§ MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETTasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the French have taken the capital of Ann am; and, whether he can give any other information as to the progress of the French invasion in Annam?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICESir, the Foreign Office have no intelligence of the capture of the capital of Annam by the French; and, as the House has already been informed, they have no special information as to the progress of the French invasion.