A telegram from Philadelphia to the Times informs us that
the President intends to recommend payment of the sum (£110,000) given under the award of the Halifax Fishery Commis- sion, and that the Senate will accept the recommendation, paying the money from the undivided balance of the ' Alabama' Arbitration Fund. Mr. Blaine, speaking for the New-England fishermen, says the money may be paid on grounds of honour, but that a protest ought to be made against allowing the transaction to be a precedent, or a basis for the valuation of inshore fisheries. His real grievance seems to be that the American fisheries have not been valued high enough, but he says the award under the Treaty ought to have been unanimous, and hints that Lord Granville was particularly anxious that Mr. Delfosse should be the Canadian Commissioner. This temper is not one to make arbitrations acceptable to the world, and especially to a nation which, like England, usually loses by them.
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