§ MR. HALIBURTONsaid, he would postpone until after Easter the question 1496 which he had given notice of his intention to ask, as to the present state of the negotiations with the United States on the subject of their forcible possession of the Island of San Juan. It had been stated in the journals of the United States that the conduct of a gallant officer, General Doyle, which had been referred to the other evening, had been disapproved by Her Majesty's Government, and that he had been recalled. Any one who knew the United States as well as he did, was aware that there was very little printed in any of the public journals there that was to be believed; but it might be satisfactory to an honourable and sensitive mind if the next mail took out an authoritative contradiction to that report.
MR. LATARDsaid, that to the best of his belief the conduct of General Doyle, so far from having been disapproved, had received the entire approval of Her Majesty's Government, and he had no reason to believe that that officer was recalled.
§ Main Question put, and agreed to.