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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 7, 1871

England.

The great Conference of which so much was expected, has thus far proved a farce. There has been nothing accomplished, and each representative present appears to be afraid to move first in any of the matters which were to be settled by their votes. On the 25th ult. it adjourned until January 31, when it was expected that a representative from the French government would be present, and thus render any excuse for further delay impossible.

It appears that Gen. Grant's determined position on the Canada Fishery Question will not be without result. The Anglo-American Committee, composed of eminent political, legal, and military men, will shortly publish an exhaustive report on the fishery question and other points of difference between the United States and Canada. It is said that the conclusions of the report are generally somewhat unfavorable to the Americans, but nevertheless take the ground that the Canadian pretensions on the question of headlands are unfounded.—Interior.