§ MR. SLAGGasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, What steps, if any, have been taken by Her Majesty's Government to protect British property and commerce during the war between the Chiefs of Bonny and New Calabar, in the absence of Her Majesty's Consul from the Bight of Benin?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKESir, Mr. Hewett, Her Majesty's Consul, is on the point of returning to his post, and in the meantime a ship of war has been ordered to the spot.