9S THE TUKATY OF WASHINGTON. 



bkt'tclies, and bring us to the consideration of tlie ul- 

 terior proceedings of the Tribunah 



Occasionally, but not fre(|uently, at the present day, 

 Ave liear in the United. States ungracious suggestions 

 touching the personal deportment of Englishmen. Tso 

 sucli observations, it is certain, are justified liy any ex- 

 jK'rience of llie city of Washington. Tlie eminent 

 l)ersons, who, in the i)resent generation, have rc]'i-e- 

 sented the British Government liere, wliGther in per- 

 manent or sjK'cial missions, such as Sir liichard Pack- 

 cnham, Lord Xa])icr, Lord Ly()ns,Sir Frederick Bruce, 

 and Sir Edward Thornton, of the former class, and 

 Lord Ashburton, tlie Earl of Elgin, Earl De Clrey, 

 Sir Stafl'ord Northcote, Mr. ^lountague Bernard, Sir 

 Jolin A. ^lacdonald, and Lord Tenterden, of tlie latter 

 class, witli the younger persons of their respective 

 suites, and so many others who have visited this city, 

 were \mmistakably and with good cause popular with 

 the Americans. Luleed, it is rather in Continental 

 Europe, and especially in France, and by no means 

 in .the United States, that overbearingness or un- 

 courteous dejiortment toward others is ivgarded as a 

 trait of Englishmen. 



And it is agreeable to remember that, of the ten 

 Englishmen with whom we of the United States came 

 in daily cortact at Geneva, and sometimes in circum- 

 stances of contentious attitude of a nature to produce 

 coolness at least, all but one were unifonnly and un- 

 cxceptionably courteous in act and manner, — and that 

 one Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. 



Is ft holder of the office of Chief Justice cmanci- 



