§ MR. BROOKFIELD (Sussex, Rye)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with reference to the Delagoa Bay Railway Company Court of Arbitration, which has been sitting since 1890, whether the death of any one of the jurists forming that court would render all its proceedings nugatory; and can he state what effect such an event would have upon the chances of the court's being able to make a final Report in the autumn of the present year.
§ * THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. BRODRICK,) Surrey, GuildfordThe answer to the first portion of the question is in the affirmative, but I fear I must decline to express an opinion on a matter of a hypothetical nature such as is referred to in the concluding portion of the question.