The Westport Times. TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1872.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 960, 9 April 1872, Page 2

The Westport Times. TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1872.

The English news to hand by San Erancisco, a eumuiary of which we published in shape of a supplement yesterday, to our town subscribers, is not of the. interest expected in respect to the settlement of the Alabama compensation question. Indeed the new* throughout, as telegraphed on this occasion, does not bear the customary exciting phraseology, to which we are accustomed from the American wires. The English summary is prefaced with an unusually minute detail of public rejoicings. Certainly the assembling of four millions of people, from all parts of the United Kingdom, for whatever purpose, is a noteworthy incident, and such an assemblage, accompanied with the magnificent illuminations, decorations, and processions by a British public, as a British public only can do, in honor of one of its highest names, and in thanksgivings to a Higher than any, is a pleasing and important record to precede the other news of the mouth. Yet we cannot help thinking, that, in the compilation of such intelligence to the colonics, the arm of the telegraphist might be spared the labor and newspapers the cost, of acquaint-

ing the public with what choruses were sung, what sermons preached, or what, or how,carriages were occupied. Next to this matter for congratulation, reference is inade to the arbitration question of which we heard so much by the San Francisco mail previous, but which did not receive confirmation by way of Suez. The final settlement of the difficulty may not be looked for, by preseut appearances, for a few months. The British Government, while regretting the circumstance that ships were obtained of English build, for war purposes, maintain, that they were obtained by admitted American citizens, by clandestine menus which baffled the English Government officers. The Government deny that they failed to exercise tho caution usual in inter-national affairs, and hold that it devolves upon the United States to establish all the propositions advanced. No other course of agreement could be open to Great Britain. While willing to yield to the decision of the tribunal, and only desiring to abide by the principles of truth and justice, she reserves to herself that right of appeal, which every independent' power would claim, to justify her own cause in the event of an oppressive verdict. Damaging floods are reported to have occurred in Scotland and small pox is prevalent in its capital. Unhappy France is yet unsettled. Conspirators keep cropping up, in the hope of reinstating Napoleon, whilst Germany keeps itself in readiness to decide the form of government in France at the point of the bayonet. The commercial news is again most favorable to the colonies, the rates for wool being fully ten per cent higher than the quotations of the previous year.