§ MR. MACFIEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether Her Majesty's Government have any information regarding contemplated restraints on missionaries and other aliens resident in China, and treatment of Christian converts there, adverted to in a telegram from Shanghai, dated 12th April; and, whether instructions have been sent to the representatives or agents of Her Majesty in China how to act if unfortunately the circumstances there adverted to are, as is feared, true?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDsaid, in reply, that no despatch or further information on the subject referred to by the hon. Gentleman had been received by the Government relative to the matters mentioned in the telegram from Shanghai, dated the 12th of April, and therefore no further instructions had been sent out to our diplomatic representatives in China. But all the previous instructions sent out gave ample information as to how they ought to perform their duties. In the case of any unforeseen contingency arising, they would no doubt perform their duties with firmness, judgment, and discretion.