§ MR. J. HOWARD (Middlesex, Tottenham)I. beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to a letter in The Times of the 2nd instant from Miss Cooper, and a further letter in that of the 8th instant from Mr. Thomas Hardy, writing from Geneva, relating to the disappearance under mysterious circumstances of Mr. James Robert Cooper, of Reigate, on his way from Zermatt to the Riffel Alp; and whether, as both writers express surprise that no public notice had been taken of the event, he will cause inquiries to be made with a view to elicit, if possible, some explanation of the matter?
MR. CURZONInstructions will be sent to Her Majesty's Minister at Berne to furnish a Report on this subject.