§ MR. RATHBONEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether Her Majesty's Government is in possession of any more recent information relating to the famine in China than is contained in the Report drawn up by the late Mr. Mayers last October, which Report has been already presented to Parliament; and, if so, whether he will state the nature of such information to the House?
§ MR. BOURKE, in reply, said, that recent despatches had been received which would be placed on the Table. He did not think it desirable to state 329 the nature of the details, which were very lamentable. An awful mortality had happened.