HC Deb 08 August 1881 vol 264 c1197
MR. GOURLEY

asked the Secretary to the Board of Trade, What progress he has made towards completing a Consular Convention with the United States?

MR. EVELYN ASHLEY,

in reply, said, his hon. Friend was doubtless aware that this question had been for the last seven or eight years sleeping; but Her Majesty's Government were, at the present moment, engaged in waking it. They had taken the initial step of asking the Foreign Office to do something in the matter. He was sanguine that during the Recess they would be able to report a successful issue.

MR. GOURLEY

Will my hon. Friend place the Correspondence on the Table of the House so far as it has gone?

MR. EVELYN ASHLEY

There is no Correspondence with the Foreign Office on the subject.