§ SIR JOSEPH PEASEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether instructions have been sent to Her Majesty's Representative in China authorising him to ratify that portion of the Chefoo Convention which relates to the Duties on Opium, in the form in which it appeared in the Convention Articles of 1876; or, whether any conditions have been attached to the ratification of that Article of the Treaty, as suggested in the Despatch of the Government of India, No. 312, of 1881?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKESir Thomas Wade has returned to this country in order to consult with Her Majesty's Government on the subject; but no decision has yet been arrived at.