§ MR. BLAKEsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he can state if any decision has been come to by the Government of the United States of America respecting the seizure some months since of the barque Science, of Waterford, at Matamoras, by a Federal ship of war?
§ MR. LAYARDsaid, in reply, that by the last accounts from the United States they had heard that the Science had been released, but they had received no particulars as to whether damages or compensation had been awarded.