§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTON (Tower Hamlets, Poplar)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether it is a fact, as reported, that the French Government, at the Anti-Slavery Conference at Brussels, have insisted that the right to search vessels supposed to be carrying slaves shall be restricted to a limit of five miles from the African coast, and that Her Majesty's Government have agreed to reduce the right under existing Treaties to this limit?
§ SIR J. FERGUSSONI think the hon. Gentleman must see that during the sittings of the Conference it is impossible that any statements can be made concerning the attitude of any of its members.