MR. WHITEsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Why Nee-e-gata, or some other convenient Port on the West Coast of Nipon, was not opened to British Trade on the 1st day of January, 1860, as was stipulated by the third article of the Treaty with Japan; and whether British subjects will be allowed to reside in the city of Yedo, as was likewise stipulated in the same article of the above-named Treaty?
§ MR. LAYARDreplied, that Her Majesty's Government had not thought it expedient to ask the Japanese Government to open this Port of Nee-e-gata on the West Coast of Nipon, or to allow British subjects to reside in Yedo. In a few days the Papers relating to Japan would be laid upon the table of the House, and the hon. Gentleman would then see why that decision had been come to.