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We are delighted to note that the Times correspondent, telegraphing

from Washington to Friday's issue, distinctly states that there need now be no fear of the defeat of the Nicaragua Canal Treaty. The Opposition have practically abandoned the hope of preventing ratification. In all prob.

then, to-day or Monday will see the final acceptance of the Treaty, and so put an end to a very disagreeable, and, in truth, unnecessary and unreal, controversy. All the statesmen and diplomatists concerned on both sides—Mr. Hay and Mr. Choate, Lord Lansdowne and Lord Pauncefote—deserve the greatest possible credit for their wise and sympathetic hand. ling of the problem.

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