A CLOUD IN THE WESTERN HORIZON.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 129, 5 July 1876, Page 2

A CLOUD IN THE WESTERN HORIZON.

There is a small cloud beginning to be visible (writes the London correspondent of the “ Melbourne Argus”) in the western horizon which may portend a tempest. The United States Government refuses to come to any understanding about the Canadian Fisheries, as by the Treaty of Washington it was required to do. Having got all its own demands it is haggling at the price of the bargain—after the manner of Republican Governments. When has it been otherwise; in all our engagements with the United States ? It is John Bull who always comes to time, who pays for all, and humbles himself, and is reduced in territory. But Brother Jonathan has an ugly trick of repudiating such parts of a bargain as are unpleasant to fulfill. In the present instance the question is likely to be the more serious because of the deep interest which Canada basin the matter. Canada was made to give up her valuable fisheries to the Americans, among the other concessions she made on account of the Alabama business, on the express condition of certain commercial advantages being secured to her, and of a payment in dollars. These terms the seek to evade, and there is likely toby a row about it between the two countries.