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of Lord Selborne, is the appropriate consummation of 
a professional and parliamentary career of distin- 
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 0: 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, F. W. Hackett, W. F. Pedrick, and Edward TT. 
Waite, as secretaries; and on the part of Gréat 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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