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The House of Commons had a surprise on Monday not

alto- gether of a pleasaut kind. Sir G. Jenkinson asked whether it was true that the British Government had promised if Canada would accept the Washington Treaty to guarantee a loan of £2,500,000 for the Canada and Pacific Railroad. Mr. Gladstone said it was true that the guarantee had been promised, but would not state the conditions of the promise until the papers were before Parliament. Mr. Gladstone's answer was slightly embarrassed, and when Mr. Disraeli in his most pompous manner intimated that " considering the extraordinary character of the statement," it would be becoming in the Government to make an immediate declaration to the House, he preferred to postpone the discussion of the subject.

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