MR. GIBSON BOWLESI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether he can state why the Agreement between Her Majesty's Government and the Government of France, relative to Siam and to Tunis, dated the 15th January 1896, as published in the French Yellow-book, is put in the form and under the title of a Declaration; and whether that form and title imply any difference between its permanent binding force and that of a Convention?
MR. CURZONThe Agreement is entitled a Declaration in accordance with precedent; for instance, the Agreement between Great Britain and France of August 5th 1890, relative to territories in Africa. There is no difference whatever between its permanent binding force and that of a Convention.