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Show I FOREIGN. I I The Virsiuiu Alt'air ami I, : Great Britain. London, 31. Additional corres-pondeuca corres-pondeuca between the British government govern-ment aud its representative at Madrid concerning the Virginias outrage is published. MacDonell, the British charge d' affairs, writes to Lord ; Derby on July 9th, that the Spanish 'government appeals to England to defer pressing the settling of her claims cn account of the negotiations pending with the United States. Spain will he hampered in dealing with the latter power if tiie American government is able to cite as a precedent prece-dent the payment of an indemuitv to England. Derby replied demanding j that the settlement be rnaue by a fixed and not too distant date. .MacDonell .Mac-Donell telegraplis Lord Derby on I August 7th, that Ulloa, Spanish Miu-1 ister of Foreign Ailairs, tigroes thati the indemnity shall be settled imme- j diattly under certain reservations. I |