grateful approval upon the petition in question.

Your obedient servant,
T. E. HOLLAND.
Oxford, October 28 (1899).


_Par._ 2 (1).--The Convention of 1899 was ratified by Great
Britain, on September 4, 1900; and between that year and 1907
practically all civilised Powers ratified or acceded to it. It
is now, for almost all Powers, superseded by The Hague
Convention, No. i. of 1907, which, reproduces Art. 3 of the
older Convention, inserting, however, after the word "utile,"
the words "et désirable."

_Ib._ (2).--On March 6, 1900, the two Boer Republics proposed
that peace should be made on terms which included the
recognition of their independence. Great Britain having, on
March 11, declared such recognition to be inadmissible, the
European Powers which were requested to use their good offices
to bring this about declined so to intervene. The President of
the United States, however, in a note delivered in London on
March 13, went so far as to "express an earnest hope that a way
to bring about peace might be found," and to say that he would
aid "in any friendly manner to bring about so happy a result."
Lord Salisbury, on the following day, while thanking the United
States Government, replied that "H.M. Government does not
propose to accept the intervention of any Power in the South
African War." Similar replies to similar offers had been made
both by France and Prussia in 1870, and by the United States in