§ DR. TANNER (Cork Co., Mid)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If the report from Victoria, British Columbia, 31st August, is correct—namely—
Another British sealing schooner has been seized as a prize by a United States Revenue cutter, for illegal fishing in Behring's Straits;whether her papers, arms, and firearms, and cargo of sealskins, were taken on board the cutter, and that she was ordered to proceed to Sitka; and, whe- 1135 ther her captain, in taking the captured schooner into British waters, will be protected by the British Authorities, or will be by them obliged to fulfil his promise and obligation and take the schooner into Sitka?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N.E.)Her Majesty's Government have no information of any seizure within the last few days. We are informed that American revenue cutters seized certain Canadian vessels on the 2nd, 9th, 12th, and 17th of August. Her Majesty's Government are in communication with the Government of the United States on the subject of these seizures.