§ SIR CHARLES DILKE (Forest of Dean)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, looking to the long period of time which has passed since it was agreed to by the late Government, the arbitration in respect of one point of difference between Her Majesty's Government and the Government of France, referring to the Newfoundland Fisheries, may now be considered at an end, and whether, before again promising the French Government to introduce legislation, Her Majesty's Government will take the House into its confidence?
§ *THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir E. GREY,) Northumberland, BerwickThe agreement for arbitration was entered into by the French Government on the invitation of Her Majesty's late Government, and we have no reason to believe that the Government of France consider the engagement to be at an end. In fact, the matter has been more than once pressed on the attention of the British Government by that of France, and as lately as the end of May last year.