§ MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETTasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he can give the House any information regarding the recent French annexations North of the Congo, and regarding the relations of Mr. Stanley and M. de Brazza?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEA report reached Her Majesty's Government some days ago that the French had occupied Amloango, Black Point, to the north of the Congo, and beyond the limits of the territory claimed by Portugal. The French Government, in answer to an inquiry addressed to them by Her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, state that they have received no intelligence of the alleged occupation. Her Majesty's Government have no information respecting the relations of Mr. Stanley and M. de Brazza.