§ MR. CLAYsaid, in the absence of the hon. Member for Sunderland (Mr. Fenwick), he would beg to ask the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Whether the attention of Her Majesty's Government has been called to the repeated interference of United States cruisers with British vessels trading to the West Indies, and particularly to the case of the steamer Circassian in neutral waters, when bound from St. Thomas's to Havannah, and within twenty miles of that port; and what steps it is intended to take in consequence?
§ MR. LAYARDsaid, in reply, that as the case of the Circassian was now before the Law Officers of the Crown, he could not give an answer to the question.