§ MAJOR DARWIN (Staffordshire, Lich field)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether 1,500 rifles were lately imported into Brass, in the Niger Coast Protectorate; and whether such importation is contrary to the Brussels Act; and, if so, whether a searching inquiry will be made into the whole circumstances connected with such importation?
§ SIR E. GREYSuch importation is contrary to the Brussels Act, and, as was stated last Thursday, the question of how the natives came to be possessed of a large quantity of arms of precision is one of the circumstances which will be inquired into.