§ SIR JOHN PAKINGTONsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the English and French Commissioners sent to Newfoundland last year to investigate the questions so long at issue between the two Governments with respect to the Fisheries, have made recommendations which are likely to be accepted by both Governments, and to lead to a final and satisfactory arrangement?
§ LORD JOHN RUSSELLsaid, that the French and English Commissioners made separate Reports to their respective Go- 918 vernments. He approved generally of the recommendations of the English Commissioners; but he was not in a situation to know whether the French Government would agree to a measure founded upon those recommendations. The Commissioners generally had agreed upon all the points except some of no great importance; but it was proposed to send Captain Dunlop to Paris to have some personal communication with the French Government on the subject.