§ MR. DARBY GRIFFITHsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, if the interest of the public service permits, whether the latest information he has received gives him reason to continue to think that there still exists no intention, on the part either of France or of Austria, to attempt to restore the late Dynasties of Parma, Modena, and Tuscany, by the employment of military force? And, whether he is in possession of any authentic information as to the statement in an official journal at Vienna, that the Red Republic had been proclaimed at Parma, the Piedmontese driven from the city, and that property-holders and friends of order were taking flight?
§ LORD JOHN RUSSELLsaid, he had stated to the House some time since the whole of the official information he possessed with respect to the intentions of the Governments of France and Austria as to the Duchies, and he had not received any official information since that time which altered the character of the statement he then made. There had been no advance, and the question remained, as far as he knew, in the same position as when he had made a communication on the subject to 1420 the House. With regard to the hon. Gentleman's second question, he had no official information as to the rumour that had appeared in the Vienna journal, and which seemed to have been derived from some private source.