MR. JOSEPH A. PEASEI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, having regard to the condition of the population in the Island of Cuba, and to the sufferings and evils arising out of the Spanish-American war, Her Majesty's Government, or any of the European Powers, have any intention of intervening with a view to securing a cessation of 1310 hostilities, and inducing one or both of the belligerents to negotiate for terms of peace?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURYHer Majesty's Government will gladly take any favourable opportunity of promoting a cessation of hostilities and negotiations for a definitive peace. But any action on their part for this purpose can only be undertaken if there should be reasonable prospects of its being well received by both parties and of its leading to an agreement between them. There is, unfortunately, no sufficient ground as yet for believing that these conditions exist.