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514                      FOREIGN RELATIONS.

                                No. 303.

                         Mr. Moran to Mr. Fish.
No. 504.]                     LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES,
                          London, May 30, 1874. (Received June 12.)
  SIR: For the future use of the Department I have the honor to send
herewith a copy of the London Gazette of last evening, May 29, 1874,
containing an official notice that the blockade of the Gold Coast, estab-
lished December 15, 1873, was raised on the 17th of April, 1874.
       I am, &amp;c.,
                                               BENJAMIN MORAN.

                                 [Inclosure.]
                     [From the London Gazette of May 29, 1874.]
                                 BOARD OF TRADE, (HARBOR DEPARTMENT)
                                             Whitehall Gardens, May 28, 1874.
  The board of trade have received through the secretary of state for the
colonies a
dispatch from the officer administering the government of the Gold Coast,
inclosing an
official notice announcing that the blockade of the Gold Coast, established
December
15, 1873, was raised on the 17th of April, 1874.


                                 No. 306.

                      General Schenck to Mr. Fish.
No. 573.]                       LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES,
                           London, June 3, 1874. (Received June 13.)
   SIR: Mr. Anderson, member of Parliament for Glasgow, has again
been calling attention in the louse of Commoas tothe treaty of Wash-
ington, and complaining that no provision was made for compensation
to British subjects who suffered losses by the Alabama and other con-
federate cruisers. Mr. Bourke, undor-secretary of state for foreiga
affairs, replied annd explained. The discussion took place yesterday.
I send the report of it, extracted from the proceedings of Parliament,
published in the Times of this morning, which may be worth preserving,
not so much from any interest or importance attaching to the subject
itself, or the points presented, as for the way in which it illustrates the
temper and tone of feeling prevailing here.
       I have, &amp;c.,
                                               ROBT. C. SCHEN.CK.


                                 [Inclosure.]
                     [From the Times, Wednesday, June 3, 1874.1
                               Alabama claims.
                                        HOUSE OF COMMONS, Tuesday, June 2.
   Mr. Anderson rose to call the attention of the house to losses sustained
by British
 subjects not compensated under the Washington. treaty, and to damages done
to
 British subjects by the Alabama, and to move a resolution. He expressed
hiMsregret at
 the lateness with which this motion came before the house, but it was owing
to cir-
 cumstances beyond his control that he did not bring it forward last session;
and he
 still felt that, in justice to certain parties, he was bound to proceed
with it even at
 this late stage. In doing so he did not wish to attack the policy of the
Alabama
 treaty, nor in any way to blame the late government for having made it;
on the con-
 trary. he thought that in making it we set a noble exanmple to the world
of two gr:eat
 nations undertaking to settle their difference by the arbitrament of reason
rather than

 
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