§ MR. HOGANI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the preliminary proceedings in the matter of arbitrating on the claims of the captain, owners, and crew of the Costa Rica Packet have yet been brought to a conclusion?
§ SIR E. GREYThe Convention providing for the submission of these claims to arbitration has been signed. The ratifications will be exchanged as soon as it has received the approval of the States General of the Netherlands.