§ LORD D. STUARTwished to put a question to the noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs. A statement had appeared in the public journals, in a shape entitling it to some credit, to the effect that a portion of the Russian army had proceeded to enter the Austrian territory, and take part in the struggle going on there between the Austrians and Hungarians. He wished to ask the noble Lord whether he had received any information on the subject; and, if so, whether he would object to lay it before the House?
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONIn answer to my noble Friend, I may state that Her Majesty's Government have received information that, upon the approach of the Hungarian forces towards Hermannstadt and Cronstadt, and the frontier towns of Transylvania, the people applied to the Russian officer on the borders of Walachia for forces to protect them, as inconvenience was likely to result to them from the advance of the Hungarian troops. In consequence of that application, two bodies of Russian troops occupied Cronstadt and Hermannstadt; but they did not, I think, take any other part in the hostilities going on.