MR. GREGORYI beg, Sir, to give Notice that on Monday next I shall ask the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether, notwithstanding the postponement of the reference to arbitration under Article I. of the Treaty of Washington, he proposes during such postponement to take the necessary steps for carrying out such other Articles of the Treaty as are not directly connected with such reference; whether he contemplates that during that period the Acts which may be necessary to carry out such of the Articles as relate to the Dominion of Canada, and on which the guarantee of this country for £2,500,000 is to be claimed, should be proposed to the Parliament of that Dominion, or whether the execution of such Articles is to remain in abeyance; whether he regards the stipulations contained in such Articles as dependent upon, or connected with, the reference to arbitration provided by Article I. of the said Treaty; or whether the same are independent provisions and 1736 binding upon the parties to the Treaty, whether such reference is proceeded with or not?
MR. BAILLIE COCHRAINEgave Notice that he would on Monday ask the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether the United States have, since the signature of the Treaty of Washington, availed themselves of the provisional use of the privileges granted to them by that Treaty in the Dominion of Canada, Prince Edward's Island, and Newfoundland, and whether they will continue to do so in the event of the postponement of the Arbitration; and, whether the term "provisional use" does not imply that in the event of the failure of the Treaty the provisions of the Treaty with respect to the Fisheries must come to an end?