§ MR. KENNYasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If it has come to his knowledge that certain persons in this Country have, for some time past, been conspiring to equip an expedition to overthrow the Government of the United States of Venezuela; and, if one of the persons concerned has recently been an accredited Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Saint James; and, if so, whether Her Majesty's Government propose to take steps to expel from England persons plotting against a friendly Government, as has recently been done in a somewhat similar case by the Government of France?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTsaid, the Question had nothing whatever to do with the Home Office.
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICENo such information has reached the Foreign Office; but care will be taken to prevent any proceedings in violation of the terms of the Foreign Enlistment Act.