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pated from all social bonds? It is not so with Chief 
Justices in America; nor was it so in former days in 
Great Britain, according to my recollection of the 
great judges, the Eldons, the Tenterdens, and the 
Stowells, who then presided over the administration 
of the common law, and of the equity and admiralty 
jurisprudence of England. Has the human race there 
degenerated? I think not: no possible judicial ten- 
ure of office could transform or deform a Roundell 
Palmer into an Alexander Cockburn. 
EFFORTS OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO OBTAIN 
REARGUMENT. 
The Tribunal and the persons attending it are now 
before us, and we resume its proceedings.at the point 
where we left them, namely, the session of the 27th 
of June, at the close of the address of Count Sclopis. 
The “Argument,” filed in behalf of the United 
States on the 15th of June, was prepared and deliv- 
ered in strict conformity with the stipulations of the 
Treaty. It was, in effect, the closing argument on the 
whole case, consisting of an abridged view of the facts 
on both sides as presented in their “Cases” and 
“ Counter-Cases,” with appropriate discussion of the 
questions of law which the claims of the United States 
involved. We followed the ordinary routine of judi- 
cial controversy, and the course of common-sense and 
of necessity, in giving a complete résumé of our Case 
in the final “Argument,” as contemplated and pre- 
scribed by the Treaty. 
The “Case” and “Counter-Case” of each side had 
