§ SIR GEORGE BOWYERsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the Senate of Hamburg have yet accepted the friendly office of Arbitrator between Her Majesty's Government and the Government of Peru in the case of Captain Melville White; whether any agreement has yet been signed by Her Majesty's and the Peruvian Governments fully establishing the bases upon which that case was to be arbitrated; and how much longer it is likely to be before the claims of Captain Melville White against the Peruvian Government will be definitively settled?
§ MR. LAYARDsaid, in reply, that as yet no application for arbitration had been made in the case of Captain Melville White, because Her Majesty's Government 1497 had not quite agreed with the Peruvian Representative with respect to the terms of such arbitration. But they were in communication with the Peruvian Representative upon the subject, and he trusted that in a very short time the preliminaries of an arbitration would be settled, and the matter would be referred to the Senate of Hamburg.