§ MR. R. N. FOWLERasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign 1938 Affairs, Whether the Portuguese Government, in 1879, withdrew a Concession for the construction of a Railway to Guimarens from an English Company, and transferred the Concession to a Portuguese Company, promising that it should be made a condition of the transfer that the Railway already constructed, and for which the sum of nearly £25,000 remained due to the Contractor, should be purchased at a valuation, and paid for within six months, and that the just debts of the old Company should also be liquidated; and, whether that promise has been repudiated by the Portuguese Government, notwithstanding the urgent remonstrances of the English Minister to the Court of Lisbon?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEHer Majesty's Government have addressed urgent representations on the subject of Mr. Dixon's case to the Portuguese Government, through Her Majesty's Minister at Lisbon. Papers on the subject shall be laid before Parliament.