HC Deb 22 June 1863 vol 171 c1252
MR. BAINES

said, he wished to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether it is true that the gentleman who was engaged in negotiating on the part of England a Commercial Treaty with Italy has returned from Turin without having succeeded in his object?

MR. LAYARD

said, in reply, that the treaty was not signed; and Mr. Mallet, of the Board of Trade, who was sent to Turin, had returned to this country, in consequence of certain difficulties arising, for the purpose of consulting the President of the Board of Trade; but he trusted that those difficulties were not of a nature to affect the completion of the treaty.