§ MR. H. B. SHERIDANsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether, in the event of the Mexican Bondholders' Committee sending out forthwith a special agent to the Mexican Government, with a view to the conclusion of some satisfactory arrangement of the claims now pending between that Government and British subjects, any aid of an official character could be given by Her Majesty's Government?
MR. OTWAYSir. the hon. Gentleman is of course aware that our diplomatic relations with Mexico have been for some time past interrupted, in consequence of proceedings of the Mexican Government, which have been alluded to more than once in this House. We are unable, therefore, to give any official aid to the agent of whom the hon. Member speaks. Her Majesty's Government is well aware of the importance of the claims of British subjects on the Mexican Government, both in regard to their pecuniary amount and the serious questions involved in them, and we should hear with much pleasure that satisfactory arrangements of these claims had been made.