§ MR. SAMPSON LLOYDasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the negotiations for a renewal of the Treaty of Commerce with France are now being continued; and, if not, when it is intended to resume them?
§ MR. BOURKEThe negotiations for the renewal of the Treaty of Commerce with France are suspended for the present, and the proposals which were made by the Commissioners at the late Conference in Paris are now under the consideration of Her Majesty's Government, together with the proposals made by the French Government. When the elections now pending in France shall have been concluded the negotiations will be renewed.