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sciously, from the respect due to tlieinselve\ to one 

 another, and to their respective Governments. 



CONDUCT OF THE niUTISII AUIUTUATOH. 



To the \inlversul expre.s?sion of mutual courlcsy and 

 reciprocal good-will there was l)ut one exception, and 

 that exception too conspicuous to pass without notice. 



Tlie instant that Count Sclopis closed, and before 

 the soiuid of his last words had died on the ear, Sir 

 Ah'xandcr Cockbui'n Hiialclied \\\) hin lial, and, willi- 

 out i>articipulin^ in the exchange of leave-takings 

 around him, without a word or sign of courteous rec- 

 ognition for any of his colleagues, rushed to the door 

 and disappeared, in the manner of a criminal escai)ing 

 from the dock, rather tlian of a judge separating, and 

 that forever, from his colleagues of tlie Bench. It was 

 one of tiiosc acts of discourtesy which shock so much 

 when they occur that we feel relieved by the disaj)- 

 pearance of the peritetrator. 



Mil AI,r,XANI)i:U COCKHl'llNS UKA.SONS TOU DISSKNT. 



The Jhilish Arbitrator, wlio, so frecpiently in the 

 course of the Conferences, acted as a l)arty agent 

 rather than ajvulge, liad been occupying himself in 

 the prej)aration of a lov.g Argument on the side of 

 Great Britain, in which he throws oif the mask, and 

 profiMrf/Zi/ speaks as the representative of the I>rit' 

 isli Government. He withheld this Argument from 

 tljo knowledge of the Tribunal at tlic proper time 

 for its presentation as the "Reasons" of an Arbitrator. 

 At the lasit moment, — without its being read to tho 



