COLONEL RUSSELLI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, if he will state what is the present condition of the negotiations regarding the case of Captain Lothaire; whether this Officer is still in the employment of the Congo State; and, whether there is any prospect of his being brought speedily to trial on the charge of having illegally executed a British subject more than a year since?
MR. CURZONCaptain Lothaire will be tried before the Court at Boma, in the presence of the British Vice Consul, the right of appeal to the Superior Court of the Congo State at Brussels being reserved to Her Majesty's Government. We are informed that Captain Lothaire, who is in the service of the State, received on December 16th his orders of recall to the coast, which he had at once arranged to obey. It is thought at Brussels that he must be now at or near to Boma.