§ SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the Government have any information respecting the Reverend Merton Smith, who has been missing, and is supposed to have met with some misfortune in the Pyrenees; and, if not, will they make inquiries into the matter?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICESir, inquiry is being made into this case through the Vice Consul at Bayonne; and as soon as we receive information on the subject I shall communicate with the right hon. Gentleman, who, I understand, is personally interested in the matter.