§ MR. CREMERI desire to ask the First Lord of the Treasury if he will state how many European Governments have since this country and France concluded a treaty of arbitration, followed their example; whether the Convention held last year between the representatives of France and Great Britain was one of the results of the treaty; whether the Convention adjusted all the matters in dispute between the two countries; if any differences still exist between the two countries will he state what they are; and whether any steps are being taken to settle them.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI believe that twelve treaties have been negotiated though some of them have not as yet been ratified. There was no connection between the Anglo-French Agreement of 1904 and the treaty to which the hon. Gentleman refers, which was agreed to in 1903. There are no questions of controversy outstanding between France and this country which are likely to cause any interruption in the harmonious relations of the two Powers.