§ MR. CHAPLIN (Lincolnshire, Sleaford)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is now in a position to give the House any information as to the appointment of a Commission by the German Government for the purpose of raising and re-establishing the value of silver; and whether the reasons for the appointment of that Commission were explained by the Minister of Agriculture on behalf of the Government in a speech delivered on the 18th of January last?
§ SIR E. GREYThe reasons for the appointment of the Commission were given in a speech made by the Minister of Agriculture on the 18th of January last, and by the President of the Commission at its first meeting, an account of which is given in The North. German Gazette of the 23rd of February. I can give the House no further information than has already been made public by those speeches.