§ MR. MARK STEWARTasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, When the publication of the new regulations for the admission of medicinal opium into Japan may be expected; and, whether he has any objection to lay them upon the Table of the House as soon as they are agreed upon, together with all Correspondence relating to this subject?
§ MR. BOURKE,in reply, said, that Her Majesty's Minister in Japan had been instructed last month to send home the new regulations on this matter. They had not yet arrived. They could not be presented to the House until Her Majesty's Government had an opportunity of considering them.