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Show ii:n:iii!!! Tin ItilHxh Moil loent LiUc to Hate His Tall Twisted by l'.lahie. And & Long Mournful Howl of Fain i Heard Anent the Bohring Sea. LOTS OF TALK ABOUT WAR Sentimental Gush Aout a Unp-tiirc Unp-tiirc between KiiKlaml nnl the I'nitoil States. The Firmness of the Secretary of State Regarded as a Menace. Men-ace. THREATS OF SPEEDY REPRISALS. The London l'ri Still Demanding; the Arbitration Which Itlaloe Will Not Hear To. London, Jan. 5. The Standard today, to-day, referring to the Retiring sea dispute, dis-pute, says it wears a very unpleasant aspect, even the possibility of a rupture rup-ture between England and America cannot be mentioned without a feeling of the deep regret. America may count upon receiving the full measure of courtesy. Patience and FlrmniSs which England has already displayed, but Blaine will do well to bear in mind that the firmness will be commensurate, should the moment arrive for its exercise, exer-cise, with the patience and courtesy with which he has been treated. He seems extravagantly anxious To Put Himself Wrong, Lincoln cannot too soon, on his return, devote himself to ascertaining the relations re-lations to the foreign ollice and communicating com-municating them to, bis government. There is not a person in England but would bear it proposed with profound regret that shots should be exchanged between British and American vessels, except in courtesy, but it would excite great regret here if the British were insulted in-sulted and The National Honor not vindicated by prompt reprisals. We never believe the American people will suffer its public servants to force a conflict con-flict by wanton outrage upon our flag. We will gladly bow to a tribunal of international in-ternational law, but not to Blaine. We trust he will not Persist In the Menace which is certain to be resented and resisted. re-sisted. The Pall Mall Gazette today says " Ihe " cause i" fur ""arbitration In the Retiring sea dispute is so olear and Lord Salisbury's offer so ampl, and feeling in America in favor of arbitration arbi-tration is so general and strong that it seems to look for Rlaine's motives for His Warlike Attitude elsewhere than in tho merits of the case; that the American people would deliberately prefer a policy of exaggeration exagger-ation and would sooner embark in far-tricldal far-tricldal war with F;ngland than submit to arbitration is too silly .and absurd to need a moments consideration. It is clear that Blaine speaks not for the nation Rat for his Party! that he means bluff and plays to anti the English. It is earnestly to be hoped that the good sense and moderation of the American people will speedily make themselves heard and that even paper warfare between two great families of tho same race would bo A lllunder and a Crime. The St. James Gazette says: "There is no reason for alarm or to anticipate a rupture. Blaine's political party is at low water mark, and resorts to the device of 'twisting the British lion's tail'." Ths Correspondence. Washington, Jan. 5. The president today transmitted to the house further correspondence on the Retiring sea controversy between the United States and Great Britain. The correspondence consists of haters ha-ters from Salisbury to Pauncefote dated August 2nd, 1H!)0, and one from Secretrry Blaine to the American minister min-ister dated December 17 last. Salisbury's I.nttpr is confined to a discussion of the Russian I'kasu and the treatv of 1825. He argues that Blaine misinterpreted Adam's position po-sition and declares that the history of the cae shows first, that England always al-ways denied Russian maratime jurisdiction jurisdic-tion over the Behriu? sea, ami that the convention of 18','.) was A denunciation of that claim and that the Retiring sea has not been known by that name, but as a part of the Pacific ocean. He closes with the statement that if differences still exist his government is ready for an impartial impar-tial arbitration by met'iodsto be agreed upon in concert with Blaine. Million's I.ettrr. begins with an insistance upon tho correctness of th. position posi-tion assumed by the t inted States he believes the controversy turns upon one point, whether the phrase "Pacific Ocean" used in the treaties of 18','t and is.'i) included the Retiring sea as contended by Great Britain. If the United Slates can prove the contrary con-trary her case Is CouiplHte and t'ndeniahle. Therefore Blaine enters inlo an exhaustive ex-haustive argument based on Bancroft's history to show that Adams contempor-arii contempor-arii s had a distinct uiideistanding that the phrase, "Ihe Pacific ocean," ex-c'.u ex-c'.u led tho waters of the R "living sea, then known as the sea of Kamc hatka. |