May I venture to recommend that the Bill should contain merely the half-dozen clauses needed for this purpose, leaving untouched for subsequent uncontroversial passage, the Naval Prize Consolidation with Amendments Bill? This Bill, suggested and drafted by myself, in the spacious times of peace, in consultation with the Admiralty and other Government Departments, as also with the Judge of the Admiralty Division and the Law Officers (including the present Lord Chancellor), was twice mentioned in the King's Speech, and several times, after careful consideration, passed by the House of Lords, but still awaits the leisure of the Lower House. It deserved a better fate than to have been used, in 1911, as a corpus vile for facilitating the ratification of the Convention for an International Prize Court and of the Declaration of London; receiving, most fortunately, as so perverted, its _coup de grâce_ from the Lords. It should be passed as an artistic whole, apart from any contentious matter, account having, of course, been taken of recent legislation by which it may have been, here and there, affected. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, T. E. HOLLAND. Oxford, May 23 (1918). * * * * * SECTION 10 The Declaration of London For incidental mentions of the Declaration in earlier sections see _supra_, pp. 22, 36, 39, 55, 58, 80, 90, 92, 148, 149, 154, 155, 156, 158, 163, 164, 174, 181, 191, 193, 194, 195, 196. See also my paper upon _Proposed Changes in the Law of Naval Prize_, read to the British Academy on May 31, 1911, _Transactions_, vol. v., of which a translation appeared in the _Revue de Droit International_, N.S., t. xiii, pp. 336-355. THE DECLARATION OF LONDON Sir,--The questions put last night by Mr. M'Arthur need, perhaps, more fully considered answers than they received from Mr. McKinnon Wood. With reference to the first answer, it may be worth while to point out that, in Art. 66 of the Declaration, the Powers undertake not only, as in the passage quoted, "to give the necessary instructions to their authorities and armed forces," but also "to take the measures which may be proper for guaranteeing the application of the rules Contained in the Declaration by their Courts, and, in particular, by their Courts of Prize." The "authentic commentary" upon the article in M. Renault's "Report" explains that the measures in question "may vary in different countries, and may or may not require the intervention of the Legislature."