The Alabama Claims.
During this year the long disputed Alabama Claims of the United States against Great Britain, arising from the depredations of the Anglo-rebel privateers, built and fitted out in British waters, were referred by the Treaty of Washington, dated May 8th, 1871, to arbitrators, and this was the first and most signal triumph of the plan of arbitration, so far as the Government of the United States was concerned. The arbitrators were appointed, at the invitation of the governments of Great Britain and the United States, from these powers, and from Brazil, Italy, and Switzerland. On September 14th, 1872, they gave to the United States gross damages to the amount of $15,500,000, an amount which has subsequently proved to be really in excess of the demands of merchants and others claiming the loss of property through the depredations of the rebel ram Alabama and other rebel privateers. We append a list of the representatives of the several governments:
Arbitrator on the part of the United States—Charles Francis Adams.
Arbitrator on the part of Great Britain—The Right Honorable Sir Alexander Cockburn, Baronet, Lord Chief Justice of England.
Arbitrator on the part of Italy—His Excellency Senator Count Sclopis.
Arbitrator on the part of Switzerland—Mr. Jacob Stampfli.
Arbitrator on the part of Brazil—Baron D’Itajuba.
Agent on the part of the United States—J. C. Bancroft Davis.
Agent on the part of Great Britain—Right Honorable Lord Tenterden.
Counsel for the United States—Caleb Cushing, William M. Evarts, Morrison R. Waite.
Counsel for Great Britain—Sir Roundell Palmer.
Solicitor for the United States—Charles C. Beaman, Jr.