§ ADMIRAL FIELD (Sussex, Eastbourne)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he can now state in detail the particulars of the Report received from our Minister at Pekin relative to the result of his representations addressed to the Chinese Government in the matter of the outrage committed by Chinese officials at Canton in February last upon the property of a British merchant, by name Mr. Wenyon, in violation of the Treaty of Tientsin, whereby he has suffered loss to the extent of over seventeen thousand dollars; and whether Her Majesty's Government, if satisfied of the justice of his claim, will insist upon reparation being granted for the outrage in question?
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. J. W. LOWTHER,) Cumberland, PenrithA strong Instruction was sent at the end of February last to Sir J. Walsham to call the attention of the Chinese Government to the case. There has hardly been time to receive a Report of the result of his communications with the Tsungli Yamen, but the matter will not be lost sight of by Her Majesty Government.
§ ADMIRAL FIELDAs I know Mr. Wenyon is now in England, it may be convenient that he should be allowed an interview, so that he may state his own case at the Foreign Office?