§ SIR G. CAMPBELL (Kirkcaldy, &c)I beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the arrangement with the Newfoundland Delegates to proceed to an agreement for further "Legislation by which the Treaties are to be enforced," and for "compensation due to persons who may suffer under them," contemplates Newfoundland legislation only, and does not involve the acceptance of any suggestion that compensation should be paid by the British taxpayers to people in Newfoundland who may be found by the arbitrators to be in the wrong; and whether the acceptance by the Newfoundland Delegates and Legislature of the temporary Act, to give effect to the Treaties and modus vivendi, is free from any promise to pledge British credit for railways or other public works in Newfoundland, as was at one time proposed?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Mr. GOSCHEN,) St. George's, Hanover SquareMy answer to the first question of the hon. Gentleman is that nothing that has happened involves the acceptance of any suggestion that compensation should be paid by the British taxpayers to people in Newfoundland who may be found by the arbitrators to be in the wrong. My answer to the second question is that the arrangement which has been come to is free from any such promise.