AN APPEAL FOR ARBITRATION.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9431, 1 June 1896, Page 4

AN APPEAL FOR ARBITRATION.

Cardinal V&ughau has communicated an appeal by the Euglisli, Irish, and Ameriotq ' Cardinals, urging the establishment of * < permanent tribuual of arbitration as a. rational substitute among English-speaking - races for a resort to war in cases of dispute The appeal contains the following passage; " We are well aware that such a project" j| besot with practical difficulties. We uelievt that they will not prove to be insuperable ii the desire to overcome them lie genuine aud general. Suoh a Court existed for centuries, when the nations of Cbrihtindom werj, united in one faith. Aud have we not seen uations appeal to that same Court fat its judgment iv our owu day.. Xto establishment of a permanent tribaual, composed, 'may be, of trusted represent*. tivea of each sovereign uatiou, with powei ~ • to nominate .judges uud umpires according -' to the nature of the differences that ante, *-£ and a commou acceptance of general pri_.' 0: oiples tiffining and limiting the jurisdiction "•■ aud subject matter of euch a tribunal,. ,'j would create new guarantees lor peace could not fail to influeuce the wholeoor:'',t r :'', Christeudom, Such an international ooutt J of arbitration would forma second lips of deCeuco, to be called iuco requisition only, \ : alter the ordinary resources ot diplomacy "• "'• had been exhausted. It would at lout - postpone the outbreak of hostilities until ' reason and commou sense had formally pro", nouuead their last word." The appeal U '~ signed by Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of ie; Baltimore and CardinalXogue, of Armagh, Primate of .ill lielaud, ac wdi{£ = as by the Archbishop of Westminster. - -"■?_

DEATH OF A FAMOUS STROB.E. . ;j Mr J. H. IX G oldie, the moat stroke that Cambridge ever had, has ji#i died at the age of forty-seven. Mr Goldis," it will be remembered, stroked the Light ," ( Blues in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872., "««-'; was in the losing eight of 1869, but in-the ' following year Cambridge broke the long .-. sequauoe of Oxford victories whioh had lasted Irom 1861. Ho waß also in the kuo« cessful boat in 1871 and 1872, the race in the latter veju' being the last ever rowedon fixed seats*. Mr Goldie had been suffering for seme considerable time from complications arising from blood poisoning, and wai given up by his doctors aeveral weeks.bijfoja his death. '-