The daily gazette., 1878-11-05
THIRD EDITION
Doings over the Water
Great Britain and the Canad ian
Fishery Award.

Some M-Ndtured Comments by the Pail
Mall Gazette-H Regards Mr.. Erarts'
Letter as Threatening.
LONDON, Nov. 4,-The Pail Nall Ga
zette in leading editorial article this
afternoon says: "That the United States
should choose this precisemoment to pub
lish what seems from telegraphic sum
mary to be rather threatening dispatch
addressed by Mr.. Secretary Evarts to the
American minister, Mr.. Welsh, can scar
cely be regarded as accidental. All the
world can see that we have on our hands
Just now quite as much as we eau well
deal with, and a really friendly power
with grievance like that whilst holding
to its position, would refrain from cast
ing the matter in an irritating way before
the public until our affairs had assumed
a more pea ,eful aspect. AT any rate this
is what, according to the admirers of the
Alabama arbitration, We might certai My
have expected from America. The truth
is that while the very party with which
the bargain was made still holds office In
the United States the first opportunity is
seized to make point against Us when
it reckoned that other difficulties may
force us TO give way. Nothing else was
to be expected ami for our own part
we are incliued to thank Mr.. Evarts for
,eaching our countrymen that nations
generally are no more inclined TO fDrgo
their advantages over one another in The
nineteenth century than in in the eigh-
teenth, eventeenlh, sixteenth or first
We should have supposed that the Amer
lean could scarcely afford 10 recall atten-
ton 10 The various ml'terrelaung 10 the
Washington treaty and the manner in
which lis provisions lave been carried
out.
But, then, we too have little Scn'i-
meut about us, for in truth the whole
story Is one of continuous attempt al
evasion, and evasion of some what
shabby kind, and curiously enough ad-
vantage was taken of local regulations
the local regulations of the stat of New
Nork-to aN old compliance with one of
the most important stipulations of the
treaty in favor Of Canadian shipping.
Therefore, Lord Salisbury has open to
him some very pertinent retorts. But
two wrongs do not make a right, and if
II appears that the NewfoundlaLders,
who 10 not form part of the Dominion,
had no right TO take the law into their
own hands in view of the arrangements
entered into on their behalf, of course
compensation will have to be made
When, however, the Americans argue
that the whole fishery question may have
to be reopened we are at liberty 10 disre-
gard what they say, or we might answer
thdt II 80 some other points would have
to be reconsidered at the same time. Thus
II would be at least agreeable on the part
of the Canadians that very serious claims
for monstrous Injuries inflicted by Ameri-
can cItizens on British subjects duling
raf.N 40 H.. A.
ward, since according to every recognl-
zed principle of international law The
United States We're to the fullest extent
responsible tor those outragcS In any
case We shall have the satisfaction of
knowing that whatever dlScredit there
may be in this talk of keeping money
back or IN suddenly sprlugiug diploma
Il; mines at an awkward time, il is not
ours"
sllERK ALI sPOILING FOR AEIGET.
dispatch from Simla to Reuters telc-
gram company says it is reported that
Shere Ali is AT Jellabad, determined to
attack the British forces near the XIV
Der pass and Qceitah, unless the British
take the Initiative.
ENGLAND's BUSINESS TROUBLES.
Thomas Haigh & Co., of Liver ool,
have failed IN consequence of extensive
operauons IN cotton To arrive. Their un-
settled contracts involve the settlement
OF differences on 5000 to 10000 bales of
cotton, and further difficulties are pos
sible. The short time movement is gra-
duallv eNtrniing in the mills of Burnley,
where there will soon be $50 900 spindles
and 5000 10 1000 looms operated on short
Tune. The India mill, the largest in Dar-
wen, has stopped. The railway com
panies in the cotton districts are dis
charging employees and reducing wages
because of the stagnation of traffic