3 AUGUST 1889, Page 3

We are rendered anxious by the recurrence of serious fishing

squabbles between the United States and Great Britain. On July 11th, the Canadian sealing-schooner Black Diamond' was seized by the United States revenue cutter Rush,' in Behring's Sea, for an alleged infraction of treaty-rights. The Canadians deny the infraction of treaty-rights, and are very angry, and call for reprisals,—just the most dangerous of all petty quarrels. Such disputes as these are difficult to settle with dignity, and almost impossible to leave unsettled without danger.