§ Sir R. Peelhad promised to give an answer to the question which the learned Gentleman the Member for Cork (Mr. O'Connell) asked the other evening, as to our relations with Texas. There were three treaties between Texas and this country, which had been duly signed by the agents of each party. One was a treaty of commerce; the second related to the debt; and the third to the slave-trade. The two first treaties, as to the commerce and debt, had received the sanction of the senate of Texas. The third, relating to the slave-trade, owing to the gentleman charged with that treaty not having arrived in Texas before the separation of the senate, had not received the sanction of that body. As the agreement was, that all the three treaties should 247 be simultaneously ratified, and as the slave-trade treaty had not received the sanction of the senate, none of the treaties had been ratified.