he brother of Queen Victoria's mother and Prince Albert's
father, and was, himself, brother of Carlotta, wife of Maximilian,
whom we had lately compelled France to abandon to his fate.

The referee awarded that we should make a payment to Great
Britain for this fishery privilege of five million five hundred
thousand dollars. We never valued them at all. We abandoned
them at the end of ten years. It would have been much better
to leave the matter to Great Britain herself. If she had
been put upon honor she would not have made such an award.
No English Judge who valued his reputation would have suggested
such a thing, as it seemed to us.

I would rather the United States should occupy the position
of paying that award, after calling the attention of England
to its injustice and wrong, than to occupy the position of
England when she pocketed the money. A war with England would
have been a grievous thing to her workingmen who stood by
us in our hour of peril, and to all that class of Englishmen
whom we loved, and who loved us. Such a war would have been
a war between the only two great English-speaking nations
of the world, and the two nations whose policy, under methods
largely similar, though somewhat different, were determined
by the public opinion of their people.

If however our closer and friendlier relations with England
are to result in our adopting her social manners, her deference
to rank and wealth, and of adopting her ideas of empire and
the method of treating small and weak nations by great and
strong ones, it would be better that we had kept aloof, and
that the old jealousy and dislike engendered by two wars had
continued.

A very interesting question was settled during the Administration
of President Hayes as to the disposition of the $15,500,000
recovered from Great Britain by the award of the tribunal
of Geneva for the violation of the obligations of neutrality
during the Civil War. Great Britain, after what we had claimed
what was full notice of what was going on, permitted certain
war vessels to be constructed in England for the Confederate
Government. She permitted those vessels to leave her ports
and, by a preconcerted arrangement, to receive their armament,
also procured in Great Britain. She turned a deaf, an almost
contemptuous ear, to the remonstrances of Mr. Adams, our
Minister. The Foreign Office, after a while, informed him
that they did not wish to receive any more representati