Excerpt from The Canadian Monthly and National Review, January-June 1872, Vol. 1 Situated as Canada is, it can have no politi cal connections which would not involve some sacrifices, on one side and on the other. In the absence of this fishery ar rangement, unsatisfactory as it may be, all the old disputes that have arisen under the Convention of 1818 would revive; and, as we have seen, there is a constant tendency to add to the number, and an increased acri mony, at least on one side, in their discus sion. Nothing is easier than to find a new interpretation of an old instrument and the moment this is done the objection is raised that, acting in reliance of a meaning never before questioned, we have no right to cap ture offending vessels, since the difference is one to be settled by diplomacy. We may be thankful that we have got rid of this diffi culty, though not on terms that we should have preferred. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.