The Lord Chief Justice (Sir A. Cockburn) supported,—though on grounds
not yet assigned, and not on the now published grounds of the other Arbitrators,—the judgment against the Alabama, but differed from the judgment against the Florida, which was carried by four to one, and from the judgment against the Shenan- doah, which was carried by three votes to two, the Brazilian Arbitrator, Baron Itajuba, being, according to rumour, the other dissentient. The case against us on account of " the Retribution," a Confederate vessel not of English origin at all, but which brought in one or two Confedeiate prizes to Long Cay (one of our Bahama group), and sold them there without judicial process, though, as Eng- land alleges, without the knowledge of our authorities, was decided in our favour by three to two, the two dissentients being, it is said, Mr. Adams and the Swiss Arbitrator, Herr Stamp& The costs of the United States Navy in pursuing the cruisers were refused by the same majority, and, as it is stated, with the same Arbi- trators voting on each side. It is rumoured that the damages include interest granted for eight years at 6 per cent., and that the sum asked by the United States since the Indirect damages were abandoned was near ten millions sterling, so that the actual sum awarded is about a third of the American demand. There is every reason to suppose that, in spite of the New York Herald's bellowings about the dishonour of the country, the Americans are extremely well satisfied with the result. That will, doubtless, be the final and impartial impression of the whole world.
