AMERICAN CLAIMS AGAINST GREAT BRITAIN.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 946, 16 March 1872, Page 3

AMERICAN CLAIMS AGAINST GREAT BRITAIN.

We understand, says the " Detroit Commercial," that a Chicago paper wili present a claim to the Washington Treaty Commissioners " for expenses incurred in the composition of an obituary notice of the Prince of Wales."

All the newspapers in the country will have claims of this kind to present, and we shall have an individual bill to offer. For as soon as it seemed that the Prince was about to die, we procured the Cyclopaedia and wrote from it an original half column notice of the Prmce, concluding with a mournful and yet ingenious prophecy of the immediate decline and fall of the British Empire. Three thousand other editors in this country did the same thing, and yet the abandoned young man actually bad the audacity to set at defiance the power of a free press and persist in firing. Can anything illustrate in a more forcible maimer the demoralising and ruinous consequence-of monarchical institutions upon the mind and heart ? But there are two alternatives—the Prince must either die or the British naticn must pay. We canuot be trifled with in this reckless manner.

One more such outrage as this and we will loose G-corge Francis Train upon Canada with his one million servant girls ; and those who know what American servant girls are—the red haired kind especially—will understand the gravity of that menace.