DR. CAMERONasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether it is true that a Convention has been ratified between Great Britain and Chili for the settlement of British claims arising out of the war between Chili and Peru: if so, whether the Convention allows Chili four years for the settlement of claims, many of them already four, years old, makes no provision for the payment of interest, and draws no distinction between claims arising from the operations of war, and those for which the Chilians have received full value; and, whether he has any objection to lay before Parliament Papers relating to the subject?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEThe Convention, which was signed on the 4th of January, has already been presented to Parliament, and will be found by the hon. Member in the Parliamentary Paper "Chili" No. 1, 1883, which was distributed to hon. Members on the 12th ultimo. The Convention provides for the settlement, by a Mixed International Commission, of all claims 1571 arising out of the war between Chili and Peru and Bolivia, which had, up to the date of its signature, been put forward by British subjects. Her Majesty's ratification was sent out on the 1st ultimo.