§ MR. ANDERSONasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If he has now given up hope of inducing the Portuguese Government either to redress the wrong done to British subjects by the Portuguese Courts in the City of Mecca collision case, or to consent to an international arbitration; and, if Her Majesty's Government propose to ask Parliament to grant compensation for the wrongs they have failed to get redressed, or, if they intend to leave British subjects to bear those wrongs entirely without remedy?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICESir, the question of arbitration is still under the careful consideration of Her Majesty's Government in communication with the Law Officers of the Crown, whose Report has now been received, and I hope to be able very shortly to state the course that Her Majesty's Government propose to take.