§ MR. MAGNIACasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether, in view of the retirement of Sir Louis Mallet from the Board of Trade, any change has been made in the Foreign Office for the future conduct of the Commercial business transacted by that Department?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDSir, on the retirement of Sir Louis Mallet from the Board of Trade certain commercial business of an international character came more completely under the cognizance and direction of the Foreign Office, and with a view to the efficient discharge of those duties the commercial department of the Foreign Office was reconstituted and separated from the consular branch. Lord Granville has placed at its head a gentleman, in his opinion, specially qualified for those duties, Mr. Kennedy, who, after a brilliant University career, has served for upwards of 20 years with zeal and efficiency at the Foreign Office, and who has lately been employed on special service in the Levant, in connection with our consular establishments in that quarter of the world.