§ MR. BADEN-POWELL (Liverpool, Kirkdale)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he is aware that a "Floating Exhibition" of Spanish products will shortly leave Valencia to make a tour of the ports of South America with the object of opening these markets to Spanish goods; and, whether he can instruct our Consular Agents in the ports visited to report specially upon this Exhibition, both as to its influence on trade, and its system of management?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (SIB JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N.E.)Her Majesty's Government have no official information respecting the Floating Exhibition referred to; but Her Majesty's Consul at Barcelona will be instructed to report on the subject; and the attention of Her Majesty's Consuls at the ports in South America which may be visited by the Exhibition will be called to it, and they will be directed to report in the sense suggested.