§ DR. CAMERON (Glasgow, College)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he can give the House any information as to the alleged hoisting of the French flag on the Minquier Islets off Jersey?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N.E.)We have no reason to believe that the French flag has been hoisted on the Minquier Islets; but it seems that some Frenchmen lately placed a beacon on the principal rock, and some white patches on some others. While so employed, they asked permission to take shelter in the huts of the Jersey fishermen as usual resorting there.