§ LORD ROBERT CECILsaid, he rose to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether any statement, official or non-official, has been received at the Foreign Office on a grave subject mentioned in the news from America? It was stated to be decided by the Prize Courts, that if American cruisers captured a vessel going from one neutral port to another, and if subsequently there were grounds for believing that it was going to run the blockade, that vessel might be seized.
§ MR. LAYARDreplied, that no such news as reported in the public press had been, to his knowledge, received by Her Majesty's Government.