§ In reply to Sir HENBY SELWIN-IBBETSON,
§ MR. W. E. FORSTERsaid, he held in his hand a letter from the Foreign Office, which stated that a telegram was yesterday received from Her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, to the effect that the Prefect of the Department of the Doubs in France had informed the Mi- 1499 nister of Agriculture that no cattle plague in the Department had been reported.