§ MR. T. E. SMITHasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he has received from the Portuguese Government any communication expressing their readiness to discharge the claims of British Subjects which are admitted to be due to them in respect of the Royal Union Mercantile Company?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELD, in reply, said, the claims referred to had been unofficially brought under the notice of the Portuguese Government by Sir Charles Murray, and also through the instrumentality of the Portuguese Minister in this country, but as yet no definite reply had been received.