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Show Ike "Tluioderer" on TreiHtes. London, 2G. Tbe Times, on the desire of the United Stales to negotiate a reciprocity treaty with Canada on tbo basis of the economical doctrines prevalent in the Union saya: Canada is within the operation ofEngland'a commercial commer-cial treaties and could not establish a reciprocity with the United States without transgressing the "most lavored nation" clause iu these treaties. trea-ties. Whether, apart from the question ques-tion of our treaty obligations, there would be any disposition in Canada to assent to tbe proposal ia moat doubt ful. The miud of Canada can be freely expressed ia the parliament ot tbe Dominion and we are willing to abide by V.i free declarations- Tn :re is no disposition to fotter Canadian liberty of action, even if the estab lishment of a custom a union with tbe United Statea was the result of it, but the prospects of the scheme are at leaat doubtful. When the subject was raised some four yeara biuce, the Dominion govemnjE-nt pMietiied that they would never listen to any suggestion sug-gestion for the admisdiuu ol manutac lures ol the United States on more lavored terms than tiiudo of the Unild Kingdom, and we have no reason rea-son lo buppese any chauge of Benti ment haa since ben developed. |