§ MR. DODDS (for Mr. MAGNIAC)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether an understanding has been arrived at with the Spanish Government which holds out any hope of an agreement being come to for defining the limits of the jurisdiction of the British and Spanish Governments around Gibraltar, so as to prevent the recurrence of irritating collisions between the naval and civil officers of the two nations; and, if so, whether the Papers are in a fit state to be laid upon the Table?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEActive negotiations are now proceeding with regard to the neutral ground and maritime jurisdiction at Gibraltar; and, as the Spanish Government have expressed their desire for a speedy settlement of these two questions, there is every reason to hope for a satisfactory result. It would not be convenient, however, to lay the Papers on the Table in the present state of the negotiations.