§ SIR JOSEPH M'KENNA (Monaghan, S.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if any case in relation to the Delagoa Bay Railway Company had been laid before the Law Officers of the Crown; and, if so, if any advice or opinion had been taken thereon to justify what our Ambassador at Lisbon wrote on 27th June, 1889, to Senhor Gomez, to the effect that it was the view of Her Majesty's Government that the King of Portugal had not the right of cancelling the concession to the Lorengo Marques Railway Company (vide inclosure in No. 29 of Correspondence); and, if so, whether Her Majesty's Government have any objection to laying the case and opinion upon the Table of the House for the information of Members?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir J. FERGUSSON,) Manchester, N.E.Her Majesty's Government were so advised by the Law Officers, but their opinions are never produced.