§ SIR HENRY TYLERI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many sealing or other British vessels have been captured by American cruisers in Behring's Straits or the neighbourhood; and what steps have been taken in regard to them, so far as this question can be answered without detriment to the Public Service?
§ SIR J. FERGUSSONWe have no authentic information. We have reason to believe that two or three vessels have been formally captured this year, but have been suffered to return to Canadian ports.
§ MR. A. O'CONNOR (Donegal, E.)Are not the United States the successors in title to Russia in the Alaskan waters, and did not Russia always insist on enforcing similar regulations to those now enforced by the American cruisers?
§ SIR J. FERGUSSONI must ask for notice of that question, and at the same time, if I might so far presume, I would deprecate any discussion in this House on the subject.