§ SIR JOHN HAYasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs a Question of which he had given him private Notice. There was a despatch from Sir Beauchamp Seymour which appeared twice—namely, in the recently published Foreign Office Papers, and in the Report of Sir Beauchamp Seymour, which was laid on the Table on Saturday by the Admiralty. As these sets of Papers were to some extent discrepant, an omission occurring in one of them, while the other was apparently complete, he wished to know which of them was correct; and whether the omission had been made intentionally?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKE, in reply, said, that the Papers in question had been prepared in extreme haste by the Admiralty and the Foreign Office together. It bad been thought advisable to omit certain references to the subjects of a foreign Power, but these had not contained matter of any importance.