ENGLAND DETERMINED ON PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF ALABAMA QUESTION.
The Alexandra, at Sydney, brings English news to June 22nd. Java papers from Bth to 14th June say that war was nearly declared between England and America. The opposition raised by America to the settlement of the Alabama question is so uusatisfactory that England said she would wash her hands of the whole matter. America then spoke about war, but England declared herself prepared for that alsoi Later dates—to Jane 14th—states- that in the House of Lords the motion of Earl Russell to suspend arbitration till the claims were withdrawn, was warmly debated. Lord Derby and others supported Earl Russell, and Earl Ripon accused Conservatives of assuming an unpatriotic attitude. America has proposed commission to arrange a treaty for defining the rights of neutrals. Grant has been re-nominated', and there are at present extra difficulties existing with Amerieans themselves- against formal withdrawal of claims, bnfe it has been decided not to urge those claims at present. Several speakers of the House of Commons persisted in at once having- the question settled one way or other.
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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 32, 13 July 1872, Page 2
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183ENGLAND DETERMINED ON PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF ALABAMA QUESTION. Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 32, 13 July 1872, Page 2
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