31 MAY 1884, Page 2

It is announced demi-officially that the treaty between Great Britain

and Portugal for the government of the basin of the Congo, from its mouth up to Stanley Pool, has been given up. Nobody liked it, not even the Portuguese, who got five or sir times what they are entitled to, but who managed to believe the treaty an infraction of their dignity. Germany and France both objected, and our own Manchester merchants were the- most annoyed of all. The Congo can wait very well ; but we should like to know who originally devised the treaty. Foreign Offices should succeed.; and this result, though im- material, is a failure.