text:  When after previous parley and cajoleries at Brussels commissioners were at length procured to be appointed by the French ministry and proceeded to meet and discuss the conditions of the long-cherished project of the union with the officials deputed on the part of France to assist in the conference it is well known that the final cause of rupture was the dogged persistance of the French members of the joint commission in urging the tariff of France in all its nakedness of prohibition deformity and fiscal rigour as the one sole and exclusive _regime_ for the union debated without modification or mitigation