§ ADMIRAL ERSKINEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If he will lay upon the Table of the House Copy of any Correspondence which may have taken place between Mr. Consul March and the Foreign Office from the 1st day of January 1872, up to the time of his leaving the Fiji's, with reference to the state of affairs in those islands?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDSir, the Correspondence between Mr. Consul March and the Foreign Office is more or less of a confidential character, and in the present position of affairs in the Fiji Islands I feel I could not undertake to make that Correspondence public.