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Show (HTTIVI .HIM.!) IIIIUIIltlTFLT. Tha arbitration conlorenco having In hand tho Iletlng tea controversy dra It slow leiif Hi along and It may be tome week yet lefuro any conclusion Is reached. Of course It la a weighty mttter that It being considered and It would not do lo be too lusty, while precipitancy I to Ui shunned altogether; but It docs teem as though tha epoichra being made might be greatly curtailed without with-out losing anything lu thu nature of cQectlventts or point. There are net many dlijutes even between nations the whole merit of which cannot If necessary I olold lu a few hours, let alone several days. Mr. Carter fir the Unllel Btite occupied three week and Mr, Coudert on the tame tide thon had tha llinr, but concluded yester lay nnd was followed fol-lowed by Mr. Iluttell for Ureal Ilrltaln. All aro splendidly equipped for the task uislgmd them and all are as verbose at nu encyclopedia. en-cyclopedia. However, they aro scoring points. We aro Informed that the second day of Mr, Couiiert' speech was full of surprise for the o posing J.ngllsh roumel. The orator "hold hit audleucootby a power almost necromantic, necro-mantic, Argument, clear, cutting, convincing; wit, which I only wlidom In a fairy dreis, alertutss, which fears in surprise and destroy the adversary' adver-sary' power by using his ammuultlou lu advance, and a graceful and del'ght-ful del'ght-ful delivery, with occasional Hashes and bunt of eloquence these, are the weapons which render thl American orator and coucetlor such a redoubtable redoubt-able antagonltt In a forensla and olemlcal arena." It I also gratifying to be told, remarkable re-markable though It may appear, that up to the time named our counsel before be-fore the arbitrators bad been victorious In ovtry side Istue raise! bsforo the tribunal. Mr, CouJert Rallied agreat point In proving the Kngllih counsel In error when a intending that all argumsnton Ihoautjectof regulations should be exclude I until the question of right wa settled. The court Dually decided against thu English oounsel on thl contention, nnd It begins to look as If the decision could not bo otherwise other-wise than favorable to the Unltod Htates; such au outcome would bo eminently satisfactory on thai aldo of tho water, however It might bo received re-ceived by our Jlrltlth iielghbors. |