§ MR. HARVEY LEWISsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether information has reached him from the British Representative at Mexico that the French authorities, who have assumed the administration of the Custom House at Vera Cruz, have refused to allow the agent to receive the 25 per cent hypothecated to the Mexican Bondholders, and have remitted the funds set apart for them to the Mexican Financial Commission; and, whether he will apply to the French Government for the 280 remittance to London of the 25 per cent now in the hands of the Mexican Financial Commission due to the Bondholders?
LORD STANLEYsaid, in reply, that no information of the nature mentioned in the Question of the hon. Gentleman had been received by the Government. The only allusion which he could find to the subject was contained in a letter from au unofficial person, which he had received six weeks ago, in which the writer stated that from what he had heard the French authorities were not inclined to retain possession of the administration of the Custom House at Vera Cruz. As soon au he had received any positive information on the matter he should be ready to communicate it to the hon. Gentleman.