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disposition of Sir Alexaiuler Cockburn to stop and 

 turn aside in order to criticise ^Ir. StaMnpili. 



]\Ir. StJunipHi, in contbrniity -with tlie vote of tlio 

 Tril)unal, printed liis 2^roV(sional oj)inions, and deliv- 

 cre(i tlieni to the other Arbitrators from time to time, 

 anil to the respective Agents and Counsel. 



Sir Alexander Cockburn disingenuously suppressed 

 Ids provisional opinions until tiie last moment, and 

 then fded a suujle co])y only of the mass of matter, 

 general and special, entitled "lleasons," which appears 

 in print for the first time in the London (razitfe. 



Now, in the provisional opinions of Mr. Stienij*!!!, 

 it is quite possil)le there nniy have been some error 

 of statement. Sir Alexander takes pains to afilrm it. 

 But, if there be any such, it is quite Innnaterial, and 

 does not aflect any important conclusion either of fact 

 or of law. 



Sir Alexander also committed errors of this class in 

 the provisional opinions v)h(rh lie rcxuL S(^me of 

 them were noted at the time, and arc still remember- 

 ed. Tliese errors may have becMi corrected in the 

 print which we now have. Indeed, the ntdnuscript 

 shows numerous corrections. Nevertheless, but ior 

 the suppression of hin ])rovisioMal oj)iMions, his col- 

 leagues might have interlarded tlieir provisional or 

 revised opinions with similar captious criticisms of 

 him. It is i>resumable that tliey did not think it be- 

 coming or fair to do this; Jind it was to the last de- 

 gree \mfair in Sir Alexander to do it, in a docunient 

 foisted into the record, as it M-as, at the instant of ad- 

 journment, and inimediatehj carried ojf without being 



