January 21.
THE text of the Treaty of Ceasion of the Independent Congo State to Belgium has tow been made public; early in December a Bill to ratify it was laid open the table of the Belgian Chamber, and, after an animated discussion, referred to a Committee of 17. The action of the Chamber when the Treaty again comes before it will be watched with interest throughout Europe, and particularly by those Powers' that took part in the West African Conference of 1884-5. Fourteen Governments were interested in the inauguration of King Leopold's enterprise, and in the protection of commerce, prohibition of monopolies, and just treatment of the natives proclaimed by that Conference. King Leopold, therefore, was placed in the position of a trustee, answerable to the signatories of the Conference for the administration of the vast territory over which he assumed sovereignty. It is almost s matter
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