§ MR. SLAGGasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the Government can give the House any information as to the Commercial Treaty which has recently been concluded between Mexico and the United States; whether that Treaty does not secure preferential treatment to American commerce; and, whether Her Majesty's Government intend to take any steps in the matter on behalf of the commercial interests of this Country?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEA Commercial Treaty has been recently sigued between the United States and 1055 Mexico; but the ratifications are not I exchanged, and the consideration of the subject has been put off by the United States Senate till December. It is stated that under the terms of this Treaty differential treatment is accorded on principles of reciprocity to the subjects of the two States in question. The relations between this country and Mexico are being closely watched in connection specially with commercial interests; but I am not in a position at present to make any further statement.