§ SIR GEORGE BOWYERasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the attention of Her Majesty's Government has been directed to certain reports and statements in the Continental papers regarding or encouraging foreign intervention in Spain; whether the Government have received any and what information on the subject of such intervention; and, whether Her Majesty's Government is prepared to use its influence in favour of the maintenance of the principle of non-intervention, that the Spaniards may be left to settle their own affairs?
§ MR. BOURKESir, Her Majesty's Government have seen various reports and statements of the nature referred to in the Question. They have no reason to suppose that armed intervention in the present disturbances in Spain is contemplated by any European Power. No such intervention certainly is contem 1261 plated by Her Majesty's Government, nor will they give encouragement to it in the case of any other Power.