§ MR. M'ARTHUR (Leicester)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether there is any truth in the statement made in a Router's telegram, dated Paris, 21st March, that the French Government have asked, and obtained, the recall of Mr. Pickersgill, Her Majesty's Vice Consul at Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar; and, if so, will he inform the House on what grounds Mr. Pickersgill has been recalled?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Man-1468 chester, N.E.) There is no truth in the statement referred to, and Mr. Pickers-gill is still Her Majesty's Vice Consul at Antananarivo.