§ COLONEL HOWARD VINCENTI bog to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if the French Republic has in any way modified the attitude of commercial hostility to British trade taken up in Indo-China and Tonkin in recent years on instructions from Paris, or shows any disposition to lower the prohibitive duties levied upon British goods; and, in the contrary case, if the restrictions imposed by France throughout her Colonics upon the development of English commerce will be borne in mind in any negotiations for the extension of her Eastern Possessions, and especially in directions offering at present great facilities to British traders?
§ * SIR E. GREYNo alteration of the colonial policy of France in giving French trade preferential treatment in relation to foreign trade has taken place. The restrictions imposed are, of course, well-known to Her Majesty's Government.