Article 9. The representatives in Egypt of the powers who signed the treaty shall be charged with seeing to its fulfilment. In all cases where free passage through the canal may be menaced, they shall meet upon the summons of the senior member to investigate the facts. They shall acquaint the Khedive's Government with the danger anticipated, that it may take the measures needful to secure the safety and unimpeded use of the canal. They shall meet regularly once a year to ascertain that the treaty is properly observed. They shall most especially require the deposition of all works and dispersion of all collections of troops which on any part of the area of the canal might either design or cause a menace to the free passage or to the security thereof. Article 10 treats of the obligations of the Egyptian Government and runs thus:-- The Egyptian Government shall, so far as its power by firman goes, take the measures necessary for enforcing the treaty. In case the Egyptian Government has not adequate means it shall apply to the Sublime Porte, which will then consult with the other signatories of the London treaty of March 17, and with them make provision in response to that application. Article 14 sets forth: Beyond the duties expressed and stipulated for in the paragraphs of this treaty, the sovereign rights of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan are in no way curtailed, nor are the privileges and rights of his Highness the Khedive as defined by the firman.] [Footnote 25: Nationaloekonomisk Tidsskrift, xxii. pp. 139-155. See also _Politiken_, 1890, March 31. Article "Oeresunds Fred," signed, Defensor Patriæ.] [Footnote 26: The word "guaranteed" was inserted in the motion contrary to the opinion of the committee] FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS. In other ways the European powers have shown that, with a little willingness to do so, they can work together in the interests of peace. We have an illustrative instance of this in the DANUBE COMMISSION, which, since 1856, has watched over the traffic in the Delta of the Danube, neutralized by the Treaty of Paris. This commission, which is composed of members from all the great powers and Turkey and Roumania, and was originally appointed only for a short time, has, in consideration of its great value as an international institution, been renewed from year to year, and has had its power gradually extended. The commission possesses its own flag, its customs and pilotage, its police, its little fleet, and so on. It has for thirty years exercised an almost unlimited power over the mouths of the Danube, has made laws, raised a loan, carried out works, and in many other respects given evidence of the possibility of united co-operation amongst the powers under many changing and intricate international relations.