England Paying Dear For Her Whistle

THe Journal dea Debats of May 31 contained the following pertinent remarks upon the Alabama question, and the supafementul article which has recently given rise to EO mach discussion : The English govetömeut has decidedly been unlucky in its de;iling witli this business; from the beginning it has done nothing but pass trom one misunderstand ing to another. The treaty was a first misunderstanding, it was sought to tsninv it by a suppleinental article, and it is found thit this article itselt has become a second ground of tuisundvist .mding. The diplom icy bas been so fine that it endá unintulhgibiy, as ooeas.onally happens. There was something much mure iiuple - that was, to declare on each side thut there had beeu a iniscuuceptiou of the ineaning of he treaty, and to set about agreoing upon a fresh one ; but it has been preterred to tnake use cf the former protocols, and they have been so twisted about that they have become still moro incomprehensible. The Amoricans had with great adruitness included the iridircöt claitus in their case. Sums of millarda; such as Prussia has exacted from us, have become the fashion. If these denuinds had bten seriously persisted in England might have found herself ;alled upon to pay ftn indemnity of four jr live ïniliards. Tho Amerioans have never really wished to enforce tho e clums, but, as tho prico of their withdrawal, they luive induoed England hersulf to offer his supplementul article, which is entirey in their i'aror and quite oppoRed to ;he interests of Gr at BritKin. it is the Englisb güvernint'iit thcmsulvos, with a siinplioity for which few would have -ven them c;cdit, who have oftered to (ie their owu hands i'or the future, and propose that tho two countiies snould unlertake hunceforth never tj claim from o;ich otlier any coinpeiisation on account of indirect dainages. It is clear that the Americuus have everything to gain and nothing to lose by uch in agroement. They have fhre fehoasand or six thousand milos of coasl ti:;c ; thoy havo the good fortune to iuolude n th'.ir populatioa - mul emigrante from all parts of the world ; they have few pólice andlittle surveillance, m.l tiiat ouly when they choow to tíeíciie it If a var broke out between Knpland and any other power tí,,, Am'erioaO faorto ïiiicht let looso into til seae an indefinita Bombar of privateers, m account ot" whicli tho American govirnment will inoot hardly any rospousiít ia, howover, a Cüiivention of bis nature fcbat EiigUnd is taking such mina to obtain and tu rrunt which Auióroa requiies such pressing. It is truíKat jngland lias alreády paid tbè firf.t'tjèost it' this doctrine, sities by th trenty itself t abandoiied aü deinunds rn account of nvasiüii of Cunadiaii territory froin tlio A.mericn tèrritory, and has had to purch:iso "'l pay fot the consent of Oanada iya gaïainee afeóme 50 000,000 francsfor H railwaya. Tb aettleaiant of theso af t'tiirs relating to Cariada, is agairi, one of tho roasons why Englanq is so anxious that the (reaty should not fall through. It is possiblo tl)at ultimatèly the afluir may be arrangcd, but if so it will havo beon 'iifficult to ruanage aud will havo cost England dear. Tho Harquis de. Noaillee, tho French minister to tho United States, has a Hn3nl cliiim to tho esteem of out citm-ns in Lhat his graat erandfather fcraght in the Kevoluti'in with Lalayi ttu and Eochauibeau". On his return to Fiante he joint"" the revolutiun then in piopress in that Country : but his father was executiid, and ho was obliged to exile hiniselt'. The' i present inarquis bonsis a most distingnished ancestry, amoug whom ure i cunlinal ■ nnd throe marshals, but ho hiimelf is a of the most liberal type.