HC Deb 28 July 1874 vol 221 cc852-3
MR. SERJEANT SIMON

asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether Her Majesty's Government have arrived at a final determination as to sending a Representative to the Congress at Brussels; and, if that determination be in the affirmative, whether there is any objection to stating the name of the Representative?

MR. DISRAELI

Mr. Speaker, we have received satisfactory communications from the Powers in answer to our Circular, and therefore we have not thought it in our power any longer to refuse to send a delegate to the Conference at Brussels; and subject to those conditions and stipulations with which the House is familiar from the Despatches which have been laid upon the Table, we have instructed Major General Horsford to attend that Conference as military delegate.