1S2 IXTEIIXATIOXAL TKEA'I'IKS. 



Ii'L-land in onk'i- lliat -ix or seven small French tisliing vessels 

 may use it for drying tlieir tish for three months in the year. 

 THK FKKXCH KKFU8K COMPKOMISES. 



It is necessary, however, to look existing facts in the face. 

 France has again ami again declared, througli the mouth of her 

 foremost statesmen, that she will not accejjt a money compen- 

 sation or even a territorial exchange for lier treaty lights in 

 Xewfoundland. They say no Frencli Govennnent dare propose 

 any such arrangement in face of the i)opular indignation it 

 ■would kindle. The national sentiment will not allow them to 

 listen to such a proposal as giving u[) the last relic of French 

 Empire in the Xew AVurld. The maintenance of the French 

 navy is somehow immovaldy associated in the Gallic mind with 

 the nursery for her seamen which France holds in these waters. 

 It may lie too that her statesmen look ujjon these treaty rights as 

 iift'ording them a fine vantage ground in dealing with England 

 on the Egyptian fj^uestion, or other disputed sulijects. 

 DIFFICULTIES OF SETTLEMENT. 



Whatever may be the explanation, France will not relax her 

 hold on Newfoundland ; and further, except by going to war, 

 which no one desires and all parties shrink from, England has 

 no power to compel her. The pnblished correspondence between 

 the two Governments shows that English statesmen have spared 

 no efforts to Ijring aliout a settlement of this old dispute favour- 

 able to the colony ; but ha\e laboui'ed in vain. France is im- 

 practicable, and will concede nothing. Both England and the 

 colonists are willing to submit the whole (piestions connected 

 with the treaties to arbitration ; but France will accept arljitra- 

 tion only on the lobster claim. This does not indicate that she 

 has full confidence in the justice of her demands on other points, 

 or in her own interpretation of the treaties. 'W'hli all his diplo- 

 matic skill, Lord Salisbin-v has failed to bring her to reason. 

 He lias been met at all points by a wm pos-'^iiwus. 



CO-OPEKATION WITH ENGL AND. 



What is the wisest policy for Xewfoundlami to adopt in the 

 present crisis in her affairs ? The colonist's have amjily vindi- 



