18 AUGUST 1877, Page 3

We are afraid that another blot in the Washington Treaty

'has been discovered. A Fishery Commission is sitting at Halifax, to carry out the terms of that Treaty with respect to the disputes between the Americans and Canadians. There is no hope that the Commissioners will agree ; there is no provision, such as there was with reference to the Alabama' claims, that the award of a majority shall be binding ; and it is quite on the cards that the