§ MR. SPENSLEYasked the First Lord of the Treasury, If Her Majesty's Government propose to take part in the International Exhibition which the French Republic has announced its intention of holding in Paris during 1889?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Mr. W. E. GLADSTONE), in reply, said, that no communication with respect to the Exhibition had as yet been received from the French Government; and, therefore, the time had not yet come for Her Majesty's Government to decide whether they would take part in it.