§ SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN (Stirling Burghs)I wish to ask the right honourable Gentleman a Question of which I have given him private notice; it is whether he can give the House any information as to the terms of the agreement with Russia?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURYIn answer to the right honourable Gentleman, I have to say that the general tendency and effect of the arrangement is to provide that Great Britain will not oppose Russian railway enterprise in Manchuria, or encourage such enterprise on the part of others, and Russia makes precisely the same stipulation with regard to the basin of the Yang-tsze. The full text of the agreement will be laid on the Table as soon as we receive it. There are special stipulations to protect the Niu-chwang Railway.