27 MAY 1871, Page 2

The Washington Treaty has been ratified by the American Senate

by a majority of 50 to 12 votes, and the British Com- missioners, Lord De Grey and Sir Stafford Northcote with Lord Tenterden, and the American Minister to England, General Schenck, embarked on Wednesday (24th May) for England, no doubt bringing the Treaty with them. Mr. Sumner in his speech declared the English apology inadequate, and asserted that an apo- logy for the admission of belligerent rights to the South was requi- site, nor would he have admitted the English counter-claims. All this will tend to reconcile Parliament to the Treaty; for it would certainly have been difficult to persuade Parliament that we ought to accept any Treaty likely to satisfy Mr. Sumner.