THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Southland Times, Issue 1596, 25 June 1872, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

AtrcKLAifD, June 21. The Nevada arrived here at 11. 30. p.m. She left Honolulu on the 3rd June. She brings 3 passengers for Auckland, 2 for the South, and 26 for Australia. Her San Francisco dates are up to the 24th May, with English telegrams up to the 23rd. London, May 23. In the House of Commons on the 14<th, in the presence of a full House, with crowded galleries, Mr Gladstone made explanations of the negotiations regarding the indirect claims, and the position of the G-ovemment therein. After praising the forbearance of Parliament during the controversy, he said he would commence the narrative of its progress with the 18th January, when they first learnt that claims for indirect damages would be presented at Geneva with the American case. The English Government protested on the 3 d February against the indirect claims, which were not wifchin the scope of the Treaty, nor within the intention of either party thereto. Secretary Fish replied in April, in a most courteous note, that he thought the Geneva Board might decide the entire question. In the meantime Minister Schenck suggested a course which it was thought would be acceptable to England and America, viz., to interchange notes setting forth their views of the terms and conditions whereon both could agree to proceed to the arbitration. We accepted the suggestion, and carried on a correspondence altogether by telegraph. On "Wednesday, the Bth, "President Grant submitted our proposition to the United States Senate, and on Thursday we ascertained that the proposition was not precisely as we understood it should be, because of brevity in the cable despatches, on which it was based. On Friday a draft covering a letter of our views, waa forwarded to Minister Schenck, and immediately telegraphed by him to Washington ; and on Saturday Minister Schenck informed Earl Granville that the President had accepted, and the Senate entertained, that draft. Mr Gladstone thought this fact was almost equivalent to a ratification, and begged the further forbearance of the House now that the question was approaching a conclusion, at once satisfactory and honorable to both nations. Mr Gladstone was loudly cheered upon taking his seat. Mr Disraeli thanked the Premier for his statement, and said he should not seek to embarrass the Government. Whatever differences existed on other subjects, all parties were united on this, and desired a peaceful and honorable settlement. In the House of Lords Earl Granville made a statement similar to Mr Grlad-

stone's, when Earl Russell again postponed his motion for an address to the Crown to withdraw from the arbitration. Lord Derby and the Duke of Eichmond hoped the new proposition made by the Government was not ambiguous, and said they had had enough misunderstandings. Long editorials have appeared in all the journals upon the explanation about the indirect claims, and the position of the English G-overnraent. The journals approve of the pending negotiations, but doubt the concurrence of the Senate of the United States. The message to President Grant and the United States Senate, submitting the proposed additional article to the Washington Treaty relative to the indirect claims, serves to re-assure the public that the differences between the two nations will be honorably settled. The publication of the message has bad an effect upon the American securities in the market, which are now firmer than at the opening. The Pall Mall Gazette says the whole drift of the feeling in England justifies it in saying that the worst thing to do with the Treaty is to save it. Saving the Treaty means offence and humiliation to America or England, or both nations. It means the renewal, not an abatement, of the ill feeling it was intended to allay. How to save the Treaty, means who shall eat the leek, or whether means cannot be invented whereby both parties should agree to eat it in each other's presence. The American papers appear to exclaim against the adoption of the supplementary article. Here there is only one opinion, that its acceptance would be discreditable and dangerous to both peoples, who would be pacified and content at once if the Treaty and the articles connected therewith were dropped as an irremediable blunder for which the Government is alone to blame. Tbat is the proper fate of the Treaty, and the only safe and peaceful way of disposing of it. The agent of the Cunard line has received information of the loss of the 6teamer Tripoli, from Liverpool to Boston, -which went ashore on the South Tuscar rock, Carnsore Point, Irish coast. The crew and passengers were saved, but the vessel is a total loss. London telegrams mention the death of another veteran and companion of Sir Charles Napier, in the person of General John Lysoght. The accouchement of the Princess of Wales is expected about the latter part of June or early in July. The revolving turret British ironclad Hotspur is going to attack the fixed turret British ironclad Glatton, in order to test the revolving turret. The London Telegraph says, "It is expensive work this blazing away at our own navy." Letters from Aleppo give distressing pictures of the state of affairs at Antioch. The town is a heap of ruins, and the soil quivering with volcanic movements, frightening the people so that they dare not approach the site to remove the large number of unburied dead. The bullion in the Bank of England on the 23rd May had decreased £52,000.