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Show . liy tt U. Tt'legri)li. "Af, ,B,V,K" AUAl.V. New York, 11. The llcrahis Washington special says of tho failure of tho Treaty of Washington so far as it relates to tho Ahbunmt that when Fish showed tho President Schcnek's dispatch, with Granville's note in relation rela-tion to the matter of disposing of the business of the arbitration on tho l.rLb inst., the Probident paid tho only course was to meet the pretensions of the British government in their own language ; accordingly Schcnck was yesterday instructed on the abandonment abandon-ment of tbo arbitration to state to the British government that the United Uni-ted States declines to join in the application appli-cation for an adjournment if moved by Britian. If the latter desires to withdraw with-draw from the arbitration it niiisfr do so without asking tbo coDfent ol this government. If such notieo of withdrawal with-drawal as Granville suggests is given, it will be the duty of the American counsel to repel it decidedly in terms nf. sp If -rpsnfinf. |