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Show j By W. U. Telegraph. UEUATK ON TUB ALABAMA CLAIMS, London, 7. In parliament, Disraeli rose and called the attention oi' the house to a paragraph iu the royal speech in reference to tho arbitration of the Alabama claimo. lie animadverted animad-verted at some length upon the treaty of Washington, for the faults of which he blamed Granville and Gladstone. In view of tho developments which had been made in tho assembly of arbitrators arbitra-tors at Geneva ho wanted to know why the government was not exultant over the edification it had given parliament on tho subject. The royal speech was silly, unsatisfactory and showed, in his opinion, that the government still lacked lack-ed a proper appreciation of tho gravity of tho question at issue between England Eng-land aud the United States. The American claims were greater than those which would follow a total conquest. con-quest. They were preposterous, impracticable, im-practicable, and if admitted would be fatal to the power and honor of England; Eng-land; yet, said Disraeli, sneoringly, what a subject to dispose of in one brief paragraph in the royal speech. Gladstone followed in reply. He said tho treaty of Washington itself shows that England is ready to make every concession consistent with national na-tional honor, to establish friendly relations rela-tions with America, and set an example exam-ple to be followed by other nations henceforth. The government, said the premier, is ready to explain everything in connection with tho treaty, but it will not admit that it has unwittingly made a mistake, lie referred to the preposterous character of the American Amer-ican demands which of itself' proved their absurdity, for they were such as no people in the last extremity of war, or in the lowest depths of national misfortune, with the spirit of the people peo-ple of England iu their hearts, would ever submit to. (Cheers.) lie concluded con-cluded by saying tho government would maintain the position it had , taken, firmly, though in a friendlj mnnniT. |