...commence and proceed with the construction of the canal in question. ARTICLE VIII. The Governments of the United States and Great Britain having not...canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America, and especially to the inter- oceanic communications, should the same prove...

...construction " of the canal in question. " Art. 8. The Governments of Great Britain and the " United States having not only desired, in entering into " this Convention,...their protection by treaty stipulations to any other prac" ticable communications, whether by canal or railway, across " the isthmus which connects North...

...through Nicaragua. The eighth article of that instrument, however, stipulates that the parties would extend their protection by treaty stipulations to...practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, which then were proposed to be established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama. By the 14th article...

...confined to Central America, the 8th article of the Claytou-Bulwer treaty provided : The Governments of the United States and Great Britain having not...hereby agree to extend their protection, by treaty stipulation, to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus...

...attempted, from the first, to impress upon these undertakings. By Article vin. the contracting parties " having not only desired, in entering into this Convention, to accomplish a particular object, but to establish a general principle," agreed to " extend their protection, by Treaty stipulations, to...

...question. von Nora- Art. VIII. The Governmeuts of Great Britain and the United States in.A™rnis50. having not only desired, in entering into this Convention,...also to establish a general principle, they hereby agrec to extend their protection by Treaty stipulations to any other practicable communications, whether...

...the treaty which has occasioned this correspondence. The article provides as follows: The Governments of the United States and Great Britain having not...this convention, to accomplish a particular object [to wit, the Nicaragua Canal, which, at the date of the treaty, it was thought was about to be constructed],...

...same or in the vicinity thereof. In a concluding paragraph the high contracting parties agreed — To extend their protection by treaty stipulations to any other practicable communications, whether bv canal or railway across the isthmus * * *, which are now proposed to be established by way of Teliuantepec...

...show. The treaty of 1850 was concluded (as is declared in the Vlllth Article) with the desire "not only to accomplish a particular object, but also to establish a general principle" in regard to the protection, by treaty stipulations, of any practical communications, whether by canal...

...show. The Treaty of 1850 was concluded (as is declared in the VHIth Article) with the desire "not only to accomplish a particular object, but also to establish a general principle," in regard to the protection, by Treaty stipulations, of any practicable communications, whether by...