§ MR. SAMUEL SMITHI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Her Majesty's Government has received any particulars of the massacre and outrage in Madagascar, reported in the French paper Le Temps, with further details in the Times of the 6th inst., quoted from the Madagascar News; and, if so, whether Her Majesty's Government has communicated with that of France in order to insure the punishment of the perpetrators of the outrage, and prevent the recurrence of such misdeeds in the future?
§ SIR J. FERGUSSONNo official information on the subject has been received. There is no warrant for the interference of Her Majesty's Government, as it is not asserted that British subjects were injured. According to the newspaper reports, the persons implicated were to be immediately brought to trial.