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of Lord Selborne, is the appropriate ^r- ~* ^ , . 



a professional and parliamentary career orctistin- &quot; 

 guished ability and of unstained honor. In conduct 

 ing the deliberations of the House of Lords ; in pre 

 siding over the High Court of Chancery ; in partic 

 ipating in the affairs of the Cabinet ; in guiding the 

 conscience of the Queen through the embarrassments 

 which now beset the English Church, we may be sure 

 that Lord Selborne will join to the high authority of 

 a skillful debater and a learned jurist the still higher 

 authority of a sincerely conscientious statesman, so as 

 to add incontestable force to Mr. Gladstone s Ministry. 

 And all that authority, we may confidently assume, 

 will be used in the promotion or maintenance of 

 amicable relations between Great Britain and the 

 United States. 



This account of the personnel of the Arbitration 

 would be imperfect without mention of the younger 

 but estimable persons who constituted the staff of 

 the formal representatives of the two Governments, 

 namely : on the part of the United States, Mr. C. C. 

 Beaman, as solicitor, and Messrs. Brooks Adams, John 

 Davis, P.W.Hackett,W.F.Pedrick, and Edward T. 

 Waite, as secretaries ; and on the part of Great Brit 

 ain, in the latter capacity or as translators, Messrs. 

 Sanderson, Markheim,Villiers, Langley, and Hamilton. 

 If the labors of these gentlemen were less conspicuous 

 than those of the Agents and Counsel, they were 

 scarcely less indispensable; and they all deserve a 

 place in the history of the Arbitration. 



A single observation will close up these personal 



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