§ COLONEL SYKESsaid, he rose to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether any and what progress has been made in obtaining compensation for Mrs. Gray, whose husband was murdered by Lieutenant Donovan, of the United States Navy, near the Cape of Good Hope?
§ MR. LAYARDreplied, that several representations had been made to the United States Government on behalf of Mrs. Gray, and a memorial from that lady had been forwarded to the American Secretary of State; but the Government of the United States had positively declined to make her any compensation, and Her Majesty's Government had been informed that after the trial which had been had, and the verdict which had been returned in the United States, they could not press for it.