§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS - BEACHasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether any compensation has been awarded by the French Government to Mr. T. L. Smith, a British subject farming at Matu, near Tunis, for injury to his crops and farm in the year 1881; and, whether any Papers on the subject can be laid upon the Table?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKESir, Her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris has brought Mr. Smith's case before the French Government with a view to the re-consideration of his claim for compensation, or the reference of it to arbitration. No reply has yet been received; but the Papers will be included in the general Correspondence which will ultimately be laid upon the Table with regard to British claims for losses sustained in Tunis.