§ SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE (Exeter)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether any 164 progress has been made in the arrangements for the participation of Great Britain and the British Colonies in the Paris Exhibition of 1900; and, whether it is proposed shortly to constitute a Royal Commission for that object.
*Mr. CURZONArrangements for the participation of Great Britain and the Colonies were in a forward condition; and it had been proposed at an early date to constitute a Royal Commission for the purpose. But, a report having reached Her Majesty's Government that a material reduction is contemplated in the space which had been provisionally allotted to the British exhibit, inquiries are being made in the matter before any further steps are taken.