§ MR. MORTON (Peterborough)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to the seizure of the schooner Mary, by the French authorities at St. Pierre, in July last, and the confiscation of her cargo, which belonged to Messrs. Goodridge, of St. John's, Newfoundland, and who were not the owners of the vessel, the Mary having only put into St. Pierre through stress of weather?
§ SIR J. FERGUSSONAction has been suspended in the case of the Mary pending the decision of the Court of Appeal in Paris. As soon as the text of that decision is received, the case will be fully considered.