§ MR. B. COCHRANEwished to ask the noble Lord at the head of the Government the question of which he had given him notice, with respect to the intention of the French Government to make compensation to those English workmen who had deposited part of their earnings in the savings banks of France, but who were obliged to leave that country at the Revolution, without obtaining the return of their little all.
§ LORD J. RUSSELLsaid, his noble Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs had been in correspondence with the French Government on the subject, and he found that the French Government were ready to pay the sums so soon as the parties claiming them could be identified.