HC Deb 18 May 1876 vol 229 c926
Sir JOHN LUBBOCK

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the attention of the Government has been called to the circumstances connected with the arrest, by order of the Hamburg Courts, of Mr. Whinney, the Official Liquidator of the London and Hamburg and Continental Exchange Bank, Limited, in October 1874, and his being compelled to repay, at the expense of the English shareholders, moneys which he had recovered in England under the judgment of an English Court?

Mr. BOURKE

, in reply, said, Her Majesty's Government was giving attention to the matter, and as soon as possible the House should be informed as to what was intended to be done.