ny notice of the wounding of Mr. Kellett, but our gunboat is at
Bangkok, and if the King owes us an apology, he will be made to give it.

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The long-talked-of treaty between England and Venezuela has been signed.
These countries agree to settle the question of the boundary between
Venezuela and British Guiana by arbitration.

In NO. 9 of THE GREAT ROUND WORLD you will find a full
account of the quarrel between England and Venezuela. It was said that
England claimed more land than belonged to her.

You will see, if you look at NO. 9, how the United States stepped
in, and helped to adjust matters.

The signing of this treaty brings a quarrel to an end that has been going
on for upwards of a century.

The boundary line which has been so much disputed has been surveyed
several times, but no two surveyors have agreed, and so all the troubles
have come about.

The treaty says that the arbitrators are to find out just how much land
belonged to the colony of British Guiana at the time it became the
property of England, and that they are to work from that point.

The Committee of Arbitration is to meet in Paris, and is to consist of two
Englishmen, Baron Herschel, and Sir Richard Henn Collins, a Judge of the
English Supreme Court; one American, Judge Brewer; and one member chosen
by Venezuela, who is also an American, the Hon. Melville Weston Fuller,
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

These four arbitrators are to decide among themselves who shall be the
fifth man to join them in their work.

If they have not been able to agree on the fifth man in three months after
they meet, our old friend, King Oscar of Sweden, is to step in and fill
the vacant place.

The treaty provides that within six months after it is signed the
committee must meet in Paris, and that the whole work shall, if possible,
be completed within six months after the meeting.

The two copies of the treaty, as soon as they were signed by Sir Julian
Pauncefote for England, and Senor Jose Andrade for Venezuela, were sent
off, the one to London, the other to Caracas, to be ratified by the
governments of England and Venezuela.

The ratification must be made within six months of the date of signing,
and then the work of the committee will begin.

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Very little headway has been made with our own treaty with England.

The Committee on Foreign Relations has m