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agreeable to the British Government to have all the 

 old debate reopened by the Chief Justice, to have 

 the Treaty, its Rules, the Arbitration, and the Award, 

 made by him the subject of profuse denunciation, to 

 have an arsenal of weapons, good, bad, or indifferent, 

 collected by him for the use of the Opposition in Par 

 liament. 



Nor can it be agreeable to see the Arbitrator they 

 had appointed demean himself so fantastically, and, 

 as the English Press is constrained to admit, in a 

 manner so painfully in contrast with the dignity and 

 judicial impartiality of the American Arbitrator. 



The Chancellor of the Exchequer [Mr. Lowe] gave 

 utterance to these sentiments of grief and regret in a 

 speech at Glasgow on the 26th of September, as fol 

 lows : 



&quot;I conceive our duty to be to obey the Award, and to pay 

 whatever is assessed against us without cavil or comment of 

 any kind. [Cheers.] I am happy to say that such is the opin 

 ion of my learned friend, the Lord Chief Justice. But I must 

 say, with the greatest submission to my learned friend, that I 

 wish his practice had accorded a little more accurately with 

 his theory. He has advised us to submit, as I advise you to 

 submit, to the Award, and not only to pay the money, but to 

 forego for once the national habit of grumbling [laughter] 

 and to consider that w r e are bound in honor to do what we are 

 told, and that, having once put the thing out of our power in 

 the honorable and the high-minded way in which the nation 

 has done, the only way in which w^e should treat it is simply 

 to obey the Award, and to abstain from any comment whatever 

 as to what the Arbitrators have done. [Cheers.] But, if my 

 learned friend the Lord Chief Justice thought so, I can only 

 very much regret that he did not take the course of simply 

 signing the Award with the other Arbitrators, it being perfectly 



