§ MR. HASSARDsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If it is true that, upon the last day appointed for the adjudication at New Orleans upon the case of the barque Science, seized at Matamoras—namely, the 23rd of January last, no appearance was made on the part of the captors, nor was any future day appointed for the hearing of the case; and, in the event of those facts being true, whether Her Majesty's Government will demand the immediate release of said vessel?
§ MR. LAYARDsaid, in reply, that no such information, as alluded to by the hon. Gentleman, had been received by the Government. On the contrary, that very morning he received a Despatch from the English Consul at New Orleans, stating that the case of the Science had been heard towards the end of January, and that a part remained to be heard early in the following month.