§ MR. DODSONasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether his attention has been directed to the landing at Newhaven from the steamship "Marseilles," on the 30th of June, of seven foreigners, concerning whom it is stated that they were escorted on board the vessel at Dieppe by the French police; that their passage tickets were given to the mate by the police; that the police guarded the gangway until the vessel started; and that they 953 themselves informed the French Consular agent at Newhaven that they were sent out of France by the police on account of their being engaged in the Commune War; and, whether he considers such proceedings consistent with the assurances given by M. Remusat to Lord Lyons in his letter dated 7th June, respecting the embarkation of Communists from France; and, if not, what steps Her Majesty's Government will take in the matter?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELD, in reply, said, the only information which had been received at the Foreign Office on the subject was contained in a letter which his right hon. Friend had been good enough to forward to him that morning. All the documents connected with it in the possession of the Foreign Office would be sent that evening to Paris, and, through Lord Lyons, the attention of the French Government would be directed to them. Until the correctness of the facts was ascertained, he was unwilling to draw any conclusion from or make any assertion with respect to them.