§ MR. ONSLOWasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he could give the House any information regarding the encroachments of France in the province of Annam (Cochin China)?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICESir, I have nothing to add to the statement which I made upon this subject on the 23rd instant. Her Majesty's Government have no further information.
§ MR. ONSLOWMight I ask what means the Government are taking to get information? Is there anyone appointed to get it?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEsaid, that the Government had no means of obtaining information other than that which was possessed by the Government of France.