§ Mr. KINGasked whether it was the intention of the Government to make this country a party to the International Convention for the Regulation of Conflicts of Law respecting Marriage, made at The Hague in June, 1902; and, if not, what reason can be given for declining to enter into an agreement to which France, Germany, Italy, and other European countries are parties?
§ Sir E. GREYThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. In reply to the second I must observe that the terms of the. Convention conflict in many important respects with the doctrines at present accepted by British Courts of Law, and that although the States which he has mentioned are parties to it, Russia, Austria, Spain, Denmark, Norway, and many other European States, the United States of America and the whole of the South American Republics are not parties.