§ MR. J. G. HUBBARD (London)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether it be true, as stated in The Morning Post of Monday the 9th instant, that Her Majesty's Government have declined official participation in the proposed Exhibition to be held in Paris in 1889 to commemorate the capture of the Bastille and the triumph of the French Revolution?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N.E.)The French Government have been informed that Her Majesty's Government do not propose to take any official part in the Exhibition to be held in Paris in 1889; but that they will be happy to afford every facility to exhibitors who may be desirous of sending their goods, or of contributing in other respects to the undertaking.