MR. OTWAYSir, I wish to offer a few words of personal explanation in reference to a statement made by me the other day, which has caused some annoyance to my hon. and learned Friend the Attorney General. I said, with respect to the Treaty of Washington, that I assumed that every word of the Treaty had been submitted to the Law Officers of the Crown, and I said so because I was pretty cognizant of the custom prevailing at the Foreign Office when I had the honour of being connected with that Department. But I have since been authoritatively informed that no portion whatever of the Treaty of Washington was submitted to the Law Officers of the Crown except those rules which are to be regarded as rules of International Law henceforth. I regret very much that I should, under that misapprehension, have stated anything that has caused annoyance in any way to my hon. and learned Friend.