3$ AEGUMENTS ON PRELIMINARY MOTIONS. 



This patchwork took and re-took shape, and was turned over in this 

 correspondence, which was very protracted; and when, at last, one sec- 

 tion after another, under difierent circumstances, and at difierent times 

 had taken form and had been brought together, from that it will be seen, 

 by travelling through this correspondence from beginning to end, where 

 this word "contingency" came from. 



It is the contingency of there being any Arbitration; not the contin- 

 gency of the decision ; and yet, as has been pointed out by one of the 

 learned Arbitrators, when you come to embody them together, and put 

 in not only Article 9 but Article 7, there is room for saying that since 

 the Arbitrators are not to determine the Regulations until they had 

 determined the rights; perad venture the contingency that is referred to 

 in Article 9 is the decision that is spoken of in Article 7. 



The President. — Possibly, Mr. Phelps, if you are going to begin a 

 new point it is better for us to adjourn till to-morrow. 



[Adjourned till to-morrow at 11.30.] 



