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sciously, from the respect due to themselves, to one 
another, and to their respective Governments. 
CONDUCT OF THE BRITISH ARBITRATOR. 
To the universal expression of mutual courtesy and 
reciprocal good-will there was but one exception, and 
that exception too conspicuous to pass without notice, 
The instant that Count Sclopis closed, and before 
the sound of his last words had died on the ear, Sir 
Alexander Cockburn snatched up his hat, and, with- 
out participating 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 escaping 
from the dock, rather than of a judge separating, and 
that forever, from his colleagues of the Bench. It was 
one of those acts of discourtesy which shock so much 
when they occur that we feel relieved by the disap- 
pearance of the perpetrator. 
SIR ALEXANDER COCKBURN’S REASONS FOR DISSENT. 
The British Arbitrator, who, so frequently in the 
course of the Conferences, acted as a party agent 
rather than a judge, had been occupying himself in 
the preparation of a long Argument on the side of 
Great Britain, in which he throws off the mask, and 
professedly speaks as the representative of the Brit- 
ish Government. He withheld this Argument from 
the knowledge of the Tribunal at the proper time 
for its presentation as the “Reasons” of an Arbitrator. 
At the last moment,—without its being read to the 
