CAPTAIN VIVIANasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether any Correspondence has taken place between the War Office and the Foreign Office relating to the conduct of the British Consul at Barcelona with regard to the purchase of mules for the Abyssinian Expedition; and, if so, whether he will lay that Correspondence upon the table of the House?
LORD STANLEYreplied, that a correspondence on the subject had taken place 146 between the War Office and the Foreign Office, and between the Foreign Office and the British Consul at Barcelona. It was not completed, and he was not at present in a position to say whether or not there was any objection to its production.