ing to the appointment of _any Minister accredited
to Washington_, gladly approved the selection of Mr. Delfosse, although
he was and had been for many years "a Minister accredited to
Washington."

The record of this case, as thus shown by the official correspondence,
is not creditable to the English Government. If in an arbitration
between private persons, either of them should make palpable and
avowed effort to secure a particular man--connected with him by kinship
and business interests--he would be considered as acting unfairly, the
common judgment of the people would condemn him, and the tribunal to
which the award was rendered would unhesitatingly set it aside as
vitiated, upon proof that advantage had been secured in the selection
of the Arbitrators. The English Government would no doubt fall back
for its defense upon the acquiescence which was ultimately and
reluctantly extorted from Secretary Fish. But the official
correspondence shows that Mr. Fish resisted and protested as long as he
had power to resist and protest, and consented when his consent was
only a form of courtesy to the gentleman whose appointment had been
predetermined by the British Government. It might have been wiser,
perhaps, for Mr. Fish to continue his protest to the last, and leave
to the British Government no shadow of excuse for its extraordinary
and unjustifiable course.

The Fishery Commission met at Halifax, N. S., in the summer of 1877.
Sir Alexander T. Galt was the British Commissioner, Honorable Ensign
H. Kellogg of Massachusetts was the United-States Commissioner, and
Mr. Delfosse was the third. The agent of the British Government was
Sir Richard Ford, a member of the British Diplomatic Corps; and the
agent of the United-States Government was Honorable Dwight Foster,
formerly a judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. The British case
was represented by five able members of the Colonial Bar, four of
whom were Queen's counsel.--Sir W. V. Whiteway of Newfoundland; L. C.
Davies, Premier of Prince Edward's Island; J. Doutre of Montreal; C.
J. Weatherby of the Province of Nova Scotia; S. R. Thompson of New
Brunswick. The American case was represented by the agent, Judge
Foster, Richard H. Dana of Massachusetts, and William Henry Trescot of
South Carolina, American Secretary of Legation in London under the
Presidency of Mr. Fillmore, and Assistant Secretary of State during
the Administration of Mr. Buchanan.

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