is thought, be tested when the
addition to the military estimates comes on for
discussion. The UItramontanes will not ven.
ture to refuse the Budget, as in that case they