§ MR. STUART WORTLEYwished to put a question to the noble Lord the Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, which had arisen out of the discussion of the previous evening; but the noble Lord, he perceived, was not now in his place, and perhaps therefore the noble Lord the First Lord of the Treasury would have no objection, in his absence, to give the answer. In the record of the Convention of 1831 it was stated that the contracting parties had to refer to the Convention of 1815; and the noble Lord was understood in the course of last night to say that those words in the Convention of 1831 referring to the adhesion of Russia to the general arrangements of the Treaty of Vienna, as one of the considerations of the renewed convention, were introduced at the request of the representative of Russia in this country. The question he desired to ask the noble Lord opposite was, whether there would be any objection to lay before the House such portions of the engagements and documents respecting this Convention of 1831 as would be demonstrative of that fact? He would have postponed making the inquiry, had it not been that the debate would be resumed on Thursday, and that it was of importance to have every information on the subject before the House as early as possible.
LORD J. RUSSELLThe discussion will be renewed on Thursday. With regard to the question which is asked, I am not sure if that to which I alluded is stated in any protocol; but I shall be prepared to speak more positively on Monday. If any such document is in existence, I will lay it before the House.