MR. GILPINasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If Portugal has abolished Capital Punishment; and, if that circumstance has caused a difficulty in making an Extradition Treaty between that country and the Government of Great Britain?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDThe Portuguese Government have informed Her Majesty's Government that the pain of death being abolished from the Portuguese penal code, they could not admit it in an Extradition Treaty; and they have been informed in reply that Her Majesty's Government cannot agree to a stipulation for the commutation of that penalty; the subject, therefore, is in abeyance.