§ SIR GEORGE BADEN-POWELLI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that a concession, granted by the Venezuelan Government and confirmed by Congress, for the construction of a railway from Las Tablas to the goldfields of the Yuruari, has been acquired by an English Company; whether complaints have reached Her Majesty's Government that this concession has now been cancelled by the Venezuelan Government without cause shown; and, whether he has any objection to lay upon the Table of the House the Correspondence on the subject?
§ * THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir J. FERGUSSON,) Manchester, N.E.I would answer the first and second part of the hon. Member's question in the affirmative. The matter has not yet reached a stage at which it would appear that any advantage could result from laying the correspondence upon 1100 the Table; but Her Majesty's Government are in communication with the British Company concerned, and have recently expressed their views to the representative of the company.